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CBS News
13-02-2025
- CBS News
Michigan State University students remember victims two years after mass shooting
EAST LANSING, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) - Thursday marks two years since three students were killed in a mass shooting on Michigan State University's campus. Students and community members are remembering Brian Fraser, Arielle Anderson and Alexandria Verner, who died on Feb. 13, 2023. Several students who were on campus when this tragedy happened told CBS News Detroit that it takes the strength of a Spartan to look back on that day, which is why the support seen all around campus two years later means so much. One student, senior Meg Brady, says she still struggles to face the pool where she played water polo to this day. "My head was underwater when the gunshots went off," Brady said. "I was in the locker room during it, so for me, every time I walk past it and see the locker room, I start to freak out a little bit. Like, I start to get that trauma response coming back." It's why MSU is holding space for students to heal and for them to reclaim the spaces where the three victims lost their lives. "Last year, I had two classes in Berkey. I know that some people did reach out and say 'I'm going to have to switch classes because it just makes me really uncomfortable'. I was able to go through those classes that year because I kind of knew that I wanted to take a little bit back for myself," said MSU senior Lily Wenkel. MSU's student body president, Connor Le, says it's still difficult to look back on that day in his sophomore year. "Everyone felt a range of emotions whether it be anger, grief, sadness—there's not really one way to pinpoint how people feel after an event like that," Le said. Fraser, Anderson and Verner are remembered at MSU's Broad Art Museum in the "Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism" exhibit. Their memories live on there among hundreds of other gun violence victims from across the country. For some, helping others process their emotions is what's getting them through theirs. "My healing journey has been a lot about giving back to the rest of the community and trying to help others through their healing process," said MSU student Kathryn Harding. People are accessing support resources at the Breslin Center and picking up green and white luminaries, which you'll see when the Beaumont Tower rings its bell at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Yahoo
08-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Two years after the MSU mass shooting, a new art exhibit explores healing from gun violence
Boxes of different designs and colors from the Soul Box project, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Nearly two years after the Feb. 13, 2023, mass shooting at Michigan State University, the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum on campus hosted a Friday opening of a new exhibition, 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism.' The exhibition will be on display until Thursday, which marks the two-year anniversary of the shooting that killed students Brian Fraser, Arielle Anderson and Alexandria Verner, and injured five people. A community resource fair at the exhibition is being held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Works about gun violence and its victims are featured, created by survivors and activists, including MSU professor Marco Díaz Muñoz, whose classroom in Berkey Hall was a site of the 2023 shooting. and Manuel Oliver, who lost his son, Joaquin, in the 2018 Parkland, Fla., school shooting. Artwork from former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr's famous piece, 'Right Gun (Knot for Violence),' is also part of the show. The centerpiece of the show is 'The Soul Box Project,' an interactive installation featuring 'soul boxes' from community members reflecting their experiences with gun violence and their hopes for healing. Attendees are invited to create their own soul box on site. MSU professor Scott Boehm and End Gun Violence Michigan organizer and MSU alumna Maya Manuel are co-curators of the exhibition. 'The pain and trauma from gun violence never really goes away, but we can work to change what it means to us. Art and activism have both been important ways for me and others to turn our pain into power. I want survivors everywhere to know: You're not alone,' said Manuel. Visitors look at the painting by Marco Diaz Muñoz MSU professor of language and humanities and survivor of the February 13 shooting in the 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Towards the end of the 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition opening, the public applauds the presentation of the authors on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Cassidy Howard (left) and Aidan Tripp (right), creators of the short film What's Left Behind, give a speech to the public after the screening of their film during the opening of the Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism exhibition at the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Short film about emotional consequences of gun violence 'What's Left Behind' by Cassidy Howard and Aidan Tripp is being screened in the 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition opening at the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Audience reactions during artists' speeches speech in the 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition opening at the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Visitors look at the numerous little boxes of the Soul Box Project before the authors' speeches in the 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition at the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Glass reflection of the boxes with the names of the MSU students killed two years ago on February 13 by a gunman at Berkey Hall in the 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition at the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Maya Manuel, an MSU alum and creator of the Soul Box Project, and Scott Boehm, Associate Professor of Spanish & Global Studies at MSU minutes before their speeches during the 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition opening at the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz MSU alum and creator of the Soul Box Project, Maya Manuel, 22, hold her hands during the 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition opening on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Marco Diaz Muñoz, 65, MSU professor of language and humanities and survivor of the February 13 shooting during his speech in the 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition opening on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Marco Diaz Muñoz, 65, MSU professor of language and humanities and survivor of the February 13 shooting during his speech in the 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition opening at the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Boxes from The Soul Box Project with the names of the MSU students murdered two years ago on February 13 in Berkey Hall by a gunman, displayed in the 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition at the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz People walk and look at paintings by Marco Diaz Muñoz, MSU professor survivor (right) and Parkland activist Manuel Oliver, the parent of a student killed in the Parkland shooting (left) int the 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition at the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Maya Manuel, an MSU alum and creator of the Soul Box Project speaks at her speech during 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition opening at the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz The Knotted Gun Sculpture by former Beatle Ringo Starr as part of 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition at the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Visitors observe the stacked boxes of the Soul Box Project before the 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition inauguration begins at the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Visitor points out boxes in the Soul Box project as part of the 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism' exhibition inauguration at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum on February 7, 2025. | Erick Díaz Veliz SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
Yahoo
06-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
‘Art in the Aftermath:' MSU hosts exhibition on gun violence
LANSING, (Mich.) WLNS — With the second anniversary of the 2023 shooting on Michigan State University's campus coming up on Feb. 13, the university's is hosting an art exhibit centered around gun violence. It's called 'Art in the Aftermath' and the goal is to heal scars left by gun violence. many of the contributors aren't artists, however. Instead, they are people who have had their own lives affected and want their message heard. Scott Boehm, an event organizer, said art based on actual victims is powerful. 'You know you have to look into the eyes of one of the victims of gun violence, it's not just a name or a statistic, this was a human life, and is a human life,' said Boehm. Scott Boehm received the commemorative art piece pictured below from the father of Joaquin Oliver, a boy who was killed in the 2018 Parkland, Florida school shooting. He said his impact is still felt through this art. 'Joaquin is still here, doing work that he had started when he was alive,' said Boehm. Boehm hopes artistic tributes like this one can help the community share its own experience with gun violence. 'The fact that our campus was touched by this horrible epidemic of gun violence, and then to stand up and do something about that,' said Boehm. 'Obviously individual but also collective trauma, and to share that in a meaningful space.' Maya Manuel, an MSU alum who was a student during the 2023 shooting, wants people to heal. 'Healing through art, I mean I would say that not everyone always has the proper words to use or share, but sometimes somebody knows exactly what to draw or what to write, to represent how they're feeling internally,' said Manuel. She told me about soul boxes, an artistic way for anyone to express their feelings about gun violence, and Manuel said every message is different. 'People have embroidered the boxes, some of these boxes are memorials, some of these are just phrases and sayings,' says Manuel. Even though they can't change the past, Boehm hopes art can help people get through tough times. 'Doing something meaningful during these times of reflection, I hope helps people get through it,' said Boehm. The exhibition will be up until the 13th, and both students and non-students are welcome to come look at it—or even make art of their own. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
