While Music Program Professor Dr. Jonathan Harvey is on sabbatical, English Studies Professor DeMisty D. Bellinger-Delfeld welcomed the audience in the Kent Recital Hall for Women in the Arts, a continuation of our Women's History Month celebration. The event showcased  women-identified artists and performers, featuring visual artists, musicians, poets, and more. Learn more about our Humanities Programs here.

Best-selling author and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds, a 1983 alumnus of Fitchburg State University, returned to the campus earlier this month for an artist residency for a series of events with students, faculty and community members. On this day, Mr. Reynolds visited students at the McKay Arts Academy. His instant rapport with students was evident as he shared his story, taught students how to draw, enlisted a student to act out his book The Dot - playing the role of Vashti, and more. 

Students in Professor Robert Harris' Film Styles Genres & Movements class work on various projects in the Conlon building. This course blends theoretical and historical concepts associated with a selected genre, style or movement within a production course setting. Students study a selected genre, style or movement, and then, in groups, will write and produce a short film or digital video, based within the historical and/or theoretical framework that the class has studied.

Students in  Communications Media Professor  M. Zachary Lee's Cinematography course work lighting color and gels at the Studio in the Conlon Building. Cinematography is a specialized elective that provides an immersive study of the technical and aesthetic elements of motion picture photography. Topics include film stocks, imaging sensors, focus theory, laboratories, lenses, RAW workflows, lighting, cameras, composition, continuity, color and special processes.

Students in Theater Professor Mary Vreeland's  Acting for the Camera course, an intensive scene study course for the advanced student actor, recorded scenes in the Weston Auditorium. 

This afternoon, Bachata Pop Superstar Domenic Marte made his second visit to Fitchburg State University radio station WXPL on the Joel Rodriguez Show. In addition to recognizing  Dominican Independence Day, Marte debuted his newest release Recuerdame 

Yesterday afternoon, Communications Media Professor J FLynn moderated a discussion with Photographer and Fitchburg State Alumnus Atom Moore '05 in the Hammond Main Lounge. The audience got a chance to learn what it takes to become an internationally renowned watch photographer and artist. Beginning with his time in the Fitchburg State photography department to becoming a master of his craft working around the world for prestigious companies.

Atom Moore is our newest Alumni Artist to be featured in the Sanders Gallery. His exhibition 'Second Nature' is on view in the Sanders Gallery until June 30, 2025.

Yesterday afternoon, President Donna Hodge sat down for an interview with Joel Rodriguez during his show on our Fitchburg State University radio station WXPL 91.3 FM.

Students in Professor Robert Harris' Film Styles Genres & Movements class work on various projects in the Conlon building. This course blends theoretical and historical concepts associated with a selected genre, style or movement within a production course setting. Students study a selected genre, style or movement, and then, in groups, will write and produce a short film or digital video, based within the historical and/or theoretical framework that the class has studied.

Students in Communications Media's Professor Charles Roberts' Intermediate Digital Cinema Production get their hands on some camera equipment. Intermediate Digitals Cinema Production covers professional production techniques used in modern narrative production environments. In addition to achieving competency in lighting, exposure, composition and framing with video cameras, students master the basics of audio production both on location and in studio environments and the editing of the dramatic narrative.