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About University of Michigan Arts & Culture

University of Michigan Arts & Culture (@umicharts) is a College & university creator on Instagram, also filed under Education & Career. The account has 15,944 followers and 2,532 published posts. Recent posts average 79 likes and 1 comment, an engagement rate of 0.44%.

With 15.9K followers, University of Michigan Arts & Culture is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. University of Michigan Arts & Culture follows 4,743 accounts, so the audience is roughly 3.4 times the size of the list followed. University of Michigan Arts & Culture is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files University of Michigan Arts & Culture under College & university, with Education & Career as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for University of Michigan Arts & Culture runs to 15 words across 2 lines. The bio tags #umicharts. The bio mentions @uofmichigan. The latest activity Flinque has on record for University of Michigan Arts & Culture dates from May 2026.

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2,532 Posts

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When Anya Sirota first saw Anima Théâtre perform "Rebetiko" in a Paris suburb, she wasn’t prepared for how much the puppet show would move her.

“The artistry was extraordinary, but what stayed with me was the way migration was rendered,” she says. “Fragile and strong at once. Not as a spectacle, but as a lived condition.”

Sirota is associate dean of academic initiatives and a professor of architecture at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She’s also a refugee to the U.S.

Watching the puppets express grief and vulnerability around themes of displacement was a visceral experience. Through puppetry, the Marseille-based troupe highlighted a humanity often missing from politicized discourse.

“I left thinking about portability,” Sirota says. “What would it mean to bring this work into an American research university — an institution that produces knowledge about migration, policy, and borders, but is often insulated from their emotional reality?”

Through a collaboration between Taubman College and the Arts Initiative, Sirota helped bring "Rebetiko" to the U.S. for its North American debut at the Detroit Institute of Art.

“The performance functioned as common ground,” Sirota said. “It gave us a shared language and demonstrated how the arts can activate collective imagination.”

Learn more about the project at the 🔗 in bio via Michigan Arts Magazine.

#umicharts #umich #ufomichigan #puppetry #puppetshow
The Charles Baird Carillon inside Burton Memorial Tower, one of the Ann Arbor campus's most recognizable musical landmarks, is getting some upgrades 🏫

On Friday, crews began this work by removing 26 of 30 clappers—the swinging metal components inside the carillon bells—with the remaining four, the heaviest of the bunch, being removed in August, just prior to the reinstallation of all new clappers. The heaviest of the remaining four clappers weighs nearly 1,000 pounds and will require a 50-ton rough terrain crane to safely bring it to the ground.

The project is intended to improve playability, reduce the risk of injury for performers, and preserve long-term use.

The Baird Carillon contains 53 bronze bells originally cast by John Taylor & Co. in Loughborough, England. The instrument, housed in Burton Memorial Tower on Ingalls Mall, is the third heaviest carillon in the world. Its largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest weighs just 15 pounds 🔔🔔🔔

“The weight of the current clappers has ruled out the performance of various parts of the carillon repertory, including Richard Giszczak’s virtuosic arrangement of ‘The Victors,’ arranged in 1998 for the Baird Carillon,” said Tiffany Ng, university carillonist since 2015 and associate professor of music in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

“So, we are excited to start playing a fuller range of carillon repertoire for Central Campus in the fall, including ‘The Victors’!”

Get the full story over at The Record via the 🔗 in bio.

#umicharts #umich #uofmichigan #thevictors #carillonist
Not many undergraduate course schedules include classes at both a dance studio and a dissection lab, but for Melissa Gross, PhD, nothing could be more natural 🥼🔬

While majoring in dance as an undergraduate, Gross took electives in anatomy, kinesiology, and biological anthropology. In one graduate-level course, which involved dissecting a cadaver, she realized how her perspective as a dancer yielded completely different insights from the perspectives of her medically- and anthropologically-minded classmates.

Through this artistic lens, and grant funding from the Arts Initiative, Gross developed “Art of Anatomy”—a seven week curricular project bringing together U-M students from various disciplines to explore the interplay between creative expression and the human body. Partnering with art historian Jennifer Gear (PhD ’18) to co-design the course, they printed hundreds of plastic “bones” and let the students get to work 🦴🦴🦴

Read the full story from the Michigan Arts Magazine at the 🔗 in bio.

#umicharts #umich #uofmichigan #artofanatomy
The Inclusive History Project is leading an institutional journey of self-discovery committed to challenging the university's conception of the past and taking action to build a more inclusive present and future.

On May 21 the IHP,, and will co-present the Communities in Conversation (CiC) symposium where participants will work together to re-envision and re-connect archival collections to communities in engaging and ethical ways.

Sessions will feature presentations by unique archives-community collaborations from around the state, and allow for in-depth conversations about how to build and encourage further shared stewardship among Michigan archives.

This symposium is free and open to the public. Check the 🔗 in bio for more details.

📷 description: Attendees at the banquet of the Sixth Annual Convention of the Federation of Islamic Associations in the US & Canada, August 2, 3 & 4, 1957 held in Detroit, MI, 1957. Mary A. Cuardy Photograph. Bentley Historical Library | University of Michigan Library.

