U-SHAPE, the first ever large-scale study of its kind, aims to understand the habits, attitudes, and perceptions of undergraduate and graduate students related to eating and body image. U-SHAPE is designed to gather important information about the ways in which individual characteristics as well as the campus environment influence students’ relationships with eating, dieting, exercise, and body image, and how these relationships, in turn, fit into a larger picture of student mental health.

The survey opens at 5:00pm on Tuesday, October 2 and closes at 11:59pm on Wednesday, October 24. Students will be RANDOMLY SAMPLED to participate in this important survey!

For all students - Participate in U-SHAPE!

Bright colors, strong edges, and intersecting geometric forms are the hallmarks of Patrick Dengate's current studio work. Drawing from the tradition of 20th century Cubism, Dengate presents paintings and woodcuts with subjects ranging from Utah canyons, Costa Rican towns, busy rail yards, and ships on the Great Lakes. His work is featured in the recently published book Eyes On: Landscapes, a compilation of 50 contemporary painters from around the world. Dengate's work is on display in several corporate collections in Michigan and can be found in private collections across the US, Canada and Europe.

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David C. Turnley is a world renowned photographer, filmmaker, and University of Michigan Alumnus. He received the Pulitzer Prize in photography and filmmaking for his coverage of the Revolutions in 1989, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and Tiananmen Square in China.

In addition, he was twice awarded the World Press Picture of the Year, the prestigious Robert Capa Award for Courage, and four Overseas Press Club Awards.

Don’t miss the unique opportunity to view these twenty-five iconic photographs by David Turnley from October 4th – November 9th in the Gallery of the International Institute in the School of Social Work Building.

Mr. Turnley is also presenting at the International Institute's Symposium "Translating Human Rights: Bodies of Evidence".

After receiving a BFA from Rutgers University, Denise Rohde went on to study photography with renowned photographer Art Sinsabaugh at the University of Illinois. Working for years in a darkroom, the switch to digital allowed her to draw from her painting and printmaking experience. Being able to combine mediums digitally has unleashed her imagination. Denise moved to Ann Arbor eight years ago from Champaign, Illinois, and she has found Michigan to be an "eyeful." Some of her exhibits include the University of Illinois, Roulette NYC, Peachtree Plaza Atlanta and the Kodak Pavilion, Epcot Center.

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Farmington Hills, Michigan artist Gail Rosenbloom Kaplan has a portfolio of work that includes trompe l'oeil clay, glass mosaics, printmaking, mixed media, and most recently, sand art. In addition to local gallery exhibitions and community installations, her work has been displayed through the U.S. Arts and Embassy Program and showcased in Norway, Barbados and Brazil. Kaplan presently works at Children's Hospital in Detroit where she creates art with children and adolescent patients to provide an atmosphere for healing. The Brillo Blox sand art sculpture is comprised of 12 cubes and is designed as a puzzle than can be assembled as an abstract sculpture. These puzzle cubes highlight the different pictures used in the advertising of Brillo over the past 100 years.

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Born and raised in China, Mingshi Huang studied at Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan, where he earned his graduate degrees. Huang travels extensively between the US and China and currently teaches at Nanjing University in Jiangsu Province. Recently, he completed several monumental, museum commissioned sculptures in China. This exhibition is a reminiscence of Huang’s work done while in Ann Arbor. Although his interests spread from representational to expressionist, Huang is rooted in a traditional ground. His figure paintings and landscapes reflect his masterful approach to traditional realism.

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This exhibit features portraits of and stories by Advance Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) who work at the University of Michigan Health System. Stories by these nurses with advanced training overlay their portraits with words. Led by Assistant Professor Laurie Hartman, this collaboration with Gifts of Art shines a spotlight on APRNs, explaining how in their work they conduct evaluations, order and interpret diagnostic tests, deliver various treatments and prescribe medications. Nurses, who tend to treat patients in a holistic manner, viewing humans across the lifespan as biological, psychological, social and spiritual beings, are consistently among the most highly trusted professionals in the nation.

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Thomas and Sarah Gelsanliter are full-time ceramic artists creating unique handmade tiles and pottery at their studio, One Acre Ceramics, located in southeastern Michigan. Thomas received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2002, and his intricate designs are influenced by historical furniture, industrial plate ware, and classic Arts & Crafts and folk art iconography. Sarah is largely self-taught as a potter and spent a year living in Japan, visiting studio potters throughout the country. She throws all of the pottery on the wheel, finishing and assembling each piece when partially dry. A palette of luminous glazes highlight the hand-carved designs and crisp lines, giving each piece a polished, radiant finish.

