2010 Campus Campaign Winners

And the winners are…The first week of incentive prize drawings for the Campus Campaign is complete and the winners are: Dawn Hammerschmidt—Two Season Tickets to 2010 Straw Hat Players & a gift certificate to Red Lobster; Margaret Potter—Two Tickets to the March 26 Jason Michael Carroll Concert & Two Buffett Tickets at Dakota Magic Casino; Annette Morrow—Gift certificate for Shooting Star Casino’s New Restaurant 2 One 8; and Brian Oxton—Ramada Plaza & Suites hotel room. Congratulations to the first round of winners! Click headline to read more about the Campus Campaign.

Kenyon Williams receives artist initiative grant

Dr. Kenyon Williams was recently awarded a highly competitive Minnesota State Arts Board “Artist Initiative” Grant for 2010. Funded through the recently approved Cultural Heritage funds passed into law by the people of Minnesota in 2009, the grant will allow Williams to commission original works for percussion and to lay the groundwork for the recording of what will become his first commercially released CD. He will record the CD with the aid of MSUM Music Industry professor Ryan Jackson this coming fall and spring, utilizing commissions and selections from composers around the world, including MSUM’s own Professor of Composition Henry Gwiazda and Concordia’s Russell Peterson.