COVID-19

CREATE! Micro-Grant Project Addresses Societal Impact of COVID-19 Through Dance

January 11, 2021

Jake Gerard Price, junior Arts and Humanities major, received a CREATE! Micro-Grant to create a dance film that addresses the societal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The CREATE! Micro-Grant program selected 12 student projects, including Price’s, to each receive $500 to respond critically and imaginatively to events occurring during the pandemic. The winning projects are now displayed in a virtual…

COVID-19 / Exhibition / Grant / News / Student / Study Abroad

CREATE! Micro-Grant Project Highlights Importance of Communication During Pandemic

January 5, 2021

Emma Stoolmaker's finished project Emma Stoolmaker, junior Art Education major and Art History minor, was awarded a CREATE! Micro-Grant for her project showcasing the importance of communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. The CREATE! Micro-Grant program selected 12 student projects, including Stoolmaker’s, to each receive $500 to respond critically and imaginatively to events occurring during the pandemic. The winning projects are now displayed…

COVID-19 / News

2021 Spring Semester College Update

December 23, 2020

Dear College of Arts & Letters Staff and Faculty, As we head into the holiday break and the start of a new calendar year, I am writing to provide a quick update regarding the spring semester 2021. This message supplements the communication that was sent yesterday to the MSU community from President Stanley about the delay in the start of the…

COVID-19 / Faculty / Staff

Winter Solstice Message to Faculty and Staff

December 22, 2020

Dear College of Arts & Letters Staff and Faculty, On this longest night of a challenging year, the fire we light together calls back the sun. As the winter solstice turns us toward the brighter days of a still inchoate spring, may you find time to be with those you love, to rest and reflect, and to restore the energy…

COVID-19 / Grant / News / Student

Student Confronts Racial Discrimination with CREATE! Micro-Grant Project

December 17, 2020

Lauren Slawin, a sophomore majoring in Creative Advertising and Graphic Design, used the CREATE! Micro-Grant program to confront racial discrimination and police brutality in a video essay where she sketches the face of the late George Floyd, an African American man killed during an arrest for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill, with a voiceover that describes such events as “the second pandemic.”

COVID-19 / Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / Event / Faculty / News / Performance / Student

New MSU Musical For Audiences Who Are Neurodiverse to be Performed Virtually

December 15, 2020

Michigan State University’s Department of Theatre has produced a new sensory-friendly musical for children who are neurodiverse and will begin offering free virtual performances this month. Written by students and faculty at Michigan State University, Soda Pop Shop! is an interactive musical that invites audience members to relate to the experiences of the characters in the show and help them cope with their feelings as…

COVID-19 / Grant / News / Student

CREATE! Micro-Grant Winner Creates Sculpture Representing the Emotions of COVID-19

December 11, 2020

Marissa Rubaiai, a junior double major in Studio Art and Media and Information with a minor in Comics and Graphic Novels, received CREATE! Micro-Grant funding to support her Rope of Emotion project, which is influenced by the multitude of emotions experienced by so many as a result of the death, loss, isolation, and grief caused by COVID-19. Rope of Emotion took two months…

COVID-19 / Exhibition / Faculty / News / Student / Uncategorized

CREATE! Micro-Grant Virtual Exhibit Launches Displaying Winning Projects

December 10, 2020

The CREATE! Micro-Grant Program supported the launch of 12 student projects that analyze and respond to racial injustice and the struggles brought on by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. These projects, ranging from interpretive dance and musical performances to traditional Anishinaabe quill work, videos, podcasts, personal essays, and poetry, can now be viewed online through the CREATE! Micro-Grant Virtual Exhibit.

Alumni / COVID-19 / Health / News

Spanish Alumna Working on the COVID-19 Frontline

December 8, 2020

College of Arts & Letters alumna Grace Vivanco is helping lead the fight against COVID-19 at Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit as one of the nurses working in the hospital’s COVID unit. For Vivanco, who graduated from MSU in 2017 with a BA in Spanish and then earned her BSN from Oakland University’s accelerated nursing program, there is no…

COVID-19 / Faculty / News / Performance

Choreography, Composition, and Collaboration with East Lansing High School

November 19, 2020

Department of Theatre Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre Brad Willcuts and East Lansing High School (ELHS) Visual Arts Instructor Jacqueline Carroll have brought their students together in a unique collaboration to bring words and movement to life.