Arts MSU Impact

MSU is making its mark in Michigan when it comes to investing in the arts as essential to K–12 education

MSU Assistant Professor Tim Conrad received a 2025 Midwest Book Award for his debut short story collection, "The Machine We Trust"

MSU and OCAD University students bridged borders through art, creating portraits that capture identity, place, and friendship in a cross-border collaboration

Learn how blending scientific and artistic research is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible

Summer Circle Theatre is back for its 63rd year, offering free outdoor performances for everyone to enjoy

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

MSU alum and artist Hannah Tizedes is turning art into environmental activism through her Michigan-based nonprofit, The Cleanup Club

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

The 2025 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition highlights the innovative thesis work of three graduating MFA candidates, capping off their three-year creative journey

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

New app-based installation uses music to connect visitors, students and community to MSU’s campus

East Lansing’s only full-color arts and culture magazine, The Current, has received a 2024 MarCom Gold Award

From rural India to MSU, undergraduate Veona Cutinho merges science, art and advocacy to bridge cultures and advance health care equity

MSU Broad education intern and future educator, Emily Slyman, is incorporating art into all subject areas with their students

Morgan Reneé Hill has created an innovative art display to offer a unique immersive experience into the art of Breaking (breakdancing)

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

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.

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.

Meet Abel Korinsky, the inaugural MSUFCU Arts Power Up artist-in-residence

Parallels of the monarch butterfly journey from harvest to higher education

This public art installation spotlights violence against Indigenous women

MSU student Grace Krajewski writes about how her love of the arts impacts her studies in STEM

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

How one MSU alum combined her love of sports and arts into a career

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

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

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.

Alan and Rebecca Ross build on long-standing support for art at MSU

MSU alumnus and MSU Museum Director Devon Akmon talks about serving as a creative “collaboratory” for campus

We often look to the arts to establish relationships with where we live and to one another.

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

Artists are consistently inspired by nature, but the arts also provide new ways of seeing and experiencing the natural world around us.

Michigan State University’s campus is a canvas for sparking new ideas, deepening understanding and cultivating a sense of belonging

Explore the inspiring MSU Broad Art Museum and an exhibition dedicated to boundary-pushing designs from its architect

Beal Botanical Garden staff join MSU Today's Russ White to talk about the garden’s history, present, and sustainable future.

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