Arts and culture
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Arts and culture at Wayne State University
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Spotlight on the News: WSU professors on can Jews & Muslims find a shared vision for Jerusalem?
Apr 6, 2018 | In the news -
Wayne State’s College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts celebrates 39th Arts Achievement Awards
Mar 27, 2018 | Press release -
WSU approves $65 million for Hilberry cultural complex, including high-end jazz center
Mar 23, 2018 | In the news -
Wayne State board OKs $65M fine arts complex
Mar 23, 2018 | In the news -
WSU board approves $65 million performance complex for Midtown Detroit
Mar 23, 2018 | Press release -
Smart Cities: Detroit, Michigan
Feb 23, 2018 | In the news
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Art Therapy as an innovative means to resolving issues
Holly Feen has worked as an art therapist for twenty plus years in adult psychiatry, closed head injury, and chemical dependency treatment programs.
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Professor Kelly Jakes takes rhetoric to another note
Kelly Jakes (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) joined the Wayne State communication studies faculty, Fall 2014. Her research focuses broadly on issues pertaining to rhetoric and culture, with special attention to social movements, resistance and music. She examines how marginalized or dissident citizens use verbal and nonverbal discourse to build solidarity, reassign political authority and contest norms of national identity, gender, race and class. Overall, her work combines concepts of subjectivity and performance with the deeply contextualized study of oral communication. Jakes' critically and theoretically informed approach to rhetoric is best reflected in her book project Popular Music and Resistance in Occupied France, 1940-1945.