A celebration of the arts, culture & ideas
FALL 2018 | Vol. 18, No. 2
I hope you like the image on the cover of this issue of Bravo! as much as I do. I love how the camera captures the exact instant a hammer makes contact with a block of ice. It’s a moment of creation rather than destruction. For me, the image symbolizes the power of transformation. Whether it’s smashing the mold of convention in order to discover a new way of being or doing; or breaking the glass ceiling to foster a future without limitations; or refining the edges of diamonds found in the rough, our faculty and alumni, in similar fashion, transform our community. Indeed, each article featured in this issue of Bravo! is about how artists and their art have made an impact in our community. As you have come to expect, we once again bring worldclass performers and artists to campus for the benefit of the community. Season highlights in the visual arts include The Red Ball Project and an exhibition of art works by Anh-Thuy Nguyen and Fidencio Fifield-Perez. The Cheryl Nelson Lossett Performing Arts Series brings Nobuntu, a female a cappella quintet from Zimbabwe, to stage followed by the Columbian jazz harpist Edmar Casteneda and his trio. Faculty and students will once again join forces for a Winter Celebration of the Arts in Hansen Theater in December followed by hot chocolate and the lighting of the mall. Finally, we are looking for friends. If you value the arts at MSUM, please consider becoming a member of MSUM’s Friends of the Arts (FOTA). The membership fee is affordable and supports every program within our college. In return, you’ll get ticket discounts and invitations to special members’ only events. For more information please visit our website mnstate.edu/friends-of-the-arts. Celebrate the arts and build community by becoming a Friend.
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Events at a Glance
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AUGUST of Art: The Kitchen Sink 27 SArtchool Exhibit (Aug. 27 through Sept. 13) Opening Reception Aug. 30
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School of Media Arts & Design: Tenth annual FMLGBT Film Festival (through Sept. 15) School of Performing Arts: Faculty Recital – Varied School of Art: Visiting artists Anh-Thuy Nguyen and Fidencio Fifield-Perez (through Oct. 4) Opening Reception Sept. 20
chool of Performing Arts: 23 SFaculty Recital – Terrie Manno with guest Michael Dean
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of Performing Arts: Day 03 Sofchool Percussion of Performing Arts: 05 SJazzchoolEnsemble
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chool of Art: BFA Senior 05 SExhibition 01 #1 (through Nov. 29)
chool of Art: “Solid Ground” 06 09 SFaculty Exhibition (through Nov. University Music Series: Wind Ensemble Concert
School of Performing Arts: “Lines & Notes” Faculty Recital – Terrie Manno and Kevin Zepper
School of Media Arts and Design: Graphic Design Creative Shorts
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School of Performing Arts: The Cat in the Hat
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School of Performing Arts: Works in Progress
chool of Performing Arts: 30 SMusic Theatre Ensemble
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chool of Art: BFA Senior 03 SExhibition #2 (through Dec. 20) Opening Reception Dec. 6 Winter Celebration 07 Pofresident’s the Arts
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School of Media Arts & Design: Graphic Communication Final Project Presentations
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School of Media Arts & Design: Juried Film and Animation Exhibition
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School of Performing Arts: The Cat in the Hat (Children’s Theatre) Hansen Theatre, 1 and 4 p.m.
collection of theatre, music and visual art events) Hansen Theatre and the campus mall, 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! Hansen Theatre is located in MSUM’s Roland Dille Center for the Arts.
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WHEN MSUM MUSIC PROFESSOR KENYON WILLIAMS SAW A VIDEO OF RUSSIAN MUSICIANS PERFORMING ON LARGE CHUNKS OF ICE IN SIBERIA, HE WONDERED IF HE COULD FIND A WAY TO PERFORM WITH ICE, TOO. AFTER ALL, THE CLIMATES IN MOORHEAD AND SIBERIA ARE SIMILAR, AND PERCUSSIONISTS, WHEREVER THEY’RE FROM, LIKE TO CREATE SOUNDS BY HITTING THINGS.
