Bravo Magazine Spring 2019

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A celebration of the arts, culture & ideas

SPRING 2019 | Vol. 19, No. 1

Creativity is contagious; pass it on – Albert Einstein As Dean of the College of Arts, Media and Communication, I often tell people that I work with the “creative” types. Alas, my college does not have a monopoly on creative faculty. The creative spirit can be found in many offices and disciplines across our campus – and that’s a very good thing for our institution. The featured articles in this issue of Bravo! explore how this spirit of creativity appears in some unexpected places. I thought it would be interesting to ask members of the MSUM family how they maintained their professional interest in the arts while making a living in an unrelated field at MSUM. For them the arts are more than just a side hustle; they are an integral part of who they are.

The Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane appears to be an unlikely source for ballet. But Titicut Follies, a documentary that helped launch the career of Frederick Wiseman, is the inspiration for a new collaboration between the veteran filmmaker and choreographer James Sewell, of James Sewell Ballet.

This is a profound and thought-provoking work; we feel privileged to bring it to this community.

And finally, MSUM aluma and psychology professor Mary Dosch and several service abroad students were so inspired by the work they did and the people they met on a trip to the Dominican Republic, that they created a large mosaic to commemorate the experience. That mosaic now hangs in Comstock Memorial Union.

If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then creativity is the cure.

Pass it on.

Dr. Earnest Lamb Dean, College of Arts, Media & Communication

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Events at a Glance

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Fifth Annual High School Exhibit (through January 31)

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Cheryl Nelson Lossett Performing Arts Series: Time For Three

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University Theatre Series: Reefer Madness (through April 13)

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Picturing Nam: U.S. Military Photography of the Vietnam War (through May 25); Opening Reception April 25

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Student Juried Exhibition (through February 21); Opening Reception and Awards Feb. 7 University Theatre Series: Hair – Concert Version (Minnesota Remembers Vietnam)

April 25, 4 to 7 p.m.

with MSUM’s Performing Arts Series: Screening of Frederick Wiseman’s Academy Award-winning documentary Titicut Follies

MARCH University Music Series: Choir Concert

Theatre Series: 20 UTheniversity Wolves (through Feb. 23)

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Opening Reception Feb. 28

niversity Music Series: 03 UWind Ensemble Concert oMAD Film/Animation 03 SSenior Seminar Screenings niversity Music Series: 05 UString Orchestra and Choir niversity Music Series: 06 UChoir Concert

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niversity Music Series: 26 UChoir Concert heryl Nelson Lossett 27 CPerforming Arts Series: James Sewell Ballet’s Titicut Follies

reception March 28 niversity Music Series: 27 UChamber Concert

Theatre Series: 30 UAnniversity Evening of Dance

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Straw Hat Players: Plaza Suite (through June 21)

traw Hat Players: Annie 25 S(through June 28)

For more information and tickets: mnstate.edu/tickets OR mnstate.edu/events Minnesota State University Moorhead is an equal opportunity educator and employer. This information will be made available in alternate format, or if a disability-related accommodation is required, please contact Accessibility Resources at 218.477.4318 (voice) or 1.800.627.3529 (MRS/TYY).

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University Theatre Series: Reefer Madness (through April 13) Hansen Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

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FEBRUARY Theatre Series: 07 University Hair – Concert Version (Minnesota Remembers Vietnam) Hansen Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

Theatre Series: 20 University The Wolves (through Feb. 23) Gaede Stage, 7:30 p.m.

James Sewell Ballet’s Titicut Follies Titicut Follies–the Ballet, is the stunning product of a partnership between dancer and choreographer James Sewell and famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman. The filmmaker won an Academy Award in 1968 for his heartbreaking account of a prison for the criminally insane. Backed

by Lenny Picket’s musical score, Sewell and Wiseman created haunting scenes of interactions between patients and caregivers, and moving portraits of people in battle with their minds. A talk-back session with Sewell, Wiseman and others takes place after the ballet.

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Theatre Series: 30 University An Evening of Dance Hansen Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

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Straw Hat Players: Breaking Up is Hard to Do (through June 7) Gaede Stage, 7:30 p.m.

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Straw Hat Players: Disaster! (through June 14) Hansen Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

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Straw Hat Players: Plaza Suite (through June 21) Gaede Stage, 7:30 p.m.

