Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/week/2014-07-25/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography (July 25, 2014 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 17714-1203523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 12:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library



Crystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of Natural History, books from the Library's collection, and displays of the equipment used at the X-Ray Crystallography Lab.

UNESCO chose 2014 as the International year of Crystallography because it commemorates two important anniversaries in the study of matter: the centennial of X-ray diffraction, and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals. Both breakthroughs led to subsequent studies in the role of symmetry in matter and the nature of crystalline material. U-M continues this investigation today.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:42:17 -0400 2014-07-25T00:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T23:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition photo of the inside of a geode, courtesy of the U-M Library
Gifts of Art presents A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas (July 25, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17532 17532-1202645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David Howell is a cancer physician and artist. He received his Bachelor of Science and Medical Doctorate degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and is a former faculty member of the U-M Medical School. Howell has been practicing medicine for over 30 years and art for over 50. He received inspiration from the Color Field and Abstract Expressionist artists of the 20th century, impressive humans and human achievement, and the inaugural ArtPrize exhibition held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Howell's work has been on display in three subsequent ArtPrize exhibitions. He resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Columbus, Ohio.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:20:56 -0400 2014-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas
Gifts of Art presents Blue World/Green World: Fiber Art (July 25, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/16937 16937-1199941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Member artists of the Fiber Artists Coalition employ a variety of innovative materials and techniques in the creation of fiber art. The work has a contemporary edge, ranging from representative, to impressionistic, to abstract. The Blue World/Green World collection explores humankind's multifaceted relationship with the natural world. Mining the beauties of field and forest, sea and sky, and mountain and meadow, the work invites experiential reflection on nature's capacity for centering the spirit, healing the soul and cultivating harmony and peace.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:12:59 -0400 2014-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fiber Artists Coalition
Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass (July 25, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17529 17529-1202416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Toledo, Ohio and Holland, Michigan artist Matthew J. Paskiet began glassblowing in 1993 at the Toledo Museum of Art. In 2002, he formed Firenation, ltd., his current glass studio and gallery. For the past five years, he’s also been working in the Ohio Arts Council’s artist in residency program, and he has taught kiln cast glass in schools across Ohio. Traditionally, he works in blown and or off-hand sculpture, leaning towards the abstract. His Conversation series included in this exhibition is an attempt to deal with loss and the fragility of life while realizing the illusion of invincibility from a manmade world.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:07:09 -0400 2014-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass
Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting (July 25, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17533 17533-1202702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Portland, Oregon artist CJ Hurley creates paintings and drawings that fall into separate categories of houses, landscapes, flowers and dreams; each has significance in its association with nature. The paintings are targeted to bring people back to a Romantic mind set, which places humans as a part of nature and not separate nor above it. Hurley’s inspiration for this collection was to evoke, “neo-romantic sentiment regarding nature and humanity’s place in it”. He is a member of the Roycroft Renaissance Master Artisan group, and the mark appears in his work.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:23:30 -0400 2014-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting
Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting (July 25, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17534 17534-1202759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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 unique exhibition of needle felted animal dolls. Lvovsky, who holds an MSc degree in Biology from the University of Belarus, manages to create exceptionally realistic animal dolls made of all natural fibers. Being a mother to her three young daughters, Lvovsky feels the maternal instinct in all mothers is admirable and inspiring.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:25:54 -0400 2014-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Maternity: Needle Felting
Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board (July 25, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17530 17530-1202531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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 each of these cultures, as well as a range of painting styles such as Impressionism, German Expressionism and Cubism. The result is a unique and highly personal style that brings extraordinary vibrancy to often ordinary subjects. She now has a studio in Glenview, Illinois.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:12:11 -0400 2014-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board
Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing (July 25, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17528 17528-1202473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Zahrah loves forms that have circular line; textures fascinate and colors inspire her. My Healing Art, a series of ink drawings, were first created during her recovery from thyroid cancer a few years ago. Ill and filled with distress, fear and helplessness, she could only muster enough energy to draw simple circular shapes and lines. But she soon discovered that the act of drawing these abstract shapes everyday was therapeutic and healing. She found doing the drawings meditative and calming, and for the first time since the terrifying diagnosis, she felt connected, comforted and secure. This very personal body of work tells her story of healing.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:03:45 -0400 2014-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition My Healing Art: Ink Drawing
Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass (July 25, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 15648-1196049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

