The Office of Visual and Performing Arts at Millersville has set a goal to raise $10,000 to help continue to present a diverse array of world-class artists from multiple genres to provide firsthand experience and knowledge available for students and the campus community at large.

The Office of Visual and Performing Arts (OVPA) provides access to exceptional artists and educational experiences through the presentation of inclusionary cross-cultural performances, visual arts, films, special events, faculty and student activities, and youth and community outreach programs.

Through our Curricular Connections in the arts, visiting artists provide the bridge between excellence in the arts to creative problem solving and imagining what is possible in dozens of classrooms over multiple departments. Impacted departments include Communications, Entrepreneurship, Education-Special Ed, Entertainment Technology, Music, Psychology, African American Studies, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Social Work, and many, many more.

 

$2,000 will bring a filmmaker and the screening of their documentary film that address critical issues of underrepresented/marginalized populations or address the universality of moral topics such as forgiveness. Our celebrated “On Screen/In Person” Film Series bringing masterful documentary filmmakers and their films to our campus. In addition to thought-provoking community panel discussions and talk-backs, filmmakers visit classrooms to discuss the topics their films illuminate, challenges in our modern world, and the process of storytelling and “truth mining” through the medium of film.
 

$1,500 will fund visiting musicians to present masterclasses to students covering not only musicianship and performance, but also entrepreneurship and marketing. Past artists have included Canadian Brass, Chanticleer, Shana Tucker (cello), Stanley Jordan (guitar), Seth Weaver (trombone) and Gabriela Anders (voice).
 

$500 provides 50 students with a free ticket to attend concerts and events in our Performing Arts Series including global artists in music, theatre, and dance. Examples of the artists include Soweto Gospel Choir, Las Cafeterias, Sandeep Das and Postmodern Jukebox; theatre productions including All Things Equal: The Life and Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the dance-percussion step troupe Step Afrika!

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For more information on the Arts at MU, please contact Amy Banks, Arts Communication Manager:

amy.banks@millersville.edu