Arts and Humanities
The new building for the Michael and Anne Greenwood School of Music is expected to have a long-term impact on Oklahoma State University’s music programs and its reputation for the arts. On Saturday, dignitaries, donors and award-winning student performers celebrated the facility’s groundbreaking.
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"Write.Learn.Lead." is the backbone of the National Writing Project (NWP) network's signature programs for teachers and young people alike. During summer break, more than 3,000 teachers worked face-to-face and in online communities to share and learn new ways to teach writing, engage colleagues and enhance their leadership.
OSU-Tulsa student Patrick Grayshaw has been drawn to the idea of community engagement since high school and now he wants to make a career of it. “My social studies class is where I learned about community engagement. I never left it really,” he said. “It’s almost like it’s just my default.”
Oklahoma State University is offering a non-credit piano class for Stillwater-area adults. Aimed at beginners and those who wish to brush up on their skills, Introduction to Piano will meet from 5:30-6:20 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Aug. 20-Dec. 7 in OSU’s Seretean Center for the Performing Arts.
Through a connection to his own heritage and to the wider American and international aboriginal communities, Harjo generates an individual perspective that is rooted in the past, informed by the present, and looking to the future.
OSU trumpeters who won awards at the National Trumpet Competition and the International Trumpet Guild Conference are, from left, Noah Mennenga, Matt Herron, Ian Mertes, Nick Nusser, Matt Daigle, Bryson Tuttle, Steffi Tetzloff and Collin Stout. On the far right is Ryan Gardner, associate professor of trumpet.
The Oklahoma State University Museum of Art Advocates recently contributed 1,000 boxes of crayons to “Backpack Buddies,” a collaborative project providing school supplies for Payne County youth.