By MeLissa Kossick / The Arts Partnership on Sep 14, 2015 at 6:00 a.m. FARGO – Authors only tell half of the story, says illustrator Elise Parsley. “Children’s picture books are unique in that a reader wouldn’t understand the entire story by only reading the text; similarly, a reader wouldn’t understand the whole story through just the pictures,” says the […]
School of Media Arts & Design professor Tom Brandau’s latest film, Home Delivery, continues its run on the festival circuit. Set in Baltimore (1974) the dramatic short tells the story of two newspaper delivery boys (one white, one African-American) struggling with the racial divide between their adjacent neighborhoods. The film recently screened at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival, the […]
Remember ’90s soda Surge? Meet the Fargo man who helped bring it back By Ryan Johnson on Sep 8, 2015 at 6:05 a.m. FARGO — Matt Winans is an insurgent of the citrus kind. The Fargo man didn’t mean to start a beverage revolution. But over the course of seven years, he helped convince Coca-Cola to bring back Surge more […]
Elise Parsley (’11), a student from the School of Visual Arts, has published an illustrated book with the title, “If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don’t!” The book has just been listed on the New York Times best sellers list for the category of children’s pictures books. For more information, see: http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2015-09-06/picture-books/list.html
Trisha Rutten (formerly Dewar), MSUM Political Science graduate, is the cover story on the current issue of Area Woman. The article details the amazing story of Trisha surviving a stroke as a 26-year-old mom and undergraduate. This challenge spurred Trisha to reach higher while knowing, “Moments really matter to me. Every moment matters with my kids, too. Everything changes so […]