The Fountain City Brass Band toured in England last fall and was featured in a television documentary about brass bands. Dr. Lee Harrelson, chair of the Department of Music, is the founder and artistic director of the band. PHOTO Student Indigo Gaydusek will be painting a Griffon wings mural in downtown St Joseph for people [...]
Thanks in part to a grant from the MWSU Foundation, the Department of Music purchased two ceremonial drums to lead the faculty members in the spring and fall Commencement ceremonies. Dr. Joshua Knight, assistant professor of music-percussion, said the rope-tensioned snare drums resemble those used in battles during the Revolutionary War and are still used [...]
Missouri Western opened a new art gallery on campus to display the prints from a collection donated by Dr. William Eickhorst, professor emeritus of art, and his wife, Edith. The gallery is on the second floor of Spratt Hall and is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The collection contains more than 1,000 [...]
Poet, editor, and Emmy-winner Kwame Dawes will give a public reading of his work at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, in the Potter Hall Theater. Verse & Twirl: An Evening with Kwame Dawes and MWSU Dancers is free and open to the public. Missouri Western dance students, led by Marla Heeler, will perform several choreographed [...]
March 1-22 National Juried Ceramics Exhibition Potter Hall Gallery March 6 Verse & Twirl 7 p.m. Potter Hall Theater March 7 Music Technology Ensemble Concert 7:30 p.m. Potter Hall Theater March 8 Music Departmentwide Recital Noon Potter Hall Theater March 20 Marimba Madness Concert 7:30 p.m. Potter Hall Theater March 21 [...]
What do you get when you take two women with a passion for the arts and a knack for getting things Karen Graves done, and match them up with Missouri Western arts students who need some funds? You get the Missouri Western Arts Society, founded by Dr. Laurel Vartabedian and Karen Graves. It [...]
On February 19, Arts Society members, guests and Missouri Western students traveled together to the Kansas City Music Hall to see Phantom of the Opera. We want to thank the Arts Society for sponsoring 18 School of Fine Arts Students for this incredible opportunity! "The show on Sunday was [...]