Arts & Culture
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August 29, 2024
Take Care theme activities will use art to aid well-being
U-M’s Arts Initiative, Wolverine Wellness and other campus partners have joined forces to center personal and community well-being in the 2024-25 academic year with a focus on the theme Take Care.
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August 29, 2024
Highlights of 2024-25 Take Care activities
Take Care programs consist of exhibitions, concerts, performances, workshops and more.
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August 26, 2024
Arts Initiative supports arts partnership teams across U‑M campuses
The U-M Arts Initiative’s Projects in Partnership program is funding to four arts-based teams representing more than 18 units, schools and colleges across U‑M’s Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses and in Detroit.
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August 12, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — Exploring Islamic art in the Midwest
Mehmet Aga-Oglu was the first professor of Islamic art at an American university and founded the first academic journal to focus on art and architecture from Islamic nations.
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July 17, 2024
Stamps professor sheds light on challenges teachers face
Stamps School professor Rebekah Modrak has launched “Trouble in Censorville,” which features testimonies from teachers about the challenges, politics and attacks they are facing.
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July 16, 2024
U-M Library bringing book arts to Ann Arbor Art Fair
Visitors to this year’s Ann Arbor Art Fair will be able to create their own flora-inspired prints using two historically important book art methods: cyanotype and woodblock printing.
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June 24, 2024
U-M staffer is highlighting Ann Arbor, from A to Z
Bettina Senga, communications manager for the Center for Global Health Equity, is using relief printmaking to illustrate an alphabet book highlighting Ann Arbor’s gems.
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June 20, 2024
Arts Initiative names Mark Clague inaugural executive director
Mark Clague, professor of music and associate dean for collaborations and partnerships in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, has been named inaugural executive director of the U-M Arts Initiative.
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June 13, 2024
Couple’s $5M gift to UMS is largest in its history
With a gift of $5 million, U-M alumna Eileen Weiser and her husband, Richard “Dick” Caldarazzo, have established the Weiser Caldarazzo Iconic Artists Endowment Fund at the University Musical Society.
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June 12, 2024
UMS residency features Yo-Yo Ma, international artists, students
The University Musical Society hosted a special large-scale collaborative project this month that brought together musicians of differing levels and backgrounds for a weeklong residency.
