Arts MSU Impact

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

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

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

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

Understanding the unique combination of academic programs for doctoral student Hailey Becker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The CoLaborator Program at MSU Museum brings together students dedicated to fostering discussions, creativity, and learning.

Parallels of the monarch butterfly journey from harvest to higher education

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

CoLaborator program offering place and space for student success

Senior Apparel and Textile Design majors Abigail Jones and Whitney Howard both earned a trip to New York Fashion Week with their winning designs

A multidisciplinary team of students worked with the Smithsonian to test a new approach to accessible design at the MSU Museum.

The class explores how arts alleviate anxiety and stress and help promote better mental health.

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

A new musical by Department of Theatre Professor Rob Roznowski explores the relationship between the arts and STEM

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

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

Luke Haight, a saxophonist from Clarkston, Michigan, shares insights from his education abroad experience in Israel

MSU students create and exhibit create their own works of art inspired by Greece

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.

Maya Schuhknecht shared her passion for the arts through her social impact initiative, “Art For All"