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This exhibit features origami artists who enjoy folding fractals, tessellations and corrugations out of paper - an area of origami that explores pattern and texture in art and design. Each artist approaches this in their own unique way, and their work highlights the variety and beauty of this little known branch of origami. The artists hail from around the US, and were selected for their expertise and artistry in folding these beautiful patterns. The show was curated by Beth Johnson and includes work by Malachi Brown, Tom Crain, Rebecca Harris, Beth Johnson, Chad Killeen and Ben Parker.

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Call 734-764-0352 for exhibit availability.

The exhibit “Nina Pagalos: The Art of Travel,” presented from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 19-25 in the Warren Robbins Gallery, celebrates the sensory journey of being thrown into a new and undiscovered environment. The gallery is on the second floor of the School of Art & Design.

African Art and the Shape of Time explores how African art gives material form to diverse concepts of temporality, history and memory. African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as expressions of timeless myths and rituals, interrupted only by the colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such conventional views by considering diverse modes for reckoning time and its philosophical, social, and religious significance. The exhibition includes 30 works from the University of Michigan Museum of Art, National Museum of African Art, Fowler Museum at UCLA, as well as several Detroit area private collections, and is organized around five themes that explore the multiplicity of time in Africa: The Beginning of Things, Embodied Time, Moving Through Time, Global Time, and "NOW."

This exhibition is generously supported by the University of Michigan Health System. Additional support provided by the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

This significant exhibition provides glimpses of British America in the 1700s and is designed to complement the Museum's concurrent exhibition "Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire," which features the Clements collection's major painting "The Death of General Wolfe." William L. Clements assembled an outstanding array of primary sources on North America dating between 1492 and 1800, with a heavy emphasis on early European exploration and discovery and the eighteenth-century wars for control of the continent. The exhibition features a mix of rare items from Mr. Clements’s original donation and pieces the Library has acquired since 1923 to complement and enhance its strength in eighteenth-century American history.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776) depicts the death of James Wolfe, the British commander at the 1759 Battle of Quebec during what in this country is known as the French and Indian War. In conflating a momentous contemporary event with the genre of large-scale history painting, West flouted the conventions of academic painting and the work became one of the most celebrated paintings in Britain. The artist went on to produce six versions of the painting, one of which belongs to the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Through approximately 40 works from Michigan, Canadian, and British collections, this ambitious and thematically focused exhibition will include the Clements canvas as well as other depictions of James Wolfe and his death on the battlefield.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Office of the Vice President for Research, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, and THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (of R. & P. Heydon).

The Seoul-based art collaborative, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI) is known for innovative video works that exist at the nexus of visual art and digital literature. Blurring the boundaries between media, technologies, and cultural histories, YHCHI has gained international acclaim for their "net art" productions-mostly black- and-white videos of quickly flashing capitalized text in a generic font with synchronized music. This exhibition will present a newly commissioned piece by UMMA, which will be added to the artists' website, yhchang.com.

This exhibition is generously supported by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, and the Nam Center for Korean Studies. Additional support provided by the Dr. Robert and Janet Miller Fund.

Visitors encountering Danish artist Just’s exhibit will find themselves captivated in stages, as the experience of viewing it unfolds over time. In this breathtaking installation, as in much of his work, Just situates the viewer in his signature landscape of beauty, provocation, and a general uneasiness that is as seductive as it is ominous. The storyline is at once deceptively simple and perplexing: a wheelchair-bound protagonist travels through a neighborhood in the outskirts of Paris to her apartment, while a young male character appears to follow her. Once home, she is able to leave her wheelchair but is overcome by a powerful seizure. One of Just’s unique strengths is his ability to engage the viewer in an open-ended, unresolved narrative in a manner that is more intriguing than frustrating. It is impossible to parse but equally impossible to abandon, and this is the essence of Just’s gift for hypnotic storytelling. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

Are you a grassroots musician? Do you dream of breaking into the music industry?

The Center for Campus Involvement, New Beat Happening, and The Ark are excited to present Music-Con 2012!

A vital part of The Ark’s mission is it’s commitment to discovering and developing new and emerging artists. Music-Con is designed to create opportunities for students in the community to nurture their musical talents, learn about promoting their music,and explore important aspects of the music business first hand. Music-Con 2012

When: Sunday, October 21st, 12:00pm-4:00pm

Where: Michigan Union

Cost: Free to UM students!

The conference will kick off with a Music 101 presentation on all aspects of the music industry by our keynote speaker Eric Morgeson, of Studio A. Students will then be able to choose two different session topics.

Topics will include:

Demo Listening Session Songwriting Workshop How to Get & Promote Gigs A Panel Discussion with Artist Management, Booking Agents, and Musicians How to Write Your Own Contract & Negotiate Show Terms Street Marketing and Utilizing Social Media

Music-Con will finish with a trade show exhibiting local music resources including recording studios, artist management, agents, talent buyers, merchandisers, radio stations and more. The trade show promises to be a great networking opportunity, have live music and some fun swag! All registrations must be submitted by Tuesday, October 16, 2012 by 4p.m. Attendees will also have a chance to win a pair of tickets to an upcoming Ark concert of their choice.

