This exhibit draws on the riches of the University of Michigan’s Robert Altman archive, including examples of his novel approach to overlapping dialogue, his exploration of movie genres, his use of ensemble casts, and how audiences and critics viewed his work. It includes materials from M*A*S*H, Gosford Park, Nashville, and more. Researched by students from the U-M Department of Screen Arts & Cultures.

Robert Altman is considered one of America's finest directors. His diverse style and range of vision and cinematic approaches is captured in the photographs, papers, letters, drawings and artifacts culled from the thousands of items that comprise The Robert Altman Collection in the Special Collections Library.

For Joanne Leonard, reserving newspaper clippings is something of an urgent task since future generations may know only digital versions of these fragile pages of newspaper. Through the juxtaposition of news images and images in books, Leonard creates a conversation in her photographs between present and past. The pictures she makes, sometimes witty, often poignant, are a form of diary; they reflect her daily observations as she reads the newspaper over morning coffee. Leonard's work has been widely exhibited and published, including exhibition in the San Francisco Museum of Art's Women of Photography, and publication in Janson's History of Art, Gardner's Art Through the Ages, and the Time-Life Library of Photography. She is a distinguished Professor Emeritus at U-M.

When viewing contemporary artist's books, we find alternative bindings and printing methods that often change the form of the traditional codex by altering type or image, shape or structure. For this exhibit, U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design Book Arts Instructor, Barbara Brown, has collected a body of work created by her students who have spent the 2013 winter semester exploring contemporary books and making books as art objects. The following students have work in the show: Ashley Allis, Jessica Costantini, Caili Dalian, Nancy Huynh, Rachel Junker, Janice Lee, Minji Lee, Nina Levin, Corinn Lewis, Rosie Liao, Lyz Luidens, Erica Neuman, Megan Reina, Anna Schulte, Amanda Stimac, Haley Tanasijevich, Diane Thach and Leah Whiteman.

One of the oldest women's professional art organizations in the country, the Athena Art Society began in 1903 at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio to assist and encourage women in all branches of the fine arts. Athena provides local art awards and scholarships for women, and it stimulates local community participation through leadership and partnerships with other art organizations. Their calming representational and abstract images, landscape scenes, and figures evoke memories and feelings, reflecting Visions of Serenity. Members work in all media, including: painting, drawing, pastel, mixed media, photography, ceramics, sculpture, glass and fiber art. Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.

Ann Arbor based Adrienne Kaplan explores the American search for happiness by choosing a day at the beach. Her goal is to transmit this search and achievement through the interplay of the paint and the subject. Her works are semi-representational acrylic paintings on canvas. Kaplan earned her BFA in Studio Art & History from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and her MFA in Printmaking from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She is represented by WSG gallery in Ann Arbor, where she is an active partner and has exhibited her work continuously since 2005.

Casey Blanchard is a monoprint and mixed media artist living in Vermont. During her travels, Blanchard considers no found object too grand or insignificant for expression in the printing medium. She finds the process of monoprinting to be engaging, fluid, unpredictable and fun. It is the mysteries behind the frayed veil, the torn edge and the unspoken word that intrigue her. Blanchard hopes to wake up the viewer's perception, encouraging in them reflection, exploration and a connection to meaning. She uses organic materials in her artwork to help draw people to their natural, healthy and whole state. Blanchard has been involved in arts in healthcare both nationally and internationally.

Missy Orge creates work that is evocative of scientific curiosities and mounted butterflies, with a humor that sneaks up and inspires a much closer look. Her current work focuses on birdpants ̶ tiny, ornithologically correct pants that “could be for backyard visitors who are either fashion-forward or simply chilly in the Michigan winter." She employs traditional craftwork such as quilting, embroidery and beading to produce highly detailed ̶ and decidedly non-traditional ̶ confections that encourage the viewer to consider the possibilities of enticing a chickadee to don a pair of slacks. Making Ann Arbor her home for more than 20 years, she spends her spare time filling bird feeders in the hope that, one day, she can talk a songbird into modeling her creations.

