Arts & Culture

  1. October 17, 2022

    Program adviser explores cultures through song

    Tamara West, an intercultural program adviser at U-M’s Center for Global and Intercultural Study, has always had an interest in other cultures.

  2. October 10, 2022

    Stamps professors transform U-M gallery spaces into election hubs

    Two installations at the Duderstadt Gallery and the U-M Museum of Art intend to make the voting process clear, welcoming and delightful for students on both Central and North Campus this fall.

  3. October 3, 2022

    SEAS creative director creates chalk-art masterpieces

    Dave Brenner, the School for Environment and Sustainability’s creative and web director, and his wife, Shelley, compete in chalk-art competitions around the country and the world.

  4. September 19, 2022

    Arts Initiative names eight for Public Art & Engagement Fellowship

    Eight U-M faculty, fellows and staff have been named Public Art & Engagement Fellows by the Arts Initiative, a program committed to amplifying the role and significance of the arts within the campus and regional communities.

  5. September 12, 2022

    Course aims to showcase hip-hop as a new universal language

    Through her music performance course, Deidre D.S.SENSE Smith, the Kresge Fellow of Live Performance Art, aims to create a safe space for anyone who wants to expand their palette artistically or is curious about hip-hop.

  6. September 6, 2022

    Librarian combines loves of comics, games

    David Carter serves as video game archivist for the Computer and Video Game Archive and comics librarian, combining two of his early childhood loves.

  7. August 25, 2022

    Arts Initiative awards inaugural Arts + the Curriculum grants

    The U-M Arts Initiative has announced the inaugural projects in its Arts + the Curriculum program and is accepting a second round of proposals from faculty and staff to help integrate arts thinking in curricular development.

  8. August 23, 2022

    Researcher discovers U-M’s ‘Galileo manuscript’ is a forgery

    The U-M Library has concluded its “Galileo manuscript” — considered one of the jewels of the library’s collection — was not written by Galileo in 1609 and 1610, but is a 20th-century fake.

  9. July 12, 2022

    Photo gallery: Painting of the mural, ‘The Gift’

    The U-M Museum of Art’s current exhibition, “Watershed,” includes a mural called “The Gift” at the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I painted by artist Bonnie Devine.

  10. June 16, 2022

    U-M doctoral candidate creates sonic interaction with peonies

    “Hybrid Cultivars,” created by U-M doctoral candidate Alexis Lamb, consists of 27 single-pipe chimes installed throughout the W.E. Upjohn Peony Garden.