Riverbank Arts is a community-centered space for creatives, community members, and academics to develop and find support for artistic and cultural production in Flint.
We welcome all creators and supporters of art and culture to connect and collaborate.
Riverbank Arts is an initiative of the Arts+Culture Research Cluster at The University of Michigan Flint, and is supported by the Office of Research and Economic Development, the Arts Initiative, and the Community Foundation of Greater Flint.
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Riverbank Arts is a community-centered space for creatives, community members, and academics to develop and find support for artistic and cultural production in Flint.
We welcome all creators and supporters of art and culture to connect and collaborate.
Riverbank Arts is an initiative of the Arts+Culture Research Cluster at The University of Michigan Flint, and is supported by the Office of Research and Economic Development.
UMS / UMF Artist-in Residence
Photo Credit: Flint Institute of Arts
The University Musical Society and the Arts + Culture Research Cluster at the University of Michigan-Flint is pleased to welcome Janice McCoy as this season’s Flint Artist in Residence. As an artist, Janice seeks to create dialogue between people and the natural world, using flora, fauna, and man-made objects as visual symbols driving dramatic storylines.
Born and raised in Michigan, her fine art studio focuses on drawing, printmaking, painting, and the intersectionality between these practices. Janice attended the University of Michigan-Flint from 2012-18 and holds two degrees in Visual Arts Education (BS) and General Studio Art (BFA). She currently works full-time at the Flint Institute of Art Museum + Art School as the 2-D Programs Manager and is an active member of the Buckham Fine Arts Project.
Janice hopes that her residency will bring attention to the necessity of creative work as part of being human, especially in her exploration of the Flint community and landscape and her education on the process and power of printmaking.
Read an interview with Janice about her work here.
Photo Credit: Katy Meininger
The University Musical Society and the Arts + Culture Research Cluster at the University of Michigan-Flint is pleased to welcome Anthony Feimster, better known by his stage name Feimstro, as the 2023-24 UM-Flint Artist in Residence. Feimster is a Flint-based pianist, vocalist, and composer who hopes to use his residency to collaborate with musicians and other artists to create new work. On Friday, November 3, Feimster will release an acoustic version of his 2022 album, Nina, recorded in live performance in early October, that takes inspiration from legendary singer/songwriter Nina Simone.
Read an interview with Anthony about his work here.
Photo Credit: My Proulx
The University Musical Society and the Arts + Culture Research Cluster at the University of Michigan-Flint are delighted to announce Ash Arder, Flint native and transdisciplinary artist, as the selected 2021-23 Flint-area artist in residence.
Arder’s artistry and research interrogate viewers’ own proximity to and participation in social and climate justice issues. Through highlighting moments of tension where she finds ruptures in empathy between living entities and the objects and space surrounding them, she hopes to shed insight on the conditions causing these “relational glitches.” Her work exposes, deconstructs, manipulates, or reconfigures physical and conceptual systems while intimately examining the relationship between humans and more-than-humans through sound, sculpture, installation, literary and moving-image works.
Ash Arder will develop a new body of work incorporating sound and sculpture, which explores relationships between music, storytelling and place. As the artist in residence, Arder will engage with the UM-Flint campus and community for the duration of the academic year, facilitating and leading on-campus workshops, artist talks, and community engagement activities while collaborating and mentoring emerging artists.
Read an interview with Ash about their work here.
This residency, funded in part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, seeks to bring artists to UM-Flint to center the creation of art in the campus experience. Through this residency, UMS and UMF seek to:
For more information and to apply, visit:
https://ums.org/education/university-programs/flint-artist-in-residence-program/
- Support an artist in developing new work in Flint
- Share the artistic creative practice with UM-Flint students, faculty, and staff
- Forge interdisciplinary connections between the artist’s practice and various academic units on campus
- Provide opportunities for interaction and exchange between UM-Flint and the wider community of Flint-area artists and residents
For more information and to apply, visit:
https://ums.org/education/university-programs/flint-artist-in-residence-program/