Nesha Ruther, winner of the 2017 MoRe Prize from The Mochila Review. Award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni has selected poet Nesha Ruther as winner of The Mochila Review’s 2017 Undergraduate MoRe Prize. Ruther’s poem “A Love Poem to Ernst Winter” will be published in the 2017 issue of The Mochila Review, Missouri Western State [...]
Students and faculty in the technical communication program at Missouri Western State University will benefit from a new partnership between the University and Adobe Systems Inc. The partnership through Adobe’s University Outreach Program enhances campus access to the company’s industry-standard Adobe Technical Communication Suite. “This will help our students get jobs when they graduate,” said [...]
Vivian Dean The Art Entrepreneurship Speaker Series at Missouri Western State University will continue at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 8 with Dean Vivian’s talk titled “Figure Out the Numbers: Taxes for Artists.” The 90-minute seminar is free and open to the public. Vivian will review the details of what self-employed artists need to [...]
Dr. Zachary Taylor Dr. Zachary Taylor from the environmental sciences program at Berry College in Georgia is the next speaker in the Interdisciplinary Nature of Geography Speaker Series at Missouri Western State University. Dr. Taylor’s talk, “Climate Change and Prehistoric Agricultural Decline in Costa Rica,” is at noon Friday, March 3 in Agenstein [...]
Dr. Nathanael May Dr. Nathanael May, associate professor of music at Missouri Western State University, has been interviewed by “I Care If You Listen,” a major international source for the promotion of contemporary classical music. The interview is about the soundSCAPE festival founded by Dr. May. soundSCAPE (Sound, Composition and Performance Exchange) will [...]
Stephen T. Johnson will present a Visiting Artist Lecture at 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 1, in Agenstein Hall, room 324, on the campus of Missouri Western State University. Johnson’s lecture is free and open to the public. Johnson is a highly versatile American artist whose visually arresting and conceptually rich body of work forges connections [...]
Auditions for Missouri Western State University’s production of “The Wedding Singer” will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27 in the Potter Hall Theater, with callbacks at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28. Missouri Western auditions are open to all, including community members. Those auditioning are asked to prepare a 90-second monologue and song combo [...]
The Potter Art Gallery at Missouri Western State University will host two national ceramics exhibitions Feb. 24 through March 24. An opening reception for “Twin Cups” and “Off the Table,” free and open to the public, will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24. The national exhibitions are hosted by the MWSU [...]
The 2016-2017 Theatre Season at Missouri Western State University continues with William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” Feb. 24 through March 4 in Potter Hall. Performances are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24 and 25 and March 2, 3 and 4, with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. Feb. 26. In Shakespeare’s famous “Scottish play,” Macbeth murders King [...]
Faculty in the Department of Music at Missouri Western State University will present the Spring Faculty Showcase Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, in the Kemper Recital Hall inside Spratt Hall. The concert is free and open to the public. The program is an eclectic mix of classical, jazz and contemporary music that features [...]