Widely traveled artist Kay Cassill looks for the unusual and the most ordinary views to save in her sketchbook and camera. In her studio, the sketches and photos give rise to watercolor paintings. Whitewashed walls clinging to a cliff and expressive views of a town as seen by a view of a single walkway are details in her paintings that help viewers feel that they were there. Cassill's postgraduate studies include the University of Iowa, the Art Student's League in New York City and the Academe de la Grande in Chaumiere, Paris. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York among others. She maintains a studio on Cape Cod as well as in Michigan.

The American studio glass movement started in 1962 with glass workshops held at the Toledo Museum of Art. The workshops, taught by Harvey Littleton along with scientist Dominick Labino, introduced a small furnace built for working glass that made it possible for artists to work in independent studios. The studio glass movement quickly spread north to Michigan, and in 1982, a decision was made that studio glass would be the focus of the University of Michigan-Dearborn permanent art collection, which is housed at the Alfred Berkowitz Gallery. This exhibition is a portion of that collection, spotlighting studio glass art by major artists working in the medium, including Dominick Labino, Marvin Lipofsky and Richard Ritter.

Reproductive Justice -- the right to have children, not have children, and parent our children in healthy and safe environments -- is a movement and perspective that arose in the 1990s. Articulated and led by women of color with a more encompassing social vision, reproductive justice usually incorporates both a framework of human rights and an awareness of the intersectionality of women’s identities and struggles against sexism, racism, homophobia, and economic marginalization.

This exhibit provides a historical context for the emergence and antecedents of reproductive justice. Given that women's lives have never been reducible to one dimension of their reproductive health, this exhibit traces a longer history of reproductive justice, illustrating many facets of experiences, debates, and policies related to pregnancy, birth, birth control, and raising children.

The exhibit is held in conjunction with the conference, Reproductive Justice: Advocates, Academics, Activists in Ann Arbor, a Michigan Meeting.

El Otro Lado/The Other Side: Struggles for Racial Justice and its Opposition, presented In collaboration with the LSA Winter 2013 Theme Semester, "Understanding Race," presents posters, photographs, archives, books, pamphlets, periodicals, buttons, and other items that illustrate a long history of race-related social protest movements, and that are intended to stimulate conversation and raise awareness about struggles against racism, past and present.

Items on exhibit are from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection, which documents radical and social protest movements from the 19th century to the present. The collection, which is part of the University of Michigan Special Collections Library, is the oldest and largest of its kind, having originated in 1911 when Detroit anarchist and labor activist Joseph Antoine Labadie donated his personal papers to the University of Michigan Library. Today the collection continues to grow, with the addition of both retrospective and contemporary materials.

The exhibit, curated by Julie Herrada with assistance from Daniel Dobras and Cathy Baker, is available during Audubon Room hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-7pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 1-7pm.

People are different. Throughout history, these differences have been a source of community strength and personal identity. They have also been the basis for discrimination and oppression.

The idea of “race” has been used historically to describe these differences and to justify mistreatment of people and even genocide. Today, contemporary scientific understanding of human variation is beginning to challenge “racial” differences, and even challenge the very concept of race.

Race: Are we so different?, developed by the American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota, is the first national exhibition to tell the stories of race from the biological, cultural, and historical points of view. Combining these perspectives offers an unprecedented look at race and racism in the United States. For more information about the exhibit, visit www.UnderstandingRace.org. The traveling Race exhibit has inspired the University of Michigan’s Understanding Race Project, an audience engagement initiative including the campus-wide, winter term Understanding Race Theme Semester, centered in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; participation by all ten public school districts in Washtenaw County; and extensive involvement by community members, nonprofits, government agencies, and other groups.

Museum opens at 12 noon on Sundays

This workshop is designed to introduce participants to SPSS for Windows. It will cover the fundamentals of SPSS, within-case transformations, data management with multiple files, and basic statistics and graphics. Useful for any scholar engaged in quantitative research.

