Arts & Culture

  1. November 18, 2024

    Proposals sought for Artists in the Archives program

    U-M has launched Artists in the Archives, a new funding program for faculty engaged in creative practice and interested in exploring work inspired by the university’s libraries.

  2. November 18, 2024

    New mural helps people visualize the concussion experience

    The Concussion Center at the School of Kinesiology is using visual art to capture the experiences of concussion patients.

  3. November 14, 2024

    How Native art forms sustain amid vanishing resources

    New and existing works by fifth- and sixth-generation Indigenous basket weavers are on display at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design’s Stamps Gallery through Dec. 15.

  4. November 11, 2024

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  5. November 4, 2024

    Staffer melds love of theater, finance at SMTD

    Olivia Deane, financial specialist associate in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, first performed in a community theater production at the age of 12.

  6. November 1, 2024

    Rhiannon Giddens named Arts Initiative’s first U-M Artist-in-Residence

    The Arts Initiative has announced musician, composer and scholar Rhiannon Giddens will be its inaugural U‑M Artist-in-Residence under a new program that aims to bring innovative artists to campus.

  7. October 28, 2024

    Assistant professor brings improv to UMSI

    Gabriela Marcu, assistant professor of information in the School of Information, discovered improv after starting a job at Drexel University and has brought her passion to UMSI.

  8. October 21, 2024

    ICPSR supervisor’s art redefines which way is up

    Bill Horvath, full-stack engineer supervisor at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, has built up a sizable and impressive portfolio of artwork.

  9. October 17, 2024

    Arb’s student-curated nature walk shares poems by Black authors

    A student-curated Black Nature Walk through Nichols Arboretum this semester showcases nature poems by 11 Black authors that are engraved on wood panels interspersed along the trails of the Arb’s Peony Garden.

  10. October 14, 2024

    SMTD assistant dean creates fiber artwork

    Mica Harrison Loosemore, assistant dean of admissions, financial aid and enrollment at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, loves to create fiber art or textile art.