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Students wearing headphones working on laptops to create beats, sounds, poetry, and more.Research Project Reimagines Artmaking
Forms of Freedom: The Art and Design of Black and Indigenous Creative Public Pedagogies is a research collaboration between Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) artist collectives
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Class works in the the 360 Degree Visualization Room, surrounded by images and text related to the women they were studyingStudents Raise Awareness of Monuments Women
An MSU class raises awareness of the women who fought to rescue and return art stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
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Kelly Salchow MacArthur's hands holding a designed poster covering her face, mostly yellow and grey.Professor Receives Award for Vote Campaign
Kelly Salchow MacArthur is the 2023 recipient of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID)
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Blue and white quilt with X patternQuilt Gives Peek into Detroit’s Black Bottom Neighborhood
A recently discovered quilt is providing a peek into what life in Black Bottom was like more than 50 years ago.
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A comic book drawing of a young boy and girl. The girl asks the boy Drawing high schoolers to STEM with plants and creativity
A collaboration between plant and education researchers at MSU is working to transform the relationship students have with science
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Photo of film professor Peter Johnson interviewing Stanford W. CarpenterAfrofuturism Explored in New Documentary by MSU Professors
Championed by artists, scholars, and activists around the world, Afrofuturism offers a tool kit for a better tomorrow.