Alisha Wessler’s “Compass” is from the exhibit “Kelsey Contemporaries: Kayla Romberger and Alisha Wessler,” open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday through June 16 at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. The exhibit features the work of Master of Fine Arts students Romberger and Wessler from the School of Art & Design and Museum Studies Program.

Matthaei Botanical Gardens is the venue for this special show of art created by older adults with memory loss and art students working in a variety of materials and media. The exhibit is based on the class created by U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design Associate Professor Anne Mondro. Partnering with the U-M Silver Club mild memory loss program club members, including the newer Elderberry (barely elder) group, students guided the members in art making. The theme of the semester was “Lessons Learned.” Students and club members shared experiences and expertise to create one-of-a-kind works of art. The final result is an art exhibition for the Club Members, care partners and students. This traveling exhibition captures the spirit of creativity and embraces a shared experience.

Sponsored by U-M Geriatrics Center, Silver Club Mild Memory Loss Programs; U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design; U-M Alzheimer's Disease Center; and U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum.

Organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Florencia Pita/FP mod explores the provocations and intersections of digital technology, material experimentation, femininity, and ornament in the work of Argentina-born, Los Angeles-based architect and designer Florencia Pita. The exhibition and its related publication, part of the UMMA Books series, trace the evolution of Pita's design ideology through installation pieces, urban design, tableware, furniture, and architecture, as well as small adornments. Pita's boldly colored works draw from literary, art, and biological sources; employ cutting-edge architectural fabrication techniques; and cross borders of visual art, architecture, and design.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, Laura Lynch and Hugh McPherson, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Additional generous support is provided by Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

The Clements Library never stops adding to its collections of primary source material. Already one of the finest American history research libraries in the world, its curators are always seeking new items to improve traditional strengths of the collection or to support new perspectives on the study of America before 1900. This exhibit features recent acquisitions of the Book, Manuscripts, Map, and Graphics divisions and shows how they fit in to the Clements overall collections.

This study group will do a close reading and discussion of “The Iliad”, using the Robert Fagles translation. We will spend some time looking at the forms and devices of epic poetry, but our main focus will be on Homer’s characters, and what they tell us about life, death, and war. Marilyn Scott was a lecturer in classics and great books at the University of Michigan and taught Latin and English literature at Community High School.

Participants spend 10-15 minutes discussing the previous week’s events. They will be asked to present an item of interest, which is then discussed by the group. All opinions are welcome.

Class continues Tuesdays, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. September 4 - July 30 at TSRC. Facilitator: Irma Sklenar.

On Tuesday, May 21 from 6 – 8 p.m., the University of Michigan Detroit Center in partnership with the Detroit Techno Foundation and Paxahau is proud to present, Detroit Techno: Music That Influenced the World. Open to the general public, this event includes complimentary admission, parking and light refreshments for all attendees. Due to limited seating, audience members must register at http://umdetroitcentertechno.eventbrite.com for this event. Your ticket is required for admission on the evening of the event.

After the Disco craze of the 1970s, a new form of electronic dance music (EDM) began to emerge during the mid-to-late 1980s. From the city that brought the world Jazz and Motown, Detroit was back at the forefront of a musical revolution with a new sound unlike anything the world had previously heard. This new movement became known as “Techno” and quickly gained a global following.

Through an audio and visual presentation, Detroit Techno: Music That Influenced the World examines the early history of Techno and its Detroit roots, influential artists, technology, evolution of the genre and much more.

Following the presentation, a panel discussion moderated by Tom Newman (Detroit Techno Foundation) will provide an in-depth perspective from some of the most influential people in electronic music.

