Arts MSU Impact

Artist and MFA candidate Vadu Rodrigues is using his project Positive Africa to share a more vibrant narrative of the continent

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

158 participants have shared meaningful stories as transgender and nonbinary people

RCAH student Lily Dixon and faculty member Guillermo Delgado are connecting communities of artists inside and outside of the carceral system

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

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

Artist-activist, Vadu Rodrigues is challenging negative perceptions of Africa and Black diaspora through his art and photography

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

Aspiring law student Amaya Aten uses her complementary majors to explore how creativity drives social change

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

Katherin Poon applies her double major in Theatre Design and Psychology in her work in costuming

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

Tyler Mazone is a Deaf and neurodivergent DMA Composition student who knows that music is always a multi-sensory experience

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

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.

Parallels of the monarch butterfly journey from harvest to higher education

This public art installation spotlights violence against Indigenous women

Exhibition and theatre installation show how artists and athletes both shape history and create community

The MSU Museum is a selected participant of the the African American Craft Initiative within the Smithsonian.

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.

The new exhibition shows how artists have depicted sports figures who have used their influence to spark change.

Hear how Wharton Center is increasing access to life-changing performing arts opportunities for high schoolers across the state.

MSU Museum Takes a Co-Curatorial Approach to CoLab Studio Exhibitions.

A collaboration between plant and education researchers at MSU is working to transform the relationship students have with science

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

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

A recently discovered quilt is providing a peek into what life in Black Bottom was like more than 50 years ago.

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

The Detroit Regional Engagement and Access to Music Endowment (MSUFCU DREAM Fund) supports the MSU Community Music School in Detroit