"Finding Opportunity in Unlikely Places: How to Kickstart Your Career in the Entertainment Business" ~ If you ever thought you might like to work in entertainment--as a writer, screenplay reader, actor, researcher, producer, manager, director--this is your chance to learn how to get involved in the industry.

Thanks to the generous support from the Marion Dean Ross Endowment and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture (HAA) for a new lecture series this spring.

Teresa Fankhänel is the third speaker. Before joining the MSU Broad Art Museum in 2022, she was a curator at the Architecture Museum in Munich (Germany) and an associate professor at the Department of Architectural History and Curatorial Practice at the Architecture School of the Technical University of Munich. Her exhibitions include The Architectural Model (2012), Werkzeuge des Entwerfens (2017), African Mobilities (2018), The Architecture Machine (2020–21), Built Together (2021), Shouldn’t You Be Working? (2023) and Andrea Canepa: As We Dwell in the Fold (2023). Her writing focuses on model making, computation, archival strategies, the practice and theory of exhibition making, and architectural design practices.

This spring 2024 lecture series and small online exhibition celebrates the legacy of Marion Dean Ross and his founding of HAA some 60 years ago. With an extensive collection of student models from Ross’s classes still visible around Lawrence Hall, the focus of the series is on the theme of architectural models and world-building.

Over three weeks, students will visit many of London's famous museums and neighborhoods to explore London's vast art history. Open to all majors and will be led by HAA faculty member, Simone Ciglia. Applications due March 15.