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Yahoo
09-02-2025
- General
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727 days since the MSU mass shooting
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 It's been 727 days since Michigan State University students Brian Fraser, Arielle Anderson and Alexandria Verner were gunned down on campus, while five other people were injured. Thursday will mark two years since the tragedy. In journalism, we tend to write about a lot of terrible anniversaries. This one hits particularly hard for my family and thousands of others who had loved ones on campus the night of Feb. 13, 2023. It's impossible to walk by the MSU Union or Berkey Hall without reliving the fear, the terror, the loss. But somehow, days like this can still creep up on us. So if you need support and want to be on campus, here's some information that may be helpful. MSU is canceling classes on Feb. 13, just as it did last year. But the university will remain open, including dining halls, mental health support services, recreational sports facilities and CATA transportation. • MSU Counseling & Psychiatric Services at the Olin Health Center, 3rd Floor, 463 East Circle Drive; 517-355-8270. • MSU Employee Assistance Program at 110 Linton Hall, 479 W. Circle Drive, 517-355-4506, will have drop-in appointments available from 8 a.m. through 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Visit the websites or call for more details or to inquire more generally about available services. • The Breslin Center Hall of History (Gilbert Pavilion Entrance) between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Thursday. The Center for Community Engaged Learning for Caring Through Service will host an opportunity to support mental health initiatives, create meaningful connections and give back to the community by: 1. Assembling essential needs kits for Community Mental Health (CMH), addressing a critical need identified by our community partner. 2. Creating a Wellness Kit for yourself, a friend, or to donate to MSU Counseling & Psychiatric Services (CAPS). As part of the assembly, participate in a friendship bracelet activity to foster connection and creativity. 3. Learning valuable strategies for advocating on issues that matter to you and your community. • The Breslin Center's Hall of History from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday. • The MSU Alumni Chapel from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday. These locations will be staffed with volunteers to assist with resources/support, luminary kit pick up, and QR codes for feedback on the permanent memorial. Tented, heated spaces will be open and staffed with volunteers to navigate resources and support, offer luminary kits for pickup, provide bottled water and hot cocoa, and direct community members to QR codes to provide feedback on permanent memorial design proposals. Comfort dogs also will visit these spaces. The three locations are: • At the corner of Farm Lane and Auditorium Road, near The Rock. • At the corner of West Circle Drive and East Circle Drive, near the Grand River Ramp. • At the corner of Beal Street and Chestnut Road, near the Sparty statue. • Exhibits created on the one-year commemoration will be installed in the two impacted and now-renovated spaces in Berkey Hall and the MSU Union ahead of Monday. • The 'Reclaiming Space' exhibition at the MSU Union Art Gallery is open through Saturday and provides an opportunity for individuals to add their personal touch and creativity to the murals and sculptures that make up the exhibition. • The Broad Art Museum is hosting 'Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Artivism,' an exhibition of activist art produced by individuals affected by our nation's epidemic of gun violence until Thursday. There are plans for music to be played, a moment of silence and then the ringing of the Beaumont Tower bells from 8:10 p.m. to 8:25 p.m. Thursday. Beaumont Tower, as well as the MSU Union and Berkey Hall, will be lit green from 6 p.m. Thursday until 6 a.m. Friday. A livestream of this is available for viewing by Spartans around the world via the Spartans Together website. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
Yahoo
08-02-2025
- Entertainment
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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
