Events

McNeese State University visual art students are hosting a temporary, activist-art installation and art giveaway for the McNeese community on Wednesday, April 19, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Grand Gallery in the Shearman Fine Arts Annex building. “The conceptual basis for this project involves the plastic bottle waste pollution that we collectively face…

Alex Jennings, the author of The Ballad of Perilous Graves, will give a reading on Saturday, April 1, at 7 p.m. in Stokes Auditorium in Hardtner Hall at McNeese State University. This exciting writer will read from his novel that is set in an alternate-world New Orleans. Walter Mosely, New York Times bestselling author, calls…

Spring 2023 GradFest will be held for all McNeese State University graduating students on Wednesday, March 22 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. and on Thursday, March 23, from 1 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. in the William Gray Stream Alumni Center. The McNeese Alumni Association sponsors this event. GradFest is a “one-stop shop” for students…

McNeese’s Women and Gender Studies Lecture Series is hosting “Journey of an Artist” presented by Sajeela Siddiq. She holds degrees in Business and Art and is a Master of Fine Art in painting candidate at the University of Houston. Themes of “duality” and a search for “belonging” are inextricably woven throughout Sajeela’s life and work,…

McNeese State University’s W.A. and Dorothy Hanna Department of Performing Arts opens the spring McNeese Theatre season with the production of “Puffs” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8-11 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 12 in Squires Recital Hall. The play is a collaboration with Lake Charles Little Theatre. “Puffs,” or “Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a…

The McNeese State University Honor Roll for the 2022 fall semester has been announced. The honor roll lists undergraduate students earning at least a 3.0 or B average while carrying 12 or more semester hours.  Honor Roll is as follows:  LOUISIANA CITIES  Abbeville: Spencer J. Abshire, Grace K. Roussel   Alexandria: Javian T. Dailey, Jacara Dashanea…

McNeese State University will hold two ceremonies Friday, Dec. 9, to confer degrees on the graduates at the university’s 159th Commencement in McNeese’s Legacy Center. The ceremony for the colleges of agricultural sciences, business and liberal arts will be held at 9:30 a.m. and the Burton College of Education and colleges of nursing and health…

The McNeese State University Student Art Association’s annual holiday art sale will be held from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, in the Grand Gallery on the first floor of the Shearman Fine Arts Annex. McNeese art students and faculty will be displaying over 300 artworks produced during the fall semester for sale. Works will…

The 2022 McNeese State University Homecoming Step Show – “A Nightmare on Ryan Street” – will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, in the Rec Complex on the McNeese campus. Sponsored by the McNeese National Pan-Hellenic Council, this event is part of “Rowdy’s Haunted Homecoming” activities Oct. 23-29. General admission tickets are $20.…