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We intentionally ended each performance by smashing all of our ice instruments. As it turned out, Frostival audiences were thrilled by the dramatic endings. – Kenyon Williams
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ith the idea of ice instruments fresh in his head, Williams went to a meeting of the Moorhead Arts and Culture Commission (he’s a member), where he learned about “Frostival,” a Fargo event dedicated to getting people outside in late January. He’d also recently returned from the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Indianapolis, where he attended a session about creating percussion spectacles in outdoor venues. The timing seemed right to try making music with ice, but he had a lot to learn. During his research, he found examples of ice performances, but most ice percussion instruments were made either by nature (waterfalls, for example), or by professional ice artists who made very specific “instruments” for festivals in Europe. “None of them showed how to make an instrument from scratch,” Williams said. He sought the advice of his father, a sculptor, and gathered tools that most do-it-yourself homeowners own, including an ordinary cooler. After some trial and error (ice that produced no pitch and cracked at the slightest touch), he learned that the strongest ice had to be crystal clear and bubble-free. That knowledge led him to videos made by high-end bartenders who make their own ice. He adapted some of their ideas, customized another cooler by adding a fish tank water pump, and went to work again. This time, he was able to create a block of clear, bubble-free ice. After a few weeks of work in his backyard, he had several blocks. “My initial hope was that I could cut xylophone-style bars out of my large ice blocks and then tune them diatonically using a dremel tool,” Williams said. He discovered that approach would take too much time, and would weaken the bars to the
point of making them useless. Instead, he cut a variety of shapes and bar sizes, allowing the natural variances in the ice to create different pitches. “I chose to embrace the differences, and soon settled on three main sounds – ice xylophone, ice gong plates and randomized, free-standing ice sculptures with a variety of tonal surfaces,” he said. With the Frostival event fast approaching, Williams tested his newest set of ice instruments again, only to discover they were too delicate and less resonant than he wanted. The only way to make them loud enough was to play with harder mallets and more force, which caused them to crack after just a few minutes. That meant making replacement instruments, and getting creative about the performance itself – or at least how to end it. “We intentionally ended each performance by smashing all of our ice instruments,” Williams said. “As it turned out, Frostival audiences were thrilled by the dramatic endings.” If he can get the other members of his ensemble, the Varying Degrees Percussion Trio, to put up with the finger-numbing cold one more year, Williams will do a repeat performance this winter.
Williams filmed a video of the process and some of the Frostival performance. That video won him recognition by the Percussive Arts Society, which included the video on its website. View the video at https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=D9agRFP6BoI.
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School of Performing Arts: Faculty Recital – Varied performers Gaede Stage, 7:30 p.m.
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School of Performing Arts: Faculty Recital – Jenny Default (soprano) Gaede Stage, 7:30 p.m.
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chool of Performing Arts: Faculty 23 SRecital – Terrie Manno (piano)
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University Music Series: Wind Ensemble Concert Hansen Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
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University Music Series: Choir Concert Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
with guest Michael Dean (piano) Fox Recital Hall, 2 p.m.
heryl Nelson Lossett Performing 20 CArts Series: Nobuntu Nobuntu, a female a cappella quintet from Zimbabwe, has drawn international acclaim for performances that range from traditional Zimbabwean songs to Afro Jazz to Gospel. The ensemble represents a new generation of young African women singers who believe that music is an important vehicle for change, one that transcends racial, tribal, religious, gender and economic boundaries. Gaede Stage, 7:30 p.m.
