Sylva kicks off spring start with food, music, and other entertainment for the 27th annual Greening Up The Mountains festival on Saturday, April 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with no cost to attend. According to their website, the event usually has upwards of 12,000 attendees and 175 vendor booth spaces on Main Street […]
Diversity bringing people together through community engagement project
April 12, 2023 by
In a quiet classroom, tables are unevenly shoved together, and each table is lined with a collection of ceramic pots. No one pot looks the same, coming in a range of sizes and shapes. Each blank pot stands proudly waiting for a colorful arrangement of rainbow themed paint. “What should we paint on them?” a […]
WCU professor showcases talent through personal struggle
March 6, 2023 by
“Don’t tell the story, be the story,” says Dr. Tiffany Renee Jackson, when asked to give the most important advice for being a performer. As an artistic force of nature and one of the newest and beloved editions to the Western Carolina University faculty, Jackson has spent her time on campus focusing on her craft, […]
A WCU artist makes her mark as a tattoo apprentice
February 28, 2023 by
Aleaha Waldroup, a fine arts major, is trading her paint and brushes for ink, needles and human canvases as an apprentice at a tattoo shop in Hayesville, North Carolina. Waldroup enrolled at WCU in 2018 hoping to get a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in painting. Instead of finishing her last six credits she […]
