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CREATE! Micro-Grant Virtual Student Exhibition Launches

January 10, 2023

The 2022 CREATE! Micro-Grant Student Exhibition is now live! This virtual exhibit showcases the 12 student projects that were created based on the winning proposals that earned them $500 in micro-grant funding. The CREATE! Micro-Grant initiative encourages students to respond critically and imaginatively to events occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic and to creatively explore the issues of their generation. The goal is to critically engage, through art, with the past,…

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Award / COVID-19 / News / Student / Visual Arts, Arts Administration, and Performing Arts

Studio Art Student Uses CREATE! Micro-Grant Funds to Produce Sculpture of Balisong Knife

December 13, 2022

As a 2022 CREATE! Micro-Grant recipient, Ryan Freund, a junior majoring in Studio Art, produced a sculpture featuring a single, manipulated Balisong knife. Titled Intersection, Freund utilized the knife's four handle scales to complete the piece. "I find flipping Balisong knives to be very beautiful and have been doing it since I was 13 years old," Freund said. "Their handles are used…

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COVID-19 / News / Student / Visual Arts, Arts Administration, and Performing Arts

CREATE! Micro-Grant Used to Produce Sculpture Representing Lives Lost to COVID-19

December 8, 2022

Apparel and Textile Design major Gwen Pinger used a $500 CREATE! Micro-Grant to build a sculpture consisting of thousands of glass beads that hang from elastic strings, each representing a life lost from COVID-19 in Michigan. “The sculpture functions as a sort of wind chime with many long strands of string and glass beads that twinkle in the sun. The beads — in red, white, and silver — form the shape of IV needles,” said Pinger,…

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Grant / News / Nonprofit, Education, and Social Impact / Student / Visual Arts, Arts Administration, and Performing Arts

CREATE! Micro-Grant Project Explores Identity and Healing Through Anishinaabe Beadwork

November 2, 2022

Affiliated with the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, Esme Bailey’s culture served as inspiration for her CREATE! Micro-Grant project. The Michigan State University senior, who is majoring in English with minors in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and American Indian and Indigenous Studies (AIIS), grew up in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, near the Isabella County Indian Reservation. She applied for and received a 2022 CREATE! Micro-Grant for $500 to make a set of…

Faculty / News / Production / Visual Arts, Arts Administration, and Performing Arts

Conversations With CAL Features Ryan Welsh Discussing ‘Mealworms’ Film

October 21, 2022

In this Conversations with CAL, Ryan Welsh, Assistant Professor of Media Acting in the Department of Theatre, discusses the making of "Mealworms," a short film created by more than 30 MSU students working together with industry professionals.

Ryda Sundilla, a recent MSU graduate, smiles and wears a graduation cap while posing in front of a tree with her arms crossed.

Alumni / Design, Technology, and Media / Featured Alumni / Michigan Impact / Programs

Graduate Voice: Experience Architecture Program Lays Foundation for Career at Ford

October 12, 2022

Ryda Sundila is a May 2021 graduate of Michigan State University’s College of Arts & Letters. She currently works as a Product Designer at Ford Motor Co. She wrote this Graduate Voice article, which originally was published by MSU Today. The experiences and education that I gained through the Experience Architecture program has allowed me to strive in my current…

African American and African Studies / News / Performance / Production / Visual Arts, Arts Administration, and Performing Arts

MSU Theatre Brings Detroit’s Corktown Neighborhood to the Stage

October 4, 2022

Michigan State University’s Department of Theatre presents Corktown, Or Through the Valley of Dry Bones October 14-23 at the Pasant Theatre in the Wharton Center for Performing Arts. The play, written by Haitian American playwright Jeff Augustin and modeled after the Thornton Wilder classic, Our Town, centers on Jackee, a 14-year-old boy who takes us on a tour of one of Detroit’s oldest neighborhoods between 2007 and…

Award / Faculty / International Impact / News / Publication / Publishing, Editing, and Authorship / Staff

Writing Professor Wins Prestigious Academic Award

September 26, 2022

Marohang Yakthung Limbu, Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University, won the prestigious Bishnudatta-Saraswati Academic Award in Nepal for his book Delinking, Relinking, and Linking Writing and Rhetorics: Inventions and Interventions of the Sirijanga Syllabary. This award, established in 2017, encourages and honors individuals, groups, or organizations who play an important role in publishing works…

Internship / News / Student / Visual Arts, Arts Administration, and Performing Arts

Studio Art Major Takes on Two Roles Working for Museum

September 15, 2022

While working as a Gallery Guide and Events Intern at the MSU Broad Art Museum this summer, Olivia Morea, a senior BFA Studio Art major, educated and interacted with museum visitors and says the experience reinforced her decision to pursue a career working for a museum. In the following Q&A, Morea provides more information about her internship and highlights the…

Faculty / International Affairs, Law, and Government / News / Nonprofit, Education, and Social Impact / Uncategorized

MSU’s Serling Institute Celebrates 30 Years of the Jewish Studies Program

September 8, 2022

This year, Michigan State University marks the 30th anniversary of the Jewish Studies Program, part of The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel. The institute prides itself on teaching and mentoring its undergraduate students, as well as providing a rich curriculum and extensive programming — building on strengths in American Jewish history and culture; European Jewish…