Hat Players: Annie 25 Straw (through June 28) Hansen Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

For tickets, go to mnstate.edu/tickets or call the MSUM Box Office M-F from noon to 4 p.m. at 218.477.2271 or arrive early and purchase at the door!

Gaede Stage and Hansen Theatre are located in MSUM’s Roland Dille Center for the Arts.

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Two great artists collaborate to create beauty from tragedy Forty-odd years ago, filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s unsparing documentary about a Massachusetts prison for the criminally insane shook the community’s healthcare, political and justice systems. Wiseman had obtained permission from the institution and the inmate’s family members to document activities in the prison, but the film, titled Titicut Follies, was nonetheless banned before its premiere at the 1967 New York Film Festival.

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iseman is reluctant to take credit for changes in the treatment of psychotic inmates at the institution. But some psychologists regard the film as instrumental in leading to improvements in the treatment of the criminally insane. In fact, several institutions closed in the years after the release of the documentary, which, until 1992, could only be viewed in educational settings. > Frederick Wiseman.

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Wiseman, now 88, has made one film almost every year since 1967. Each film deals with an aspect of contemporary life as it is reflected in our cultural, social and governmental institutions. Four of his films are about dance, which he loves. During

his time as a resident artist at New York University’s Center for Ballet and the Arts, Wiseman contacted Minneapolis-based choreographer James Sewell and asked him to create a ballet based on Titicut Follies.

“I had seen many contemporary ballets where the subject was ‘relationships,’ but few ballets that were concerned with the many other aspects of life that I have observed in making documentary films,” said Wiseman. “Since ballet is about movement, I thought that perhaps the tics, obsessive, repetitive and compulsive behavior of people categorized as criminally insane might make an interesting subject for a ballet.”

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a large emotional journey. – James Sewell

> Still shots from Frederick Wiseman’s 1968 documentary Titicut Follies.

Sewell was fascinated by the request but had trouble imagining how to go about creating a ballet from a documentary. Still, he said “yes.” As with the film, the ballet is organized around an inmate and staff variety show. James Sewell Ballet premiered the work to rave reviews at NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts in 2017, the same year Wiseman won an honorary Oscar for his achievements in documentary filmmaking.

This spring, the two visionary men and the entire dance company come to MSUM for four days of activities that culminate in a performance of Titicut Follies: The Ballet on April 27. Planned activities include a free screening of the documentary film at The Fargo Theatre, followed by a question and answer session with Wiseman. MSUM film students will also meet Wiseman at a masterclass where the filmmaker will discuss his approach to filmmaking and answer students’ questions. Sewell and his dancers will rehearse and work with four MSUM dance students who will join the dance company in the ballet performance.

“It will be a wild ride,” said Sewell. “I think people will be touched and horrified, and have a large emotional journey.”

The four-day residency is the last event of this season’s Cheryl Nelson Lossett

Performing Arts Series. When Rebecca Sundet-Schoenwald, managing director of the Series, learned that MSUM could include a screening of the documentary on which the ballet was based, she asked Thomas Brandau, chair of the School of Media Arts & Design, if his department would want her to obtain the film. “Tom took it a step farther and suggested that we try to get the filmmaker to campus, along with his film, so we pursued it, and he said yes! Mr. Wiseman is coming all the way from France to be on our campus!” said Sundet-Schoenwald.

Like Sewell’s production of Inferno (based on Dante’s novel The Inferno), which premiered on the MSUM campus in 2015, Titicut Follies: The Ballet is a powerful, fascinating work that is not suitable for young children.

The ballet interprets Wiseman’s candid look at the lives of psychotic people and the often cruel treatment they received in prison. But though the subject matter is challenging, it is not grim.

“Titicut Follies spans such a huge breadth of humanity, from things that are tragic and horrifying to things that are humorous and tender. One of the great challenges with Titicut was how to find beauty within such great ugliness within our society,” said Sewell. “It’s been a life and career-changing honor to grapple with this material.”

Sewell said he and Wiseman have become great friends through their collaboration. “It was inspiring to meet such a pure vision, to meet someone who would never bend to someone else’s view.”

Wiseman felt similarly about Sewell and had for some time been impressed with the form and humor in his choreography.

