Arts & Culture

  1. February 10, 2025

    It Happened at Michigan — A novelist grows in Ann Arbor

    Years before Betty Smith published her best-selling, semi-autobiographical novel, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” she gained her voice as a writer at U-M.

  2. February 3, 2025

    President Ono commits $5M for U-M public art over five years

    President Santa J. Ono has committed $5 million from central university funding to further develop U-M’s public art collection over the next five years, in support of the Vision 2034 goals.

  3. February 3, 2025

    Stamps helped Sandra Wiley see herself as an artist

    Sandra Wiley, director of international study programs at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, has been knitting since she was a child and creates all her own clothes.

  4. January 29, 2025

    UM-Flint receives Mellon grant to explore ‘cracks in pavement’

    A $495,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to UM-Flint will allow the exploration and cataloging of Flint’s democratic practices through an interdisciplinary lens.

  5. January 27, 2025

    U-M research fellow, LSA lecturer can bust a move

    Elliot Ratzman, a research fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and a lecturer in LSA, has been breakdancing since junior high school.

  6. January 20, 2025

    ICPSR staffer brings joy to others through art

    Kathryn Lavender, a data project manager at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, turned her watercolor paintings of cats into calendars.

  7. January 16, 2025

    Arts Initiative grants awarded to seven research teams

    The Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration grant program in the Office of the Vice President for Research has awarded a new round of funding to seven faculty-led research projects.

  8. December 11, 2024

    2025 MLK Symposium to explore ‘restless dissatisfaction’

    Actress, director, producer and activist Erika Alexander will be the featured speaker at the 2025 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium Keynote Memorial Lecture on Jan. 20.

  9. December 9, 2024

    Arts Initiative grants to foster creativity and collaboration

    The Arts Initiative has announced its Arts Initiative Project Support grants for fall 2024, funding six innovative projects across the university.

  10. December 9, 2024

    Stamps Gallery staffer embraces variety of art-making

    Haley Perkins, public programs and engagement officer at the Stamps Gallery, has been a lifelong artist who comes from a family of creators.