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Two visitors stand before a row of iMac monitors displaying video works from the Dogs Playing Poker exhibition.
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Art, Identity, and Visibility: Lorelei d’Andriole’s Solo Exhibition Anchors MSU’s Transgender Day of Visibility
Through both her art and her voice, MSU faculty member Lorelei d’Andriole is taking center stage at MSU’s Transgender Day of Visibility
A person in a green shirt on the left helps a group of four people plant strawberry plants in terracotta pots.
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MSU and Georgia Tech Receive Mellon Funding for Research Project Combining Afrofuturism, Humanities, and Horticulture
Spartans are bringing the humanities and horticulture together through The Earthseed Project
A smiling child wearing a denim vest with a large red star stands between two adults dressed in black. All three point and smile toward the audience on a brightly lit runway.
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Innovation Meets Inclusion: MSU Students Design Adaptive Fashions for New York City Runway
Learn how Apparel and Textile Design students created custom adaptive garments for students with brain-based disabilities
A man sits cross-legged on a row of tires on the shore of a beach. On either side of are two row boats painted pink in white. The text on the boats read
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Vadu Rodrigues: Changing the World’s View of Africa
Artist and MFA candidate Vadu Rodrigues is using his project Positive Africa to share a more vibrant narrative of the continent
Image of Laurent Valère’s Memorial CAP 110 sculpture in Diamant, Martinique.
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Documentary by French Professor Earning Recognition at Several Film Festivals Worldwide
Professor Safoi Babana-Hampton's documentary uncovers the silenced stories of the transatlantic slave trade and its lasting impact on the Francophone Afro-Caribbean world
A person holding up a colorful postcard outside. The postcard shows a scene of a lighthouse amidst waves. The text reads
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MSU professor leads postcard research project to connect members of the transgender community
158 participants have shared meaningful stories as transgender and nonbinary people
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Arts on the Inside: Incarcerated Voices Speak Through Creativity
RCAH student Lily Dixon and faculty member Guillermo Delgado are connecting communities of artists inside and outside of the carceral system
Head and shoulder photo of a Black woman wearing a black turtleneck, a long gold chain necklace, gold nose ring, glasses, and short hair on just the top of her head.
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Boston’s Poet Laureate Selected as 2025 Womxn of Color Initiatives Artist-in-Residence
Michigan State University’s Womxn of Color Initiatives (WOCI) has selected Porsha Olayiwola, Poet Laureate for the city of Boston, Massachusetts, as its 2025 Artist-in-Residence
Three people, one woman and two men, stand on a beautiful beach with another man recording them. In the ocean there is a large rock in the center, with a green mountainside pictured to the right.
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Afro-Caribbean Artists Reclaim Hidden Stories of Transatlantic Slave Trade in New Documentary by French Professor
MSU Professor, Safoi Babana-Hampton, amplifies silenced histories of the Francophone Afro-Caribbean world through the voices of artists, historians, and policymakers
Vadu Rodrigues holding camera.
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MFA candidate uses art to create ‘Positive Africa’ movement
Artist-activist, Vadu Rodrigues is challenging negative perceptions of Africa and Black diaspora through his art and photography
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$3M Mellon-Funded ‘Creativity in the Time of COVID’ Has Local and Global Impact
Creativity in the Time of COVID-19: Art as Medicine reveals the transformative power of art as a coping mechanism during the isolation and uncertainty of the global pandemic
Amaya Aten at a conference with three other students presenting a poster
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Amaya Aten: Art is Revolutionary
Aspiring law student Amaya Aten uses her complementary majors to explore how creativity drives social change
Mikayla in jean jacket leaning forward looking at yellow flowers
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MSU Graduate Preserves and Protects Indigenous Culture
MSU grad Mikayla Thompson, descendant of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is educating others about Indigenous farming practices and culture through the gardens she helped create
Student Kathrin Poon sews a ruffled color onto a green dress
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Katherin Poon: Psychology Applied to Clothing
Katherin Poon applies her double major in Theatre Design and Psychology in her work in costuming
Portrait of Kelly Salchow MacArthur in MSU rowing fieldhouse.
