Arts & Culture
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February 3, 2025
Stamps helped Sandra Wiley see herself as an artist
Sandra Wiley, director of international study programs at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, has been knitting since she was a child and creates all her own clothes.
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January 29, 2025
UM-Flint receives Mellon grant to explore ‘cracks in pavement’
A $495,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to UM-Flint will allow the exploration and cataloging of Flint’s democratic practices through an interdisciplinary lens.
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January 27, 2025
U-M research fellow, LSA lecturer can bust a move
Elliot Ratzman, a research fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and a lecturer in LSA, has been breakdancing since junior high school.
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January 20, 2025
ICPSR staffer brings joy to others through art
Kathryn Lavender, a data project manager at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, turned her watercolor paintings of cats into calendars.
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January 16, 2025
Arts Initiative grants awarded to seven research teams
The Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration grant program in the Office of the Vice President for Research has awarded a new round of funding to seven faculty-led research projects.
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December 11, 2024
2025 MLK Symposium to explore ‘restless dissatisfaction’
Actress, director, producer and activist Erika Alexander will be the featured speaker at the 2025 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium Keynote Memorial Lecture on Jan. 20.
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December 9, 2024
Arts Initiative grants to foster creativity and collaboration
The Arts Initiative has announced its Arts Initiative Project Support grants for fall 2024, funding six innovative projects across the university.
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December 9, 2024
Stamps Gallery staffer embraces variety of art-making
Haley Perkins, public programs and engagement officer at the Stamps Gallery, has been a lifelong artist who comes from a family of creators.
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November 25, 2024
UM-Flint alum named 2024-25 Flint Artist in Residence
Janice McCoy, a 2018 UM-Flint graduate with degrees in visual arts education and general studio art, has been named the 2024-25 Flint Artist in Residence.
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November 25, 2024
Staffer’s creations delight visitors, celebrate co-workers
Linda Garcia finds inspiration in the scientists she works among in LSA’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and uses her creativity with quilting and Barbies to show it.
