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Arts Management Student Assists Local Art Scene

October 24, 2016

Arts and Cultural Managment and Residental College of Arts and Humanities senior Marcus Fields has made a huge impact on multiple arts organizations in Lansing. Recently, he played a cruical role in the $22,500 grant received by the Lansing Arts Gallery from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs grants. We sat down with the College of Arts &…

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News / Performance / Student

Gaining Experience While Working with Broadway Professionals

October 21, 2016

For the past three years, senior Theatre major Hannah Martin has gained valuable experience working alongside Broadway professionals as part of ĭmáGen, an educational collaboration between MSU’s Department of Theatre and the MSU Federal Credit Union Institute for Arts & Creativity at Wharton Center. Each year, ĭmáGen brings together, on the same stage, MSU musical theatre and dance students, Broadway…

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Undergraduate Student Wins First Place Research Award

October 21, 2016

Eli and Edythe Art Museum at dusk Experience Architecture sophomore Erin Campbell recently won a first place award at the Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) for her research on museum visitor participation, specifically at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum on Michigan State University’s campus. The Research Contrary to most Experience Architecture students, Campbell is…

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The Gift of the Present

October 20, 2016

Sometimes examining the past can unlock answers for the future.  New York native and University Enrichment Fellow Joyce-Zoe Farley believes this. The recipient of multiple fellowships and a Columbia University alumna, Farley could have chosen to pursue her graduate education around the digital humanities anywhere in the country – but chose Michigan State for the freedom she would have to pursue her passions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap_S4udNb7E&feature=emb_title “Here…

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Event / News / Performance

Join the Beat to Celebrate East Asian

October 14, 2016

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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Faculty / News / Research / Student

Teachers Could Be Making Students’ Anxiety Worse

October 12, 2016

The anxiety that comes with feeling like an outsider in the classroom can hinder students’ learning and, ironically, teachers could be making it worse, according to a new study by a Michigan State University researcher. Scholarship students, first-generation college students, and minorities feel intense pressure to perform well – much of which is perpetuated by stereotypes that society, including teachers,…

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