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Exhibition Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:48:29 -0500 2014-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition UM-Dearborn Permanent Art Collection
Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture (July 25, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17531 17531-1202588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ann Arbor based artist and designer Kirsten Lund received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and works in a variety of media including fiber, painting and printmaking. In this recent series, abstract sewn and crocheted forms are covered in embroidered, beaded and hand-printed imagery. Inspired by patterns in nature, whether anatomical, microscopic or aerial, the elements are related in form and reference point. Rooted in the seductive physicality of traditional craft processes and created with conceptual frameworks, the finished objects exist at the junction of art and craft. Lund has exhibited throughout the country and locally at the Ann Arbor Art Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:18:13 -0400 2014-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent (July 25, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 17220-1203471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This student-researched exhibit features photographs, storyboards, scripts, props, and more from the archives of the American maverick filmmaker John Sayles, director of such films as Lone Star, Matewan, and Brother from Another Planet.

[Note that the Audubon portion of the exhibit closed June 29.)

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:25:00 -0400 2014-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T23:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the John Sayles Archive, U-M Library
Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit (July 25, 2014 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 17503-1202257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Featuring some of the earliest, rarest, most beautiful, or most unusual Dutch and Flemish books and manuscripts held by the University of Michigan Library, items on display come from a collection of materials from The Netherlands and Belgium that is among the strongest in the United States.

Open Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:30:54 -0400 2014-07-25T10:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the book cover of Cruydeboeck by Dodoens, 1554; purchased by U-M in
Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait (July 25, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 18620-1211535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.” Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists.

When a photographer is faced with a subject who is so thoroughly invested in artistic representation, how might this impact his or her own photographic aesthetic? In this suite of remarkable photographs, we witness different manifestations of this phenomenon at work. For example, we see results ranging from the surreal to the seemingly straightforward through encounters between Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman; Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo; and Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. In other cases the photographer intentionally frames the photographic subject alongside the artist’s own work of art so that they become compelling participants in their own painted or sculptural compositions.

This exhibition invites viewers to consider how the difficult task of representing another artist is productively accomplished through the collaborative aesthetic resonances discernable between model and photographer in these portraits.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Health System.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:36:13 -0400 2014-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait
Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast (July 25, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 18621-1211684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both traditional and new media, acknowledging their long and diverse cultural legacies while overtly and simultaneously exploring, and often confronting, the many ongoing issues inherent to their cultural heritage.

This exhibition is the culmination of a decade-long investigation and exploration into fine art created by Indigenous artists from North America, defined by their regional origins. This concluding exhibition of the three-part series presents new work by Native American, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists and designers from the Northeastern and Southeastern regions of the United States and Canada. Curated by Ellen Taubman, this Changing Hands presentation is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA’s installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Native American Studies Program, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:38:35 -0400 2014-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native Nort
Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham (July 25, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 18619-1211435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented the work of David Osler (December 21, 2013–March 30, 2014) and Part 2, the work of Robert Metcalf (April 5–July 13, 2014). The series will culminate on October 5, 2014 with a symposium that will explore the importance of this circle of Ann Arbor-based architects, situating their regional body of domestic work into the larger context of modern architecture in the U.S. that developed on the East Coast and West Coast from the 1930s–1980s. Symposium participants include UMMA Director Joseph Rosa, Head of the University Archives Program at the Bentley Historical Library Nancy Bartlett, Bentley Associate Archivist and Head of Digital Curation Services Nancy Deromedi, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty Claire Zimmerman, Greg Saldaña, Craig Borum, and Robert Beckley.

This exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series, which showcases the renowned and diverse collections of the University of Michigan. This series inaugurates UMMA’s collaboration with the Bentley Historical Library, and is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lead support for Three Michigan Architects is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:33:58 -0400 2014-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham
Hot Club of Detroit (July 25, 2014 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17202 17202-1200538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 25, 2014 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Tonight's show brings musicians who not only revive but enrich the so-called gypsy jazz (the French call it "manouche") of the 1920s. The Hot Club of Detroit are southeastern Michigan's own band of Django Reinhart revivalists. They include Marseilles-born accordionist Julien Labro, who provides a direct link to the French musette style from which French jazz grew. Says Detroit jazz giant James Carter: "The Hot Club of Detroit plays with such reverence and passion. They play with a different level of conviction." The Hot Club has released four albums, including the stylistically varied "Junction," and has appeared on NPR's "Piano Jazz." Get ready for a hot time in the old town tonight!

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Other Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:14:49 -0400 2014-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Other Hot Club of Detroit
Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography (July 26, 2014 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 17714-1203524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 26, 2014 12:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library



Crystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of Natural History, books from the Library's collection, and displays of the equipment used at the X-Ray Crystallography Lab.

UNESCO chose 2014 as the International year of Crystallography because it commemorates two important anniversaries in the study of matter: the centennial of X-ray diffraction, and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals. Both breakthroughs led to subsequent studies in the role of symmetry in matter and the nature of crystalline material. U-M continues this investigation today.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:42:17 -0400 2014-07-26T00:00:00-04:00 2014-07-26T23:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition photo of the inside of a geode, courtesy of the U-M Library
Gifts of Art presents A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas (July 26, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17532 17532-1202646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 26, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David Howell is a cancer physician and artist. He received his Bachelor of Science and Medical Doctorate degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and is a former faculty member of the U-M Medical School. Howell has been practicing medicine for over 30 years and art for over 50. He received inspiration from the Color Field and Abstract Expressionist artists of the 20th century, impressive humans and human achievement, and the inaugural ArtPrize exhibition held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Howell's work has been on display in three subsequent ArtPrize exhibitions. He resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Columbus, Ohio.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:20:56 -0400 2014-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas
Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass (July 26, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17529 17529-1202417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 26, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Toledo, Ohio and Holland, Michigan artist Matthew J. Paskiet began glassblowing in 1993 at the Toledo Museum of Art. In 2002, he formed Firenation, ltd., his current glass studio and gallery. For the past five years, he’s also been working in the Ohio Arts Council’s artist in residency program, and he has taught kiln cast glass in schools across Ohio. Traditionally, he works in blown and or off-hand sculpture, leaning towards the abstract. His Conversation series included in this exhibition is an attempt to deal with loss and the fragility of life while realizing the illusion of invincibility from a manmade world.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:07:09 -0400 2014-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass
Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting (July 26, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17533 17533-1202703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 26, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Portland, Oregon artist CJ Hurley creates paintings and drawings that fall into separate categories of houses, landscapes, flowers and dreams; each has significance in its association with nature. The paintings are targeted to bring people back to a Romantic mind set, which places humans as a part of nature and not separate nor above it. Hurley’s inspiration for this collection was to evoke, “neo-romantic sentiment regarding nature and humanity’s place in it”. He is a member of the Roycroft Renaissance Master Artisan group, and the mark appears in his work.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:23:30 -0400 2014-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting
Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting (July 26, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17534 17534-1202760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 26, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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 unique exhibition of needle felted animal dolls. Lvovsky, who holds an MSc degree in Biology from the University of Belarus, manages to create exceptionally realistic animal dolls made of all natural fibers. Being a mother to her three young daughters, Lvovsky feels the maternal instinct in all mothers is admirable and inspiring.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:25:54 -0400 2014-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Maternity: Needle Felting
Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board (July 26, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17530 17530-1202532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 26, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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 each of these cultures, as well as a range of painting styles such as Impressionism, German Expressionism and Cubism. The result is a unique and highly personal style that brings extraordinary vibrancy to often ordinary subjects. She now has a studio in Glenview, Illinois.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:12:11 -0400 2014-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board
Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing (July 26, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17528 17528-1202474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 26, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Zahrah loves forms that have circular line; textures fascinate and colors inspire her. My Healing Art, a series of ink drawings, were first created during her recovery from thyroid cancer a few years ago. Ill and filled with distress, fear and helplessness, she could only muster enough energy to draw simple circular shapes and lines. But she soon discovered that the act of drawing these abstract shapes everyday was therapeutic and healing. She found doing the drawings meditative and calming, and for the first time since the terrifying diagnosis, she felt connected, comforted and secure. This very personal body of work tells her story of healing.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:03:45 -0400 2014-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition My Healing Art: Ink Drawing
Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture (July 26, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17531 17531-1202589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 26, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ann Arbor based artist and designer Kirsten Lund received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and works in a variety of media including fiber, painting and printmaking. In this recent series, abstract sewn and crocheted forms are covered in embroidered, beaded and hand-printed imagery. Inspired by patterns in nature, whether anatomical, microscopic or aerial, the elements are related in form and reference point. Rooted in the seductive physicality of traditional craft processes and created with conceptual frameworks, the finished objects exist at the junction of art and craft. Lund has exhibited throughout the country and locally at the Ann Arbor Art Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:18:13 -0400 2014-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent (July 26, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 17220-1203472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 26, 2014 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This student-researched exhibit features photographs, storyboards, scripts, props, and more from the archives of the American maverick filmmaker John Sayles, director of such films as Lone Star, Matewan, and Brother from Another Planet.

