Arts MSU Impact

The story of techno music often focuses on a global narrative, overlooking its true origins in Detroit, Michigan

MSU's Department of Theatre staged an intimate, campfire-centered production of The Grown-Ups at Corey Marsh, blending performance with the natural landscape

MSU’s Music Theory faculty are reshaping the curriculum to reflect the diverse voices, styles, and experiences of today’s students

MSU faculty member Geri Alumit Zeldes uses documentary film to reclaim stories long buried by time

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

Ryan Claytor is a trailblazer in comics education whose passion for teaching and talent as an award-winning comics artist and creator is fueled by his love of the expressive medium

Get a peek behind the curtain as a new version of “In Pieces” is brought to life by Michigan State University students working together with Broadway professionals

MSU’s costume design students bring “9 to 5, The Musical” to life with creativity, collaboration, and mentorship

MSU Professor, Safoi Babana-Hampton, amplifies silenced histories of the Francophone Afro-Caribbean world through the voices of artists, historians, and policymakers

Discover how Teresa Dunn’s identity as a Mexican American artist shapes her life, art, and role as a professor at MSU’s College of Arts and Letters

Faculty and students are using theatre and dance to illuminate the effects of climate change through a project in partnership with Bullfrogs Ballet

In a first of its kind partnership, a group of MSU Department of Theatre students and alums recently participated in a reading of a new musical with the Flint Repertory Theatre

Four Spartans – two alums, a faculty member, and a current student – played key roles in a pre-Broadway tryout of the new dance musical, Esther

Two-time Olympic rower Kelly Salchow MacArthur sees a connection between athletics and art in bringing people together

Rodney 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.

MFA Acting Candidate, Oscar Rodriguez Quiroz, receives Varg-Sullivan Graduate Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts.

In Afrofuturism & Quilting exhibition, local and national quilt artists and quilt scholars explore embodied and theoretical connections between Afrofuturism and quilt making.

Through an innovative, interactive approach, the MSU Broad Art Museum encourages new ways to approach art

MSU Professor and Olympian Kelly Salchow MacArthur is once again part of the Olympics, this time leading a community art project.

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.

MSU theatre professors advocate for safety, boundaries, and better storytelling through intimacy direction education

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

Kelly Salchow MacArthur is the 2023 recipient of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID)

Championed by artists, scholars, and activists around the world, Afrofuturism offers a tool kit for a better tomorrow.