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Dance with purpose: getting the community moving with service-learning

March 10, 2025 by Charles Whitaker

One of Azaria Baggett's students leads kids at Reed Academy through a dance lesson.

Azaria Baggett has always wanted her dancing to mean something. “If you’re making a dance piece, you’re usually doing it because you have something to say and want people to see it,” said Baggett. Since she was five years old, Baggett has been dancing formally. Her background includes an MFA and graduate assistantship from Texas […]

Filed Under: Educators, Story Tagged With: art, community, dance, service-learning

How service-learning students brought a damaged painting back to life

March 5, 2025 by Charles Whitaker

A student uses a palette and brush to restore the painting of a landscape.

Undergraduate Earlene Elliot-Lee completed her MST495 Museum Studies Internship in painting restoration in spring 2023, restoring three Howard Garrison paintings for the Christian County Museum. As part of her internship, she gave well-received restoration demonstrations, showcasing her scholarship to a broader audience, and created a detailed research report and PowerPoint presentation on Garrison’s life and […]

Filed Under: Students Tagged With: art, community, history

Dynamic duos, cross-disciplinary combos, and finding connection through composting

November 16, 2023 by Charles Whitaker

By Charles Whitaker and Ethan Gambriel There are many things in life that make wildly successful, yet unlikely combinations:  dessert and breakfast, chocolate and peanut butter, Romeo and Juliet. Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy? Yeah, we’ll stand by that. In other words, life often reminds us that, despite our differences, our uniqueness can bring […]

Filed Under: Story, Students Tagged With: art, composting, connection, cross-disciplinary, design, illustration, microbiology, service-learning, Springfield Community Gardens

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