Arts & Culture
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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.
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September 12, 2023
Recording of two operas shines light on underrepresented work
The first full recordings of two operas — “De Organizer” and “The Dreamy Kid” — performed in 2006 in Hill Auditorium were recently released.
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September 11, 2023
Arts & Resistance sampler
Here are few upcoming highlights from the Arts & Resistance theme semester.
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September 11, 2023
Arts & Resistance theme semester to engage campus, community
The university is kicking off the 2023-24 academic year with the Arts & Resistance theme semester, providing numerous opportunities to engage with the arts in a demonstration of the central role they play in shaping the world.
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September 8, 2023
Clare Croft to direct expanded arts research effort
Clare Croft, a dance historian, theorist and curator, has been appointed to a new leadership position designed to expand and integrate the arts in faculty research across U-M.
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September 7, 2023
New, expanded roles announced for Arts Initiative leadership
Provost Laurie McCauley has appointed Mark Clague as interim executive director of the U-M Arts Initiative and expanded Vice Provost Sara Blair’s role to oversee the initiative, reflecting the university’s commitment to arts engagement.
