COAL Graduate Assistant Phillip George won the hand-stitched and hand-quilted, queen size quilt donated to the Ozarks Celebration Festival by Tri-Lakes Quilters of Branson.
Chances on the quilt were available throughout the Festival with the drawing held Friday, September 18. Nearly 200 chances were purchased this year.
George is a graduate student studying Professional and Technical Writing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Several Missouri State art students joined local area art supporters on a bus ride to the State Capitol on February 11th in celebration of Missouri Citizens For The Arts annual advocacy day.
At 2 p.m. that afternoon students witnessed the Missouri Arts Council present its 2009 Creative Community Award to the City of Springfield and the [...]