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$3M Mellon-Funded ‘Creativity in the Time of COVID’ Has Local and Global Impact
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Amaya Aten at a conference with three other students presenting a posterAmaya Aten: Art is Revolutionary
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Mikayla in jean jacket leaning forward looking at yellow flowersMSU Graduate Preserves and Protects Indigenous Culture
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Student Kathrin Poon sews a ruffled color onto a green dressKatherin Poon: Psychology Applied to Clothing
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Portrait of Kelly Salchow MacArthur in MSU rowing fieldhouse.How Do the Olympics Connect People, Athletics, and Art?
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DMA student Tyler Mazone, wearing a grey suit jacket, raises his hand to conduct student musicians.Tyler Mazone: Composing Beyond the Sound
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Photo of Liv Furman wearing black in front of colorful quilt she created.Exploring Connections Within Teaching, Learning, and Quilt Praxis
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Two performers dancingAcross Oceans: Small Island Big Song’s Residency at Wharton Center
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Las Alas Invisibles exhibition recognizes migrant farmworkers
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Photo of red dress with sunlight shining through‘REDress Project’ comes to MSU
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University student lays on a sofa in an outdoor living room set up and throws football in the air.MSU explores intersection of arts and sports
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MSU Museum, Smithsonian partner to preserve work by African American artists
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Professor returns to her native community for 1855 Professorship
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MSU professor Kinitra Brooks asks us to consider who is the monster in horror.How Black horror helps us understand cultural anxieties
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Kota Ezawa, MSU Broad merges sports, art, and social justice
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A photo of a teenager performing on stageThe opportunity of a lifetime with Wharton Center
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Images collected from a photovoice project by Wiba Anung. Photos: Shiloh Maples and Kat JacquesBeyond collaboration at the CoLab Studio
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A comic book drawing of a young boy and girl. The girl asks the boy Drawing high schoolers to STEM with plants and creativity
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Students wearing headphones working on laptops to create beats, sounds, poetry, and more.Research project reimagines artmaking
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Class works in the the 360 Degree Visualization Room, surrounded by images and text related to the women they were studyingStudents raise awareness of monuments women
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Kelly Salchow MacArthur's hands holding a designed poster covering her face, mostly yellow and grey.Professor receives award for vote campaign
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QuiltQuilt gives peek into Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood
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Photo of film professor Peter Johnson interviewing Stanford W. CarpenterAfrofuturism explored in new documentary by MSU Professors
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CMS-D students performing$1 Million MSUFCU gift brings music dreams to life
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