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Film Screening: Selections from "A Future Past"

Films curated for Changing Hands 3 by Wanda Nanibush with exhibition curator Ellen Taubman

Indigenous short and experimental videos have exploded in the past decade. This selection of films references the history of colonialism...

Opera in the Arb

An outdoor evening of opera selections sung by University of Michigan School of Music students accompanied by piano. Bring a picnic dinner...

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Carlene Carter

Carlene Carter, daughter of June Carter from her marriage to country star Carl Smith, has been perhaps the most fearless member of the...

Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits

Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography

Crystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of...

Gifts of Art presents A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas

David Howell

David Howell is a cancer physician and artist. He received his Bachelor of Science and Medical Doctorate degrees from the University of...

Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass

Matthew J. Paskiet

Toledo, Ohio and Holland, Michigan artist Matthew J. Paskiet began glassblowing in 1993 at the Toledo Museum of Art. In 2002, he formed...

Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting

CJ Hurley

Portland, Oregon artist CJ Hurley creates paintings and drawings that fall into separate categories of houses, landscapes, flowers and...

Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting

Daria Lvovsky

Daria Lvovsky, a native of the USSR who currently lives in Israel, combines her love of nature with her affinity for maternal scenes in this...

Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board

Elisa R. Boughner

Elisa R. Boughner was born in the United States, raised in Mexico and studied art in America and Europe. Her work reflects the influence of...

Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing

Zahrah Resh

Zahrah loves forms that have circular line; textures fascinate and colors inspire her. My Healing Art, a series of ink drawings, were first...

Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture

Kirsten Lund

Ann Arbor based artist and designer Kirsten Lund received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and works in a variety of media...

Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent

This student-researched exhibit features photographs, storyboards, scripts, props, and more from the archives of the American maverick...

Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait

Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer...

Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both...

Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham

Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented...

Guided Tour: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast

The art in this major traveling exhibition celebrates the richness and diversity of contemporary Native and First Nations art. The artists...