• Under the Quiet, Beyond the Eye

    Stamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan.

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  • A Living Language

    The language of the Aztecs lives on in words you use every day, among more than a million speakers, and in a class at LSA that teaches far more than just grammar.

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  • Fighting stage fright with VR

    The University of Michigan’s Piano Lab Pro uses virtual reality to help students decrease music performance anxiety, or MPA, as they create and repeat the live performance experience, gaining comfort with the space, the acoustics of the hall and the challenges of audience distraction.

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  • Michigan Arts Festival

    With over 300 student organizations, more than a dozen galleries and exhibition spaces, a packed performance schedule from the School of Music, Theatre & Dance and beyond, new exhibits at the U-M Museum of Art and other campus museums, there is no shortage of inspiration to be found. The month-long festival is a small snapshot of the endless arts opportunities open to the U-M community.

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  • Art at work

    "We Hold These Truths," Holly Bass’ largest exhibition to date, marks the return of visitors to UMMA’s iconic Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse, following a nearly year-long renovation of its signature marble floor, transforming the storied space into a sequence of encounters with rooms, replicas and acts of writing that move through the nation’s past and present.

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