Wiseman was impressed again as they worked together on the ballet, witnessing the imaginative means Sewell used to make it work. “The ease of the collaboration with Sewell was unexpected,” he said.

The ballet features another of Wiseman’s favorite artists – composer and saxophonist Lenny Pickett. Picket is the leader of the Saturday Night Live band and performed the music live at the NYU premiere. At MSUM, a recording of Pickett’s original score will accompany the dancers.

For more information about the events involving Frederick Wiseman and James Sewell Ballet, contact Rebecca Sundet-Schoenwald at 218.477.2178 or sundetre@mnstate.edu.

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University Music Series: Jazz Ensemble Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

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University Music Series: Percussion Ensemble Hansen Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

Cheryl Nelson Lossett Performing Arts Series: Time For Three Time for Three has been described as “America’s favorite classical garage band.” Tf3 has performed at venues from Carnegie Hall and the famed jazz club Yoshi’s in San Francisco to European festivals, NFL games and the Indy 500. These young virtuosos play everything from bluegrass and folk tunes to ingenious mash-ups of hits by the Beatles, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake and more.

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Remembers Vietnam) Hansen Theatre, 7:30 p.m. niversity Music Series: 23 UChamber Music Concert Fox Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.

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University Music Series: Choir Concert Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

University Music Series: Wind Ensemble Concert Hansen Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

niversity Music Series: 27 UChamber Concert Gaede Stage, 7:30 p.m.

niversity Music Series: 26 UChoir Concert Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

MAY niversity Music Series: 03 UWind Ensemble Concert Hansen Theatre, 7:30 p.m. niversity Music Series: 05 UString Orchestra and Choir Trinity Lutheran Church, Moorhead, 4 p.m. niversity Music Series: 06 UChoir Concert Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

For tickets, go to mnstate.edu/tickets or call the MSUM Box Office M-F from noon to 4 p.m. at 218.477.2271 or arrive early and buy at the door!

Gaede Stage, Hansen Theatre and Fox Recital Hall are located in MSUM’s Roland Dille Center for the Arts.

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Transformative experience commemorated in mosaic When twelve MSUM students returned from a study abroad trip to the Dominican Republic, they wanted to commemorate their experiences and honor the young girls and women they met there. They found a way to do that and can revisit the experience now just by stopping by Comstock Memorial Union.

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> MSUM students and their MSUM mentors (in pink shirts) worked with Dominican girls to create a mosaic sign for the girls’ school.

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A life-changing experience “At first, when working on the mural, I entered with selfishness hoping to sit down and get out of the heat. I soon realized the importance of this project; this mural was going to be a visual representation of the Mariposa Foundation for years to come and I got to be a part of it. I was so proud to see our work progressing, and when we finished, I wanted to cry seeing that we were a part of something so much bigger than ourselves.” – Grace Bolin (general studies)

“It never ceases to amaze me that even though we can’t verbally communicate we can still build relationships and have so much fun with each other.”

– Ana Monson (exercise science)

“The more I learn in this life, the more I realize that I know nothing. My study tour to the Dominican Republic was so much more than I imagined it would be. I have recently added study abroad/ mission trip to my list of things that everyone should do in their lifetime. It is important!”

– Bailey Reiner (speech, language and hearing sciences)

“I was so excited to impact these young girls, but what I didn’t realize was how much they would impact my life. There was one girl in particular that forever changed my life; her name was Esmeralda.”

– Savannah Cretinon (elementary inclusive education)

“These little girls have so little but were willing to give up their own teddy bears and chocolates to someone they had only known for a week. Their kind hearts and selfless attitudes are remarkable and I desire to have these qualities in myself. I hope to be a more giving person and I will always think back to this moment when I find myself being selfish.” – Moriah Gauer, ’18 (social work)

“Volunteering at the Mariposa center sparked a passion in me for the empowerment of women in developing countries. I want to speak out and help the privileged realize the situation the majority of the rest of the world is in.” – Leah Moser, ’18 (social work)

“The workers at Mariposa were beyond grateful for our work and how everything turned out. Hopefully these works will leave a lasting positive impact on all those who pass through Mariposa and show what hard work, determination, and teamwork can accomplish.” – Breanna Thompson (speech, language and hearing sciences)

“I have always thought about doing some type of volunteer program or service in another country, and this trip has definitely sparked it even more. I feel that there is so much going on in this world, and I just want to be a part of the positive change.”

