Below are some of the broader arts groups on campus. These groups often engage in work across many disciplines, and you'll likely find them under another sub-group tab as well!
Email: thecreativesofcolor@umich.edu
Instagram: @coc_umich
Focus/Mission: Our organization is devoted to bridging a gap between artists of color and giving a platform to ALL creative fields. We wholeheartedly believes that our work is creating value for black creatives and the future generations of children who want to pursue careers in the field of art or technology. We are creating a community that draws people together who would otherwise not be engaged in constructive social activity, fostering trust between participants and thereby increasing their generalized trust of others, providing an experience of collective efficacy and civic engagement, instilling a sense of pride within our members’ work, increasing their sense of connection to the community, providing an experience for participants to learn technical and interpersonal skills important for collective organizing, and also increasing the scope of individuals’ social networks. Our project has implications that range from intrapersonal, to community-building, to a bridge between creatives of color across the globe.
Email: hopelesslyellow@gmail.com
Instagram: @hopelesslyellow
Main Contact: Tres: Phoebe Spar
Focus/Mission: Hopelessly Yellow is a digital brand that highlights mental wellness and positivity through writing, art, music, and media. In a world that, at times, feels hopeless, learning to love the littlest joys makes life feel more full…More yellow. Hopelessly Yellow is a feeling, a mindset, and a community: it is a golden lifestyle.
Email: umstampsincolor@umich.edu
Instagram: @umich_sic
Main Contact: Co - Presdient: Leilani Baylis-Washington and Jordyn Hardy
Focus/Mission: We are a group of artists, designers, and creatives of color whose mission is to increase the creative, social, and professional opportunities for students, graduates, and faculty of color at the Stamps School of Art and Design. We aim to connect members with professionals of color while fostering the creative growth and personal development of the minority communities of Stamps through lectures, meetings, exhibits, excursions, community service, artistic and visual activism in times of social injustice, as well as through projects that will engage the greater University with the Stamps School of Art and Design. We strive to provide a space to delve into and react to diverse topics, entertainment, and endeavors pertaining to issues of race and ethnicity as well as intersections with other social identities.
instagram: @thedrslaboratory
Email: donovaro@umich.edu
Main Contact: Donovan Rogers
Focus/Mission: The DR’s Laboratory finds new territory for Black artists on and behind the stage and screen by innovating equitable processes and protocols that inform our development of authentic, Black productions. We advance Black liberation research to divest from prejudices within performance, discover new solutions to exploitation in entertainment, and develop new forms in film and fine arts.
Email: whatthefmagazine@gmail.com, sfiorini@umich.edu
Instagram: @whatthefmagazine
Main Contact: President: Makayla Kelley, Stella Fiorini
Focus/Mission: What the F is an intersectional feminist organization on campus that engages in the fight towards equality in a multitude of ways. Each year, What the F publishes two print magazines that include a wide variety of writing styles, voices, and artistic expression. We also run a podcast and blog where writers and artists can react to more relevant issues at any time. In an effort to build community and activism on campus, we believe it is important to push past the boundaries of what it means to be a traditional publication. As an organization, we hold multiple events throughout the semester that promote discussion, evoke empowerment, and provide an alternative social setting for students. In our writing, our artistic expression, and our events, What the F is dedicated to a form of feminism that values intersectionality and inclusively. We recognize that individuals face oppression through multiple different facets of their identity, whether it be through gender, race, nationality, sexual identity, religion, ability, etc. We aim to support, to heal, and to express ourselves freely. Reach out to whatthefmagazine@gmail.com if you would like to get involved in our community!