[Note that the Audubon portion of the exhibit closed June 29.)

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:25:00 -0400 2014-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-26T23:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the John Sayles Archive, U-M Library
Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait (July 26, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 18620-1211536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 26, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.” Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists.

When a photographer is faced with a subject who is so thoroughly invested in artistic representation, how might this impact his or her own photographic aesthetic? In this suite of remarkable photographs, we witness different manifestations of this phenomenon at work. For example, we see results ranging from the surreal to the seemingly straightforward through encounters between Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman; Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo; and Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. In other cases the photographer intentionally frames the photographic subject alongside the artist’s own work of art so that they become compelling participants in their own painted or sculptural compositions.

This exhibition invites viewers to consider how the difficult task of representing another artist is productively accomplished through the collaborative aesthetic resonances discernable between model and photographer in these portraits.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Health System.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:36:13 -0400 2014-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait
Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast (July 26, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 18621-1211685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 26, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both traditional and new media, acknowledging their long and diverse cultural legacies while overtly and simultaneously exploring, and often confronting, the many ongoing issues inherent to their cultural heritage.

This exhibition is the culmination of a decade-long investigation and exploration into fine art created by Indigenous artists from North America, defined by their regional origins. This concluding exhibition of the three-part series presents new work by Native American, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists and designers from the Northeastern and Southeastern regions of the United States and Canada. Curated by Ellen Taubman, this Changing Hands presentation is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA’s installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Native American Studies Program, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:38:35 -0400 2014-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native Nort
Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham (July 26, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 18619-1211436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 26, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented the work of David Osler (December 21, 2013–March 30, 2014) and Part 2, the work of Robert Metcalf (April 5–July 13, 2014). The series will culminate on October 5, 2014 with a symposium that will explore the importance of this circle of Ann Arbor-based architects, situating their regional body of domestic work into the larger context of modern architecture in the U.S. that developed on the East Coast and West Coast from the 1930s–1980s. Symposium participants include UMMA Director Joseph Rosa, Head of the University Archives Program at the Bentley Historical Library Nancy Bartlett, Bentley Associate Archivist and Head of Digital Curation Services Nancy Deromedi, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty Claire Zimmerman, Greg Saldaña, Craig Borum, and Robert Beckley.

This exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series, which showcases the renowned and diverse collections of the University of Michigan. This series inaugurates UMMA’s collaboration with the Bentley Historical Library, and is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lead support for Three Michigan Architects is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:33:58 -0400 2014-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham
An Evening of Rondalla Music (July 26, 2014 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17603 17603-1202866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 26, 2014 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

The University of Michigan Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) and the University of the Philippines Alumni Association of Michigan (UPAAM)
present

“An Evening of Rondalla Music” featuring Michael Dadap (classical guitar) and Tresates Rondalla, with guest U-M artist Grecia Serrano-Navarro.

