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Professor Honored for Community-Engaged Creative Activity

March 26, 2024

For her outstanding work producing an equity-based art exhibition featuring more than 200 pieces of work from around the world, Nancy DeJoy, Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University, is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Partnership Award for Community-Engaged Creative Activity presented by MSU’s Office of University Outreach and Engagement.The exhibition, titled…

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Creativity in the Time of COVID-19 Exhibit Displays Work from All Seven Continents

April 6, 2023

An equity-based art exhibition featuring more than 200 pieces of work from all around the world, exploring the use of creativity to cope with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, is opening this week at various Lansing, Michigan, locations and was three years in the making by a team led by Nancy DeJoy, Associate Professor in Michigan State University’s Department of Writing,…

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Classes with CAL Spring 2021

March 23, 2021

Take time during COVID to check out the innovative thinking in these talks presented by College of Arts & Letters faculty on the topics of wellbeing, learning a foreign language, and social justice. Talk #1: "The Science and Art of Wellbeing: Integrating Student Wellness into CAL Courses" with Jon Ritz, College of Arts & Letters Inaugural Director of Student Wellness.…

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / Faculty / Grant / News / Research

$3 Million Grant Funds Exhibits of Art Created Globally During COVID-19

January 13, 2021

Michigan State University has begun collecting art from around the world in an exploration of how people are using creativity in coping with the challenges and stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic...

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Studio Art Major Wins ‘Most Inspiring’ at Social Justice Art Festival

March 6, 2019

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…

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‘Illuminating Survivor Voices’ Makes Strides Across MSU

February 20, 2019

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…

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‘Illuminating Survivor Voices’ Through the Arts

November 20, 2018

A poem by Associate Professor Nancy DeJoy, addressing the issue of silence in cases of sexual abuse and how the isolation and silencing of survivor voices is detrimental to the lives of survivors and to the community, will be exhibited December 4-12 at the Broad Art Lab in downtown East Lansing. The poem, Illuminating Survivor Voices, which originated from survivor…