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Director of Exhibitions Jodi McCoy advocates for university gallery needs

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Missouri State University’s Jodi McCoy, Director of Exhibitions of University Galleries, is leading a research project for the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG).

Her research will contribute to a national census of information that AAMG will use to better support academic galleries, museums and collections.

Photo of Jodi McCoy and Dean Shawn Wahl at Judy Awards
Director Jodi McCoy with Dean Shawn Wahl at the 2024 Judy Awards. Photo credit: Jesse Scheve/Missouri State University.

Several student staff workers have been assisting McCoy with her research: Cassidy Hale (Student Project Lead), Kaitlyn Patton, Elliot Wheat, Melissa Campa-Garcia, Emery Wilcoxen and Olga Shute.

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2024 Judy Awards honor excellence in the Reynolds College community

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Missouri State University’s Judith Enyeart Reynolds College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (RCASH) continued its tradition of honoring the legacy of Judith Enyeart Reynolds with the Third Annual Judy Awards May 3, 2024.

The event, held at The Old Glass Place, celebrated the achievements of faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends within the RCASH community.

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Dean Shawn Wahl announces his selections for the Dean’s Judy Awards.

A special moment of the celebration included recognizing MSU President Clif Smart and Gail Smart and then Dr. George Connor, professor of political science. All three received the Dean’s Legacy Award from Dean Shawn Wahl. Smart is set to retire on June 30. The legacy leadership and work of each recipient will continue to make a difference in the lives of RCASH members for generations to come.

Christopher DePriest, Mark Templeton, and Rob and Sally Baird were each honored with the Dean’s Champion Award. All have diligently worked, often behind the scenes, to positively impact RCASH.

MSU Alum Austin Elliott accepted the Dean’s Alumnus Award on behalf of Locke and Stache, a production company located in Springfield, Missouri. Locke and Stache was recognized for their exceptional achievements in video production.

The award ceremony concluded with The School of Criminology and Criminal Justice receiving the Dean’s Award of Distinction for excellent performance as an academic unit over the past year.

Named in honor of Reynolds, a dedicated staff member and role model for many years in the Department of English, the Judy Awards cover a variety of contributions to the college, ranging from traditional awards in teaching, research, and service to those that recognize collaboration, inclusive engagement and efforts to highlight the pillars of the University’s public affairs mission.

Except for the dean’s awards category, winners were nominated either by their peers or self-nominated, then selected by representatives from each academic department serving on the Judy Awards Selection Committee.

Hosts Dr. Alan Tinkler, Dr. Aida Hass-Wisecup and Mary Lynne Golden announced the following winners of the 2024 Judy Awards.

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MSU art and design students assist with new exhibition

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Several students from Missouri State University’s Department of Art and Design assisted with the Springfield Art Museum’s special exhibition, “Renaissance Works on Parchment and Paper.”

The students conducted research and developed written descriptions to focus on individual objects or thematic elements.

Professor of art history Dr. Mitzi Kirkland-Ives will discuss the exhibit June 6, 2024, from 6-7 p.m. at the museum.

The exhibit is on view April 20-Sept. 1. It is free and open to the public.

Exhibit highlights historical “information-technology” shifts

Kirkland-Ives guest-curated the exhibit, selecting items from the museum’s collection to document the transition from manuscript production to the dawn of printing press technology.

“The exhibit focuses on an information-technology shift and some aspects of how both script/typography and visual imagery adapted to the new formats possible during the advent of mass reproduction,” Kirkland-Ives said.

Exhibit visitors will encounter visual elements of fifteen printed images—woodblock prints, engravings, and one etching—by German masters of the sixteenth century, including several works by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Renaissance print artwork
Detail: Saint Jerome in His Study, Albrecht Dürer, 1514.

The exhibition provides a historical overview of how these works were produced—tools, equipment, and style—and covers a range of other subject matter.

“A half dozen examples of texts produced using the early printing press in several languages and typefaces are also included—early Bibles and other texts—and a number of leaves from medieval manuscripts on parchment as examples of the range of scripts and approaches to ornamentation seen in the unique hand-produced works of earlier centuries,” Kirkland–Ives said.

Kirkland-Ives wants viewers to consider contemporary issues in parallel with the development of print in Renaissance times, especially major changes in information technology, such as the internet and artificial intelligence (AI).

She hopes the exhibit encourages visitors to think about “big fundamental changes in how we get our information, whose voices can be heard, and how we negotiate, basically, questions of media literacy, legitimacy and authority.”

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Brick City Gallery exhibition explores grief and loss

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“i’m sorry for your loss… Meditations on Discomfort and Change” will be on exhibit at the Brick City Gallery August 30-October 6 and will be open during First Friday Art Walk September 1, 6-9 p.m. and October 6, 6-9 p.m.

Co-curated by Alexandra Chamberlain and Jodi McCoy, the exhibition explores the ways “we as humans visualize and internalize our experiences with change associated with loss,” according to McCoy.

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“Enmeshed Worlds” exhibition highlights technology and society

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“Enmeshed Worlds: the unavoidable entanglement of technology and our social order” will be on exhibit at the Robert and Margaret Carolla Arts Exhibition Center August 30-September 22 and will be open during First Friday Art Walk September 1, 6-9 p.m.

Featuring the works of Britt Ransom, Alejandro T. Acierto, Jon Chambers and Tiffany Funk, the exhibition encourages viewers to consider the impact of artificial intelligence, such as Chat GPT, and other technologies on society.

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