The Arts Initiative supports ideas across all three campuses, encourages interdisciplinary collaboration, and provides funding opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and units. Our funding programs also support artists near and far, as well as local organizations, through collaborations with units on campus.
The Arts Initiative Project Support (AIPS) grant funding opportunity increases arts access and activity across campus and in the region. AIPS will facilitate and strengthen one or more of these areas: performances and exhibitions; staff and faculty ideas; collaboration; and arts learning for staff, faculty, students, and the public.
The Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration (ARIA) program, a joint effort conceived and funded through a collaboration between the University of Michigan Arts Initiative and the Office of the Vice President of Research, seeks to elevate and expand arts research and creative practice across the University of Michigan’s campuses and schools.
Course Connections funding supports faculty who are seeking to incorporate arts-based learning into the curriculum of any undergraduate course at U-M. These funds may be used for admission to museums and performances, for workshops by visiting artists, and for class projects, such as performances, exhibitions, or publications by your class.
A Graduate Student Arts Research Grant (GSARG) is a monetary grant of up to $3000 to support student-led arts work or research as part of a U-M grad student’s studies. Any current graduate student at U-M can apply for a grant for a project in the arts by themselves or on behalf of a team. Applications are open until October 1st.
Student Mini-Grants are available to undergraduate student groups and individuals to support arts and cultural projects such as exhibitions, performances, concerts, guest-artist visits, site-specific art, workshops, films, festivals and publications.
The U-M Arts Initiative launched this cyclical semester-long visiting artist program to integrate the creative vision and dynamic thinking of artists into our process of engagement and learning.