The MSU Womxn of Color Initiative welcomes as its Spring 2019 Visiting Artist, Mayra Santos Febres, an award-winning novelist, poet, essayist, radio and television personality, and professor in the humanities division of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. During her four-day visit to Michigan State University, from March 27-30, Santos Febres will engage with students and the community in…
As the culmination of a three-year program through the Department of Art, Art History, and Design, Master of Fine Arts candidates will have their work displayed at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum for six weeks, from March 23 to May 5. An opening reception for the exhibit will take place on Saturday, March 23, from 6 to 8 p.m.…
The new episode of the Liberal Arts Endeavor Podcast is out! Our host, Dean Christopher P. Long, spoke with Kyle Whyte, Associate Professor of Philosophy & Community Sustainability and the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University. The two discuss climate and environmental justice, indigenous environmental studies, and how we can work together to nurture conversations that will shape a safe space for…
College of Arts & Letters student Dania Abu-Rmaileh recently spent four months working at Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California, as a production intern. “I grew up on a lot of Cartoon Network shows,” said Abu-Rmaileh, a senior Studio Art major with a concentration in Graphic Design and minors in Comics, Animation, and Art History in the Department of Art, Art…
The Digital Humanities at MSU (DH@MSU) program is hosting its fourth annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium Thursday, March 21, and Friday, March 22, at the MSU Main Library. This year’s symposium will focus on migration, settlement, and mapping as a social justice approach to communicate information about where people have been historically, where they are now, and how they claim their space. “It is…
An exhibition featuring the work of Qais Assali, Visiting Assistant Professor and Artist-in-Residence: Critical Race Studies, will be displayed at the MSU Union Art Gallery March 15-May 11. An opening reception for the exhibit is scheduled for Friday, March 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the MSU Union Art Gallery. Assali will do an artist talk on Wednesday, March…
Patrick Kelley received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from MSU in May 2018 and currently works at Amazon as a language engineer, where he works with technologies to improve Amazon’s Alexa, a form of artificial intelligence. Could you give a basic job description of your position at Amazon? I am a language engineer at Amazon, where my day-to-day changes almost every…
Jenna Light, a second-year MFA in Theatre Design candidate, won the United States Institute for Theatre Technology’s (USITT) Midwest Region Digital Design competition for her costume designs in MSU’s 2018 production, Dog Act. “Winning the USITT Midwest Regional student design competition was a complete surprise and an incredible honor,” Light said. “It means so much to me to have my work…
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle has endeared itself in the hearts of readers for generations. Using Tracy Young’s truthful and supremely theatrical adaptation, MSU’s Department of Theatre takes impossible feats of fiction and brings them to life in bold, imaginative, and thrilling fashion in this theatrical version of the classic novel. The story thrusts three children into peril beyond their years…
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…