Illustrative career: Conference for children’s book illustrators, writers provides inspiration for local artists

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 […]

Brandau film continues on festival circuit

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 […]

Marilea Bramer, philosophy, presented paper at North American Society for Social Philosophy meeting

MSUM Philosophy Department’s Associate Professor, Marilea Bramer, PhD, presented her paper: “How to Conceive of Infant Autonomy: The Structure and Uses of Infant Autonomy in a Moral Framework” at the North American Society for Social Philosophy meeting at William Jewell College in Liberty, MO in July. Later that month, she participated in a Reading Group that discussed Kant and Plato […]