School of Performing Arts: “Lines & Notes” Faculty Recital – Terrie Manno and Kevin Zepper (music and poetry) Fox Recital Hall, 4:30 p.m.
chool of Performing Arts: Day of 02 SPercussion Comstock Memorial Union, 7:30 p.m. chool of Performing Arts: Jazz 05 SEnsemble Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
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Cheryl Nelson Lossett Performing Arts Series: The Edmar Casteneda Trio This is what a German newspaper (The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) wrote about Edmar: "The Colombian plays the harp like hardly anyone else on earth. His hands, seemingly powered by two different people, produce a totally unique, symphonic fullness of sound, a rapid-fire of chords, balance of melodic figures and drive, served with euphoric Latin American rhythms." This performance includes Edmar’s colleagues on trombone and drum set. Gaede Stage, 7:30 p.m.
chool of Performing Arts: Music 30 STheatre Ensemble with Solfire (vocal jazz) Gaede Stage, 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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A BUMPER CROP Successful collaboration reaps rewards for students At a certain point every summer, a gardener plucks a plump, red tomato from a vine and breathes a sigh of satisfaction. All the earlier work – hoeing, seeding, watering and weeding – have paid off. And at a certain point every semester at MSUM, a group of documentary students sits in a classroom to view a film and breathes a sigh of relief. All the earlier work – planning, interviewing, filming and editing – has paid off.
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his year’s documentary class, taught by WDAY reporter and MSUM Instructor Kevin Wallevand ’84 (mass communications), produced a documentary so successful that it aired on Prairie Public TV after premiering at the Fargo Theatre. The film, titled, “Homegrown,” features the Red River Market and several of the market’s vendors, all from the area’s small to mid-size farms. Twenty students from film, graphic communications, broadcast journalism, communications and English worked on “Homegrown.” Wallevand said students assigned roles democratically, after discussing preferences and skill sets. The project needed producers, reporters, photographers, editors, graphic designers and social media experts. Students visited the owner of an apple orchard, a honey producer, a grower of micro-greens, and vendors of everything from baked goods to handmade soaps at the market. Interviews with farmers, producers and vendors were interspersed with scenes from the market, starting with busy Saturdays in late summer to the last event of the season in early October.
Wallevand described his role as “tugboat caption,” or “shepherd.” He’s been teaching the news documentary class for 14 years. The documentary is the sole focus of the semester, and it’s a huge challenge. “Students are trying to set up interviews and get video, while also working and going to class. Also, there are many creative opinions out there, so the students have to learn to work together. That means compromise and respecting the creativity of others.”
Student Zac Hoffner ’18 (multimedia journalism) liked the challenge of compromise. “Everyone came together as a team and participated to make it a strong project.” For Hoffner, who was one of the documentary’s producers, the hardest aspect of the project came after all the filming and interviewing. “Sifting through hours and hours of footage to organize a half-hour long story that flowed naturally and didn’t feel forced was the most difficult process,” he said. “We were in the edit bay for a good 200 hours.” The film screened at the Fargo Theatre in December to an audience of 500 friends, faculty members, parents and students. “It was absolutely surreal to see the amount of time and energy we all poured into the documentary, and to see all of our class genuinely proud of the work we did,” said Hoffner. “We still receive compliments, and the organizers of the Red River Market sill share it with people around the country.” The project provided more than the thrill of seeing the film on a real movie theatre screen, according to Hoffner. Everyone loved seeing their work aired and getting positive feedback, but they also recognized the longer term value. “It taught me so much about how to organize a half-hour worth of content and to work with a team,” said Hoffner. “We could not have done it without everyone in the class, and that experience means a lot to me.”
The documentary is available to watch at facebook.com/ FMHomegrown or on YouTube.
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of Art: The Kitchen Sink 27 SArtchool Exhibit (Aug. 27 through Sept. 13);
chool of Art: BFA Senior 05 SExhibition #1 (through Nov. 29);
Opening Reception Aug. 30, 4-7 p.m. Center for the Arts Gallery
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School of Media Arts & Design:Tenth annual FMLGBT Film Festival (through Sept. 15) Fargo Theatre
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School of Art: Visiting artists Anh-Thuy Nguyen and Fidencio Fifield-Perez (through Oct. 4); Opening Reception Sept. 20, 4-7 p.m. Center for the Arts Gallery
Opening Reception Nov. 8, 4-7 p.m. Center for the Arts Gallery chool of Media Arts and Design: 06 SGraphic Design Creative Shorts Center for Business 109, 6 p.m.