– Liberty Weiss (anthropology)

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> MSUM students provided their memories to mosaic artist Magda Seitz for three mosaic panels (middle image) that hang near the Office of Diversity and Inclusion in Comstock Memorial Union.

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he trip these students wanted to commemorate took place in May 2017, led by psychology professor Mary Dosch and retired counseling professor David Paul. Dosch planned it as a service-learning expedition through the Mariposa Foundation, established in 2009 to educate girls and women and to provide them with the training and encouragement to direct their own lives and escape poverty.

Staff members at the Mariposa Center teach girls and young women how to sew, make jewelry and start small businesses like coffee shops. They trained them to ward off advances of men who routinely “marry” girls as young as 12, impregnate them, and leave them to raise children alone in what Dosch refers to as a “machismo” culture.

Dosch and the students also worked on a mosaic to beautify the building that served as the girls’ school and make the Mariposa Foundation more visible to the community’s women and girls.

“The experience was transformative for students, and they wanted to share it with the MSUM community,” Dosch said.

The students chose to create a mosaic for MSUM that would represent everything they experienced in the Dominican Republic. The idea seemed especially right because they’d all worked on the Mariposa mosaic.

Dosch reached out to art education professor Brad Bachmeier, who suggested they apply for a faculty development grant to cover the cost of materials and to hire an artist to design the mosaic. Dosch and Bachmeier received the grant, and as part of the proposal, they brought in Magda Seitz, a local mosaic artist to create a design based upon the students’ experiences.

“Magda did a masterful job of bringing together the many details of the students’ experiences. The mosaic depicts the idea of empowerment of girls and women coming together across

the globe,” Dosch said. The mural includes the Dominican Republic’s tiny hut-like homes, the local animals, the ocean, butterflies, flowers and produce, including the coffee beans the women sell in a coffee shop that helps to sustain them.

Construction of the mosaic took several hundred hours to complete. Dosch spent nearly 200 hours placing tiles. Students and staff from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Native American Center, the Psychology Department, the School of Art and the Art Education student organization also helped put tiles in place. President Anne Blackhurst and members of the president’s cabinet stopped by to place a few tiles.

“One of the aspects I love most about this mosaic is that people from across our campus and the community chose a part of the mosaic to complete, leaving their artistic mark,” Dosch said.

Once the project was nearly complete, students in Bachmeier’s art education methods courses got involved by helping to lay the remaining tile and grout.

The final challenge was finding a suitable location for the mosaic panels. As it turned out, the Native American Center and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, whose offices are located in the Union, were looking for ways to make their spaces more inviting and vibrant.

“The themes of the mural – empowerment, tolerance, diversity, mentorship and inclusion – fit beautifully with the mission of those organizations,” Bachmeier said.

The mosaic panels hang near the entrances to those offices, sprucing up the space and drawing attention to the services provided within, just as the Mariposa mosaic created by dozens of young girls, alongside their MSUM mentors, enhanced a simple building in a poor community thousands of miles away.

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FA Senior Exhibition #1 (through 25 BMarch 21); Opening Reception Feb. 28, 4 to 7 p.m.

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Week of the Young Child Celebration with Visiting Artist Jennifer Oxley (through April 12) Time and Place: TBD Picturing Nam: U.S. Military Photography of the Vietnam War (through May 25) Opening Reception April 25, 4 to 7 p.m.

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Exhibitions (through May 23 P17);roject Opening Reception April 25, 4 to 7 p.m.

Center for the Arts Gallery of Media Arts & Design 26 Sinchool partnership with MSUM’s Performing Arts Series: Screening of Frederick Wiseman’s Academy Award-winning documentary Titicut Follies, with a Q & A after the film with Frederick Wiseman Fargo Theatre, 7 p.m.

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SoMAD Juried Film/Animation Exhibition Glasrud Auditorium, Weld Hall, 7 p.m.

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SoMAD Graphic Communications Senior Juried Exhibition Comstock Memorial Union Ballroom, 7 p.m.

For more information and tickets: mnstate.edu/tickets OR mnstate.edu/events The Art Gallery is located in MSUM's Roland Dille Center for the Arts. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Glasrud Auditorium is located in MSUM’s Weld Hall.

