Actor Wendell Pierce joins UMS production that offers a new way of imagining live theater in a lingering pandemic that has shuttered in-person arts experiences nationwide.

Dale and Anne Thomson’s Detroit home recently played host to actors Ray Liotta and Benicio Del Toro, who star in a new Steven Soderbergh film. The picture, which is set in 1950s Detroit, features several area locations.

Detroit artist Sydney James showcases large-scale portraits in a virtual exhibit that repositions society’s narrative of working Black women from “less than or least of” to “deeply valued.”

Adam Brewster, BA ’12, balks at the concept of ‘election fatigue.’ He’s covering the 2020 presidential campaign as a CBS reporter in Iowa, Texas, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

For the first time in its 123-year history, the Michigan Marching Band has gone completely virtual due to COVID-19. Band, take the screen!

U-M’s annual DEI Summit goes virtual with an arts-oriented program Oct. 26. Actor Wendell Pierce (“The Wire,” “Treme”) is a featured speaker; Pierce is participating in the Digital Artist Residency at UMS.

The U-M and Ann Arbor libraries are supporting the U.S. Postal Service in September. Creative ‘mail artists’ are asked to conceive and write a postcard to their future selves, describing this unprecedented time in history. An exhibit will follow.

Just as our world devolves into a dystopia worthy of a comic-book series, award-winning author Saladin Ahmed, ’99, sends two minority superheroes to the rescue.

The coronavirus’ spiky ball tells a story, and if people understood it better they might feel more confident about defeating it, says the scientist who founded U-M’s BioArtography Project.