Arts MSU Impact

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.