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How Do the Olympics Connect People, Athletics, and Art?
Two-time Olympic rower Kelly Salchow MacArthur sees a connection between athletics and art in bringing people together
DMA student Tyler Mazone, wearing a grey suit jacket, raises his hand to conduct student musicians.
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Tyler Mazone: Composing Beyond the Sound
Tyler Mazone is a Deaf and neurodivergent DMA Composition student who knows that music is always a multi-sensory experience
Photo of Liv Furman wearing black in front of colorful quilt she created.
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Exploring Connections Within Teaching, Learning, and Quilt Praxis
In Afrofuturism & Quilting exhibition, local and national quilt artists and quilt scholars explore embodied and theoretical connections between Afrofuturism and quilt making.
Two performers dancing
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Across Oceans: Small Island Big Song’s Residency at Wharton Center
In March 2024, campus experienced the transformative power of music during Small Island Big Song's performance and residency at Wharton Center for Performing Arts.
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Las Alas Invisibles exhibition recognizes migrant farmworkers
Parallels of the monarch butterfly journey from harvest to higher education
Photo of red dress with sunlight shining through
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‘REDress Project’ comes to MSU
This public art installation spotlights violence against Indigenous women
University student lays on a sofa in an outdoor living room set up and throws football in the air.
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MSU explores intersection of arts and sports
Exhibition and theatre installation show how artists and athletes both shape history and create community
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MSU Museum, Smithsonian partner to preserve work by African American artists
The MSU Museum is a selected participant of the the African American Craft Initiative within the Smithsonian.
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Professor returns to her native community for 1855 Professorship
Blaire Morseau is one of two new faculty members in the Department of Religious Studies to receive an inaugural 1855 Professorship
MSU professor Kinitra Brooks asks us to consider who is the monster in horror.
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How Black horror helps us understand cultural anxieties
MSU professor Kinitra Brooks asks us to consider who is the monster in horror.
Kota Ezawa,
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MSU Broad merges sports, art, and social justice
The new exhibition shows how artists have depicted sports figures who have used their influence to spark change.
A photo of a teenager performing on stage
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The opportunity of a lifetime with Wharton Center
Hear how Wharton Center is increasing access to life-changing performing arts opportunities for high schoolers across the state.
Images collected from a photovoice project by Wiba Anung. Photos: Shiloh Maples and Kat Jacques
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Beyond collaboration at the CoLab Studio
MSU Museum Takes a Co-Curatorial Approach to CoLab Studio Exhibitions.
A comic book drawing of a young boy and girl. The girl asks the boy
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Drawing high schoolers to STEM with plants and creativity
A collaboration between plant and education researchers at MSU is working to transform the relationship students have with science
Students wearing headphones working on laptops to create beats, sounds, poetry, and more.
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Research project reimagines artmaking
Forms of Freedom: The Art and Design of Black and Indigenous Creative Public Pedagogies is a research collaboration between Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) artist collectives
Class works in the the 360 Degree Visualization Room, surrounded by images and text related to the women they were studying
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Students raise awareness of monuments women
An MSU class raises awareness of the women who fought to rescue and return art stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
Kelly Salchow MacArthur's hands holding a designed poster covering her face, mostly yellow and grey.
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Professor receives award for vote campaign
Kelly Salchow MacArthur is the 2023 recipient of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID)
Quilt
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Quilt gives peek into Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood
A recently discovered quilt is providing a peek into what life in Black Bottom was like more than 50 years ago.
Photo of film professor Peter Johnson interviewing Stanford W. Carpenter
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Afrofuturism explored in new documentary by MSU Professors
Championed by artists, scholars, and activists around the world, Afrofuturism offers a tool kit for a better tomorrow.
CMS-D students performing
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$1 Million MSUFCU gift brings music dreams to life
The Detroit Regional Engagement and Access to Music Endowment (MSUFCU DREAM Fund) supports the MSU Community Music School in Detroit