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Finnish American art exhibit starts on December 4

Finnish American artist Natalie Salminen Rude will present an exhibit titled Interstice: [noun] a small, intervening space, for the 31st Annual Contemporary Finnish American Artist Series at Finlandia University Gallery in Hancock.

Contemplative, multidisciplinary and inquisitive, Salminen Rude aims to identify and unmask the dehumanizing forces found within technology and systemization.

By use of antidotal and symbolic imagery, layered ideation, encaustic, oil, light and darks and haiku (as “poetic assists” for conversation), Salminen Rude brings together an interstice for contemplation and conversation. Her desire is for viewers to pay attention to and participate in their own inquiries and solutions. Through attention, dialogue and the art of breaking down the breakdowns, the re-humanizing of our world is still possible.

For details, visit www.finlandia. edu/universitygallery.

Marquette video game studio launches multiplayer game

NMU alumni and Marquette local, Silas Talley, announced a new game, REVN, developed by Ambitious Games.

Silas Talley, creative director at Ambitious Games and creator of REVN, founded Ambitious Games in 2016. Ambitious Games is an indie game development studio located in Marquette. One year after the creation of Ambitious Games in 2017, Talley and the Ambitious team began working on REVN, a free-to-play third person multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) videogame. In 2018, Talley released the Closed Alpha of REVN, but now three years later, he is releasing the Open Beta to PC gamers.

REVN is a free-to-play third person MOBA that allows players to craft a variety of items and weapons, select special abilities and fully customize their characters. In this fast-paced 5v5 MOBA, the objective is to defend your core while destroying your enemies by any means necessary.

Competitive online multiplayer is a main feature of REVN which challenges opponents to high intensity matches where players fight to defeat one another or capture terminals to increase resources used to overpower the other team.

For details, visit www.ambitious. games.

U.P. universities honored for financing, career outcomes

Michigan Tech was recently ranked second in Michigan on WalletHub’s Best College & University Rankings report. Overall, Michigan Tech ranked 22nd in the Midwest. Finlandia University ranked 267th and Lake Superior State University ranked 496th.

With average tuition and room and board at a four-year college costing around from $27,000 to $55,000 per year, WalletHub compared more than 1,000 higher education institutions in the U.S. across 30 key measures, grouped into seven categories like student selectivity, cost and financing, and career outcomes.

Michigan Tech also was named the third swankiest college campus in the nation. Michigan Tech was only one of two universities in Michigan to be recognized. It was recognized for its ownership of Mont Ripley Ski Area—which features 24 runs, a 440foot vertical drop, snowmaking equipment, night skiing, a terrain park and a tubing area.

Art museum offers exhibit by regional women artist

The DeVos Art Museum at NMU will offer “Regional Perspectives by Women Artists” through May 2022.

The artworks in this permanent collection exhibition investigate people, places and abstractions. The show includes artworks created by regional women artists in various media from the dawn of the 20th century to the present. Selections introduce viewers to intimate portraits, landscapes of mining scenes and snow squalls, and abstractions ranging from atmospheric depictions of place to domestic objects reimagined.

Artists include Alice Carr, May Cebalo, Susie Colquitt, Kathleen Conover, Nita Engle, Phyllis Fredendall, Christine Garceau, Judy Jamieson, K. Carlton Johnson, Celia Kelly, Ada Kettunen, N. Cecilia Kettunen, Vida Lautner, Yvonne LeMire, Jan Manniko, Laura Stahl Maze, Becky Morriseau, Carol Phillips, Kristine Houtari Poole, Julie Risak, Ann Russ, Christine Saari, Sylvia Smith, Grace Spaulding, and Leora Tadgerson.

The DeVos Art Museum is open from noon to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday on NMU’s campus in Marquette. Admission is free, and masks are required for all visitors.