Arts & Storytelling
We commit to our belief that world depends on the storywork of the arts, languages, and humanities, and we commit to creating community and scholarship that elevates this work.
For us, Arts & Story telling not only includes the obvious — our commitment to the arts and to bearing witness through storytelling — but also our commitment to creativity and to making visible the sometimes “behind-the-scenes” labor of the college. Sentence by sentence, minute by minute, we are creating the story of our college together. The better we can understand what one another contributes and needs, the more vibrant a story we become.
As part of the process of elevating this work, we’ve asked ourselves:
- What do we believe is possible in the future of the arts, languages, and humanities?
- What can we imagine?
- What can our students imagine?
- And, does imagination only occur in the classroom — or does it occur in offices, in policies, and in how we represent ourselves and our work?
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
Louise Erdrich
Objectives
Create arts spaces and experiences that innovate
through providing professional-quality resources and opportunities.
Position students as artists and creators
through the creation of an arts research institute that fosters student and faculty research and creative activities.
Value creativity and new ways of creating knowledge
through integrating a myriad of modalities and aesthetics of storytelling into our arts, pedagogy, and policy-making.
Make visible the complex internal labor of the college
through creating public-facing knowledge pathways that clarify where information, resources, and processes are stored.
Establish Arts & Storytelling at the heart of an MSU education
through the college’s connection to the university’s general education curriculum.
Foster a culture of transparency, clarity, and reflective understanding
through cultivating sustainable internal communications processes.
Spotlight Stories
Afrofuturism & Quilting Exhibition: Exploring Connections Within Teaching, Learning, and Quilt Praxis
Studio Art Major Explores Identity as Transgender Person Through CREATE! Micro-Grant Project
To learn more about CAL 2030’s investment in Arts & Storytelling, including our assessment metrics, you can visit the full text PDF or plain text version of the plan. Need Links
We commit to our belief that world depends on the storywork of the arts, languages, and humanities, and we commit to creating community and scholarship that elevates this work.
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
Louise Erdrich
For us, Arts & Story telling not only includes the obvious — our commitment to the arts and to bearing witness through storytelling — but also our commitment to creativity and to making visible the sometimes “behind-the-scenes” labor of the college. Sentence by sentence, minute by minute, we are creating the story of our college together. The better we can understand what one another contributes and needs, the more vibrant a story we become.
As part of the process of elevating this work, we’ve asked ourselves: What do we believe is possible in the future of the arts, languages, and humanities? What can we imagine? What can our students imagine? And, does imagination only occur in the classroom — or does it occur in offices, in policies, and in how we represent ourselves and our work?
The tasks ahead will help us answer these questions (and discover new ones along the way).
Our objectives in this theme are span investment in the arts themselves to addressing internal policies and the culture we create for the students, faculty, and staff who are a part of the College of Arts & Letters.
Objectives:
Create arts spaces and experiences that innovate
through providing professional-quality resources and opportunities.
Position students as artists and creators
through the creation of an arts research institute that fosters student and faculty research and creative activities.
Value creativity and new ways of creating knowledge
through integrating a myriad of modalities and aesthetics of storytelling into our arts, pedagogy, and policy-making.
Make visible the complex internal labor of the college
through creating public-facing knowledge pathways that clarify where information, resources, and processes are stored.
Establish Arts & Storytelling at the heart of an MSU education
through the college’s connection to the university’s general education curriculum.
Foster a culture of transparency, clarity, and reflective understanding
through cultivating sustainable internal communications processes.
To learn more about CAL 2030’s investment in Arts & Storytelling, including our assessment metrics, visit the full text PDF or plain text version of the plan. Need Links