Arts Initiative

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 13, 2023
Applicants sought for Respond/Resist/Rethink art exhibition

Submissions are being sought from undergraduate and graduate students for the fourth annual Respond/Resist/Rethink student art exhibition, part of the Arts & Resistance theme semester. The deadline is Sept. 18.
September 11, 2023
Arts & Resistance theme semester to engage campus, community

The university is kicking off the 2023-24 academic year with the Arts & Resistance theme semester, providing numerous opportunities to engage with the arts in a demonstration of the central role they play in shaping the world.
September 8, 2023
Clare Croft to direct expanded arts research effort

Clare Croft, a dance historian, theorist and curator, has been appointed to a new leadership position designed to expand and integrate the arts in faculty research across U-M.
September 7, 2023
New, expanded roles announced for Arts Initiative leadership

Provost Laurie McCauley has appointed Mark Clague as interim executive director of the U-M Arts Initiative and expanded Vice Provost Sara Blair’s role to oversee the initiative, reflecting the university’s commitment to arts engagement.