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By Mary C. Byron, BA. When the U-M NEA Lab team formed our database of public art in Detroit, metadata was used to identify specific traits of certain artworks and the environment that surrounds the...

By Mary C. Byron, BA. Detroit is a city full of murals that help shared messages and impact the way people feel about the areas they live. This is a second installation of featured murals and art...

By Mary C. Byron, BA. The NEA Lab has been building a database of public art works in Detroit to investigate the impacts of public art on the prevalence of firearm violence and crime in the area. A...

By Mary C. Byron, BA. Detroit is a city full of murals that help spread a rich cultural history and reflect a strong sense of community. Here are a few murals from our Detroit Public Art database in...

By Shreya Sampath and Mary C. Byron, BA. Shreya Sampath, a U-M undergraduate student studying Architecture, is a research assistant at the NEA Lab. She spent the Summer of 2023 documenting artworks...

By Mary C. Byron, BA. The NEA Lab’s approach to firearm injury prevention using public art explores practices that are both novel and cutting-edge but also comparable to concepts that have been...

By Skyla Chitwood, BS and Haley Crimmins, MPH. The UM National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Research Lab has begun a study to better establish a link between public art and firearm injury...

By Jane Prophet, PhD. In 2019 NEA Lab PI Jane Prophet worked with Lia New (‘22 Art & Design) to find out more about US artists designers working in response to firearm injury. We found that most...