Register Now for MSU Arts Weekend June 2020

Photographs from 127 students from 39 different countries are now on display in Gallery 101 of Kresge Art Center through Friday, December 9. The photos represent the skills learned and work completed as part of a five-course specialization, Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR, offered online by Michigan State University through Coursera, an online education provider that partners…

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Using Shakespeare to Inspire Growth and Conversation

Acclaimed Director Iqbal Khan, most recently known for his production of Macbeth for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, visited Michigan State University last week and spoke to English and Theatre classes, taught workshops, and delivered the Leading Voices Series lecture at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts. Each morning during his trip, Khan met with a combined group of student…

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More than 50 Years of Graphic Design Expertise on Display

Popcorn bags, board games, scarves, posters and more – the MSU Union Art Gallery’s Women in Design exhibit is not to be missed. And on Friday, November 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. the newest gallery on campus, located on the second floor of the MSU Union, is hosting a reception in honor of its first exhibit and the designers…

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Leading Voices Series Presents Iqbal Khan

Acclaimed Director Iqbal Khan’s repertoire of radically original, culturally textured productions has established him as an influential figure in the contemporary British theatre scene. With a long list of theatrical productions to his credit, he is bringing that experience to Michigan State University this month where he will speak with students and faculty and present a public lecture, titled “The…

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Haunted Auditorium Entertains While It Educates

The Boogeyman, Slenderman, Mary Mayo and more are visiting Michigan State University’s campus in time for Halloween as MSU’s Department of Theatre presents its 8th annual Haunted Auditorium October 28-31. The public is invited to this urban legends-themed haunted house that will transform four of the Auditorium’s five floors with each room designed by a different upperclassman, while underclassmen serve as…

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Join the Beat to Celebrate East Asian

Traditional Performance Arts at MSU Join the Beat, the MSU Asian Studies Center’s most ambitious cultural program to date, will celebrate East Asian traditional performance arts in a synergistic way October 25-27. Three groups of traditional performance artists – representing China, Japan and Korea – will each present a main stage performance at Snyder-Phillips Hall theatre over this three-day period,…

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Women of Color Initiative Presents Fall 2016 Speaker

The Women of Color Initiative (WOCI), an effort to organize events for women of color and allies on MSU’s campus, recently brought academic, writer, musician, activist, and storyteller Leanne Betasamosake Simpson to campus. Author of Dancing on Our Turtle's Back and Islands of Decolonial Love, Simpson conducted a creative writing workshop on October 6. The next day, she presented a public lecture, titled…

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Theatre Production: Temple

MSU Department of Theatre students have the opportunity of learning from and working with top Broadway performers and an internationally acclaimed director as part of the ĭmáGen 2016 production. A unique educational collaboration between the MSU Federal Credit Union Institute for Arts & Creativity at Wharton Center and MSU’s Department of Theatre, ĭmáGen annually brings together, on the same stage,…

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Ready, Set, Draw

Drawing Marathon Scheduled for Sept. 28 The annual Drawing Marathon, hosted by MSU’s Department of Art, Art History, and Design and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, is set to put pencil to paper on Wednesday, September 28, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The public is invited to this non-stop drawing extravaganza, which will feature several drawing-themed activities,…

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