The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, or MSU Broad, was awarded $1 million from the MSU Federal Credit Union (MSUFCU) in support of an expansion across Grand River Avenue that will provide increased access and research for the MSU Broad’s 7,500-piece permanent collection. The B2 Art Lab will provide additional exhibition spaces for its collection and a research center focused…
The College of Arts & Letters is proud of its faculty members, their dedication and commitment to excellence. This is an opportunity for our students, in conjunction with department chairs, to recognize and reward the faculty members who have provided inspiration and innovation.
Michigan State University Associate Professor of English Sheila Contreras, in partnership with Capital Area District Libraries, was awarded a $14,000 grant to host the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read in the Greater Lansing/Mid-Michigan area. An initiative of the NEA in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the…
Gordon Henry, John Norder, and Christie Poitra have received the 2017 Michigan State University Distinguished Partnership Award for Community-Engaged Creative Activities from the MSU Office of Outreach and Engagement for their work on the Indigistory project. Indigistory is a collaborative partnership between the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College, MSU's Native American Institute (NAI), Michigan History Center, MSU Hub for Innovation Learning and…
Four colleagues at the MSU Museum, including a Professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Design, recently received the prestigious Chicago Folklore Prize from the University of Chicago for their 2016 book, Quilts and Human Rights.Each year, the Chicago Folklore Prize is presented to authors of a book-length work that explores the intersection between folklore and scholarship. This year, the…
Susan J. Bandes, Professor of Art History and Director of the Museum Studies Program, recently was honored by the Historical Society of Michigan with a State History Award for her book, Mid-Michigan Modern: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie. The book, published in October 2016 by Michigan State University Press, explores the rich variety of modernist architecture that sprang up in…
These days, videogames do more than entertain. Game designers and developers are finding new ways to incorporate education and awareness into their work, and some are winning awards for it. Assistant Professor Elizabeth LaPensée recently won Best Digital Media Work for her latest game, Thunderbird Strike, at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the world’s largest Indigenous film and media arts festival. "Receiving…
Thomas Yunck, who has donated more than $12 million to Michigan State University, including more than $6 million to the College of Arts & Letters, is being honored with this year’s Michigan State University Alumni Association (MSUAA) Philanthropist Award to be presented at the MSUAA Grand Awards Gala on Thursday, October 19, at the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center. The College of…
Two Michigan State University Apparel and Textile Design students were winners in the International Textile Design Award Educational Foundation’s Virginia Jackson Design Competition (previously known as the International Textile Design Award), one of whom received first place and the other an honorable mention. The Virginia Jackson Design Competition recognizes the most talented students in the field of textile design and…
The Michigan State University Federal Credit Union (MSUFCU) has awarded MSU’s College of Arts & Letters $750,000 to support the Department of Art, Art History, and Design’s Critical Race Studies Residency Program, which has brought two Artists-in-Residence to campus for the 2017-2018 academic year. The MSUFCU gift will help advance the Critical Race Studies Residency Program's mission of enriching the life…