Glen Pitre and Michelle Benoit, the husband-and-wife filmmaking duo behind many influential documentaries and films, visited Missouri State University as part of the Public Affairs Conference and also held two workshops for students. Pitre and Benoit participated in the panels “Communicating Sustainability Through Media and the Arts,” “Social Networking and Sustainability Issues,” and “Common sense [...]
Art+Design’s Virtual Museum Exhibit now online
The Art + Design Department at Missouri State University has launched a “Virtual Museum” where the public can view exhibits online. Current exhibits on display are from Dr. Billie Follensbee’s Citizenship and Service-Learning Integrated Art History courses. Students in these classes examine objects from different cultures and research them to prepare exhibit titles and text.
Visitors [...]
Theatre and Dance Associate Professor named finalist for dissertation award
Dr. Carol J. Maples, BSEd Coordinator for the Theatre and Dance Department, has been named a finalist for the Dan Cockrell University of Missouri Statewide Cooperative EdD Dissertation Award. Her dissertation is entitled “Giving Voice: The Use of Interactive Theater as Professional Development in Higher Education to Reduce the Alienation of Marginalized Groups.” Dr. Maples [...]
Wade Thompson named Art + Design Department Head
Mr. Wade Thompson has been named head of the Art and Design Department effective July 1, 2009. A longtime professor at Missouri State University, he is currently in his second year as acting head of the Department and was selected after a national search.
“Art and design have a long history of excellence at Missouri State,” [...]