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May 16, 2008

Art Festival to offer classic feel, quality works

Updated Thu 9:06pm

After spending almost an entire year planning this weekend’s East Lansing Art Festival, Corinn VanWyck is confident the only thing that could stand in the way of another successful show is bad weather.

But even dark clouds shouldn’t deter art lovers from attending, she said.

The East Lansing Art Festival is a fine arts showcase that features the work of artists from across the United States and Canada.

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Artists impress, sell work at MSU Arts & Crafts show

Updated Thu 9:06pm

Although time has passed and art has changed since the inaugural year of the MSU Spring Arts and Crafts Show, the goal of the event hasn’t changed.

After 44 years, coordinators are still intent on providing a fresh insight into the minds of artists across the nation.

The Spring Arts and Crafts Show, which will take place 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday at the grounds of the Union, will have 329 booths and over 325 artists on display.

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    Updated Tue 8:58pm

    While most MSU students were soaking up their last few days of summer sunshine last August, Lauren Martinich was remodeling her newly-acquired dance studio.

  • Kresge exhibit spotlights ancient Asian ceramics

    Updated Mon 8:21pm

    With vividly colored Chinese pieces from the last millennium in tow, the Kresge Art Museum is out to prove art doesn’t take a vacation during the summer.

    Kresge kicked off the semester with a brand new exhibit, titled Silk Road to Clipper Ship.

  • Senior says farewell with famous lines

    Updated 04/24/2008 7:36pm

    I never thought I was bad at goodbyes until I had to say it a million times.

    Whether it was to friends or family or, more recently, in various ways as I prepare to graduate, I have had to fight tears and wax lyrical about life, college and closing this chapter of life too much.

  • Triple threat

    Updated 04/22/2008 11:56pm

    It’s 9 p.m. Thursday, and 32 Spartans form a circle in the parking lot of the Days Inn Suites Hotel, stuffed from the pasta they scarfed down at Olive Garden no more than two hours ago.With discussions of the next day’s schedule out of the way, it’s on to the business of cheers and nicknames. The majority of the group requests their names or classic Spartan chants, while other members of the MSU Triathlon Club laugh at suggestions such as “Weezy,” or sarcastic remarks such as, “Don’t be a Sally!”

  • Hello, my name is Kaveri Korgavkar

    Updated 04/22/2008 8:56pm

    In order to spread the word last year about the MSU Meditation Club, chemistry and comparative cultures and politics junior and club president Kaveri Korgavkar took matters into her own hands.

  • Sound designers create jingles, effects heard around country

    Updated 04/22/2008 8:55pm

    Making something out of nothing might sound like a daunting task — unless you’re a sound designer. “(Sound design) is taking sound and creating an environment that doesn’t really exist,” said Steve Curran, co-owner of Harvest Music + Sound Design, 1011 N. Washington Ave., in Lansing.