DECEMBER chool of Art: BFA Senior 03 SExhibition #2 (through Dec. 20); Opening Reception Dec. 6, 4-7 p.m. Center for the Arts Gallery Winter Celebration of 07 Ptheresident’s Arts Hansen Theatre and the campus mall, 7:30 p.m.
OCTOBER chool of Art: “Solid Ground” 09 SFaculty Exhibition (through Nov. 1);
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School of Media Arts & Design: Graphic Communication Final Project Presentations Comstock Memorial Union Ballroom, 7 to 9 p.m.
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School of Media Arts & Design: Juried Film and Animation Exhibition Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Opening Reception Oct. 11, 4-7 p.m. Center for the Arts Gallery
For more information and tickets: mnstate.edu/tickets OR mnstate.edu/events The Art Gallery and Hansen Theatre are 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.
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Collective Conscience Artists share mission, ethics and effort Ask a random collection of people what a “cone pack” is and many will guess that it has something to do with ice cream. Those old enough to remember early “Saturday Night Live” skits might ask if you mean “cone head,” and someone else might tell you that a cone pack is a stack of orange construction cones. If there’s an artist in the group, he or she might laugh.
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cone pack is a grouping of pyrometric cones,” said Art Professor Kelli Sinner. “A pyrometric cone is a triangular shaped object made of ceramic material used to measure the heat in a kiln. The cone melts as the kiln reaches the desired temperature.”
But Cone Pack is also the name of a local “pack” of ceramic artists, a collective formed by Sinner and alumna Catie Miller ‘13 (art). Alumna Brooke Feickert ‘13 (art education) and former NDSU art instructor Helen Otterson also helped created the collective. “It’s a nerdy joke that ceramic artists love, but it also pokes fun at technical jargon,” Sinner said. The seven-member collective started as a conversation between Sinner and Miller in 2016. Miller had just completed an artist residency in Kansas City and moved back to Fargo. In Kansas City, she’d met a group of ceramic artists who banded together to create bigger exhibitions, better sales and community events. “I was looking for similar relationships with artists working in clay here,” Miller said. So was Sinner, who was also looking for ways to connect with her local community and bring handmade ceramics to a new audience. “When I got out of graduate school, it was a different time, and like most artists, I was affiliated with several galleries in different states. I would ship artwork
across the country,” Sinner said. She and Miller wanted to try a new model – one that emphasized local partnerships and relationships, like the Kansas City collective. Membership in Cone Pack requires an invitation from the collective. But ceramic artists who are not members are often invited to participate in Cone Pack events. Criteria for membership and for participation in events are mainly the quality of the art, but also the community-mindedness and work ethic of artists. Planning and executing events is much easier when there are several people to share the workload. Business partners are held to similar standards. Cone Pack likes to partner with businesses that focus on creating quality products and are locally owned. Sales events have taken place at Twenty Below Coffee Co., BernBaum’s and the Red River Market. Cone Pack’s next big project is an invitational art exhibit at the Plains Art Museum called “A Seat at the Table.” Miller said the invitational exhibition will feature regional ceramic artists who will create place settings that encourage conversations about consumerism, political divisions, the environment and women’s issues, among other topics. The exhibit runs from Sept. 7 through Jan. 12 at the Plains. Cone Pack also plans a fall vase and planter sale and a community outreach program with a local under-served group. To learn more about Cone Pack and its events, visit http://conepack.wixsite.com/clay.
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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 22
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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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GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
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t MSUM, moments of exploration and discovery are catalysts to life transformation. One of MSUM’s many transformative programs, graphic communications, allows students to explore the relationship between art and technology across mediums to understand the demands of today’s content-driven world.
Jason Lotzer ’98 (graphic communications) is creative director at Flint. Like Strickler, he benefited from the flexibility the program provided. Both alumni also credit their advisor at the time, Mike Ruth. “Mike gave you plenty of rope to find your path,” Lotzer said.
