North Dakota State University

Kent Kapplinger and printmaking students Jonathan Carlson, Derek Graham, Rosie Kelly, Sydney Martin, Dani Pauley, Megan Ward, and Ian Warner, along with faculty and students from Concordia College, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Minot State University, North Dakota State University, University of Manitoba, University of North Dakota, and Valley City State University tackled challenging issues concerning the use or misuse of natural resources through the medium of printmaking and portfolio exchange. An exhibition of the work titled Oil and Water will be on display at the Plains Art Museum through May 12. The project was coordinated by professors Heidi Goldberg (Concordia College), Kent Kapplinger (NDSU), and John Volk (MSUM). One full portfolio will be donated to each participating institution and one will be prepared to travel.

Ross Collins, Professor of Communications, has been selected as the recipient of the Dale Hogoboom Endowed Professorship Award for 2013-2015.  I hope you will join me in congratulating Dr. Collins on receiving this notable and richly deserved award.  The Hogoboom Endowed Professorship is awarded to a faculty at the rank of Professor with at least 8 years of service to NDSU, with a balanced academic record demonstrating excellence in teaching, research, and service.

Stephen Frech "Living with Poetry"

In March 2010, Stephen Frech read poetry on campus, worked with print making students on a broadside, and was featured at a public event celebrating the broadside work of David Martinson. Given the success of the 2010 events, Frech returned to NDSU, March 18 and 19, 2013. Frech’s visit included the Second David Martinson Broadside Memorial along with the broadside printing workshop ongoing both days in NDSU Renaissance Hall 314. In honor of David Martinson, Frech chose to publish a print broadside of Martinson's poem, "The Immigrant." Frech's NDSU broadsides are available for purchase online through the NDSU Division of Fine Arts.

Stephen Frech is associate professor of English at Millikin University. He has published three award winning volumes of poetry and his fourth poetic volume, A Palace of Strangers Is No City, was published by Cervena Barva Press in 2011. Frech is founder and editor of Oneiros Press, publisher of limited edition, letterpress poetry broadsides.