The ARIA Showcase celebrates the breadth and depth of arts research/creative practice at U-M, by recognizing work from the 25+ projects funded through the Arts Research: Incubation and Acceleration (ARIA) grantmaking program over the last two years. A joint effort by the Office of the Vice President of Research and the U-M Arts Initiative, ARIA seeks to elevate and expand arts research and creative practice across the University of Michigan’s campuses and schools by supporting projects centered in the arts that ask creative questions and move toward new ideas and knowledges; invite new forms of collaboration and interaction both within and beyond the arts; and that imagine new approaches to problems and ideas in the arts and society.

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In addition to celebrating all ARIA projects, the panel, moderated by Clare Croft, Faculty Director of Arts Research/Creative Practice, will feature presentations and performances from four ARIA projects:
A book, gallery exhibition, and digital archive, The Heirloom Project (Principal Investigator: Benedicte Boisseron, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Chair, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts);
Public sculpture/water management system, Hygroscopic Envelope: Building enclosures for climate adaptation, Nevada (Principal Investigators: Tszyan Ng, Associate Professor of Architecture, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Wes McGee, Associate Professor of Architecture, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering)
New musical production, Perpetual Sunshine & The Ghost Girls (Principal investigator: Lynne Shankel, Carole Caplan Lonner Professor of Musical Theatre Composition and clinical assistant professor of music, School of Music, Theatre & Dance)
Sculpture exhibition re-thinking the role of caregivers, Tethered (Principal investigator: Anne Mondro, associate professor of art and design, Stamps School)