A collaboration between the U-M’s Arts Initiative and the School of Music, Theatre & Dance is expanding opportunities for students who want to learn to play the guitar, and points the way to more arts participation by non-arts students.
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The University of Michigan Arts Initiative is accepting proposals from faculty and staff for fall 2023 and winter 2024 residency programs that will expand existing visiting artist programs, initiate larger-scale visiting artist possibilities, and enhance learning, arts research and the overall campus experience for students.
Read more...U-M will allocate $20 million over five years for its Arts Initiative to expand access with new programs and projects to engage university audiences, bring more artists to campus, and support and amplify the arts across the state and region. The initiative aims to make the arts central to U-M’s identity and mission.
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A London-based team specializing in extended-reality technology will be the 2023 artists in residency at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, in partnership with U-M’s Arts Initiative. Bruno Martelli and Ruth Gibson will help develop work, conduct workshops and engage with student projects.
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Public Art & Engagement Fellows
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Second round of proposals for grants of $10K and $20K
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UMMA will partner with renowned nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab to examine the role of historic structures at the University of Michigan in upholding social and cultural systems and narratives. U-M alum and Monument Lab Director/Co-founder Dr. Paul Farber will also serve as the University of Michigan Arts Initiative’s first Curator-in-Residence.
Read more...$250K gift establishes Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Michigan Culture Corps Internship Fund
Read more...A Travel Guide for Talking Hearts is a project inspired by creative explorations undertaken with longtime U-M collaborator and cellist Yo-Yo Ma that features a virtual event at 7 p.m. Sept. 23.
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A Travel Guide for Talking Hearts, a project residency with Yo-Yo Ma and three Michigan-based artists, is accepting proposals for visual artworks representing heart maps to be displayed as a billboard. We’re seeking one student or alumni design from each of the three University of Michigan campuses. If your design is selected, you will also receive a $500 stipend for the use of your art on the billboards. The deadline for submission is August 23.
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The Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan welcomes Christopher Audain as its new Managing Director.
Read more...The University of Michigan’s Arts Initiative continues to move forward exploring new models for students, faculty and staff to work collaboratively within the arts and across disciplines to share knowledge resources with a bold new set of demonstration projects set to launch this fall.
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Themes of home, hope and connection were the focus of a virtual event that kicked off a 6 month-long University of Michigan residency with renowned global performance artist Yo-Yo Ma on Thursday April 15.
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For this exhibition four student artists were challenged to create artwork based on research projects chosen by faculty at the Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities.
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Seven teams shared their projects and three student teams received $1,000 awards related to their work addressing anti-racism during the Center for Socially Engaged Design annual Innovation in Action awards showcase April 9.
Read more...Ma will join a newly-formed steering committee composed of six U-M students and three Michigan-based artists from Ann Arbor, Flint and Dearborn — representing all three U-M campuses — who will be charged with developing new variations of maps to express what the U-M community has experienced in the past year.
Read more...For this Mixtape theme on “Art in the Time of Resistance,” we are looking for a broad variety of approaches from poets, writers, and artists who work and live all around the world.
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Moving toward an anti-racist future requires imagining it. This year the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Arts Initiative, the Center for Socially-Engaged Design and the XR Initiative at the Center for Academic Innovation are hosting a design challenge that invites students to create projects that imagine the anti-racist future we want to build at U-M through art and technology.
Read more...Summer 2020 saw the expansion of the Black Lives Matter movement across the U.S. after George Floyd’s death. Washtenaw County was no exception, and University of Michigan students partook in protests all over the country. In light of these events, many students sought more direct ways to make an impact.
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An ongoing guide gathering resources for audiences and diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts.
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William Deresiewicz, SAMMUS, atiya jones, Monica Byrne discuss the modern struggles of creators, the unique challenges they face in this digital era, and how exploitation and instant gratification have changed our perceptions of art.
Read more...During the startup phase over the next two-and-a-half years, the working group will use these various activities to inform longer-term planning for the ambitious initiative, which aims to transform teaching, learning and research throughout the university in partnership with the arts.
Read more...A working group of arts leaders on campus will collaborate with all parts of the university in creating the initiative.
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