While art and graphics form the foundation of their work, students also code websites and applications, develop understanding of motion graphics as well as traditional print, and work across in-demand topics such as e-commerce, digital marketing, and social media.
Shannon Wiedman, ’07 (graphic communications) is a product design director at CoSchedule, a marketing company that helps businesses organize their marketing efforts. She also is a cofounder of Fargo’s chapter of Girl Develop It, a nonprofit organization that provides opportunities for women interested in learning web and software development.
A fully accessible website for the North Dakota Association for the Blind and an award-winning website for The Fargo Project (a local effort to transform storm water basins back to environmentally thriving community spaces) are two examples of the important work students do in the graphic communications program. Alexandria Fogarty, associate professor of Graphic Communications and Interactive Multimedia in MSUM’s School of Media Arts & Design, said MSUM was one of the first schools in the region to offer a web-driven interactive focus alongside traditional print. “For years now, our graphic communications students and alumni have been making a mark in the community,” said Fogarty. Read on to learn what some of those students are doing now in Fargo-Moorhead, and to catch the common thread in their stories. Jen (Mostad) Strickler ’96 (graphic communications) calls her time at MSUM a self-made journey. Strickler spent her college career studying art and commerce, taking classes in graphic communications and graphic design. She is now senior vice president of creative and technology at Flint Group, where she also serves as director of user experience. “There was a lot of self-direction at MSUM, which prepared me for when I came to Flint, to see opportunities and run with them,” Strickler said. “I used that independence to create a degree that fit the ebb and flow of my interests.”
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"Being able to bring your designs to life with code is an invaluable trait in the tech industry,” said Wiedman. “The graphic communications program empowered me to pursue a career that went beyond design, into functionality and development." One of the programs more recent graduates, Tyler Fischbach, ’16 (graphic communications), quickly nabbed a job as the multimedia coordinator at the Fargo-Moorhead Chamber of Commerce. "My time at MSUM instilled in me the invaluable ability to be constantly learning, adapting and expressing creativity no matter the task or medium." Amber Kienenberger, ’04 (graphic communications), is the manager of creative services at Blue Cross Blue Shield. "Opportunity and growth often come from the experiences that aren't in your plan,” said Kienenberger. “Always be willing to jump in, take on the unknown, and roll with the punches." All of these alums credit the flexibility and creativity that MSUM provided them as they pursued their educations. That freedom encouraged them to take calculated risks in their careers and stay adaptable. “Don’t ever, ever stop proactively learning,” Strickler said. “The industry changes so fast that irrelevancy creeps up quickly.” Lotzer concurs. “You can’t put the brakes on in the world we live in. You have to stay curious. Mistakes are one of the biggest drivers of learning. If you never fail you may never succeed.”
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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 218.477.4623 for more information about how you can contribute to the college. Alan and Renee Aamodt Julie Adams and Allen Carter Thomas Anstadt Bradley and Susan Bachmeier Dale Beling Patricia and Burton Belknap Annie and Bill Bergquist Anne Blackhurst Steven Bolduc Laurie and David Boyden Janet Brandau and Thomas Brandau Karen and Michael Brenteson Alan and Barbara Breuer Ken and Lynn Brown Mary Buhr David and Marlene Carlson Donald and Mary Clark Russell Colson Yvonne Condell Adam Costello Timothy Crawford Ellen and Paul Diederich Richard and Patricia DuBord Jenny Dufault Craig Ellingson Elizabeth Evert-Karnes and Darin Karnes Casey Fawbush Wanda Fingalson Robert Frank Nancy Froysland-Hoerl and Scott Hoerl Rebecca Gardner Sue Gens Robert Gerke John Gill Kathy Glur Brittney Goodman Denise Gorsline Ricky Greenwell Dennis Hamilton and Cheri Diesem Jean Hannig Kenton Hanson
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