10 – 11 am

Free and open to the public. Registration ENCOURAGED.

Sound Bath

Founder and CEO of SoundEmbrace LLC, Danielle Hall is shifting perspectives around empowerment while leading a team of trained Sound Practitioners to elevate the sound healing industry, and serving the mental health and wellness of our communities. With over a decade of experience in the field, Danielle has worked with adults and children transitioning through various traumas including PTSD, depression, sexual abuse, digestive issues, and physical pain, using specific sound tools and techniques to facilitate change in the health and wellbeing of her clients. Currently working on her Masters in Holistic Health, Danielle has her Certification in Sound Healing Therapy and has worked with Hospitals, Corporate Wellness Programs, Therapy Centers, and Non Profits. As a member of the American Public Health Association, and the Georgia Health Association she has spoken on platforms educating on how sound as a therapy is a non–invasive complementary approach to wellness. Danielle is also an advocate for musicians’ rights as an Associate Member of the Recording Academy. She has been named a “Pioneer in the Sound Healing Industry” by the Shift Network and interviewed on CNN, Fox 5, and 11Alive.

6 – 7 pm

Free and open to the public. Registration ENCOURAGED.

Zanice Bond, Associate Professor of English, Tuskegee University

Zanice Bond earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Kansas. She is concluding her tenure as an Alabama Folklife Association Cauthen Fellow (2022–2023) with the publication of her essay “A Quilt for My Father” in the fall. She is Co–PI of an NEH/Teagle Foundation grant “Lift as We Climb” First–Year Common Reading Experiences with Transformative Texts (2022–2024). Her classes at Tuskegee University include an environmental literature class that examines the artwork of Kevin Brisco.

In 2017, she received a Fulbright–Hayes award to Chile and a Poetry Foundation Fellowship for
the Furious Flower Center’s Legacy Seminar on Yusef Komunyakaa at James Madison University. Zanice’s essay ‘“Small Places Close to Home’: Gender, Class and Civil Rights Work— Mildred Bond Roxborough and the NAACP” was published in Tennessee Women: Their Lives, Their Times, Volume 2 ed. Sarah L. Wilkerson Freeman and Beverly Greene Bond, University of Georgia Press. She is currently collaborating with Kris Yoke on a book project Teaching Affrilachia: Cultivating Community and Culture.

6 – 8 pm

Free and open to the public. Registration ENCOURAGED.

Join us for the closing celebration of our Spring exhibitions as we prepare for the Summer and Fall slate. Clay Body — Pottery and Stoneware of the Southeast, Invisible Thread and Masaomi Yasunaga: In Holding Close will be leaving May 7th to make room for our Summer exhibition, Monuments and Myths. To close out these extraordinary shows, we’re hosting an extraordinary party featuring food and drink, music, art-making, and special guest, Masaomi Yasunaga, who is celebrating his international solo museum debut.

During the party, guests will be able to grab free food and drink from local food truck vendors while supplies last, stroll through the galleries while listening to a specially curated playlist created by the museum’s student guides, flex their creative muscles by assembling their own vision boards at the artmaking activity and much more.

So come to The Jule and experience fine art with your local community of art enthusiasts Wednesday, April 26.

Admission is free and open to the public.
Reserve your spot by registering above.
Food and drinks will be provided while supplies last.

10 – 11 am

Free and open to the public. Registration ENCOURAGED.

Yoga with The Yoga Room

Lela Anderson is an Auburn University alumna who has found herself living in the “Loveliest Village on the Plains” once again. She recently returned to school and plans to become a Physical Therapist Assistant. She has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and is a firm believer in taking a holistic approach to both physical and mental health. She describes yoga as being her “happy place.” When not on the mat or studying, Lela can be found voraciously reading anything from mysteries to cookbooks, experimenting with new recipes, or communing with her cat Azrael. Lela teaches yin yoga.

6 – 7 pm

Free and open to the public. Registration ENCOURAGED.

Students from Dr. Kathryn Floyd’s 20th Century Art History Class.

10 – 11 am

Free and open to the public. Registration ENCOURAGED.

Art Wellness Exchange with Ashley Witherspoon

Ashley Witherspoon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the Founder of Hand Made Dreams, a mental health platform dedicated to bringing mental health awareness to everyday spaces. Ashley served as a mental health expert for WRAL–TV, an NBC – affiliated television station, providing therapeutic strategies for families to adjust during the Covid–19 Public Health Crisis. She also contributed to various local and national publication platforms, including the national and digital media publication Youth Today. The Hand Made Dreams platform continues to expand with the Art Wellness Exchange, collaborating with community and university museums. The American Alliance of Museums recently highlighted the Art Wellness Exchange, emphasizing the value of community collaborations related to incorporating mental health awareness in museum spaces. Ashley recently launched the Art Wellness Exchange which has been featured at the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC), the Harn Museum of Art (University of Florida, Gainesville) and the Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, FL).

6 – 7 pm

Free and open to the public. Registration ENCOURAGED.

Students from Dr. Katherine Floyd’s 20th Century Art History Class. This class has curated a limited show of sculpture pieces from our collection and will present their studies around the objects. 

10 – 11 am

Free and open to the public. Registration ENCOURAGED.

Mindful Making with Christy Barlow

In this session, participants will learn how to approach needlework, specifically cross-stitch, as a mindful, meditative activity.  No previous experience needed, all skill levels welcome.

9:30 – 10:30 am

Free and open to the public. Registration ENCOURAGED.

Story time and art making for ages 3 – 5.

This month we will be taking inspiration from the colors of nature and creating wildflower seed bombs inspired by the works of Kevin Brisco Jr. and John James Audubon.

6 – 7 pm

Free and open to the public. Registration ENCOURAGED.

Annie Campbell, Assistant Professor of Art, Auburn University

Annie B Campbell is a ceramic sculptor and Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Art & Art History at Auburn University. She lives in Opelika, Alabama, USA with her 4–year–old son and husband who is an artist and musician. At Auburn she teaches all levels of hand–building and wheel–thrown ceramics. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art from the Department of Crafts and Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2004, with a focus in ceramics. She received her Master of Fine Art in Studio Ceramics from Indiana University, Bloomington in May 2010. She has completed artist’s residencies at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine (2005), The Scottish Sculpture Workshop, UK (2011), Studio 550 in New Hampshire (2012), was a Distinguished Fellow at Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences in Georgia (2015), and The Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (2019). She maintains an active studio practice and continues to exhibit her sculpture and installations nationally and internationally.

In 2017 she learned that her infant son had a rare and dangerous neurological disorder. Her newest body of work, neuronal forms made from porcelain, stoneware, wire and LEDs, is inspired by this life–altering experience with her son.