UM arts and culture

With more than 100 events this year, UM is excited to welcome you back to campus. Come, immerse yourself in arts and culture.

Edited black and white photo showing an open hand with smoke descending from the top of the index finger. Inside the smoke are faint images of different people's faces.

The Undead Archive – opens September 21, 2023

The exhibition "The Undead Archive" and the accompanying anthology "The Art of Ectoplasm" will contextualize séance photographs from an art historical point of view, revealing attitudes to science and religion after the 1919 pandemic.

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Experience music, art, theatre, writing and design that inspires

Take in art exhibitions featuring world-renowned artists and curators at the School of Art Gallery. Enjoy exhilarating musical performances by award-winning students and faculty in the Desautels Faculty of Music. Be transported to another world through UM Theatre Program productions from the Faculty of Arts. Let design inspire you in the Faculty of Architecture. Feed your creativity in a writing workshop or at a literary event.

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On now: Everything in its Place: Useful and beautiful objects from the collection of Dalnavert Museum

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Willow branches, wrapped and tied together to form a circle, stretching animal hide with paint handprints on it.
Several airbrushed paintings of various animals, plants, and symbols on display.
Six gallery paintings on paper, hung like clothing on a washing line, on two cords with wooden clothes pins strung along the exhibition wall.
A large leaf on a counter top with three paint rollers and two bottles of paint behind. These items will be used to create prints of the leaf on paper.
Plant art prints, hung like clothing on a washing line, on two cords with wooden clothes pins strung along the exhibition wall.
Dried wildflowers arranged in a bundle and pinned to a board. There is a thin rainbow ribbon running horizontally along the bottom of the board. Hanging vertically from the bottom of the board are two ribbons: on blue and one pink.

Kiskithihta Mīthokwesowin

Art is a gift we can give ourselves, our communities, and future generations. A powerful means of self-expression and communication, art gives form to ideas and can help us imagine new ways of being.

As we engage in the process of reconciliation, we recognize that Indigenous art is a particularly valuable gift, able to transmit stories and share perspectives that will collectively lead us to a more equitable and sustainable decolonial future. Hosted throughout Summer 2023, the outreach program, Kiskithihta Mīthokwesowin: Discovering our Gifts sought to inspire and activate the next generation of Indigenous artists, encouraging them to share their valuable insights through the gift of art.