Arts Initiative

  1. February 2, 2024

    School of Social Work to host featured artist residency

    The School of Social Work, in partnership with the U-M Arts Initiative, has announced the selection of the Pan-African Creative Exchange as the featured artist residency for 2024.

  2. January 9, 2024

    Annual report highlights ‘remarkable and transformational year’

    An expansion of the health care system and new initiatives to promote the arts and enhance school safety are among the many notable achievements featured in U-M’s annual report.

  3. 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.

  4. November 16, 2023

    U-M announces Knight-Wallace Arts Journalism Fellowship

    The Arts Initiative and the Wallace House Center for Journalists have created a Knight-Wallace Arts Journalism Fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year.

  5. 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.

  6. October 19, 2023

    Proposals sought for new arts research funding program

    U-M has launched Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration, a new partnership between the Office for the Vice President for Research and the U-M Arts Initiative to fuel arts-based research.

  7. October 13, 2023

    University creates new position to oversee public art collection

    U-M has created a new cross-campus position, curator of art in public spaces, to oversee the display, acquisition and overall curation strategy of its public art collection. Jennifer Carty has been hired for that position.

  8. September 29, 2023

    Heather Raffo leads Student Creative Fellowship with fall residency

    Playwright, actor and U-M alumna Heather Raffo will lead the university’s Arts and Resistance Fall 2023 Student Creative Fellowship as artist-in-residence.

  9. September 21, 2023

    Little Amal, symbol of human rights, is heading to U-M

    Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee child, will be making her way onto the U-M campus this weekend as part of a 6,000-mile walk across the United States.

  10. September 18, 2023

    Artist ‘GIFT’s U-M campus with public art installation

    The experimental installation “GIFT” by Cannupa Hanska Luger is being created across the facade of the building that houses the U-M Museum of Art. It is part of an ongoing initiative to challenge university history and reexamine what gets memorialized.