Creative Pulse-Summer Graduate Program

It has been a busy few days! As the summer draws to a close, we have had several bittersweet moments of celebration.

This year we celebrated a film release for Jam Mandeberg and enjoyed a tasty dinner provided by Sandy Sheppard on Thursday night.

Today was the annual Alumni breakfast, where alumni, students, faculty, and staff from the 35 years of the Pulse get together to share their wisdom, support and love with the current cohort. Thank you to everyone who sent their love virtually today as well 💕

This is truly a special program, and we are all so fortunate to be a part of it.

Today, as part of their Deep Listening and Sonic Meditations course, Pulsers visited the Missoula Art Museum and then improvised electronic music using analog instruments in the music studio.

Our Summer 2025 defenses are complete. Congratulations to Candice, Rebecca, and Jolyne on successfully defending their Final Creative Projects!!

Candice Haster
Artists Who Teach: Sustainability, Identity, and Collective Inquiry.
An Investigation of Resilience of K-12 Arts Educators as Related to Personal Creative Practice and Community Engagement
Chair: Charlie Oates
Committee: Jill Howard, Tiffany Miller, Ilah Reynar

Rebecca Schendel
Creative Play in the Classroom and its Role in the Social-Emotional Development of Kindergartners
Chair: Karen Kaufmann
Committee: Faith Morrison, Erica Zins

Jolyne O’Brien
Integrating Arts into Third-Grade Mathematics: A Journey of a Pedagogical Instructional Practice
Chair: Faith Morrison
Committee: Jean Howard, Melissa Notti, Charlie Oates

Pulsers in the wild!

The entire cohort was able to meet up for "Cookie Monday", a casual social gathering where... we eat cookies...on Monday!

What a sweet way to start the last week of the Pulse!

It's Alumni Breakfast week! Thank you to everyone who has RSVP'd so far. If you haven't, it's not too late, and we would love to see you.

To RSVP, please visit this link: https://signup.com/go/ASBOmHh

Today, Pulsers visited Jim Hewes' home in Potomac to view his site-specific geometric sculptural work.

Thank you Jim for inviting us to your home and sharing your artistic process with us!

Yesterday Pulsers had the opportunity to visit Hipolito Rafael Chacons home in Moise MT.

Thank you for sharing your space, knowledge and pie with us ❤️ We are looking forward to visiting again on Monday!

We are just over a week out from our annual Alumni breakfast. If you are planning to attend and have yet to RSVP, please visit this link: https://signup.com/go/ASBOmHh

Alumni, please join us at our annual alumni breakfast.

Click the link to RSVP yes or no, and let us know what you would like to bring. https://signup.com/go/ASBOmHh

If you have any questions, please reach out via Messenger.
We can't wait to celebrate with you!
Jessie and Stephen (TAs Summer 2025)

Yesterday students started many new classes, including Site Specific Art with Hipolito Rafael Chacon .

We started the course with a field trip to the O'Connor residence to see the Richard Serra installation!

Thank you to the O'Connors for inviting us and taking the time to chat with us about the work.

This week Pulse students started "Ink, Words, and Water" with Steve Krutek.

They are learning the arts of Suminagashi (Japanese style of printmaking/ ink marbeling), Haiku, and stab book binding.

Can't wait to see what else they create!

Wild Pulsers having fun in yesterdays rain!

Thank you Lindsay, Lexi, Liz, Jenna and Jam for the photos.