Arts & Culture
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April 3, 2022
The fools are back
Larger-than-life puppets, spring foolishness and smiling faces, young and old, returned to downtown Ann Arbor on April 3 with the 2022 parade of FestiFools.
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March 31, 2022
FestiFools returns this weekend with more fools, new location
After two years, FestiFools returns April 3. The fest’s signature larger-than-life papier-mâché puppets will parade along South State Street between William Street and South University Avenue.
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March 22, 2022
Stamps has strong connection to 2022 Ann Arbor Film Festival
The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design is playing a prominent role in the 60th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival, which kicked off March 22 and runs through March 27.
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March 15, 2022
Prison artwork in person again after pandemic limits
U-M’s Prison Creative Arts Project presents the 26th annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus from March 22-April 5.
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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.