Pre-concert talk by Christi-Anne Castro “Reconsidering Music and the Performance of Ethnic Identity”


6:30 – Pre-concert talk | 7:00 – Concert

Free and open to the public. Reservations are required due to limited space. Please email Lavinia Mateo at avm1965@gmail.com

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Performance Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:11:13 -0400 2014-07-26T18:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Center for Southeast Asian Studies Performance Rondalla Music concert poster
Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography (July 27, 2014 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 17714-1203525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 12:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library



Crystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of Natural History, books from the Library's collection, and displays of the equipment used at the X-Ray Crystallography Lab.

UNESCO chose 2014 as the International year of Crystallography because it commemorates two important anniversaries in the study of matter: the centennial of X-ray diffraction, and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals. Both breakthroughs led to subsequent studies in the role of symmetry in matter and the nature of crystalline material. U-M continues this investigation today.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:42:17 -0400 2014-07-27T00:00:00-04:00 2014-07-27T23:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition photo of the inside of a geode, courtesy of the U-M Library
Gifts of Art presents A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas (July 27, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17532 17532-1202647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David Howell is a cancer physician and artist. He received his Bachelor of Science and Medical Doctorate degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and is a former faculty member of the U-M Medical School. Howell has been practicing medicine for over 30 years and art for over 50. He received inspiration from the Color Field and Abstract Expressionist artists of the 20th century, impressive humans and human achievement, and the inaugural ArtPrize exhibition held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Howell's work has been on display in three subsequent ArtPrize exhibitions. He resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Columbus, Ohio.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:20:56 -0400 2014-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas
Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass (July 27, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17529 17529-1202418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Toledo, Ohio and Holland, Michigan artist Matthew J. Paskiet began glassblowing in 1993 at the Toledo Museum of Art. In 2002, he formed Firenation, ltd., his current glass studio and gallery. For the past five years, he’s also been working in the Ohio Arts Council’s artist in residency program, and he has taught kiln cast glass in schools across Ohio. Traditionally, he works in blown and or off-hand sculpture, leaning towards the abstract. His Conversation series included in this exhibition is an attempt to deal with loss and the fragility of life while realizing the illusion of invincibility from a manmade world.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:07:09 -0400 2014-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass
Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting (July 27, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17533 17533-1202704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Portland, Oregon artist CJ Hurley creates paintings and drawings that fall into separate categories of houses, landscapes, flowers and dreams; each has significance in its association with nature. The paintings are targeted to bring people back to a Romantic mind set, which places humans as a part of nature and not separate nor above it. Hurley’s inspiration for this collection was to evoke, “neo-romantic sentiment regarding nature and humanity’s place in it”. He is a member of the Roycroft Renaissance Master Artisan group, and the mark appears in his work.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:23:30 -0400 2014-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting
Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting (July 27, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17534 17534-1202761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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 unique exhibition of needle felted animal dolls. Lvovsky, who holds an MSc degree in Biology from the University of Belarus, manages to create exceptionally realistic animal dolls made of all natural fibers. Being a mother to her three young daughters, Lvovsky feels the maternal instinct in all mothers is admirable and inspiring.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:25:54 -0400 2014-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Maternity: Needle Felting
Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board (July 27, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17530 17530-1202533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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 each of these cultures, as well as a range of painting styles such as Impressionism, German Expressionism and Cubism. The result is a unique and highly personal style that brings extraordinary vibrancy to often ordinary subjects. She now has a studio in Glenview, Illinois.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:12:11 -0400 2014-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board
Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing (July 27, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17528 17528-1202475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Zahrah loves forms that have circular line; textures fascinate and colors inspire her. My Healing Art, a series of ink drawings, were first created during her recovery from thyroid cancer a few years ago. Ill and filled with distress, fear and helplessness, she could only muster enough energy to draw simple circular shapes and lines. But she soon discovered that the act of drawing these abstract shapes everyday was therapeutic and healing. She found doing the drawings meditative and calming, and for the first time since the terrifying diagnosis, she felt connected, comforted and secure. This very personal body of work tells her story of healing.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:03:45 -0400 2014-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition My Healing Art: Ink Drawing
Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture (July 27, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17531 17531-1202590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ann Arbor based artist and designer Kirsten Lund received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and works in a variety of media including fiber, painting and printmaking. In this recent series, abstract sewn and crocheted forms are covered in embroidered, beaded and hand-printed imagery. Inspired by patterns in nature, whether anatomical, microscopic or aerial, the elements are related in form and reference point. Rooted in the seductive physicality of traditional craft processes and created with conceptual frameworks, the finished objects exist at the junction of art and craft. Lund has exhibited throughout the country and locally at the Ann Arbor Art Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:18:13 -0400 2014-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent (July 27, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 17220-1203473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This student-researched exhibit features photographs, storyboards, scripts, props, and more from the archives of the American maverick filmmaker John Sayles, director of such films as Lone Star, Matewan, and Brother from Another Planet.

