Events Listed As Open to the Public

Tracing your roots is a way to document history and family information that you can pass along to future generations. With many resources available online, genealogy is becoming popular and easier to accomplish. Class is for those will little or no previous knowledge of genealogy. We encourage you to come to all four sessions, but understand if you may need to miss one or two. | Four Tuesdays starting April 1.

The School of Art invites the public to attend as Master of Fine Arts degree candidates present their thesis exhibitions from March 25-April 11 in The Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery. Artwork being displayed is by Mary Vozenilek (ceramics), Anna Grabowski (glass), and Michelle Pokorny (glass). Reception is from 4 - 6 pm on April 2.

Listen to Ball State graduate students as they share insights about their home countries, followed by a Q&A session.

Economics provides a powerful toolset of skills that are in high demand in a wide variety of settings. Being sought for these skills can be a double-edged sword, inviting passionate criticism alongside praise and inviting you to other parties’ squabbles. This talk describes some of the unique challenges of economics as rhetoric in the public policy space. Special emphasis will be placed on the forms of communication used by new graduates and the delivery of economic analysis through public presentations and “one-page memos.”

Will Weissert is a trombone student of Chris Van Hof. This event is free and open to the public.

This poignant drama tells the story of Sarah and Hannah two sisters in their 20s, who share the frustrating isolation of the Colorado plains with their mother, a pet sheep, and a pickup truck that no one uses. Filled with bleak humor that grows gruesomely darker, dread is grimly stoked throughout, and explosive resolution draws ever closer... Tickets available at the College of Fine Arts Box Office.