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.

An artist's rendering illustrates what a renovated Emens Auditorium will look like.

The overhaul will add 12,000 square feet of venue space, an expanded lobby, new first-floor restrooms and an interior box office.

Charlie Cardinal stands on the basketball court in Worthen Arena.

Past and present Charlie Cardinals say hiding their identity and maintaining the mascot’s mystique require a lot of planning and a little misdirection.

Incoming freshmen on an Outdoor Pursuits trip in 2015 post for a photo at Smoky Mountain National Park.

Hundreds of students, faculty and staff rent equipment and take trips through Ball State’s outdoor recreation office each year.