Arts & Culture
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April 16, 2024
Students turn fallen campus trees into public tables
Storm-damaged trees and others from across U-M are being turned into new, functional campus furniture, thanks to the work of associate professor Joseph Trumpey and his students.
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April 15, 2024
Arts Initiative announces 2024 Creative Careers Residents
The Arts Initiative has announced three master’s degree-level residents — Leah Crosby, Sara Faraj and Kara Roseborough — for its Creative Careers Residency.
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April 15, 2024
Ukraine’s devastation manifested in statistician’s ceramic art
Irina Bondarenko, a statistician lead for the biostatistics department in the School of Public Health, grew up in Ukraine and has created works of art inspired by her homeland.
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April 15, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — The ‘rare and curious’ Stearns Collection
Frederick Stearns had never purchased a musical instrument, but a small guitar caught his eye. It was called a quirten and dated to 1807.
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April 8, 2024
Where’s Alice? The case of the missing statue
When U-M alumna Sheryl Szady stumbled across a bust sculpture in an Observatory Lodge Building conference room, she suspected it could be the culmination of a search that began three years earlier.
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April 8, 2024
Foolishness on parade
These photos capture some of the giant puppets and fun that were on display April 7 at FestiFools.
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April 8, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — The ‘harrowing experience’ of meeting Robert Frost
Robert Frost came to campus in the fall of 1921 to be U-M’s inaugural Creative Fellow in the Creative Arts, an experiment carried out by President Marion L. Burton.
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March 28, 2024
Mural project offers arts access to science students
A unique collaboration between students, faculty and local artists is bringing a vibrant mural related to the field of nuclear engineering to the Ann Arbor campus this spring.
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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.