Archive for June 6th, 2015
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Event Types
Group
- Gifts of Art(7)
- Museum of Natural History(6)
- University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)(5)
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology(3)
- Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum(3)
- University Library(3)
- Center for Japanese Studies(1)
- Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies(1)
- Center for the History of Medicine(1)
- Classical Studies(1)
- Department of Anthropology(1)
- Department of History(1)
- Department of Linguistics(1)
- Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies(1)
- History of Art(1)
- Institute for the Humanities(1)
- International Institute(1)
- Maize Pages Student Organizations(1)
- Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)(1)
- Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design(1)
- Rackham Graduate School(1)
- U-M Office of Research(1)
- Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies(1)
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Magnificent Miniatures
Azalea Bonsai in Bloom at Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Featuring a collection of satsuki azalea bonsai in bloom on loan from renowned Ohio collector and U-M alumnus Melvyn Goldstein. Satsuki...
Hands-On Demo: Marvelous Mendelian Mutants
Have you ever been curious about genes and inheritance? Gregor Mendel was. Over one hundred years ago, he studied pea plants to develop...
Cinetopia: The Snow White Murder Case
Presented by CJS and the Cinetopia International Film Festival
Released in 2014 | 126 minutes | Directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura...
Sketching in the Galleries
Please join us to create your own sketches of the ancient objects found in the exhibition Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's...
Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits
ICSA Nationals
Team Race and Coed Nationals
Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin’s Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures
Phase I
An American artist who lives in Rome, Wendy Artin has been working for over a decade on a series of watercolor paintings of ancient Greek...
Gifts of Art presents Along the Way: Collage on Canvas
Sara Slee Brown
Iowa City artist Sara Slee Brown focuses on using images of natural beauty and man-made buildings to create imaginary scenarios that give...
Gifts of Art presents Big Painted Stuff: Mixed Media
Karl Laub
Karl Laub’s paintings are a mixture of acrylics, watercolors, pastels, molding paste and whatever else he can find to include in his...
Gifts of Art presents Chasing Fotos – Critters
Lynette Curtiss
Lynette Curtiss is an award winning Michigan based artist who has always had a passion for photography. She has used this passion to capture...
Gifts of Art presents Evolution of Rock Getting Wheels
Middy Potter
Ann Arbor artist Middy Potter has creativity at the center of his life. When composing a sculpture, he adds a dash of humor, a bit of...
Gifts of Art presents Pearls, Chains & Silhouettes: Handmade, Industrial & Digital Jewelry
Ashley Buchanan
Drawing on common jewelry motifs and iconic imagery, Ashley Buchanan individually hand-cuts silhouettes from sheet metal using a traditional...
Gifts of Art presents Proof: Encaustic on Wood
Graceann Warn
As she paints and constructs, Graceann Warn’s paintings and assemblages use the metaphor of excavation. Her formal education in landscape...
Gifts of Art presents Transitions: Watercolor on Paper
Maria Ruggiero
The current work of Ann Arbor based artist Maria Ruggiero focuses on the large and small events in daily life through the genre of still...
Textile Trade Ascendancies
This exhibit features cloth samples, photographs, and maps, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from...
A Thing of the Past
Material Evidence and the Rewriting of the English Middle Ages
A two-day interdisciplinary workshop. Free and open to the public, but please register by May 1 with frenchk@umich.edu....
The Shape of the Universe
This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe, from Einstein's discovery of space-time, through the...
Peony Garden Season in Nichols Arboretum
The Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden is a must-see on the University of Michigan campus each spring. Thousands of blooms in the largest...
The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes, Charity Donation Boxes
This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In...
Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection
For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life...
Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s...
HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
For more than 25 years, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art...
Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters
Exhibition
During World War I, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers, housewives and shipbuilders,...
Sophie Calle: North Pole
Following her mother's death, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North...
Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?
This photography exhibit by Misha Friedman attempts to capture the pervasive culture of corruption in Russia. Friedman explains the photo...
Planetarium: Two Small Pieces of Glass
While attending a local star party, two teenage students learn how the telescope has helped us understand our place in space and how...
Dinosaur Tour!
Free docent-led tours of the dinosaur exhibits every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. for the first 15 people to sign up. Sign up at the host...
Planetarium: Back to the Moon
Narrated by Tim Allen (voice of Buzz Lightyear), this is a behind-the-scenes feature on the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE, the largest...
Hands-On Demo: Marvelous Mendelian Mutants
Have you ever been curious about genes and inheritance? Gregor Mendel was. Over one hundred years ago, he studied pea plants to develop...
Shakespeare in the Arb 15th Anniversary
Featuring A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare in the Arb turns 15 in '15. Join the Residential College and Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum in...
Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles, one of America's greatest directors of film, theater, radio...