Michigan Muse magazine
Michigan Muse is the SMTD alumni magazine, published twice annually.
All alumni should receive print editions in the mail, unless they have opted out. To register or change your address, please visit the Leaders & Best Alumni & Friends page.
If you have a student, faculty, or alumni update for the next issue, we want to hear from you! Please share your update using our Submission Form.
Spring 2026
Layers of Creativity at SMTD: Conductors, Creators & Music Educators
Creativity abounds at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and it takes many forms. This issue explores just a few modes of creative expression among the school’s performing artists and scholars, taking a closer look at the art of conducting, the mysterious and magical process of creating new works, and the life-changing impact of music education.
This issue was produced exclusively digitally; not available in print or PDF.
Fall 2025
Forever Go Blue: SMTD’s Supportive & Interconnected Alumni Network
This issue of Michigan Muse highlights the strength of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance alumni network, exploring the ways alumni remain connected to each other and to SMTD, and examining the ways the school fosters these lifelong relationships.
Winter 2025
Tomorrow Awaits: Look to the Future, Look to Michigan
This issue of Michigan Muse focuses on the School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s priorities for the Look to Michigan fundraising campaign, launched in October 2024. Those priorities consist of student support, staged productions, buildings and other creative spaces, and career-building resources that will help SMTD students forge sustainable careers.
Winter 2024
21st Century Performing Artists: The Multifaceted Careers of SMTD Alumni
This issue delves into the ways that SMTD helps students prepare for life after college and explores a few of the many different paths alumni pursue. Whether those paths lead to careers within the performing arts or to diverse fields outside the arts, graduates rely on the skills, discipline, and friendships gained at SMTD.
This issue was produced exclusively digitally; not available in print or PDF.
Summer 2023
Community Engagement: SMTD’s Impact Near and Far
This issue explores just a few of the many ways that SMTD students, faculty, staff, and alumni engage with the community. As this issue’s feature articles show, SMTD forms meaningful partnerships with community organizations near and far to ensure that opportunities are available to all to be involved with – and to help shape the future of – the performing arts.
Winter 2023
The Intersection of Technology and the Performing Arts
Feature articles in this issue offer abundant examples of innovation at SMTD, from exciting endeavors in the performing arts technology department to the creative explosion in the art of screendance and so much more.
This issue was produced exclusively digitally; not available in print or PDF.
Archive of past issues
Summer 2022
Leaping into the Unknown: Reflections on Resilience and Adaptability
The feature articles in this issue explore an array of responses to changing and challenging circumstances. Whatever the catalyst for that change, these stories of resilience — on the part of individuals in the SMTD community as well as the School itself — reflect an inspiring ability to persevere, innovate, and reinvent.
Fall 2021
Celebrating the Class of 2021
This issue of Muse celebrates the SMTD Class of 2021 and who they’ve shown themselves to be: strong, passionate, creative, and incredibly talented artists and scholars.