arts

  1. August 29, 2024

    Take Care theme activities will use art to aid well-being

    U-M’s Arts Initiative, Wolverine Wellness and other campus partners have joined forces to center personal and community well-being in the 2024-25 academic year with a focus on the theme Take Care.

  2. August 29, 2024

    Highlights of 2024-25 Take Care activities

    Take Care programs consist of exhibitions, concerts, performances, workshops and more.

  3. August 26, 2024

    Arts Initiative supports arts partnership teams across U‑M campuses

    The U-M Arts Initiative’s Projects in Partnership program is funding to four arts-based teams representing more than 18 units, schools and colleges across U‑M’s Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses and in Detroit.

  4. July 16, 2024

    U-M Library bringing book arts to Ann Arbor Art Fair

    Visitors to this year’s Ann Arbor Art Fair will be able to create their own flora-inspired prints using two historically important book art methods: cyanotype and woodblock printing.

  5. May 21, 2024

    Artists selected for summer residencies at Biological Station

    The U-M Biological Station in northern Michigan has selected an illustrator Vera Ting and poet Madeleine Wattenberg to explore their creative freedom through the 2024 Artist in Residence Program.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. February 14, 2024

    Mini-course allows students to delve into the art of anatomy

    Two School of Kinesiology faculty members created a seven-week mini-course that challenged students to revisit their preconceptions about both art and the body.

  9. November 20, 2023

    Arts Initiative set to launch campuswide artist residency

    A new campuswide artist residency will launch next year, and the Arts Initiative is looking for nominations of artists who can make a big impact on campus and the community.

  10. October 27, 2023

    ‘Respond/Resist/Rethink’ coming to all three U-M campuses

    A new partnership across all three U-M campuses will feature work created by U-M students this fall in conjunction with the Arts & Resistance theme semester.