River Campus Summer Arts Festival 2021

An aerial dancer performs during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, June 19, 2021. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

Olivia Jacobs creates a hydro dip dye during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, June 19, 2021. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

Aerial dancers perform during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, June 19, 2021. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

Benjie Heu creates a bowl on a pottery wheel while onlookers watch during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, June 19, 2021. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

Benjie Heu creates a bowl on a pottery wheel during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, June 19, 2021. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

Gary Tyler and Toni Alexander, from left, take part in the origami craft under the art tent during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, June 19, 2021. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

Actors perform for an intensive studio performance during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, June 19, 2021. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

The Jumper Cables perform during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, June 19, 2021. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

SEMO alumnus Megan Atchley creates a plain art painting during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, June 19, 2021. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

Education coordinator at Discovery Playhouse Joseph Taylor, left, talks to festival-goers about volcanoes and tectonic plates during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, June 19, 2021. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

SEMO women's basketball players Roshala Scott and Shymaryia Christopher blow bubbles during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, June 19, 2021. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

The Southeast Alumni Steel Drum Band perform during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, June 19, 2021. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

An audience watches the Southeast Alumni Steel Drum Band perform during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, June 19, 2021. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

Mindy D'Angelo, dance instructor at The Edge in Cape Girardeau, assists Cynthia Jones with an aerial arts technique during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival on Saturday, June 19, in Cape Girardeau. (Brooke Holford ~ Southeast Missourian)

Andrew Freeland, right, presents Emily Bohannon with an Official Full Length Selection Award for being one of five full-length playwright finalists in the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival in Cape Girardeau. Finalists in each category received an award during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival Saturday, June 19, in the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall. (Brooke Holford ~ Southeast Missourian)

Students in Southeast Missouri State University's Jeanine Larson Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance perform the five, one-act plays selected as finalists in the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival on Saturday, June 19. The performances were held in the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall in Cape Girardeau during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival. (Brooke Holford ~ Southeast Missourian)

Andrew Freeland, right, presents Jeff Talbott with an Official Full Length Selection Award for being one of five full-length playwright finalists in the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival at Southeast's River Campus. Finalists in each category received an award during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival Saturday, June 19, in the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall in Cape Girardeau. (Brooke Holford ~ Southeast Missourian)

Kitt Lavoie, assistant professor of theatre: acting and directing in the Southeast Missouri State University Jeanine Larson Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance, leads a panel discussion with full-length playwright finalists in the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival in Cape Girardeau. The panel and an awards ceremony was held during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival Saturday, June 19, in the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall. (Brooke Holford ~ Southeast Missourian)

The full-length playwright finalists in the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival sit on stage for a panel discussion in the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival on Saturday, June 19. (Brooke Holford ~ Southeast Missourian)

Emily Bohannon, left, speaks with students in the Southeast Missouri State University Jeanine Larson Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance during the River Campus Summer Arts Festival on Saturday, June 19, in the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall in Cape Girardeau. (Brooke Holford ~ Southeast Missourian)