Frankie Potochick, a senior Studio Art major, received the “Most Inspiring” award at the Second Annual Social Justice Art Festival for her painting, Innocence Lost, which focuses on the issue of gun violence in America. Potochick’s painting depicts an anatomically accurate heart covered in newsprint that reads the names of children ages 1 to 18 who passed away in early 2018…
Benjamin Lauren, Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC), is working to help reduce the social stigma associated with homelessness and, drawing from his research on project management and leadership, helping to establish a network of MSU faculty, staff, and students interested in making MSU a basic needs secure institution. Lauren is collaborating with Laurel Burchfield…
During the second annual Java & Jam networking event, hosted by the College of Arts & Letters’ Excel Network, three students received cash prizes for their outstanding creative resumes. Winners of the Creative Resume Competition, funded by Michigan State University Federal Credit Union (MSUFCU), were announced by Dean Christopher P. Long and include: First place, $1,500 prize – Sean Vichinsky, senior Professional…
The newest episode of the Liberal Arts Endeavor Podcast, titled Diaspora and Decolonial Love, is out! Our host, Dean Christopher P. Long, spoke with Yomaira Figueroa, Assistant Professor of English and Global Diaspora Studies, about her research regarding 20th century U.S. Latinx Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and Afro-Diasporic literature and culture and her current book project, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature. Figueroa also discusses the Womxn of Color…
Six Graphic Design students, all seniors, received 2019 Mid-Michigan American Advertising (ADDY) Awards, including one Gold, three Silver, and one Bronze, honoring their outstanding work on five separate projects. While in the professional competition, MSU’s College of Arts & Letters won a Silver ADDY for its microsite, Resilience: The 2018 Dean’s Report. Hosted by the Mid-Michigan Creative Alliance, the local American Advertising Federation…
As the winner of the bi-annual Spartan Fashion Design Collection Competition, Apparel and Textile Design senior Noel Thomas earned an all-expense-paid trip to the Spring New York Fashion Week (NYFW), a top event in the fashion industry that takes place twice a year in New York City. This is the first time Michigan State University has participated in the competition…
Mehrdad Sedaghat, who will graduate in May with an MFA in Graphic Design, was named one of the “2019 Students to Watch” by GDUSA (Graphic Design USA) magazine. The list includes the top 80 undergraduate, graduate, or continuing education students from across the country who are ready to burst on to the design scene and who have found personal and professional growth through…
After making its initial debut at the Broad Art Lab in December, Associate Professor Nancy DeJoy’s poem, Illuminating Survivor Voices, which addresses the issue of silence in cases of sexual abuse, continues to make an impact on the MSU community as a symbol of culture change. The poem, displayed as a light installation originally surrounded by 15 survivor statements projected onto…
The Michigan State University Comics Forum is a multi-day, annual event for scholars, creators, and fans of the comics medium. Events include keynote addresses from an award-winning creators and scholars in the field, an artist alley, academic panel discussions, exhibition of comic art, comic book discussion groups, and more. MSU also is home of the Comic Art and Graphic Novel Minor,…
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees has approved the establishment of a Department of African American and African Studies, which will be part of the College of Arts & Letters. This new department will support the work of students, faculty, and staff associated with the existing African American and African Studies (AAAS) program and will help re-establish MSU’s position…