Arts & Culture

  1. January 9, 2024

    Annual report highlights ‘remarkable and transformational year’

    An expansion of the health care system and new initiatives to promote the arts and enhance school safety are among the many notable achievements featured in U-M’s annual report.

  2. December 14, 2023

    U-M startup blends art, stories to help health care workers

    ArtSpective, a new U-M startup that provides implicit bias training for health care workers, uses fine-art photographs and guided storytelling to improve patient-provider interactions.

  3. November 20, 2023

    Arts Initiative set to launch campuswide artist residency

    A new campuswide artist residency will launch next year, and the Arts Initiative is looking for nominations of artists who can make a big impact on campus and the community.

  4. November 16, 2023

    U-M announces Knight-Wallace Arts Journalism Fellowship

    The Arts Initiative and the Wallace House Center for Journalists have created a Knight-Wallace Arts Journalism Fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year.

  5. November 15, 2023

    Artist bringing ‘glittering kaleidoscope of joyful creativity’ to U-M

    The U-M Museum of Art has commissioned New York-based artist, designer and multifaceted maker Machine Dazzle for a site-specific installation at its Irving Stenn Jr. Family Gallery.

  6. November 6, 2023

    Stamps staffer shines in musical theater roles

    John Luther, career development coordinator with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, spent more than a decade dancing professionally before directing and choreographing musical theater.

  7. October 27, 2023

    ‘Respond/Resist/Rethink’ coming to all three U-M campuses

    A new partnership across all three U-M campuses will feature work created by U-M students this fall in conjunction with the Arts & Resistance theme semester.

  8. October 25, 2023

    How do we remember? Let us count the ways

    U-M is driving an in-depth, cross-disciplinary audit of its campus: the land it sits upon, the historical figures it commemorates and how the campus community remembers.

  9. October 19, 2023

    Proposals sought for new arts research funding program

    U-M has launched Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration, a new partnership between the Office for the Vice President for Research and the U-M Arts Initiative to fuel arts-based research.

  10. October 16, 2023

    Managing director plays bass with local band

    Gene Mage, managing director of custom programs in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, took up bass guitar in the late 1980s and dove back into music in 2020.