Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson receives documentary filmmaking award

Film Studies Professor Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson was presented with the Award of Merit for Documentary Filmmaking at this year’s annual University Film and Video Association Conference. The Award of Merit is the association’s highest honor for artists, and is determined through a formal jury process. The award recognized her recent work, Sveit, a non-fiction video about memory, place and family history that K-Nelson produced in northern Iceland. Click headline to read more.

Abstraction 100 showing at MSUM through Sept. 22

MSUM’s first exhibition of the fall semester, “Abstraction 100”, is a centennial exhibition that marks 100 years since non-objective art was first recognized. It will be showing through Sept. 22 in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gallery, and feature the work of 31 artists, demonstrating the breadth of approaches possible within abstraction, and the wide variety of methods and materials that can be employed. Click headline for details.