U-M’s Montage arts portal: China trip reignites international debate about cultural exchange

March 17, 2011
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ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan’s Montage website features the latest news and features about the arts, creative endeavors, collaborative projects and upcoming events. To visit the site, go to www.montage.umich.edu.

This week’s top features on Montage include:

  • Bold Initiative A three-week tour of China in May by U-M music students and faculty comes at a much-needed time for people-to-people diplomacy.
  • Hearts Over the Pacific: The University Musical Society donates part of ticket revenues from its March 24 concert to the Japan earthquake-tsunami relief fund.
  • Timely Partnership: Michigan State University, Wayne State University and the University of Michigan join forces to build an unprecedented collaboration among film students at the schools. The result: A student-produced film, “Appleville,” which premieres March 30 at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
  • Reimagining Film: The Ann Arbor Film Festival pushes boundaries of sensibilities and the medium. The acclaimed international festival begins March 22.
  • Elevating the Role of Arts in Higher Education: Provosts, deans, directors and other faculty and administrative leaders from top-tier research universities across the United States will convene in Ann Arbor May 4-6 to attend a first-of-its-kind meeting on “The Role of Art-Making and the Arts in the Research University.”
  • Fine Art/Practical Use: A dynamic exhibit of five Koran ceramicists opens April 2 at the U-M Museum of Art.
  • Searching for a New Key: U-M’s Mark Clague analyzes the reasons why American orchestras are struggling financially and offers a glimpse of the road ahead, including insightful analysis of the contract dispute at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
  • Wonders of Digitization: U-M Library scanning 1,100 Islamic manuscripts; scholars around world gain access to collection.
  • Lifetime of Creativity: U-M’s Nicholas Delbanco’s new book explores the art of old age.
  • Colossal Fossil: A new whale skeleton exhibit that opens in early April at U-M’s Exhibit Museum of Natural History represents decades of research.