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The McNeese State University Department of Visual Arts is hosting the Fall 2018 Senior Thesis Exhibition in both the Abercrombie and the Grand galleries in the Shearman Fine Arts Center through Dec. 6. Thirteen seniors will be displaying their artwork from a broad spectrum of painting, drawings, photographs, prints and sculpture for this year’s exhibition.…
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The McNeese State University Student Art Association’s annual holiday art sale will be held from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, in the Grand Gallery of the Shearman Fine Arts Center. McNeese art students and faculty will be displaying over 300 artworks produced during the fall semester for sale. Works will include wheel-thrown as well…
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McNeese will play its first men’s home basketball game in the new Health and Human Performance Education Complex on Friday, Nov. 16, against Loyola University New Orleans. Game time is 6:30 p.m. and doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Tickets will be on sale at the ticket office in the Doland Fieldhouse from 8 a.m.-5…
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McNeese State University has been selected as a university host site for the 2018 Hult Prize competition, billed as the world’s largest university competition that offers student teams an opportunity to win $1 million. The Hult Prize, in partnership with the United Nations, provides start-up funding to the winning team of students that develops an…
Read MoreThe McNeese State University W.A. and Dorothy Hanna Department of Performing Arts will present a free lecture recital titled “Love and Loss: A Study in Early Romanticism” by Dr. Grace Edgar, mezzo-soprano, at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, in Tritico Theatre. Dr. Lina Morita will accompany on piano. Edgar will perform Richard Schumann’s “Frauenliebe und…
Read MoreThe McNeese State University W.A. and Dorothy Hanna Department of Performing Arts will present a free senior recital by Nicholas Bedwell, saxophone, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 14, in Tritico Theatre. Ulysses Loken will accompany on piano. Bedwell will perform “Aria” by Eugene Bozza, “Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano” by Paul Creston, “Tableaux…
Read MoreMcNeese State University Leisure Learning is taking the SAGE series on the road with the sightseeing daytrip, “Baton Rouge on the River,” from 7 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13. Participants will visit the Louisiana State University Center for River Studies, the Shaw Center Art Gallery and the Louisiana Arts & Sciences Museum. The LSU Center…
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The Fall 2018 SAGE Series concludes at 3 p.m., Monday, Nov. 12, with a lecture on native flora of Louisiana by Dr. Lowell Urbatsch, professor of botany and herbarium director emeritus at Louisiana State University, in the McNeese State University SEED Center. Urbatsch’s lecture will focus on the life and work of botanical artist Margaret…
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The McNeese State University Department of Visual Arts is hosting the 2018 Louisiana Art Education Association State Conference Nov. 8-10 in the Shearman Fine Arts Center in conjunction with the art educators in Calcasieu Parish Public Schools. LAEA is a professional organization for persons interested in or engaged in activities related to art, art education…
Read MoreThe McNeese State University W.A. and Dorothy Hanna Department of Performing Arts will present a free senior recital by Tyler Brumback, tenor, at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, in Tritico Theatre. The program includes: Beethoven’s “An Die Ferne Geliebte,” selections from Finzi’s “A Young Man’s Exhortation,” three selections from Bellini’s “Sei Ariette,” two Duparc chansons,…
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