Explore the transformative power of the arts!
Creative Currents, a podcast from the University of Michigan's Arts Initiative, tackles big and small questions at the intersection of art, culture, and society.
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Explore the transformative power of the arts!
Creative Currents, a podcast from the University of Michigan's Arts Initiative, tackles big and small questions at the intersection of art, culture, and society.
Creative Careers Residents Leah Crosby, Kara Roseborough, and sara faraj continue the discussion of their work, creative processes, and upcoming projects.
Creative Careers Residents Leah Crosby, Kara Roseborough, and sara faraj discuss their work, creative processes, and upcoming projects.
Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Pratāp Rughani, discusses his latest film installation and exhibition: Impossible Conversations.
Makeda Easter discusses her project “Making It: $napshots from the Artist Pay Project,” an anonymous journalistic series that explores how artists navigate financial realities.
Dive into the inspiring journey of two talented University of Michigan graduates—Anna Baumgarten '15, writer and director, and Danny Mooney '08, producer.
ARIA grant recipients Lynne Shankel & Sara Cooper discuss Perpetual Sunshine & The Ghost Girls, a new musical theater work that tackles the exploitation of women workers in the early 20th century.
Philippa Hughes’ "Hey, We Need to Talk!" exhibition embodies the four pillars of flourishing outlined in U-M Professor Jenna Bednar's research—community, sustainability, dignity, and beauty.
Mark Clague walks through the 2024 Election Hub onsite at UMMA with Professors Stephanie Rowden and Hannah Smotrich to discuss the nonpartisan Creative Campus Voting Project.
Andrew Kohler and Jacob Kerzner from the Gershwin Initiative discuss the Gershwin brothers' musical masterpiece, Of Thee I Sing.
As the co-president of the Black Film Society and a multifaceted artist, Lauren Horne shares her journey from small-town Georgia to becoming a leader in Michigan's campus arts community.
Matthew VanBesien, president of the acclaimed University Musical Society (UMS), offers his unique perspective from leading one of the nation's oldest university-based performing arts presenters.
Mark Clague sits down with Christina Olsen, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).
The role of the arts at the University of Michigan and in student learning and research, with President Santa J. Ono.
Sasha Gusikhin, an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan discusses her fascinating and surprisingly common double major…
In our very first episode host Mark Clague speaks with Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas about their work through the Pan-African Creative Exchange.
Professor Rogério Meireles Pinto, artist, scholar, and social worker, discusses his powerful multimedia exhibit, Colorism.