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Giving Blueday 2026!

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University of Michigan Giving Blueday banner for March 18, 2026, with the message “Support that starts here creates what’s next.”
Mark your calendars for Giving Blueday, a 24-hour celebration of giving across the University of Michigan. From 12 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. on March 18, donors are invited to support the programs, spaces, and experiences they love most at Michigan. By giving early to the Duderstadt Center through our Giving

Cultural Experience: How to Decorate Your Dragon

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Artist Zhen Guo stands beside a colorful dragon head sculpture made from recycled materials in the Duderstadt Center Design Lab workshop.
Duderstadt Center Design Lab 1 March 12, 17, 19, 6-9pm This winter semester, the University of Michigan is hosting a semester-long program celebrating the artistry, tradition, and collective spirit of the dragon in Asian culture—an enduring symbol of inclusivity, strength, and courage. Renowned international artist Zhen Guo is collaborating with

Polymer Clay Workshop

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A green poster titled as "Polymer Clay Event"
Duderstadt Center Design Lab 1 March 13, 3-5pm Need a quick break from schoolwork? Join us in Design Lab 1 this Friday for a relaxing afternoon of tea, cocoa, and mini sculpture-making with polymer clay! This event is hosted by Living ArtsEngine, a creative interdisciplinary Michigan Learning Community based in

Intro To Machine Embroidery

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Green background with pictures of a fish, apple, egg, butterfly and musical notes with text.
Duderstadt Center Design Lab 1 Rescheduled for March 12, 4-5:30pm Join us to learn how to make embroidered projects using an embroidery machine! This workshop will teach participants the basics of designing for the embroidery machine and show a demo of the machine in action.

From DC to Pandora: Marc Morisseau’s Journey to Avatar

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A slide deck with Avatar character as background with the title "Design Another Day"
Two weeks ago, Marc Morisseau—former Duderstadt Center trainee and now an Academy Award–winning visual effects producer for Hollywood films and AAA games—joined Professor Melissa Gross’s Kinesiology class for a virtual guest lecture. During the talk, Marc reflected on his early passion for animation and motion capture, developed through training with

Award-Winning M.I.D.E.N Project Featured at Stamps Gallery

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A girl with VR glasses and controller in a space featuring 3D motion.
Fluid Frequencies—a virtual reality project developed by Stamps student Ava Muntner—has been selected for the 2026 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition running from January 30 to February 21 and received an award. Created at M.I.D.E.N (Michigan Immersive Digital Experience Nexus), the project takes advantage of the space’s immersive, location-tracking technology, which adapts

Poster Design Workshop 

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Photo of scattered posters on a grey background.
February 16, 5:00-7:00 pm Design Lab 1 Want to try out graphic design, especially for music related/live entertainment events? Attend this workshop to learn some basic principles and how to improve your workflow. In collaboration with the Michigan Electronic Music Collective.

Material Conversations: A Focus on Glass

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Light Form: cast glass block in green and blue
Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library (AAEL) Wednesday January 28, 12-1pm, Duderstadt Center 2nd Floor Catie Newell, professor of architecture at Taubman College and founding principal of Alibi Studio, will speak about her work exploring the illuminative qualities of glass through form, color, and transparency demonstrated through site-specific works and material

U-M SMTD Alumni Concert Tour in Detroit

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Group photo of seven members of the band
Seven proud alumni of the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance—now performing together as Racing Mount Pleasant—are bringing their multi-city concert tour home to Detroit this January. The band has been gaining momentum following the release of their newest album, Racing Mount Pleasant, which debuted this August under the

Design Lab 1 Wraps Up the Fall Workshop Series

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Materials for the sewing workshop
Last Friday, DC staff member Marjorie Gaber led the final workshop of the semester, “Intro to Sewing”, in Design Lab 1. Participants learned sewing machine basics and simple hand-sewing techniques—and many walked away with their own handmade mini projects to celebrate their new skills. This year, Design Lab 1 hosted

Women of the Kahn Family 

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Black-and-white early 20th-century studio portrait of the Kahn family, showing twelve formally dressed adults posed in two rows, facing the camera.
For anyone who has walked around the University of Michigan campus, they have definitely passed by a building designed by the architect, Albert Kahn. From the grand Hill Auditorium and the Burton Tower behind it, to the beautiful William L. Clements Library, 19 out of 23 Kahn-designed buildings remain on

Meet the New Personal Studio

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Personal studio with green screen, table and cameras.
Located on the first floor of DC, the Personal Studio has been serving as a simple, accessible recording space since 2008. Now, after a major summer renovation, it’s been transformed into a versatile, modern studio built to support everything from solo content creation to webinars, live streams, and broadcasts. One

Material Conversations

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photo of the materials collection with walls of samples.
Materials Collection Duderstadt Center, 2nd floor Noon-1:00 pm On the fourth Tuesday of each month (Nov-Dec and Jan-Mar) the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library (AAEL) hosts Material Conversations, a series to highlight materials research at the University of Michigan.  Three times each semester we invite a materials expert to speak about