Arts & Culture
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February 23, 2024
OVPR, Arts Initiative grants awarded to 14 research teams
The Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration grant program and the Creativity Lab research development program have funded projects that center the arts in research and creative practice.
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February 20, 2024
George Gershwin’s first musical rediscovered after nearly a century
Last summer, U-M researcher Jacob Kerzner uncovered the complete musical orchestration of “La, La, Lucille,” making the musical possible to perform for the first time in nearly a century.
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February 14, 2024
Mini-course allows students to delve into the art of anatomy
Two School of Kinesiology faculty members created a seven-week mini-course that challenged students to revisit their preconceptions about both art and the body.
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February 8, 2024
Clements Library acquires rare American edition of poems
U-M has acquired the first American edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters’ “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” widely regarded as the first book of poetry written by an African American woman.
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February 6, 2024
Croft, Monts to be honored at Shirley Verrett Award ceremony
The Women of Color in the Academy Project will honor Lester P. Monts and Clare Croft with its 12th Annual Shirley Verrett Awards.
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February 2, 2024
School of Social Work to host featured artist residency
The School of Social Work, in partnership with the U-M Arts Initiative, has announced the selection of the Pan-African Creative Exchange as the featured artist residency for 2024.
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January 22, 2024
Social media specialist drums up support for Lions
DeAndre Hicks, social media specialist at the Center for Academic Innovation and UM-Dearborn alumnus, is a first-year member of the Detroit Lions Drumline.
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January 15, 2024
Research associate finds purpose through pottery
Katherine Ziska, a research associate with the Marsal Family School of Education, spends hours each week creating mugs, bowls, vases and other objects.
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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.
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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.
