Category: News & Publications

Nov 3 event – “Cultural Heritage in Sites and Museums in India: Challenges and Opportunities”

November 3 at 6:30 pm, UM Museum of Art auditorium:  Shraddha Bhatawadekar (South Asian Studies) will discuss India’s repository of cultural heritage preserved in archaeological sites of past communities, monuments, and museums.  Such heritage is threatened by multiple risk factors, but initiatives have begun to...

Artist Talk with Daniel Gonzalez

American Culture’s Border Collective Workshop will focus on the growth and changes in Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico, the U.S. and parts of Latin America.  Day of the Dead is a celebration held on November 1st and 2nd to remember those that...

Oct 23 brown bag – Cell Block Seven Prison Museum

Cell Block Seven operates as a museum within an operating penitentiary and is dedicated to telling the story of the Michigan Department of Corrections.  This presentation will discuss the original goals for the museum, what has been learned in its first year of operation,...

DIA’s former director, Graham Beal, to receive honorary degree from UM

We congratulate Graham Beal, the recently retired director, president and chief executive officer of the Detroit Institute of Arts and currently the Hannah Visiting Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University for the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree that he will be receiving at Winter...