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05/05/2026
Entrepreneurship & Leadership: Celebrating 10 Years
The Department of Entrepreneurship & Leadership and its EXCEL Lab serve as SMTD’s home base for performing arts entrepreneurship, leadership, management and career services.
For ten years, we have envisioned a world where every SMTD student acquires the knowledge, mindset, and skills to realize a meaningful, rewarding, impactful, and sustainable life in the arts.
Scan the QR code below or click the link in the bio to check out the 10 year website!
04/27/2026
🎓SENIOR SENDOFF🎓
“My number one takeaway during my time at SMTD was the importance and impact of collaboration,” writes blog editor and graduating master’s student Casey Boyer. “I am so grateful to be a part of the SMTD community, where I’ve been able to find new ways to break the mold of being a traditional classical violist, as well as cultivate my love for arts administration.” Read more about Casey’s journey as an arts administrator and improvisor at the link in bio!
Hear from Melinda Carlisle, the founder of In the Narrative and another member of this year’s Performing Arts EXCELerator cohort!
The Performing Arts EXCELerator is a semester-long entrepreneurial fellowship program open to all U-M students. EXCELerator Fellows have the opportunity to pitch for significant funding, up to $5,000 and mentorship for their early-stage performing arts ventures.
In the Narrative is a new Voice Competition for High School Singers featuring the vocal music of female and gender diverse composers. In The Narrative encourages and enables young singers and teachers to choose diverse repertoire through the motivation of competition in a fun and encouraging environment. Guiding young singers to become educated in gender diverse music and help write female and gender diverse composers in the narrative.
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