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Artists For the MSUM faculty and staff members profiled on the following pages, art is an essential component of their lives. Some of them once considered artistic careers but ended up going a different direction. Alison Wallace was a music major for two years before she recognized she wanted to be a scientist. Rebecca Sundet-Schoenwald received a master’s degree in flute performance and then went to work as a reporter at a daily newspaper.

Derek Lien made his living in a band for several years in Nashville before moving back to Minnesota to work as a graphic designer. And Earnest Lamb pursued a career as a professional cellist before becoming a teacher.

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Alison Wallace

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rt enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time,” wrote theologian, writer and activist Thomas Merton.

These eight MSUM Dragons would wholeheartedly agree.

Alison Wallace

Marsha Weber

Professor, Biosciences Department Violinist in the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony

Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs Pianist

“I promised myself I would always find time to perform no matter what type of group or style of music available to me.

Aside from the three years in my twenties when I was in graduate school with two small children, I have kept that promise. Music has allowed me to stay mentally healthy during times of stress in my life. It centers me and never fails to show me the beauty of humanity. As a biologist, I explore and wonder about life. As a musician, I celebrate it.”

Larry Schwartz Librarian Actor and Director, Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre “Directing and acting have been an outlet for me to manifest the creative ability I have and crave. I have met some wonderful people during my time in theatre, and being among theatre folk, artists and musicians is tremendously rewarding.”

Paul Sando Associate Professor, Anthropology and Earth Science Department Trumpet player in the Red River Valley Veterans Concert Band “Music is very much like a second language and challenges your brain in similar ways that learning another language does. I really appreciate the honor it is to bring live music to those who cannot get out and would not otherwise hear it. It is especially moving to watch those elderly veterans and how much they appreciate what we do.”

“I have always loved music, especially playing the piano. Music has always been important to me. Playing piano is a great stress reliever and something that makes me feel happy. I’ve met lots of good friends throughout my music activities.”

Earnest Lamb Dean of the College of Arts, Media and Communication Cellist “Music communicates. Not just emotions and feelings, but who you are as a person. When I would visit acquaintances, back in the days of CDs, I would always look at their CD collection.

Their musical taste spoke volumes about who they were as a person. I think this is why people say music is a language.”

Gary Edvenson Professor, Chemistry Department Singer for Great Plains Harmony Men’s Chorus “I love the sound we make together as a chorus and am energized by the music. I have songs in my head almost all the time. My mother was a professional singer with the Chicago Symphony Chorus for 25 years. She passed away three years ago after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for quite a few years. One of our favorite activities during her last few years was singing hymns and old songs together.

Amazingly, she remembered the lyrics and melodies of songs from when she was in her twenties and thirties. These singing sessions were full of joy for both of us.”

Rebecca Sundet-Schoenwald Assistant to the Dean of Arts, Media & Communication Flutist in the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony “Nothing makes sense to me the way music does. I don’t play every day, but it’s always with me, always in my head and heart. I especially love performing with the symphony.

There’s just nothing else like sharing the stage with 70 or so other musicians unified by the power that this music has over us all, and by our desire to create something meaningful, together.”

Derek Lien Graphic Designer, MSUM Marketing and Communications Drummer for the local band, Redline “Playing in the live music scene for so many years has helped solidify my drumming and has shaped me into a wellrounded drummer. Through these experiences, I’m able to share what I’ve learned with my two boys. It’s fun teaching them different aspects in percussion, and I’m looking forward to watching them grow as musicians as they get older.”

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Comstock Memorial Union, MSUM

9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Building Community with Social Media For community professionals, college and university students.

Keynote speaker: Shonali Burke of Shonali Burke Consulting, Washington, D.C. Shonali Burke, a growth strategist, helps purposedriven brands bring big ideas to life through social public relations. She was named to PRWeek's first "top 40 under 40" list and the first list of 25 Women That Rock Social Media. She has worked with some of the most forward-thinking and innovative organizations of our time. She rebuilt the ASPCA's communication function, instituting its award-winning measurement program. She is on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in the MA/Communications program and has launched her own advanced online training program titled “Social PR for PR Pros.” She is also on the founding Advisory Council for Women in PR USA.

