Tana Redman’s love for art history fueled her passions in museum studies, and allowed her to use both of these skills in her current job as Curator at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Mansfield, Missouri. Receiving a BA in Art History with a minor in Museum studies in 2016, Tana was a dedicated student […]
Professors at Missouri State University are encouraged to involve undergraduates in research, and Dr. Billie Follensbee embraces this goal with a passion. As a professor of Art History and the Coordinator of the Museum Studies program, Follensbee creates research opportunities for students that encourage and enable undergraduates to present, exhibit, and publish their own original […]
Everyone has a story to tell. Cole Closser and Jen Murvin, professors of Graphic Narrative, are enhancing and expanding the ways students are able to understand and share their stories—with comics. Team-teaching a groundbreaking class together, their success has resulted in a new degree option: BFA in Design, Sequential Art option. Cole Closser, assistant professor […]
A scholarship fundraiser is underway that honors the memory and work of Bill H. Armstrong, Professor Emeritus, the Art + Design Department. Margo Armstrong is generously donating proceeds from an online auction and sale of paintings and prints from her husband’s private collection to support scholarships for Art and Design students. This event continues until […]
Art + Design Faculty Joshua Albers puts innovation to use. At the beginning of the move to flatten the curve for COVID-19, Joshua Albers, assistant professor in the Art + Design Department, reached out to the Jordan Valley Innovation Center (JVIC) in their collaboration with CoxHealth to see if there was a way he, his […]