Panelists for this event include:

• Juan Atkins, Techno pioneer, Producer/DJ • Dan Bell, DJ/Producer • Brendan Gillen (BMG, Ectomorph), DJ/Producer

Moderator:

Tom Newman is the Executive Director of the Detroit Techno Foundation and has managed the main stage of the Movement Festival (Paxahau) in Detroit since 2006. A well-known DJ and Producer in his own right, Tom has been involved with Detroit Techno for more than 20 years. For one of his most recent projects, Tom was commissioned by Ford to create an original track using both analog and digital sounds from the 2013 Ford Fusion.

Panelists:

Juan Atkins, a native Detroiter, learned how to play bass, drums, and guitar at an early age. At age 16, Atkins first heard electronic music on WGPR during a show hosted by DJ Charles "The Electrifying Mojo" Johnson. Atkins, along with high school friends Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson (famously known as the Belleville Three) became heavily influenced by the fledgling genre.

Inspired by the unique sound, Atkins bought his first analogue synthesizer, a Korg MS-10, and began recording with cassette decks and a mixer for overdubs. Along with Derrick May, the pair started performing DJ sets together under the name Deep Space. Atkins and May took their mixes to The Electrifying Mojo, who began to play them on his show in 1981.

Atkins and May, with the addition of Saunderson, went on to form the group, Deep Space Soundworks. This collaboration would also eventually lead to the opening of the Music Institute, a club in downtown Detroit for local DJs to spin and collaborate.

In 1982, Atkins rise to fame continued when he collaborated with fellow DJ and producer, Rick Davis under the group name, Cybotron. The duo released two songs, Clear and Techno City, which are widely credited as two of the most influential tracks in Techno history.

By the late 1980s, Atkins traveled to Britain for the first time and was invited to perform at an event called a "rave." Atkins soon became a staple of London's underground music scene and spread Detroit techno to the rest of Europe through record labels in Belgium and Berlin.

During his career, Atkins has performed under several different stage names including Deep Space Soundworks, Cybotron, Model 500 and Infiniti.

With hundreds of appearances across the world spanning more than three decades, Juan Atkins’ innovative techno sound is still defining the electronic music world today. Dan Bell is a DJ, producer and record label owner/distributor whose impact has been felt around the world. Born in Sacramento, California, Bell grew up outside of Toronto, Canada and later moved to Detroit where he collaborated with Richie Hawtin as Cybersonik on the record label, Plus 8.

In 1991, Bell started his own label, Accelerate, where he released a string of influential releases under the name, DBX. In November 1994, Bell moved behind the scenes and set up 7th City Distribution. At the time, many smaller U.S.-based techno and house labels required distribution overseas and domestically. 7th City was created to fill this void.

In 2000, Bell relocated to Berlin, Germany, and released his first mix CD, The Button-Down Mind of Daniel Bell, on Tresor Records. In 2003, he released The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back on Logistic records.

Although Bell’s career has taken him across the world, it’s never long before he finds his way back to Detroit.

Brenden Gillen is a founding member of the group Ectomorph and brings a unique perspective to Detroit Techno. The group released their first single in 1995 as an attempt to make Detroit music for Detroiters and not exclusively for export.

The group’s early singles led to epic status within the Techno world. A strong underground cult following has continued to develop through releases on their own label, Interdimensional Transmissions. Ectomorph’s live shows are legendary for their ability to fluidly incorporate the improvisational techniques of jazz into their synthesized music.

Outside of the DJ world, Gillen has also worked as an audio engineering and producer. From mastering the first Ghostly projects to producing Wolf Eyes' Sub Pop album, his experience in Detroit’s Techno moment is truly unmatched.

“Pesha's Journey” tells the story, in pictures and words, of Pesha—a Jewish woman born into an orthodox Palestine family who struggled to live a life unfettered by the oppressive bonds of her cultural moment. The photos, taken between 1911 and 1940, trace her early life to her education in Germany and, eventually, her marriage and move to New York with husband Benno, the photographer who took many of these pictures. These images and Pesha’s story were discovered after Benno’s death by his son, Eric Bermann, who co-curated this exhibit.