Shaping OurSpace: CSU gets Youth Involved in and Downtown Columbus Redevelopment

In a collaboration across three CSU colleges (Arts, Letters and Sciences, and College of Education and Health Professionals) Drs Becky Becker, Amanda Rees, Andrea Frazier and Camille Bryant have recently received a Knight Foundation grant of $10,000 to develop a program that worked to develop spatial reasoning of low-income children.  The population the team is working with are subject to a large-scale community upheaval due to planned changes to the Booker T Washington/Liberty Theatre District in downtown Columbus and we look to support children's ability to both understand, take part in the public planning process.  The project, called Shaping OurSpace, was piloted over the summer (2012) and we will now be delivering the program in CSU's after school project, directed by Anne Thibault called Empowered Youth of Columbus this spring..

MTNA Collegiate Competitio​n: Schwob students win three categories in Southern Division

The national conference of the Music Teachers National Association will see three CSU students competing at the national level of the Collegiate Artist Competition. Congratulations to these students who won the nine-state Southern Region auditions by presenting a full recital:

Anna Vertypolokh, piano student of Professor Alexander Kobrin

Mark Spradley, trombone student of Dr. Brad Palmer

Branson Yeast, cello student of Professor Wendy Warner

Congratulations also to Likai He and Sophie Wang, violin students of Professor Sergiu Schwartz, who won the MTNA Georgia competition in their age brackets and were recognized for their performances at MTNA Southern Region as Alternate and Honorable Mention, respectively.

Private giving made possible the underwriting of travel expense to Greensboro, NC for these five contestants and their collaborative pianists, Yien Wang, Ksenia Kurenysheva, and Alina Sarkisyan. The national finalists will compete at Disneyland in Southern California in March.

Graduate Student recognized by Georgia Arts Council

Steven Tette, a Columbus State University Graduate student was recently recognized by the Georgia Arts Council. In a call to all Georgia Artists, his painting "self concept (family affair)" was chosen to be displayed at the Georgia Capitol Executive Offices.

Tette will hand deliver his painting to the Governor, after which the painting will be put on rotation. A digital guide for this exhibition will be provided in the near future. To see more of Tette's work visit his website: steventette.com