Mark Clague
Interim Executive Director
Interim Executive Director
Director of Arts Research / Creative Practice
Managing Director
Associate Managing Director
Program Director
Communications Strategist
Program Curator
Program Specialist
Project/Administrative Coordinator
Engagement Coordinator
Your gift to the U-M Arts Initiative will expand access to the arts on campus and beyond, activate them in student learning and integrate the arts into research across disciplines. Your support for the Arts Initiative will strengthen the arts ecosystem of southeast Michigan while also shaping national and global understandings of how the arts can lead social change.
In a cross-campus partnership between the U-M Museum of Art, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, this campus theme semester will reflect on how creativity and making can arise out of oppression and destruction.
Culture Corps will be a cohort of undergraduate students who take a mini-course together and then are placed in paid internships at arts and culture organizations in Southeast Michigan.
The Michigan Monuments Project, in partnership between the University of Michigan Museum of Art, will examine how history gets made and remade through public art, and it will leverage public artistic practice as a catalyst for imagining a more just future for the State of Michigan.