Spring Break
Meadows ball on Saturday
Diana Garcia, Meadows Columnist, dgarcia@smu.edu
Issue date: 3/27/08 Section: Entertainment
While the Movement to Unite Meadows promises that the Masquerade Ball this Saturday will be a fun-filled event with refreshments and door prizes, the organization hopes to accomplish greater goals with a good turnout.
MUM, one of the newest organizations on campus, focuses on bringing the wide variety of majors in Meadows School of the Arts together. Meadows majors include advertising, art, art history, arts administration, cinema-television, corporate communications and public affairs, dance, journalism, music and theatre.
As MUM president, Shelby Stanley says, "MUM is a valuable group because it seeks to provide social environments in which emerging artists can come together, build relationships and create their art. Working with students from other divisions will make art richer and more multidimensional. "
Stanley hopes the organization will also act as a network for artists in all majors of the Meadows school that will go beyond life at SMU.
"If students can build relationships and contacts with each other so that five or 10 years down the road, after they've graduated and entered the larger arts community, they can contact each other to produce work, then MUM will have been successful."
Adam Eason, a senior music major, originally created MUM as a Facebook group meant to be a venue for artists to promote their upcoming events.
Last summer, he discussed making the group an organization beyond Facebook. Since then, the organization has held several events targeting Meadows students including a tailgating event during Homecoming and its signature "Third Thursday" mixer events.
Stanley says that while the group has many active members, the number of people at each event fluctuates because of rehearsals, performances and other events.
Noelle Fabian, a member of the organization who also serves as president of another Meadows organization, Union of Music Students, says that the busy lifestyle of art students is one reason why MUM is important to the arts community of Meadows.
MUM, one of the newest organizations on campus, focuses on bringing the wide variety of majors in Meadows School of the Arts together. Meadows majors include advertising, art, art history, arts administration, cinema-television, corporate communications and public affairs, dance, journalism, music and theatre.
As MUM president, Shelby Stanley says, "MUM is a valuable group because it seeks to provide social environments in which emerging artists can come together, build relationships and create their art. Working with students from other divisions will make art richer and more multidimensional. "
Stanley hopes the organization will also act as a network for artists in all majors of the Meadows school that will go beyond life at SMU.
"If students can build relationships and contacts with each other so that five or 10 years down the road, after they've graduated and entered the larger arts community, they can contact each other to produce work, then MUM will have been successful."
Adam Eason, a senior music major, originally created MUM as a Facebook group meant to be a venue for artists to promote their upcoming events.
Last summer, he discussed making the group an organization beyond Facebook. Since then, the organization has held several events targeting Meadows students including a tailgating event during Homecoming and its signature "Third Thursday" mixer events.
Stanley says that while the group has many active members, the number of people at each event fluctuates because of rehearsals, performances and other events.
Noelle Fabian, a member of the organization who also serves as president of another Meadows organization, Union of Music Students, says that the busy lifestyle of art students is one reason why MUM is important to the arts community of Meadows.
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