Mariana Gariazzo

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and School of Music will open this season's Cole Performing Arts Series with a guest flute performance by Dr. Mariana Gariazzo at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - SFA Gardens at Stephen F. Austin State University will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, in the Ina Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, 2900 Raguet St. in Nacogdoches.

SFA Gardens horticulturists Dawn Stover and Greg Grant will present "A Plant Preview of the Upcoming Fabulous Fall Festival Plant Sale." Their combined program will present information and images of many of the new, popular and more unusual plants available at the upcoming sale.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music will present the Pi Kappa Lambda Annual Faculty Showcase at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, in Cole Concert Hall in the Wright Music Building on the SFA campus.

The concert will feature faculty from all areas of the SFA School of Music in an extravaganza fundraiser. All proceeds benefit the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society, which presents a scholarship each year to the sophomore music major with the highest grade point average.

Pictured at the Sept. 2 ETMTC event are Penny Long, left, of Nacogdoches High School and Stacia Prince of SFA.

The Stephen F. Austin State University Department of Mathematics will continue to host East Texas Math Teachers' Circle this academic year. ETMTC is an opportunity for middle and high school mathematics teachers to rediscover their love for mathematics by exploring problem solving with SFA mathematics faculty members.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Join Stephen F. Austin State University's Nacogdoches Naturally staff, students, volunteers and partner organizations as they kick off a new year of Family Fun Day adventures from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 6, at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, 2900 Raguet St.

The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse will perform at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and School of Music will present The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse in concert at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

Join flutist Eugenia Zukerman and Friends for a night of enchanting chamber music at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus in the opening performance of the College of Fine Arts' 2014-2015 University Series, "Connect."

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts' 2014-2014 University Series "Connect" opens with a performance by Eugenia Zukerman & Friends at 7:30 p.m.

The installation "Napoleon's Wallpaper" by SFA School of Art faculty Candace Hicks is like a room-sized book telling a story while presenting a puzzle. This installation along with the "SFA Faculty Exhibition" opens at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Recently created art in a variety of media will make up the annual "SFA Faculty Exhibition," which the Stephen F.

Matt Turner, SFA alumnus and owner of Turner Fabrication, (right) shows exchange student Jonatan Jakobsson how to use equipment in his metal fabrication shop. Jakobsson will observe the daily operations of Turner Fabrication for one month before returning to Älvdalens, Sweden, to complete his final year as a welding student at Älvdalens Educational Center.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Matt Turner, a 2009 graduate of Stephen F.

Photo of the actual ceramic image.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Center for Regional Heritage Research at Stephen F. Austin State University has been awarded a $39,600 grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training to digitally preserve and study hundreds of Caddo ceramics obtained from archaeological sites throughout East Texas.