Miss World’s return to India after 28 years provides global cachet
India will host the 71st Miss World pageant in Mumbai March 9. This is India’s second time hosting Miss World, the oldest existing international beauty pageant, after a controversial first time in...
View ArticleNi Une Más: Transforming Trauma into Healing Power Through the Arts
Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, a composer and U-M instructor, has co-created a trailblazing world premiere production, “Ni une más,” with alumni of U-M’s Knight Wallace journalism fellowship. The show braids...
View ArticleISR to host artist residency in partnership with Arts Initiative
The Institute for Social Research will host Houston-based artist Rick Lowe as part of the U-M Arts Initiative’s Creators on Campus program. Lowe is a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” Fellow...
View ArticleMural project offers arts access to science students
Another unique partnership with the Arts Initiative brings the arts into the Neuroscience Graduate Program. A group of 14 neuroscience students participated in a printmaking workshop last summer with...
View ArticlePrestigious Chinese object program moving to UMMA from Smithsonian
The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) has been selected as the new home institution for the renowned Chinese Object Study Workshops, created and administered by the Smithsonian Institution’s...
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Unlocking creativity: Artist perspectives break free in Michigan Prison Art...
After 20 straight years of participating in the Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons, this will be the first time artist Duane Montney will personally attend the show. Released from a...
View ArticleBeam us up, George: Takei to speak at U-M
The University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance has the unique opportunity to bring the teachings from their classrooms into a once-in-a-lifetime experience with activist and actor...
View ArticleArts Initiative Announces 2024 Creative Careers Residents
The University of Michigan Arts Initiative has announced three master’s degree-level residents for its Creative Careers Residency, a transitional program providing support for full-time, self-directed...
View ArticleU-M Student Life Sustainability Announces Artist-in-Residence Dawn Weleski,...
The University of Michigan Student Life Sustainability Office will host Upstate New York-based multi-disciplinary artist Dawn Weleski as part of the “Noon at Night,” a collaborative project offering...
View ArticlePainted pianos across Ann Arbor in celebration of Make Music Day
Ashley Gray, a U-M student at the School of Kinesiology, approached the U-M Arts Initiative with a unique idea. “In my hometown of Danville, California, painted pianos were placed throughout unique...
View ArticleNPR’s Anastasia Tsioulcas named U-M’s inaugural Knight-Wallace Arts...
Anastasia Tsioulcas, Culture Correspondent for NPR, has been named the inaugural Knight-Wallace Arts Journalism Fellow in a joint effort between the University of Michigan Arts Initiative and the...
View ArticleU-M Museum of Art Unites with Art Museums on College Campuses Across the...
The U-M Museum of Art is set to play a crucial role in the 2024 U.S. presidential election season by presenting a series of non-partisan exhibitions and events with a coalition of 10 art museums, all...
View Article5 Questions with Paul Farber
Over three years ago, LSA American culture alum Paul Farber (M.A. ’09, Ph.D. ’13) and a team of researchers audited nearly 50,000 U.S. conventional monuments. He’s found that these monuments shape...
View ArticleChris Vrenna, of Nine Inch Nails, to Join SMTD Department of Performing Arts...
The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance announces that Chris Vrenna will join the Department of Performing Arts Technology as an assistant professor in the fall of 2024. Vrenna...
View ArticleMachine Dazzle and his ouroboros of sustainability
There is nothing small about Machine Dazzle. A self-proclaimed “queer maximalist,” Dazzle is an artist and designer whose stories come alive through his work, and at the University of Michigan Museum...
View ArticleA New Project by Pakistani Social Critic Swineryy, Supported by U-M Faculty...
Students in Stamps Professor Modrak’s wearable art course, Dressing Up and Down, translated Swineryy’s animojis into full-body wearable sculptures or costumes for each character. Swineryy is a...
View ArticleBlossoming sustainable seed library offers free seed packets
The free vending machine on the first floor of the Shapiro Library, known as the Design-O-Matic, sprouted some new offerings this spring: seed packets, imprinted with a QR code link to planting and...
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Tony Awards: 13 U-M Music, Theatre & Dance alumni in winning musicals, plays
The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, historically well represented across industry awards, celebrated 13 alumni who were involved in productions that won 2024 Tony Awards...
View ArticleArts Initiative names Mark Clague inaugural executive director
The University of Michigan’s Arts Initiative has named Mark Clague, professor of music and associate dean for collaborations and partnerships in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, as its...
View ArticleNew Inhabiting Light Alcove at Nichols Arboretum to Provide Space for Healing
Two Taubman College faculty members are designing an outdoor alcove featuring a light-inhabiting glass installation at the University of Michigan Nichols Arboretum that will provide space to promote...
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