The Faculty Artist Series features School of Music faculty sharing their talent and passion for music with the campus and community. Program to include music by Argentinean and French composers. Free and open to the public with livestream available.
Need something to do to beat the winter blues? Check out these campus activites happening in February.
Nervous about visiting campus? Take a look at the Office of Community Engagement’s handy Getting to Campus resource for parking/public transit information!
Click the links for more information. Some events may be off-campus or have registration requirements.
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
- Lifelong Learners: The Three Do’s of Acupuncture – 1:30 p.m.
- Tom Shah Memorial Concert – Ball State Jazz Ensembles – 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
- How Companies Can Be a Force for Good – 3 p.m.
- Arts Alive: Jeffrey Gibson – 6 p.m.
Thursday, February 5, 2026
- Chemistry Seminar Series – Dr. Matt McLeod – 3:30 p.m.
- Ball State Symphony Orchestra – 7:30 p.m.
Friday, February 6, 2026
- Mindfulness in the Museum – 12 p.m.
- “Accidental Astronauts ” 5pm Kids Planetarium Show – 5 p.m.
- Student Recital: Anna Pinto and Braedon Matthews, flute and clarinet – 5:30 p.m.
- “The Universe Overhead” 6:30pm Live Planetarium Show – 6:30 p.m.
- Balls Balls Balls – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 7, 2026
- CSH Dean’s List Ceremony – 9:30 a.m.
- Student Success Celebration – 10 a.m.
- “Accidental Astronauts” 3:30pm Kids Planetarium Show – 3:30 p.m.
- “Big Astronomy” 5pm Planetarium Show – 5 p.m.
- “The Universe Overhead” 6:30pm Live Planetarium Show – 6:30 p.m.
- Balls Balls Balls – 7:30 p.m.
- 10th Annual Opera Gala – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 8, 2026
- Faculty Artist Series: Elisha Willinger (clarinet) – 3 p.m.
- Balls Balls Balls – 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
- Conversations in Entrepreneurship and Leadership Series with First Lady Maureen Braun – 11 a.m.
- Lifelong Learners: The Flowers of Springtime in Indiana and Beyond…And Maybe Sharing a Poem or Two – 1:30 p.m.
- Blueprints for Bahay-Bahayan – An Artist Talk with Cheeny Celebrado-Royer – 6 p.m.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
- Indiana Poet Laureate Talk and Poetry – 6 p.m.
- Guest Artist Recital: Robert Reed, cello – 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 12, 2026
- Sister Sadie – 7:30 p.m.
- Guest Artist Recital: Paul Christopher, cello – 7:30 p.m.
Friday, February 13, 2026
- 91st Annual Student Art Exhibition Opens to the Public – 10 a.m.
- “Accidental Astronauts ” 5pm Kids Planetarium Show – 5 p.m.
- Junior Recital: Kaida Collard, voice – 5:30 p.m.
- “The Universe Overhead” 6:30pm Live Planetarium Show – 6:30 p.m.
- Balls Balls Balls – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 14, 2026
- Band Conducting Workshop with Dr. Russel Mikkelson – 8 a.m.
- Balls Balls Balls – 2:30 p.m.
- “Accidental Astronauts” 3:30pm Kids Planetarium Show – 3:30 p.m.
- “Big Astronomy” 5pm Planetarium Show – 5 p.m.
- “The Universe Overhead” 6:30pm Live Planetarium Show – 6:30 p.m.
- Balls Balls Balls – 7:30 p.m.
- Ball State Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 15, 2026
Monday, February 16, 2026
- McGovern Lecture – 7 p.m.
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
- 91st Annual Student Art Exhibition – 10 a.m.
- Lifelong Learners: An Overview of the United Kingdom – 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
- 91st Annual Student Art Exhibition – 10 a.m.
- String Faculty and Guest Artist Recital – 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 19, 2026
- 91st Annual Student Art Exhibition – 10 a.m.
- Conversations in Entrepreneurship and Leadership Series with Ryan Gard – 11 a.m.
- Virtual Lunch and Learn: Effectiveness of Skill Strategies for Children with Autism – 12 p.m.
- Solas – 7:30 p.m.
- Veal – 7:30 p.m.
- Student Recital: Reed Ulery, conducting – 7:30 p.m.
Friday, February 20, 2026
- 91st Annual Student Art Exhibition – 10 a.m.
- Mindfulness in the Museum – 12 p.m.
- Guest Artist Recital: Kent Lyman, piano and Sophie Lyman, cello – 5:30 p.m.
- Veal – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 21, 2026
- Veal – 2:30 p.m.
- Reception & Awards Ceremony: 91st Annual Student Art Exhibition – 6 p.m.
- Veal – 7:30 p.m.
- Chamber Choir and Concert Choir – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 22, 2026
- Veal – 7:30 p.m.
Monday, February 23, 2026
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
- 91st Annual Student Art Exhibition – 10 a.m.
- Conversations in Entrepreneurship and Leadership Series with Jill Lehman – 11 a.m.
- Losing Your Marbles – 1 p.m.
- Lifelong Learners: Vote Center, Citizen Participation, and the Crucial Role of Primaries in Our Representative Democracy – 1:30 p.m.
- The Barricade Boys – 7:30 p.m.
- Veal – 7:30 p.m.
- DA Performance Recital: Jiayi (Jacqueline) Wang, piano – 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
- 91st Annual Student Art Exhibition – 10 a.m.
