Arts & Culture
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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May 19, 2022
Everything old is new again in exhibit of Greek manuscripts
A new exhibit on display through June 28 in the Hatcher Library celebrates the centenary of U-M’s collection of Greek manuscripts, the largest such collection in the United States.
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April 19, 2022
Dentistry sculpture adds distinctive element to campus art
Perennial, a new art installation that hangs in the School of Dentistry’s three-story atrium, consists of more than 900 gold-leafed elements to form a 3D rendering of a columbine flower.
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April 13, 2022
UMMA partnership to explore impact of U-M historic structures
The U-M Museum of Art is partnering with the nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab that will examine the role of historic structures at U-M in upholding social and cultural systems and narratives.
