Montana State University will highlight the College of Arts and Architecture and the creativity of its faculty, students, staff and alumni during March as MSU’s yearlong celebration of its 125th anniversary continues.

“Legacy and Art: Celebrating 125 Years of Creativity” will be held throughout the month with lectures and presentations of art, architecture, music, film and photography. The events will celebrate creativity in all of its forms, according to Royce Smith, dean of the college.

“Arts and architecture have always played a significant role on our campus and helping MSU fulfill our land-grant mission,” Smith said. “As we look back on the impact of creativity on our campus, we are also using the month of March to think about our future and the ways in which we can make Montana and the world an even better place in which to dream and do.”

All Legacy and Art activities are free and open to the public.

The month will kick off March 2 when Celia Bertoia of Bozeman will recall her late father, sculptor Harry Bertoia, creator of the classic contemporary pieces of furniture and designs that bear his name. Celia Bertoia’s lecture, “A Daughter Carries on her Father’s Legacy: Harry Bertoia, Sculptor,” is set for 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 2, in Room 215 of Cheever Hall.

Other lectures, screenings, exhibits and concerts during the month of March include:

• Montanans and Chamber Strings, with special guests Angella Ahn and Mary Kothman. The concert will feature two significant works from one of the world’s most performed living composers, Arvo Pärt, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 5, in Hope Lutheran Church.

• School of Film and Photography Undergraduate Short Film Screenings at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 7, in Room 182 of the Visual Communications Buildings. The best of MSU student films are made in many different genres. Theo Lipfert, director of the School of Film and Photography, will host the evening.

• A screening of “Windshield: A Vanished Vision” followed by a panel discussion is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday. March 20, at the Ellen Theater. The film is about the beginning of architect Richard Neutra’s career designing a house for the John Nicholas Brown family that the family called “Windshield” and the effect a tragedy had on the house, the family and the architect. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film’s director, Elissa Brown, and John Brittingham, professor in the School of Architecture whose original research on Neutra’s Helburn House in Bozeman has been published in Architectural Digest and exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Susan Cowan, professor in the MSU School of Architecture, will moderate.

• Curator lectures and MSU Artwalk at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 22, in Cheever and Haynes Halls. The evening begins in Room 216 of Cheever Hall with short lectures by Michele Corriel, curator of “Jessie Wilber: A Pioneer of Modernism in Montana;” John Brittingham, curator of “Neutra in Montana: the blurring of architecture and landscape” and Tina and Josh DeWeese, curators of “Bob and Gennie DeWeese: Revisited.” The brief lectures will be followed by an MSU Artwalk from 7 to 9 p.m. among the exhibits and receptions in the Dean’s Gallery and the Lower Gallery in Cheever Hall and the Helen E. Copeland Gallery in Haynes Hall.

• The MSU Wind Symphony concert, “Something Blue,” is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 23, in Reynolds Recital Hall. In celebration of MSU’s 125th birthday, the MSU Wind Symphony will present a concert of music that reflects the history, depth of talent and future vision of MSU.

• The opening of the exhibit “Barton Lidice Benes: Legacy, Memory, Collection and Curiosity” will begin with a lecture and panel at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in Room 182 of the VCB. Benes was a New York-based artist who died in 2012. He used a limitless array of media and a flair for wit and sarcasm to document the beauty of celebrity and the everyday. His work was exhibited internationally and included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Smithsonian. Royce Smith, dean of the college, will host a roundtable discussion with the artist’s brother, Warren Benes, and sister-in-law, Sam Benes, with the opening reception to follow the roundtable. A collection of the late-artist’s work will be showcased in the Dean’s Gallery in Cheever Hall from March 26 to April 13.

• School of Film & Photography Undergraduate Short Film Screening at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, in the VCB. A second screening in the month of MSU student films. Lipfert will again host the screening.

• “Objects and Things,” an exhibition by Zuzanna Karczewska, professor of architecture, will be preceded by a lecture at 5 p.m. Monday, April 2, in Room 215 of Cheever Hall. Karczewska said the purpose of both the project and exhibition is to “see and then reveal place, without the nostalgic attachment, but with the richness and complexity that gives a glimpse of its sublime qualities, which are beyond our reach and control.”

The Legacy and Art month and the President’s Fine Arts Series is sponsored by the Office of the President and the College of Arts and Architecture. For a full schedule and more information, go to the college’s online event calendar.