AUBURN – The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University will celebrate International Museum Day, Friday, May 18.

The first 100 visitors through the door will be entered to win a round of golf for two at Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Grand National, compliments of Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, or RTJ. At noon, the Auburn-based Woodfield Trio chamber group will perform. The museum shop will be offering a 20 percent discount on any one item purchased. The museum will serve refreshments throughout the day and admission is free, courtesy of the Jule Collins Smith Museum Business Partners.

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AUBURN – The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University will host its third annual Art in the Garden event April 14. Food and wine, live music and landscape vignettes will introduce an evening of entertainment, including a silent auction and special guest speaker James Farmer.

Beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, guests will have an opportunity to see the scenic landscape vignettes, sip wine and bid on auction items while enjoying live music by E.G. Kight, who has been called The Georgia Songbird. Ursula's Catering will offer food throughout the night to accompany the ongoing events.

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AUBURN – The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University will host lyric soprano and Alabama native Christina Burroughs, with pianist Nicole Agostin, Thursday, March 29, from noon to 1 p.m. The free public performance is part of the museum's weekly series, A Little Lunch Music.

With few exceptions, the pieces in the program will have a familiar theme.

"Pretty much, it's about some stage of love: the newness of love, the tenderness of love and the devastation after loss of love," said Burroughs.

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AUBURN – Auburn University music professors Rosephanye Powell and William Powell will present "A History of African American Music" through a joint lecture and performance at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Thursday, Feb. 16 at 5 p.m. The presentation is part of the collaborative programming based on the museum's current exhibition, "Promises of Freedom," featuring selections from the Arthur Primas collection of African American art in celebration of Black History month.

Rosephanye Powell, a professional singer and professor of voice at Auburn University, is a researcher, interpreter and performer of African-American spiritual and solo vocal works. She has presented numerous recitals and lecture-recitals at churches, concert halls, universities and professional meetings around the country. William Powell, associate professor and director of choirs in the Department of Music at Auburn University, is in demand as a lecturer, teacher, conductor, presenter and adjudicator.

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AUBURN – The Montgomery Symphony Orchestra's principal flutist, Nancy Vinson, will perform at the Jule Collins Smith Museum, Thursday, Feb. 16 from noon to 1 p.m. as part of the museum's weekly classical music series.

Vinson has played with the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra for more than 20 years, and as teacher for more than 35 years, has produced some of the state's outstanding young flutists.

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AUBURN - The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University will present the exhibition, "Promises of Freedom: Selections from the Arthur Primas Collection," Dec. 10 through March 10.

"Promises of Freedom" features a range of works from the private collection of African-American art amassed by Arthur Primas, a Texas resident and prominent entertainment manager.

The exhibition includes 75 paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints by more than 30 artists and spans a period of 150 years. Highlighting artwork by Benny Andrews, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Gilliam, Jacob Lawrence, Howardena Pindell and Hale Woodruff, among others, the exhibition illustrates the universal quest for freedom and its impediments.

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AUBURN – The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art is presenting the next film in the 2011-2012 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers. "Welcome to Shelbyville," directed and produced by Kim A. Snyder, will be screened Tuesday, Nov. 8, at 6 p.m.

"Welcome to Shelbyville" is a glimpse of America at a crossroads. In this one small town in the heart of America's Bible Belt, a community grapples with rapidly changing demographics. Just a stone's throw away from Pulaski, Tenn., the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, longtime black and white residents are challenged with how best to integrate with a growing Latino population and the more recent arrival of hundreds of Muslim Somali refugees.

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AUBURN - Auburn University will hold a celebration of American Indian culture and history at the War Eagle Native American Festival Friday, Nov. 11, and Saturday, Nov. 12.

The festival will feature singers, dancers, musicians, food, crafts and living history campsites. Native American artisans will demonstrate wood carving, beading, flint knapping, tanning, pottery making, basketry, archery, leather work and herb craft.

"The festival is designed to honor Alabama's Native American heritage and to recognize the Native American students, staff and faculty who are members of the university community," said Shakeer Abdullah, director of the Auburn University Multicultural Center. "The event is designed to raise awareness among the university community of the contributions of Native Americans to the history of the United States and their impact on this country. The festival is typically hosted in November as part of National American Indian Heritage Month."

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AUBURN - The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art will host its ninth annual birthday bash and craft fair from noon to 4 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 9.

Local and regional artists will sell ceramics, handmade jewelry, paintings, photography, sculpture, fabric art and handmade cards. Aubie will make a guest appearance at 3 p.m. to lead the crowd in singing "Happy Birthday" and birthday cake will be served.

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AUBURN - The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art will feature award-winning pianist Alina Sarkisyan, Thursday, Oct. 6, from noon to 1 p.m. as part of its weekly classical music series, "A Little Lunch Music." The performance is sponsored by friends of the museum.

Sarkisyan, now 31 and a student at Columbus State University, made her debut at age 9 playing a piano solo with the Baku Philharmonic Orchestra in Azerbaijan. As a teenager she moved to Moscow and has performed there with groups such as the International Bach Society's Orchestra. She was a special prize winner of the Russian National Piano Competition and received a scholarship from Russia's president. Sarkisyan earned her masters degree in piano at Gnesin's Academy of Music.

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