#umicharts #historyofUM #UMich #uofmichigan #inclusivehistory
’ 2026 Big Idea Award winner has been announced, and she is on a mission to document the diversity of Chinese typography.

Yueshan Jiang (BFA ​’26) is a Stamps senior specializing in graphic design, publication design, and brand identity, combining traditional and contemporary elements to tell stories through books, posters, infographics, and visual systems.

Growing up in China, Jiang’s interest in design was encouraged by her grandfather, who worked on hand-engraving steel stencils (刻钢板字) for printing. This early exposure to ​“industrial vernacular” typography formed the foundation of her visual sensibility.

Her research-based graphic design system will challenge stereotypical notions of Hanzi (logographic Chinese characters) and highlight the typographic diversity of everyday urban streetscapes. Her goal is to replace ideas based on the red-and-gold and faux-calligraphy of the ​“Chinatown Aesthetic” with a deeper, nuanced understanding.

The Big Idea Award aims to motivate students to develop ambitious aspirations that reflect the values of a Stamps education providing one senior or eligible team with $25,000 to help launch a major, ambitious project after graduation.

Learn more about Jiang’s project at the 🔗 in bio.
Inspired by her teaching residency at the University of Michigan Bio Station in 2023 and her subsequent training as a certified Michigan Naturalist, Leslie Sobel's current exhibit at, "Into the Forest for the Trees" reflects her deep interest in our interconnected ecosystems.

Through painting, printmaking, and mixed media, Sobel explores these systems that shape forest ecosystems.

Drawing on field research and scientific collaboration, Sobel highlights keystone species—from white oaks to beavers—and the often-unseen relationships that sustain life both above and below ground.

Blending materials like encaustic, cyanotype, and found-object assemblage, the work invites a closer look at the complexity—and beauty—of the natural world, with the hope of deepening connection to the environments we depend on.

"Into the Forest for the Trees" is free and open to the public through June 19.
Guess who'll be "in the pink," maize, and blue at University of Michigan Commencement May 2?

Students who meaningfully integrated the arts into their U-M experience.

The U-M Arts Initiative awarded and distributed these magenta Arts Honors Cords, which are a fine accessory to the standard cap and gown.

Congratulations, graduates!!!

Go Blue!

#umicharts #michiganarts
He will be missed!!!

Today's Detroit Free Press celebrates the fantastic career of Jim Burnstein, the soon-to-be-retired professor/screenwriter who created U-M's popular screenwriting program in 1995.

Free Press writer Julie Hinds looks back on the beloved mentor's 30-year legacy at the university in "U-M professor's life story is set partly in Ann Arbor, partly in Hollywood." It's a great read.

Among his many accomplishments, Burnstein wrote the screenplay for 1994's "Renaissance Man," starring Danny DeVito. He is pictured here, back in the day, with the film's director Penny Marshall and producer Sara Colleton. (Image provided by Burnstein.)
You never know what you might hear walking the halls at the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance!

This view through an open door reveals rehearsal by the Telegraph Quartet, now in its second year of a three-year artist residency at SMTD. The members of the quartet — Joseph Maile and Eric Chin (violins), Jeremiah Shaw (cello), and Pei-Ling Lin (viola) — coach student chamber music groups, conduct studio classes or seminars, and offer mentorship sessions to students interested in chamber music careers. While the quartet performs several times each year on campus, the lucky passerby might catch a concert from the hallway...

Here's a little music for your ears:
"Yes, this is a story that needs to be told." -- Director Shavonne Coleman on "Eclipsed."

Congratulations to the University of Michigan's Shavonne Coleman, assistant professor of theatre & drama, currently making her professional directing debut with “Eclipsed" at the Detroit Repertory Theatre.

The drama takes place in Liberia in 2003 during the end of the Second Liberian Civil War. And while war stories usually follow the soldiers in battle, "Eclipsed" focuses on the roles women are forced to play amid such violence and devastation. (Photo Credit: Detroit Repertory Theatre.)

"Eclipsed" runs through May 17. Written by Danai Gurira, best known for her roles in “Black Panther” and “The Walking Dead,” the play made its Broadway debut in 2016, with actress Lupita Nyong’o as part of the cast.

U-M's Coleman, a native Detroiter, also works with Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, where she helps adapt, write, direct and coach youth theater.

Read more at Bridge Detroit:

#umicharts #uofmichigan #umichsmtd #mosaicdetroit #detroitreptheatre

University of Michigan Arts & Culture's engagement

University of Michigan Arts & Culture's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.44%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 227 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 79 to 1, with 79 likes and 1 comment on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.

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University of Michigan Arts & Culture (@umicharts) is a College & university creator on Instagram, also filed under Education & Career. University of Michigan Arts & Culture is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for University of Michigan Arts & Culture runs to 15 words across 2 lines.

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University of Michigan Arts & Culture has 15,944 followers on Instagram (15.9K). University of Michigan Arts & Culture follows 4,743 accounts, so the audience is roughly 3.4 times the size of the list followed. With 2,532 posts published, University of Michigan Arts & Culture's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.

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University of Michigan Arts & Culture's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.44%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 227 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 79 to 1, with 79 likes and 1 comment on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.

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