Sutton Foster talks to students before rehearsal for Shrek the musical.

The Tony Award-winning actress and longtime university friend made a Broadway splash in the musical and is co-directing the production opening March 31.

Chris Flook, a telecommunications lecturer at Ball State University, poses with his camera.

Telecommunications lecturer Chris Flook mines scholarly research at Ball State and elsewhere to produce “Native Americans of East-Central Indiana.”

School of Music orchestra and choir members are seen rehearsing.

The Feb. 26 performance at the 1,600-seat concert hall will feature the school’s orchestra and wind ensemble and more than 200 choir singers.

Students in the new Surviving the Music Industry course visit Fort Wayne’s Sweetwater, one of the country’s largest dealers of music equipment.

Lectures by alumnus and Walk the Moon bass player Kevin Ray and a tour of a top music instrument dealer anchored a new class, Surviving the Music Industry.

Tribune Showprint owners Kim and Rob Miller, a Ball State alumnus, stand in front of one of the presses inside their Muncie-based shop.

Kim and Rob Miller, who own the oldest continuously operating U.S. letterpress, are printing posters for carnivals, festivals and fairs across the country.

Attendees at a September Book Arts Collaborative workshop spend time creating their own 100-page, hard-backed blank books.

Working out of an old Muncie warehouse, professors immerse 17 students from diverse academic backgrounds in the craft of making books.

Fashion students Gabriella Harbridge, Levi Portillo, Cierra Sanders and Ashlan Moore work on deconstructing a 1940s-era dress.

Beeman Historic Costume Collection pieces will be digitized to become 3-D models and go online next summer, as will downloadable patterns and other details.