Arts & Culture
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April 7, 2023
UMS teams with Ypsilanti in arts partnership at Freighthouse
The University Musical Society and city of Ypsilanti have announced a new, two-year partnership that will result in arts programming for Ypsilanti residents, families and schoolchildren.
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April 5, 2023
Digital looms expand weaving options for Stamps students
The Thread Controller 2 digital Jacquard looms recently integrated at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design combine the aspects of traditional weaving with today’s innovation.
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April 3, 2023
Arts Initiative seeks proposals for Creators on Campus
The U-M Arts Initiative is accepting proposals from faculty and staff for Creators on Campus, a residency program to expand visiting artist programs, arts research and the overall student experience.
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April 3, 2023
Lecturer helps families navigate losing loved ones
Darcy Brandel, a lecturer in creative writing in the Residential College and with the Semester in Detroit program, serves as a “death doula” to help families facilitate the passing of a loved one.
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March 27, 2023
Organ professor James Kibbie gives Bach to U-M
James Kibbie, professor of organ at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, will perform the last of 18 concerts featuring all 281 solo organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach on April 16 at Hill Auditorium.
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March 21, 2023
A half century of women in the Michigan Marching Band
The 2022-23 school year marks 50 years since the passing of Title IX, which allowed women to join the Michigan Marching Band.
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March 20, 2023
Lecturer combines love of computing, creating
Creating pieces of art — and the trial and error that comes with it — drives and inspires Mark Meier, lecturer II in architecture in the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
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March 14, 2023
U-M features creative works of prisoners across Michigan
The U-M Prison Creative Arts Project will unveil its 27th annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons, one of the world’s largest shows of its kind, March 21-April 4 at the Duderstadt Gallery.
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March 8, 2023
Rare museums and herbarium books now available online
Rare and special books in the Museums and Herbarium Collections have now been digitized and made available online via the HathiTrust Digital Library.
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March 6, 2023
Ford School fellow finds outlet in music
Kaj Althaus, a Michigan Data and Policy Fellow with the Ford School’s Youth Policy Lab, performs in a band called Toed in the Ann Arbor and metro Detroit areas.
