Arts & Culture
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April 24, 2024
Four from U-M to join American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Faculty members James Joyce, Webb Keane, Alexandra Killewald and John Vandermeer have been selected to join the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for their contributions in scholarly and professional fields.
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April 22, 2024
Coordinator finds community in LGBTQ+ chorus
Trisha Miller, student services coordinator at the Marsal Family School of Education, has been a member of the Out Loud Chorus for nearly 20 years.
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April 16, 2024
Students turn fallen campus trees into public tables
Storm-damaged trees and others from across U-M are being turned into new, functional campus furniture, thanks to the work of associate professor Joseph Trumpey and his students.
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April 15, 2024
Arts Initiative announces 2024 Creative Careers Residents
The Arts Initiative has announced three master’s degree-level residents — Leah Crosby, Sara Faraj and Kara Roseborough — for its Creative Careers Residency.
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April 15, 2024
Ukraine’s devastation manifested in statistician’s ceramic art
Irina Bondarenko, a statistician lead for the biostatistics department in the School of Public Health, grew up in Ukraine and has created works of art inspired by her homeland.
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April 15, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — The ‘rare and curious’ Stearns Collection
Frederick Stearns had never purchased a musical instrument, but a small guitar caught his eye. It was called a quirten and dated to 1807.
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April 8, 2024
Where’s Alice? The case of the missing statue
When U-M alumna Sheryl Szady stumbled across a bust sculpture in an Observatory Lodge Building conference room, she suspected it could be the culmination of a search that began three years earlier.
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April 8, 2024
Foolishness on parade
These photos capture some of the giant puppets and fun that were on display April 7 at FestiFools.
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April 8, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — The ‘harrowing experience’ of meeting Robert Frost
Robert Frost came to campus in the fall of 1921 to be U-M’s inaugural Creative Fellow in the Creative Arts, an experiment carried out by President Marion L. Burton.
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March 28, 2024
Mural project offers arts access to science students
A unique collaboration between students, faculty and local artists is bringing a vibrant mural related to the field of nuclear engineering to the Ann Arbor campus this spring.