C O A L E S C E N C E

COAL Graduate Assistant Phillip George won the hand-stitched and hand-quilted, queen size quilt donated to the Ozarks Celebration Festival by Tri-Lakes Quilters of Branson. Chances on the quilt were available throughout the Festival with the drawing held Friday, September 18. Nearly 200 chances were purchased this year. George is a graduate student studying Professional and Technical Writing [...]

Be sure to check out Missouri State’s recent ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT. It shines on our very own Deidre Goodwin, a 1992 graduate of Theatre and Dance. (Click the image below to visit the Alumni Spotlight page and play video.)

American choreographer Robert Wechsler, Artistic Director of German-based Palindrome Inter.media Performance Group, is in residence at Missouri State University, April 21st to May 2nd. Wechsler is conducting workshops and lecture/demonstrations in Motion Capture (movement tracking) technology, focusing on applications to stage performance work, as well as Master Classes in modern dance technique. Workshops focus [...]

Dr. Randy Dillon, professor in the Department of Communication at Missouri State University has been selected as a faculty leader for the National Communication Association (NCA) Doctoral Honors Seminar for June 1-5 at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.  The seminar topic is “Communication as Engaged Scholarship.”  This year’s theme refers to the collaborative [...]

Missouri State Professor of Music Grant Peters, was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Trumpet Guild in the organization’s general election. He will serve a four year term beginning in October of 2009. “The International Trumpet Guild was founded in 1974 to promote communications among trumpet  players around the world and to improve [...]

Glen Pitre and Michelle Benoit, the husband-and-wife filmmaking duo behind many influential documentaries and films, visited Missouri State University as part of the Public Affairs Conference and also held two workshops for students. Pitre and Benoit participated in the panels “Communicating Sustainability Through Media and the Arts,” “Social Networking and Sustainability Issues,” and “Common sense [...]

Professor Kris Sutliff posted the winning bids for COAL’s Art with a Heart Relay for Life auction. Dr. Sutliff won a fleece pullover Missouri State shirt and a basketball autographed by the Lady Bears! Thank you, Dr. Sutliff! Proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society.

Item 2 of 2: Autographed basketball from the Missouri State Lady Bear’s Basketball Team! » Check the comments section (linked above) for the highest bid on this item, then add your high bid! Proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society. » BID NOW Bid by leaving a new comment with your high bid. Be sure to check existing [...]

The Art + Design Department at Missouri State University has launched a “Virtual Museum” where the public can view exhibits online. Current exhibits on display are from Dr. Billie Follensbee’s Citizenship and Service-Learning Integrated Art History courses. Students in these classes examine objects from different cultures and research them to prepare exhibit titles and text. Visitors [...]

Dr. Carol J. Maples, BSEd Coordinator for the Theatre and Dance Department, has been named a finalist for the Dan Cockrell University of Missouri Statewide Cooperative EdD Dissertation Award. Her dissertation is entitled “Giving Voice: The Use of Interactive Theater as Professional Development in Higher Education to Reduce the Alienation of Marginalized Groups.” Dr. Maples [...]

Felicia Hall, a senior in the Theatre and Dance Department with an emphasis in Design, Technology and  Management, has been hired by the Florida Studio Theatre company to be the lighting designer for the theatre’s 2009 production of Laughing Matters in the Goldstein Cabaret Theatre. The company, a member of the League of Resident Theatres [...]

The Beartones, an a cappella group from Missouri State University, will compete in the Varsity Vocals International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) on Saturday, April 18 at the Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. The group earned a spot in the championship field of seven teams [...]

Be sure to check out a nice overview of our events for the month.

Be sure to check out the notable accomplishments of our alumni, students, faculty and staff.

March heralds not only the coming of spring (and Spring Break!) but also an exciting month for the College of Arts and Letters, including a vast array of films, student exhibitions in several departments, and a celebration of a grand milestone for the Music Department. Join us as we celebrate the expression of arts in [...]

Several Missouri State art students joined local area art supporters on a bus ride to the State Capitol on February 11th in celebration of Missouri Citizens For The Arts annual advocacy day. At 2 p.m. that afternoon students witnessed the Missouri Arts Council present its 2009 Creative Community Award to the City of Springfield and the [...]

Dr. Bob Willenbrink has been named head of the Missouri State University Department of Theatre and Dance effective July 1, 2009.  Since 2002, he has been the Chair and Professor of Theatre in the Department of Communication and Theatre and in 2004 he was named the W. Paul and Lucille Caudill Little Endowed Chair of [...]

Mr. Wade Thompson has been named head of the Art and Design Department effective July 1, 2009. A longtime professor at Missouri State University, he is currently in his second year as acting head of the Department and was selected after a national search. “Art and design have a long history of excellence at Missouri State,” [...]

The Fall 2008 newsletter mailed out in early December. Highlights from the newsletter follow this post. A PDF copy of the newsletter is available for download:  Download PDF (3MB)

With a college as active and diverse as ours, filling 12 pages of newsletter twice a year is easy.  The hard part is deciding what will fit and what we have to leave out.  Each department could fill an entire newsletter; in fact, several of them publish their own.  Organizing each issue around a central [...]