Toby Lawrence, cinema faculty member, and his cinema students aired the first episode of “Old Saint Jo” this fall. “Old Saint Jo” is an applied learning project Lawrence developed last year. The group worked on Phase I of the project this past summer, which is an ongoing episodic documentary series about the history of St. [...]
Teresa Harris, art faculty member, was honored to have a solo exhibition, “To Tell,” at the P.E.O Gallery at Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri. She exhibited 31 mixed-media constructions. The exhibition was opened to the public in August and September. She also had two mixed-media artworks, Billboard NE and Birdman, accepted into the internationally juried [...]
November 3 Opera Workshop Concert 7:30 p.m. Potter Hall Theater November 4-29 Juried Art Student Exhibition Potter Hall Gallery November 5 Concert Ensemble of Irreproducible Outcomes and Nebular Blue 7 p.m. Potter Hall Room 112 November 11 Percussion Extravaganza 7:30 p.m. Potter Hall Theater November 16 Wind Ensemble Concert 4 p.m. Potter Hall Theater November [...]
Student Alexis Carr always loved art and knew that’s what she wanted to major in, but she says she “found her calling” when she took her first art history class. And last summer, she found her dream internship when she was selected to work at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The Missouri Western [...]
The Sunderland Foundation in Overland Park, Kansas has given Missouri Western a contribution of $1 million for the construction of the Drew H. Brown Arts Annex for Potter Hall, home of the arts programs. The Drew H. Brown Arts Annex will house the Department of Art’s sculpture and ceramics programs. Space vacated by the three-dimensional [...]
At the annual meeting of the Missouri Western Arts Society, it was announced that more than $25,000 will be distributed to arts programs for equipment, registration fees for experiences, visiting artists and more. The money is from the Arts Society membership fees. The following is a breakdown by department of the funding: Art: $9,672.50. With [...]