Bachmeier headlines MN Region 5 Service Cooperative Kickoff

Art Education Program Director, Brad Bachmeier, headlined the Sourcewell Region 5 Service Cooperative Arts Professional Development day in Staples, MN on Sep. 30. Professor Bachmeier presented three professional development sessions, ranging from Creative careers and emerging opportunities for student vocations to career transitions for educators. Bachmeier also presented on utilizing Social-Emotional Learning strategies for creating engaging and relevant curricula in […]

Film production student and art alum build community in Fargo-Moorhead 

Minnesota State Moorhead alum, Amanda Frost, and current Moorhead student Alessa Herrera Grant are attempting to answer the question, “Why Fargo-Moorhead?”.  Over the past summer, Alessa participated in CampusFM’s 12-week creatorship, learning from Amanda, the CampusFM coordinator for the company Folkways, along with other guest speakers.   CampusFM’s overall goal is to keep graduates in the Fargo-Moorhead area by strengthening connections […]

Student and alum create animation for school play

When Minnesota State Moorhead animation graduate Katie Muggli and current animation student Nicole Shoutz were offered the opportunity to create a projection animation for a Liberty Middle school play, they were surprised and excited to tackle the project. Using the skills they learned at Moorhead, they created something special. At MSUM, Katie and Nicole worked with different design software like […]

Art Students Jury MN State HS Leage Section 6

Eight advanced Art Education students gained valuable work experience serving as jurors for the MN State Section 6 Visual Arts Exhibition in New York Mills this spring. Students juried work in their areas of expertise over 10 media categories. Over 200 works were juried for awards with finalists selected to move on to the  State-wide Finals Competition.