Faculty/Staff Spotlights
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January 24, 2022
“I think of percussion as a comprehensive approach to music making rather than only acquiring specific skills for specific instruments. It’s approaching instruments, objects, and situations with a musical mindset.”
— Ian Antonio, assistant professor of music in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance who has performed for more than two decades on four continents
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January 17, 2022
“What I like about filmmaking, it’s a different kind of palette of options. I can sort of bend time and space in ways I can’t do with dance.”
— Charli Brissey, assistant professor of dance in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, has worked at U-M since 2018 teaching film, composition and technique classes in the dance department
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January 10, 2022
“My most cherished time was playing live music. It was very cool. I hope to always have my toe in the musical waters.”
— Anne Kadrovich, purchasing associate supervisor in Michigan Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry who spent 17 years managing a recording studio in Los Angeles
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December 6, 2021
“I’m very appreciative that we have internal grants that allow folks to use their creativity and do research-based work that’s a little nontraditional.”
— Dara Hill, associate professor of reading and language arts in the College of Education, Health, and Human Services at UM-Dearborn who made a documentary about her research
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November 22, 2021
“All of the years of Daring Dances have been working to focus on populations and questions that feel particularly important to southeastern Michigan.”
— Clare Croft, associate professor of American culture who also has launched and curated projects to promote queer dance and open dialogue in that sphere
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November 15, 2021
“I’m reminded that as an artist-teacher, we really need to cultivate our youth in a positive way through music.”
— Amy I-Lin Cheng, a lecturer IV in piano in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance who also teaches piano to youth ages 7-17 in her private studio in Ann Arbor
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November 8, 2021
“A lot of the kids here are first-generation students, who maybe don’t have parents sort of guiding them through that process.”
— Tony DeLaRosa, who serves UM-Dearborn as assistant director of experiential learning at the College of Engineering and Computer Science
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November 1, 2021
“There’s very much a personal element in each of the books that I make or there’s something challenging about them.”
— Lara Unger, digital conversion supervisor at the U-M Library who has made more than 50 artist’s books for people she knows
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October 25, 2021
“I have this drive to fight for this population because I know how hard it was for us to get services when he was a cute kid.”
— Kelly Miltimore, a registered nurse who works in the Central Staffing Resources at Michigan Medicine and wrote a book about raising a special-needs child
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October 18, 2021
“It’s just one of those situations being in a city like Ann Arbor where you have all these opportunities and culture, I definitely benefitted from that.”
— Brian DiBlassio, associate professor of music in the College of Arts and Sciences at UM-Flint, who began playing piano at age 9 and has been in the same band since 1999
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