Arts & Culture
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March 26, 2024
Prestigious Chinese object program moving to UMMA
The U-M Museum of Art has been selected as the new home institution for the renowned Chinese Object Study Workshops, which offer a vital platform for training graduate students.
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March 14, 2024
Artist perspectives break free in Michigan prison art exhibition
The Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons, put on by U-M’s Prison Creative Arts Project, runs March 19-April 2 and will feature 750 works of art by 490 artists.
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March 7, 2024
Transforming trauma into healing power through the arts
Composer and lecturer Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra has co-created a trailblazing world premiere production, “Ni une más,” to tell the stories of those who have survived gender-based violence.
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March 6, 2024
ISR to host artist residency in partnership with Arts Initiative
The Institute for Social Research will host Houston-based artist Rick Lowe as part of the U-M Arts Initiative’s Creators on Campus program.
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March 4, 2024
Librarian sees beauty in tools of the trade
Paul Schaffner manages the creation of electronic texts as well as the revision and upkeep of the university’s 90-year-old Middle English Dictionary.
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February 23, 2024
OVPR, Arts Initiative grants awarded to 14 research teams
The Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration grant program and the Creativity Lab research development program have funded projects that center the arts in research and creative practice.
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February 20, 2024
George Gershwin’s first musical rediscovered after nearly a century
Last summer, U-M researcher Jacob Kerzner uncovered the complete musical orchestration of “La, La, Lucille,” making the musical possible to perform for the first time in nearly a century.
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February 14, 2024
Mini-course allows students to delve into the art of anatomy
Two School of Kinesiology faculty members created a seven-week mini-course that challenged students to revisit their preconceptions about both art and the body.
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February 8, 2024
Clements Library acquires rare American edition of poems
U-M has acquired the first American edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters’ “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” widely regarded as the first book of poetry written by an African American woman.
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February 6, 2024
Croft, Monts to be honored at Shirley Verrett Award ceremony
The Women of Color in the Academy Project will honor Lester P. Monts and Clare Croft with its 12th Annual Shirley Verrett Awards.