Spots are limited, so be sure to register!

PLEASE NOTE: Registration is only open to UM students.

Registration & More Information: http://campusinvolvement.umich.edu/article/music-con-2012

Travel, an essential activity of human societies, has evolved into an industry with social, economic and environmental impacts. From pilgrimage and exploration to trade and tourism, advances in transportation have enabled new types of travel and created new places, some existing solely for the vacationer. This exhibition highlights changes in travel including information on early pilgrimages, exploration narratives, the grand tour of Europe, women travellers, World’s Fairs, the birth of the family vacation and specialized tourism using maps and narratives from the Library collections.

UMMA's award-winning docents will guide visitors to experience art through active looking at selected highlights of the collections. These general tours provide a good introduction to the collection and to strategies for looking at art through lively and engaging conversation.

Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!

Open to the public!

Cost: $6 (Adults) $4 (UM Faculty and Staff, Students, Youth and Seniors) ($2 additional cost for skate rental)

Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm

The Secular Student Alliance will be meeting in the basement of the State Street Starbucks to hang out, drink coffee and socialize.

Come join us!

A musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, directed by Mark Madama, music direction by Cynthia Kortman Westphal. A compelling story about inspiration - in art and in life. League Ticket Office 734.764.2538

Comic Opera Guild will present Karl Hoschna's 1910 Broadway hit MADAME SHERRY in concert format. The story is a situation comedy set in Paris. Edward Sherry runs a dancing academy, funded by his uncle Theophilus. Edward has sent letters to his uncle describing his wife Eusabia and his children Scholastica and Spaminondas. In reality, he is still single, and doesn’t manage money all that well. When Uncle Theo makes a surprise visit, Edward enlists the aid of his cleaning lady Catherine to play his wife, and his dancing instructor Lulu and her boyfriend Leonardo to play his children.

African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as expressions of timeless myths and rituals, interrupted only by the colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such conventional views by exploring material forms of diverse concepts of temporality, history, and memory. Join UMMA Docents as they discuss the thirty works from UMMA, other museums, and private collections.

Thai film, with subtitles.

PROGRAM: J. S. Bach - Sinfonia nos. 1-8, BWV 787-794; Stravinsky - Second Tableau from Apollon Musagète; Prokofiev - Sonata no. 3 in A Minor, op. 28; Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps Co-Sponsored by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.

The U-M Euphonium and Tuba Ensemble under the direction of Fritz Kaenzig perform seasonal repertoire as well as music from movies, jazz, rock, and classics. PROGRAM: Suppé - Poet and Peasant Overture; Matteson - Spoofy; Sear - Selections From Advanced Duets for Tuba; Michael Jackson Medley; Bach - “Wachet, Auf” from Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 (”Sleepers Wake”); Hendrix - Purple Haze; Duke Ellington Medley; Liszt - Consolation no. 5; Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 NOTE LOCATION CHANGE TO STAMPS AUDITORIUM

Just as the centerpiece of UMMA\&##39;s exhibition “Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire” depicts a meeting of Native and European figures, this concert features compositions from the last 50 years that bring together old and new world cultures in music. Bowling Green State University composition professor (and U-M alumnus) Christopher Dietz conducts his Le Chemin de Salut for soprano and chamber ensemble (featuring Jennifer Goltz, soprano); the Orpheus Singers perform Ariel Ramirez’s celebrated Misa Criolla alongside choral selections by fellow Argentinian composer Carlos Guastavino.

Just as Benjamin West's painting The Death of General Wolfe depicts a meeting of Native and European figures, this concert features compositions from the last fifty years that bring together old and new world cultures in music. Bowling Green State University Composition Professor (and UM alumnus) Christopher Dietz conducts his Le Chemin de Salut for soprano and chamber ensemble (featuring Jennifer Goltz, soprano); the Orpheus Singers perform Ariel Ramirez’s celebrated Misa Criolla alongside choral selections by fellow Argentinian composer Carlos Guastavino.

The SMTD@UMMA performance series is made possible in part by the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Office of the Vice President for Research, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, and THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (of R. & P. Heydon).

“Christine Lavin is wildly entertaining.” -The New Yorker

Christine Lavin, the mischievous singer-songwriter who brought us "Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind" and "Sensitive New Age Guys" is at it again! Says the Washington Post: "Lavin knows how to keep her audience guessing, thinking, and laughing at the same time." Christine has released 21 albums. Her many local fans already know it, but others may not realize that by now she's accumulated a songbag of pointed satirical material that's just about unmatched in its size, breadth, and insight. With the fall elections on the way, get ready for new material from one of America's great comic songwriters, and come see why Billboard raved that "Lavin is as captivating an artist in solo performance as there is today."