Arts & Culture
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February 23, 2022
U-M recruiting students across campus to fill arts internships
The U-M Culture Corps is flipping the script on the traditional arts internship by recruiting students historically excluded from arts careers.
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February 14, 2022
Oboe professor runs a marathon in every state
Nancy Ambrose King, professor of oboe in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, completed a marathon in all 50 states, all before turning 60.
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February 7, 2022
Stamps professor’s homemade table becomes much more
Roland Graf made a simple table made of seven planks of untreated pine around which his family gathered for a retirement celebration in 2006.
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January 31, 2022
Project tackles issues of fair representation in arts and data
A team of U-M researchers is using popular face-detection algorithms designed to distinguish a variety of factors — including gender and race — to analyze the entire collection at the U-M Museum of Art.
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January 31, 2022
Buzz starting to grow around lecturer’s writers’ circle
Debotri Dhar, lecturer II in women’s and gender studies in LSA, suggested the idea for the Hummingbird Global Writers’ Circle in December 2016.
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January 26, 2022
$12M calligraphy gift transforms UMMA’s Asian art collection
The U-M Museum of Art has received a gift of Chinese calligraphy from the family of Lo Chia-Lun valued at more than $12 million — the largest gift of art in the university’s history.
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January 24, 2022
New York native drums up performance, teaching career
Ian Antonio, assistant professor of music in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, has played the drums since before he can remember and performed on four continents.
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January 17, 2022
Filmmaker got their start early with VHS camcorder
Charli Brissey, assistant professor of dance in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, has worked at U-M since 2018 teaching film, composition and technique classes in the dance department.
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December 2, 2021
‘Unseen Worlds’: Exploring microorganisms through art
Through the artistry of Jim Cogswell, professor of art, microorganisms can now be seen in a colorful mural on the windows of U-M’s Museum of Natural History.
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November 15, 2021
NSF grant to aid research on technology and artisan communities
A U-M research team has received a $1.55 million grant from the National Science Foundation to focus on how technology can be used by artisans to empower, not replace, their labor.
