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Arts Initiative Workshops 2026 - 2027

The Arts Initiative is university-wide, and we believe the arts are for everyone. One of our goals is to make creative experiences accessible across all three University of Michigan campuses and beyond by connecting students, faculty, staff, and community members through meaningful artistic opportunities.

Throughout the year, we support hundreds of free or low-cost events, workshops, performances, exhibitions, artist talks, creative wellness programs, and public art experiences. Whether someone has been making art their entire life or is trying something creative for the very first time, there's a place for them here.

We believe that creativity helps us build community, explore new ideas, reduce stress, and connect with one another in meaningful ways. There's no expectation to be an artist when attending our workshops —just come as you are, stay curious, and enjoy the process.



The Art and Tradition of Recipe Cards

Available Seats 20
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Hatcher Graduate Library (Hatcher Gallery)
Michaela Nichelle (Teaching Artist)

Join the Special Collections Research Center and the Arts Initiative for an evening of reading, making, and sharing recipe cards. Attendees will have an opportunity to explore and discuss historic, 20th century family recipe card boxes from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. Then, under the guidance of Arts Initiative Teaching Artist Michaela Nichelle, attendees will turn their hands to carving personal or family stamps to use on recipe cards of their own. Blank recipe cards and historical recipes will be available for use. Before or after the event, stop by the adjacent exhibit in the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room: Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920s and find the commercial recipe cards issued by Monarch Home Service from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.


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