Arts & Culture
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October 13, 2023
University creates new position to oversee public art collection
U-M has created a new cross-campus position, curator of art in public spaces, to oversee the display, acquisition and overall curation strategy of its public art collection. Jennifer Carty has been hired for that position.
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September 29, 2023
Heather Raffo leads Student Creative Fellowship with fall residency
Playwright, actor and U-M alumna Heather Raffo will lead the university’s Arts and Resistance Fall 2023 Student Creative Fellowship as artist-in-residence.
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September 28, 2023
U-M Library offering free copies of banned books Oct. 3-5
The U-M Library is offering 16 titles — almost 2,000 free books — that have been recently challenged or banned and that span themes, topics and depictions that are most often challenged.
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September 26, 2023
Sustainable art practices bloom at new Stamps garden
The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design has taken a step toward campuswide carbon neutrality with the opening of the Stamps Sustainable Materials & Color Garden on the school’s grounds.
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September 25, 2023
It Happened at Michigan — ‘They gave him ten for two’
The concert was scheduled to end at midnight. But the 15,000 people crowded into Crisler Arena were content to hang around. John Lennon was worth the wait.
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September 21, 2023
Little Amal, symbol of human rights, is heading to U-M
Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee child, will be making her way onto the U-M campus this weekend as part of a 6,000-mile walk across the United States.
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September 18, 2023
Artist ‘GIFT’s U-M campus with public art installation
The experimental installation “GIFT” by Cannupa Hanska Luger is being created across the facade of the building that houses the U-M Museum of Art. It is part of an ongoing initiative to challenge university history and reexamine what gets memorialized.
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September 18, 2023
Hospital arts coordinator collects, paints robots
Elaine Reed, the arts programming coordinator with Michigan Medicine’s Gifts of Art Program, has a collection of more than 250 robot figurines.
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September 18, 2023
It Happened at Michigan — ‘Jazz Goes to College’
A University of Michigan audience helped make Dave Brubeck an icon of 20th-century jazz. Brubeck, a pianist, made national headlines in 1954 with the release of “Jazz Goes to College.”
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September 13, 2023
Applicants sought for Respond/Resist/Rethink art exhibition
Submissions are being sought from undergraduate and graduate students for the fourth annual Respond/Resist/Rethink student art exhibition, part of the Arts & Resistance theme semester. The deadline is Sept. 18.
