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$3M Mellon-Funded ‘Creativity in the Time of COVID’ Has Local and Global ImpactCreativity 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.
MFA Candidate Creates Immersive Digital Display Featuring the Art of BreakingMorgan Reneé Hill has created an innovative art display to offer a unique immersive experience into the art of Breaking (breakdancing).
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Amaya Aten: Art is RevolutionaryAspiring law student Amaya Aten uses her complementary majors to explore how creativity drives social change
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MSU Graduate Preserves and Protects Indigenous CultureMSU 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
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Katherin Poon: Psychology Applied to ClothingKatherin Poon applies her double major in Theatre Design and Psychology in her work in costuming
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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
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Tyler Mazone: Composing Beyond the SoundTyler Mazone is a Deaf and neurodivergent DMA Composition student who knows that music is always a multi-sensory experience
MSU jazz professor, Detroit jazz icon elected to American Academy of Arts and SciencesRodney Whitaker, University Distinguished Professor of Jazz Bass and director of Jazz Studies, joins the ranks of artists, scholars, scientists and leaders of one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.
Graduate Student Honored for Bringing Hispanic Golden-Age Drama to MSUMFA Acting Candidate, Oscar Rodriguez Quiroz, receives Varg-Sullivan Graduate Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts.
Creating Conversations: Inside MSU Museum’s CoLaborator programThe CoLaborator Program at MSU Museum brings together students dedicated to fostering discussions, creativity, and learning.
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Exploring Connections Within Teaching, Learning, and Quilt PraxisIn Afrofuturism & Quilting exhibition, local and national quilt artists and quilt scholars explore embodied and theoretical connections between Afrofuturism and quilt making.
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Across Oceans: Small Island Big Song’s Residency at Wharton CenterIn 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 farmworkersParallels of the monarch butterfly journey from harvest to higher education
‘REDress Project’ comes to MSUThis public art installation spotlights violence against Indigenous women
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MSU is transforming the art museum experienceThrough an innovative, interactive approach, the MSU Broad Art Museum encourages new ways to approach art
Student view: Bringing STEM and the arts togetherMSU student Grace Krajewski writes about how her love of the arts impacts her studies in STEM
A third spaceCoLaborator program offering place and space for student success
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MSU students earn fashion week trip with sustainable designsSenior Apparel and Textile Design majors Abigail Jones and Whitney Howard both earned a trip to New York Fashion Week with their winning designs
MSU explores intersection of arts and sportsExhibition and theatre installation show how artists and athletes both shape history and create community
From a Spartan to a LionHow one MSU alum combined her love of sports and arts into a career
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MSU professor and olympian part of Olympian Artists ProgramMSU Professor and Olympian Kelly Salchow MacArthur is once again part of the Olympics, this time leading a community art project.
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MSU students partner with the Smithsonian and MSU MuseumA multidisciplinary team of students worked with the Smithsonian to test a new approach to accessible design at the MSU Museum.
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Innovative course uses creative arts to combat stressThe class explores how arts alleviate anxiety and stress and help promote better mental health.
MSU Museum, Smithsonian partner to preserve work by African American artistsThe MSU Museum is a selected participant of the the African American Craft Initiative within the Smithsonian.
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MSU Broad Art Museum expands access to permanent collection with ‘The CORE’The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University has opened a new facility that more extensively displays works from its permanent collection.
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Professor returns to her native community for 1855 ProfessorshipBlaire Morseau is one of two new faculty members in the Department of Religious Studies to receive an inaugural 1855 Professorship
Expanding exhibitions at the MSU Broad Art MuseumAlan and Rebecca Ross build on long-standing support for art at MSU
Merging the medical and music worldsPracticing physician and professional hip-hop artist uses his platform to raise awareness about health
The MSU Museum is “rethinking its strategy and solidifying its place on campus”MSU alumnus and MSU Museum Director Devon Akmon talks about serving as a creative “collaboratory” for campus
Making a case for STEAM over STEM with new musicalA new musical by Department of Theatre Professor Rob Roznowski explores the relationship between the arts and STEM
Can the arts help us feel more connected to a place?We often look to the arts to establish relationships with where we live and to one another.
How Black horror helps us understand cultural anxietiesMSU professor Kinitra Brooks asks us to consider who is the monster in horror.
MSU Broad merges sports, art, and social justiceThe new exhibition shows how artists have depicted sports figures who have used their influence to spark change.
Art and Nature in the Beal Botanical GardenArtists are consistently inspired by nature, but the arts also provide new ways of seeing and experiencing the natural world around us.
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The opportunity of a lifetime with Wharton CenterHear how Wharton Center is increasing access to life-changing performing arts opportunities for high schoolers across the state.
At MSU, public art is essentialMichigan State University’s campus is a canvas for sparking new ideas, deepening understanding and cultivating a sense of belonging
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Beyond collaboration at the CoLab StudioMSU Museum Takes a Co-Curatorial Approach to CoLab Studio Exhibitions.
The inspired mind of Zaha HadidExplore the inspiring MSU Broad Art Museum and an exhibition dedicated to boundary-pushing designs from its architect
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Supporting staged intimacyMSU theatre professors advocate for safety, boundaries, and better storytelling through intimacy direction education
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Drawing high schoolers to STEM with plants and creativityA collaboration between plant and education researchers at MSU is working to transform the relationship students have with science
Graduate voice: The power of music and travelLuke Haight, a saxophonist from Clarkston, Michigan, shares insights from his education abroad experience in Israel
Students create ceramics inspired by study abroadMSU students create and exhibit create their own works of art inspired by Greece
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150 Years of connecting people, plants, and placeBeal Botanical Garden staff join MSU Today's Russ White to talk about the garden’s history, present, and sustainable future.
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Research project reimagines artmakingForms 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
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Students raise awareness of monuments womenAn MSU class raises awareness of the women who fought to rescue and return art stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
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MSU graphic design graduate crowned Miss Michigan 2023Maya Schuhknecht shared her passion for the arts through her social impact initiative, “Art For All"
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Professor receives award for vote campaignKelly Salchow MacArthur is the 2023 recipient of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID)
Quilt gives peek into Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhoodA recently discovered quilt is providing a peek into what life in Black Bottom was like more than 50 years ago.
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Afrofuturism explored in new documentary by MSU ProfessorsChampioned by artists, scholars, and activists around the world, Afrofuturism offers a tool kit for a better tomorrow.
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$1 Million MSUFCU gift brings music dreams to lifeThe Detroit Regional Engagement and Access to Music Endowment (MSUFCU DREAM Fund) supports the MSU Community Music School in Detroit