#MSUCAL at @michiganstateu educates actors, artists, designers, filmmakers, linguists, philosophers, poets, teachers, translators, and writers. #SpartansWill

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Did you know the metal sculpture “Cadence” brings together science and art in the @michiganstateu Molecular Plant Sciences Building? Artist Albert Paley worked with MSU faculty to create a sculpture that “grows” across the indoor brick wall through the glass windows signifying the strong connection between plant research happening in the building’s labs and the adjacent garden spaces outside.
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Proud of this: @michiganstateu ranks #32 worldwide and #15 in the U.S. for its arts and humanities research, according to the @usnews Best Global Universities for 2025-2026.
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Through a partnership between the MSU Translation Center, the Excel Network, and Chispa 4-H, aspiring translators at @michiganstateu are gaining hands-on experience while helping expand access to educational programming for Spanish-speaking communities across Michigan. The experience offers students insight into how language access can shape trust, belonging, and opportunity within communities.
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MSU College of Arts & Letters retweeted
Throughout the summer, until August, the traveling Black Threads exhibit will be up on display in the Main Library's 2 East! The exhibit, provided in partnership with MSU Museum's Quilt Index, showcases quilt arts with themes of activism and resistance.
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.@michiganstateu students in @MSUEnglish Professor Julian Chambliss' Readings in Graphic Narratives course partnered with Capital Area District Libraries in downtown Lansing to create a display and thematic reading lists featuring comics and graphic novels. This was an opportunity for students to transform their classroom learning into a public humanities project supporting the community and CADL Summer Reading Challenge, which starts today and runs through Aug. 8.
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The recent @michiganstateu Theatre production of “Mary Jane” invited the audience to become part of the student performance, transforming a healthcare simulation center into an intimate, immersive theatrical experience that blurred the line between actors and audience. Theatre Professor Rob Roznowski and students on the production team worked closely with the MSU Learning and Assessment Center to adapt the medical simulation environment for the performances allowing the audience to step inside one mother’s journey of caring for her chronically ill son.
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MSU College of Arts & Letters retweeted
"Some lines are enforced by razor wire, but we can still get across them,” says MSU assistant professor Kirk Astle. During weekly writing workshops, MSU undergraduates and incarcerated college students discover common ground. 🔗go.msu.edu/WriteOn
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Students, faculty, and alumni at @michiganstateu are leaving their mark on downtown East Lansing. From vibrant murals and unique microgalleries to vinyl installations that play with light and color, Spartans are transforming public spaces throughout the city—and more projects are on the way.
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.@michiganstateu's Department of Theatre is preparing for the 2026 Summer Circle Theatre season, which runs June 4-21. This year’s theme is “Resilience,” with three productions featuring characters who are challenged to grow, adapt, and rediscover their sense of self and will. There will be pre- and post-show performances, including lively cabarets and improv. All performances are free to the public.
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MSU College of Arts & Letters retweeted
Bill Mechanic is one of the people who helped launch Hollywood blockbusters like Titanic, Braveheart and X-Men. He's also an @MSUCAL alum, and returned to MSU's campus this spring to serve as the College of Arts and Letters' commencement speaker.
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.@michiganstateu along with Candace Keller, Associate Professor of African Art and Visual Culture in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design, partnered with @Mmofra_Ghana to preserve the Willis Bell Photographic Archive. This archive is one of the most complete visual records of post-independence Ghana. More than 40,000 photographs documenting Ghana's first decades after independence have been restored, digitized, and returned to public view.
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Two new microgalleries designed and created by students in the @michiganstateu Department of Art, Art History, and Design will be featured at the 2026 East Lansing Art Festival on May 16 and 17. The microgalleries, Vivid Visions and Fragmented Reflections, will join the Honeycomb Gallery outside (SCENE) Metrospace, completing a three-part public art project that ran during the 2025-2026 academic year.
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