Clara Hardie, U-M grad and Detroit resident, co-founded Detroit Youth Volume in 2010, a mixed-income Suzuki violin program that offers scholarships and extra support for lower income students seeking classical music training.

Coping with loss during COVID is crushing. But filmmaker Amy Moore, BA ’83, and arts curator Amanda Krugliak, BFA ’84, found joy amid the sorrow. They conceived a whimsical installation in Moore’s home to celebrate its late designer, Lance Lawlor, MFA ’75.

To ease the pain of this musician’s medical journey, his support team at Michigan Medicine connected him to the Gifts of Art program. They fulfilled David Labelle’s wish to play the grand piano in University Hospital before he passed away.

Technology does not inhibit our humanity, says actor Wendell Pierce, co-star of the digital production “Some Old Black Man,” presented this month by UMS. “It actually amplifies our humanity in a different platform.”

Unlike the spotlight-seeking insurrectionists of 2021, Benedict Arnold committed treason in secret. His original, coded correspondence at the William L. Clements Library reveals a far more sophisticated form of treachery than we saw Jan. 6

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.