Social Media Day is sponsored by the Marcil Center for Innovative Journalism and is free of charge. For more information, please email communication@ mnstate.edu; or call Wendy Olsgard at 218.477.2983.

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School of Communication and Journalism B.A. Degree in Communication Studies ▸ Emphasis in Event Planning & Promotion ▸ Emphasis in Communication Training & Development ▸ Emphasis in Sales Communication ▸ Emphasis in Sports Communication B.S. Degree in Advertising B.S. Degree in Broadcast Journalism B.S. Degree in Integrated Advertising & Public Relations B.S. Degree in Multimedia Journalism B.S. Degree in Photojournalism B.S. Degree in Public Relations Minors: ▸ Advertising ▸ Broadcast Journalism ▸ Communication Studies ▸ Leadership Studies ▸ Mass Communications ▸ Media Analysis ▸ Photojournalism ▸ Public Relations ▸ Sports Communication Certificates: ▸ Publishing

School of Media Arts and Design B.A. Degree in Animation B.A. Degree in Film Production B.A. Degree in Film Studies B.A. Degree in Graphic Communications B.F.A. Degree in Graphic Design Minors: ▸ Film History/Criticism ▸ Film Production ▸ Graphic Communications ▸ Media Arts

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School of Entertainment Industries and Technology B.S. Degree in Entertainment Industries and Technology ▸ Emphasis in Audio Technology ▸ Emphasis in Entertainment Business Minors: ▸ Entertainment Business ▸ Audio Production and Technology Related Areas of Specialization ▸ Accounting ▸ Business ▸ Communications ▸ Entrepreneurship ▸ Film Production ▸ Music ▸ Paralegal ▸ Theater

School of Performing Arts B.A. Degree in Theatre Arts ▸ Emphasis in Performance: Acting ▸ Emphasis in Performance: Musical Theatre ▸ Emphasis in Theatre Technology and Design B.F.A. Degree in Acting B.F.A. Degree in Musical Theatre Minors: ▸ Theatre Arts ▸ Musical Theatre ▸ Theatre Dance ▸ Theatre Design and Technology ▸ Theatre Performance: Acting B.A. Degree in Music ▸ Option in Performance ▸ Option in General Music B.S. Degree in Music Education ▸ Option in Instrumental Music ▸ Option in Vocal Music

B.S. Degree in Commercial Music Minor: ▸ Commercial Music ▸ Music Certificate: ▸ Music Education Plus > Musical Theatre > Jazz > Music Technology > Instrumental Music for Vocal Educators > Vocal Music for Instrumental Educators > Kodaly

School of Art B.A. Degree in Art History B.F.A. Degree in Art Education B.F.A. Degree in Studio Art ▸ Emphasis in Ceramics ▸ Emphasis in Drawing & Illustration ▸ Emphasis in Painting ▸ Emphasis in Photography ▸ Emphasis in Printmaking ▸ Emphasis in Sculpture Minors: ▸ Art ▸ Art History ▸ Art Therapy Certificates: ▸ Book Illustration ▸ Professional Portfolio Development ▸ Sequential Art ▸ Scientific Illustration

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We thank the following donors who contributed more than $100 to the College of Arts, Media and Communication during the past academic year. These contributions allow us to offer high-quality educational experiences that enrich the community.

Please contact Dr. Earnest Lamb at 218.477.2815 for more information about how you can contribute to the college.

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We’re looking for

YOU!

Do you have a passion for the arts? Do you like to have fun and try new things?

Then consider becoming a member of MSUM’s Friends of the Arts. When you become a Friend, you will join other art lovers in bringing world-class art, music and theater to MSUM for the benefit of our community.

Membership is only $30 and you’ll receive the following perks:

Ticket-alt Fifteen percent off ANY and ALL

tickets you purchase to performances at MSUM (Performing Arts Series, Straw Hat Players Summer Theatre, plays and concerts throughout the academic year)

Handshake Invitations to member appreciation

bullhorn Acknowledgements in Bravo!

ENVELOPE Monthly newsletter of upcoming

events such as lectures, workshops, exhibitions and more

ID-CARD Backstage passes and tours

parties (free)

mnstate.edu/friends-of-the-arts

Go to mnstate.edu/friends-of-the-arts to become a member today!