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Gaining Graphic Design Experience Through Global Remote Internship Program

July 30, 2021

Jett Mitchell, a Graphic Design and Apparel and Textile Design senior, recently completed a design internship with the London-based company Bulbshare, which was made possible through the Excel Network’s Global Remote Internship Program. As part of this remote internship, which lasted one semester, Mitchell managed the company’s marketing and social media assets, created designs/mockups for infographics, and worked towards improving the…

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

Fund Created to Help Students Get the Art Materials They Need

November 6, 2020

When classes at Michigan State University moved to remote learning, students in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design (AAHD) faced the unique challenge of emulating studio spaces from home. In an effort to ensure student success, AAHD created the Student Art Materials Fund to provide necessary art supplies for students during remote learning. “Some forms of Studio Art and Apparel…

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Entrepreneurship, Business, and Innovation / Featured Alumni / Nonprofit, Education, and Social Impact

Jill Vondrasek

September 11, 2019

MSU College of Arts & Letters alumna Jill Vondrasek recruited local inspiring women to start the Living Proof Together Foundation. Every October, the foundation hosts the Comedy for Cancer benefit, which aims to provide a platform for the community to come together and share in laughter and friendship around this disease.

Alumni / Award / News / Publishing, Editing, and Authorship

Alumna Receives National Award for Post-Graduate Work

October 30, 2018

Lindsay Tigue, who earned her B.A. in English at Michigan State University in 2007, is being recognized for her outstanding post-graduate work at the University of Georgia. She is one of 100 doctoral students in the United States and Canada selected to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. Tigue currently is a Ph.D. student in English/Creative Writing…

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Alumni / Exhibition / News / Visual Arts, Arts Administration, and Performing Arts

Alumna Coordinates Exhibits at Lansing Art Gallery

April 24, 2018

Last year, Michigan State University alumna Katrina Daniels was named the Exhibitions and Gallery Sales Director for the Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center. Daniels has two bachelor’s degrees from MSU, one in Interior Design (2005) and the other in Art History (2008). Daniels is a former member of the Board of Directors for the Peppermint Creek Theatre Co. and the…

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Entrepreneurship, Business, and Innovation / Featured Alumni

Dan Robar

June 22, 2017

College of Arts & Letters and Department of Art, Art History, and Design alumnus Dan Robar has worked with clay nearly his entire life, a skill that has taken him all around the world and led him to help create many of the vehicles on the road today.

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Design, Technology, and Media / Featured Alumni

Taylor Varner

April 27, 2017

Taylor Varner, Apparel and Textile Design, graduated in 2013, is now located in Fremont, California as a Trim Engineer for Tesla.

Featured Alumni / Publishing, Editing, and Authorship

Kayla Putz

March 13, 2017

Kayla Putz, graduated in Professional Writing in 2015, now works as a Marketing Communications Assistant in Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau.