"The Last Dance," the last artwork by the late SFA Professor of Art Gary Frields, will be featured in a special auction at this year's 12X12 fundraiser for the SFA Friends of the Visual Arts to benefit SFA art students.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - This year's 12X12 scholarship fundraiser benefiting students in the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art culminates with the annual sale and party at 6 p.m.

"Sedrick Huckaby: Quiet Dialogues" features expressive oil paintings with heavy applications of impasto depicting members of the artist's African-American family. The exhibition, which includes this self-portrait, runs July 25 through Sept. 5 in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - An exhibition that runs July 25 through Sept.

Polk, a native of Lufkin, has been working at the 3D animation giant DreamWorks since 2012, contributing to several films, including "How to Train Your Dragon," "Turbo" and "Kung Fu Panda."

Whether sitting in a movie theater with his professional colleagues, his family or complete strangers, SFA graduate David Polk is relishing the response of audiences to "How to Train Your Dragon 2," the DreamWorks Animation feature film that dropped onto the b

SFA Lumberjack Marching Band feature twirler Shelby Elder is the winner of the College Miss Majorette of Texas.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - SFA Lumberjack Marching Band feature twirler Shelby Elder is the winner of numerous twirling competitions and titles at state, regional and national levels. She's the reigning Texas State Collegiate Twirl Champion, Southwest Collegiate Twirl Champion and Texas State College Solo Champion, just to name a few.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin State University is pleased to announce the debut of a new, intensive English language program for the Nacogdoches community.

The English Language Institute within the Office of International Programs will begin offering a non-credit series of courses for non-native English speakers who would like to improve their skills for personal or professional reasons.

SFA theatre assistant professors Laura Rikard and Zach Hanks are the directors for the School of Theatre's all new SummerStage Festival, which runs through July 18.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - When the faculty of the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre decided last spring they wanted to take a fresh, new approach to summer theatre, it seemed natural that the school's newest acting teachers would direct the performances.

Among the members of the SFA Friends of the Visual Arts are, from left, Mike Bay, Stanley Bohon, Cat Albers, Linda Mock, Kat Garcia, Lisa Steed, Lou Hugman, Jill Carrington, Stephanie Stephens, Jean Stephens, who is chairman of the 12X12 fundraiser, and Meredith Fleming.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Local art lovers have a special treat to look forward to in this year's 12X12 fundraiser of the SFA Friends of the Visual Arts, compliments of the late - and great

Andria Sowell

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The strings camp hosted by the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music concludes today, July 11, with a concert at 3 p.m. in Cole Concert Hall in the Tom and Peggy Wright Music Building on the SFA campus.