Five MSUM film teams participate in National Film Challenge

More than 60 MSU Moorhead Film Studies students participated in the 2009 National Film Challenge Oct. 23-25. A total of five production teams, the most MSUM has ever had, received their assignments at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23. The teams, which comprised 12-13 students, were given a character, prop, line of dialogue, and a genre and were then given 48 hours to write, shoot, score and edit their seven-minute films for a Sunday evening film screening. Three MSUM teams completed the project within the 48-hour period. Click headline to read more.

MSUM student art exhibit opens Nov. 16

An MSUM student art exhibit will be on display Nov. 16-Dec. 2 in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts gallery. The exhibit is in partial fulfillment of students’ B.S. and B.A. degrees in art. The exhibit will feature ceramics, graphic design, painting, drawing and printmaking. A reception for the artists will be held from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19 in the gallery. It’s free and open to the public. Click the headline to see who’s exhibiting.

Trenz named interim HR director at MSUM

Herb Trenz has been appointed interim director of Human Resources at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Trenz has more than 30 years of experience in human resources, including 17 years as the director of Human Resources for the College of St. Benedict, St. John’s University and the Order of St. Benedict. Click headline to read more.

Volk & Scheuer hold printmaking demonstrations

John Volk, Art & Design, and student Jennifer Scheuer, from the Printmaking program in the Department of Art & Design, will be holding demonstrations for approximately 1,800 area elementary school students during the next three weeks. The demonstrations will be held in the Hannaher Print Studio at the Plains Art Museum, where Volk is the featured artist and Scheuer is the student intern. For more information, visit http://www.plainsart.org/education/print_studio.php