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WSU digital archiving project receives prestigious Mellon grant

By Adrian Aumen, College of Arts and Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers have received a $555,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support development and evaluation of a unique online platform for gathering, curating and sharing Native American library and archive collections nationwide.

Setting up business overseas easier with free, expert counsel

By Hope Belli Tinney, Washington SBDC SPOKANE, Wash. – When Coleen Quisenberry created Flexhibit to design, assemble and install hands-on, interactive science exhibits for discovery centers and children’s museums, she assumed her primary customers would be in the United States.

3D printing creates new reality for students

By Richard H. Miller, Academic Outreach and Innovation PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University has built a global reputation for 3D printing: alumnus S. Scott Crump helped develop it, and WSU scientists are finding ways to create bones for people, parts for satellites and buildings from Mars dirt.

Thanks, George Clooney – the worth of ‘Monuments Men’

By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – When we think of World War II heroes, museum curators and archivists aren’t who come to mind. Unless, of course, we’ve seen the box-office hit, “Monuments Men,” based on a true story about a ragtag group of men and women who risked their lives in Europe – […]

Moscow artist to display sculpture of classmates

The Washington State University Museum of Art will exhibit Marilyn Lysohir: High School Portraits, 1968, Good Girls, Sharon Pennsylvania, May 22 – July 21. There will be a public reception for the artist at 6 p.m. May 22 in the museum featuring Linda DiFiore, an operatic performance by University of North Texas regents professor and […]

Grant awarded to support art at WSU

PULLMAN – The Washington State University Museum of Art has been awarded a grant in the amount of $5,000 by the Florence Wasmer Fund for Arts and Culture of Inland Northwest Community Foundation, to be used for the upcoming Sherry Markovitz Retrospective exhibit and publication. The exhibit, curated by the Museum of Art/WSU, will be […]

Art in ascendence

Transformation is a common theme in art work, a little less common in art museums. But it is happening at the Museum of Art/WSU, and the change is remarkable.  “No question, the level of quality has gone up by orders of magnitude,” said Gene Rosa, a Moscow artist and professor of sociology at WSU. Calling […]

Gary Gildener to read at WSU

WSU1s department of English continues its Spring 2006 Visiting Writer Series with author Gary Gildner on Tuesday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Museum of Art Gallery.Gildner has published twenty books, including Blue Like the Heavens: New and Selected Poems, Somewhere Geese Are Flying: New and Selected Stories, The Second Bridge (a novel), and […]