- DA Performance Recital: Shengxin Liu, piano – 5:30 p.m.
- Joint Junior Recital: Violet Raubuck and Jackson Steuer, voice – 5:30 p.m.
- Spring Senior Capstones – Love, Loss and What I Wore – 7:30 p.m.
- Veal – 7:30 p.m.
- DA Performance Recital: Sihan Liu, piano – 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 26, 2026
- 91st Annual Student Art Exhibition – 10 a.m.
- Women of Whitely: At the Heart of Muncie’s Black History – 6 p.m.
- Spring Senior Capstones – Love, Loss and What I Wore – 7:30 p.m.
- Veal – 7:30 p.m.
- Ball State Symphony Orchestra – 7:30 p.m.
Friday, February 27, 2026
91st Annual Student Art Exhibition – 10 a.m.
Balls Balls Balls by Alice Tuan
Directed by Veronica Santoyo
Original Dramaturgy by Diana Grisanti
February 6-8, 13-14 at 7:30 p.m. | February 14 at 2:30 p.m. | Oakwood 154
It’s the day of The Big Game, and the citizenry is aflutter. The football bros are hungry for blood, the ESL kids are hungry for knowledge, and the hunger strikers are just hungry. Meanwhile, Nubu, a newcomer to our world, considers the meaning of life. When the The Big Game gets cancelled, a group of intrepid weirdos decides to throw an epic DIY costume party—a ball! Balls Balls Balls is a strange and exuberant new work that asks, “Can you imagine a world where we all make bread and break bread together?”
Written by award-winning playwright Alice Tuan, Balls Balls Balls was commissioned by the Ball State Department of Theatre and Dance. We’ll present the script as an on-book reading with choreography. No play is complete without an audience, so we invite you—yes, you!—to participate in the developmental process. Each performance will be followed by a talkback with the playwright and production team. Come take part in the future of American theatre!
Commissioned by the Department of Theatre and Dance of Ball State University
Tickets are available through the College of Fine Arts Box Office located at Sursa Hall in person, by phone at 765-285-8749, or online.
Balls Balls Balls by Alice Tuan
Directed by Veronica Santoyo
Original Dramaturgy by Diana Grisanti
February 6-8, 13-14 at 7:30 p.m. | February 14 at 2:30 p.m. | Oakwood 154
It’s the day of The Big Game, and the citizenry is aflutter. The football bros are hungry for blood, the ESL kids are hungry for knowledge, and the hunger strikers are just hungry. Meanwhile, Nubu, a newcomer to our world, considers the meaning of life. When the The Big Game gets cancelled, a group of intrepid weirdos decides to throw an epic DIY costume party—a ball! Balls Balls Balls is a strange and exuberant new work that asks, “Can you imagine a world where we all make bread and break bread together?”
Written by award-winning playwright Alice Tuan, Balls Balls Balls was commissioned by the Ball State Department of Theatre and Dance. We’ll present the script as an on-book reading with choreography. No play is complete without an audience, so we invite you—yes, you!—to participate in the developmental process. Each performance will be followed by a talkback with the playwright and production team. Come take part in the future of American theatre!
Commissioned by the Department of Theatre and Dance of Ball State University
Tickets are available through the College of Fine Arts Box Office located at Sursa Hall in person, by phone at 765-285-8749, or online.
Tom Shah Memorial Concert
Enjoy a concert of standard jazz favorites and original compositions with the Ball State University Jazz Ensembles in honor of alum and trumpet player Tom Shah. The ensembles are under the direction of Mark Buselli.
Tickets available through the College of Fine Arts Box Office located at Sursa Hall.
General Public: $8 in advance / $10 at the door
Seniors: $5 in advance / $7 at the door
BSU Faculty/Staff: $5 in advance / $7 at the door
Students: free* in advance / $5 at the door
*One (1) free student ticket per ID is available in advance at the College of Fine Arts Box Office
Purchase Options
Online at bsu.tix.com
Phone: 765-285-8749
In person: Monday through Friday from Noon to 5 p.m., or starting 1 hour before the performance
**Please note: As part of our commitment to sustainability, all College of Fine Arts tickets are paperless and are accessible via email confirmation. Your confirmation email contains your digital tickets which can be scanned at the door from your mobile device, or you can print your digital tickets at home to be scanned. There is no need to visit Will Call prior to the performance.
Parking is available in the McKinley Parking Garage (entrance on Ashland Avenue) located immediately south of Sursa Hall. Metered parking is available on the first floor of the garage until 7 p.m. at which time parking is free.
Blueprints for Bahay-Bahayan – An Artist Talk with Cheeny Celebrado-Royer
Cheeny Celebrado-Royer (b. Naga City, Philippines) is a multidisciplinary artist working with found and discarded materials to create installations, sculptures, and drawings that explore precarity, memory, and displacement. Drawing from decaying architectures and chroma-key aesthetics, she maps fragments of space—wreckage, green or blue tape—into constellations of unstable time and place. Her work reimagines drawing as a form of mapping, assembling familiar-yet-elusive icons into landscapes shaped by liminality. Through building from residue, she explores what might resemble home—transient, cartographic, unresolved.
She is currently a studio fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and serves as an Associate Professor in Experimental and Foundation Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. She holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (Mount Royal School of Art). Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Columbia College, Louisiana Tech University School of Design, and the RISD Museum.