[Note that the Audubon portion of the exhibit closed June 29.)

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:25:00 -0400 2014-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-27T23:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the John Sayles Archive, U-M Library
Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait (July 27, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 18620-1211537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.” Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists.

When a photographer is faced with a subject who is so thoroughly invested in artistic representation, how might this impact his or her own photographic aesthetic? In this suite of remarkable photographs, we witness different manifestations of this phenomenon at work. For example, we see results ranging from the surreal to the seemingly straightforward through encounters between Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman; Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo; and Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. In other cases the photographer intentionally frames the photographic subject alongside the artist’s own work of art so that they become compelling participants in their own painted or sculptural compositions.

This exhibition invites viewers to consider how the difficult task of representing another artist is productively accomplished through the collaborative aesthetic resonances discernable between model and photographer in these portraits.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Health System.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:36:13 -0400 2014-07-27T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait
Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast (July 27, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 18621-1211686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both traditional and new media, acknowledging their long and diverse cultural legacies while overtly and simultaneously exploring, and often confronting, the many ongoing issues inherent to their cultural heritage.

This exhibition is the culmination of a decade-long investigation and exploration into fine art created by Indigenous artists from North America, defined by their regional origins. This concluding exhibition of the three-part series presents new work by Native American, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists and designers from the Northeastern and Southeastern regions of the United States and Canada. Curated by Ellen Taubman, this Changing Hands presentation is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA’s installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Native American Studies Program, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:38:35 -0400 2014-07-27T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native Nort
Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham (July 27, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 18619-1211437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented the work of David Osler (December 21, 2013–March 30, 2014) and Part 2, the work of Robert Metcalf (April 5–July 13, 2014). The series will culminate on October 5, 2014 with a symposium that will explore the importance of this circle of Ann Arbor-based architects, situating their regional body of domestic work into the larger context of modern architecture in the U.S. that developed on the East Coast and West Coast from the 1930s–1980s. Symposium participants include UMMA Director Joseph Rosa, Head of the University Archives Program at the Bentley Historical Library Nancy Bartlett, Bentley Associate Archivist and Head of Digital Curation Services Nancy Deromedi, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty Claire Zimmerman, Greg Saldaña, Craig Borum, and Robert Beckley.

This exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series, which showcases the renowned and diverse collections of the University of Michigan. This series inaugurates UMMA’s collaboration with the Bentley Historical Library, and is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lead support for Three Michigan Architects is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:33:58 -0400 2014-07-27T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham
Guided Tour: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait (July 27, 2014 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17840 17840-1204022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists. UMMA Docents will share this suite of remarkable and entertaining photographs in which we witness the surreal to the seemingly straightforward, to artists becoming compelling participants in their own compositions.

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Other Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:09:27 -0400 2014-07-27T14:00:00-04:00 2014-07-27T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Artistic Impositions
In Conversation: Historical Practices and Contemporary Native Art (July 27, 2014 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17501 17501-1202206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Many of today’s Native artists draw on historical tribal practices for their contemporary art making. In this Conversation, U-M PhD candidate Kristine Ronan will highlight the intersection between the historical and the contemporary in an array of objects from the touring exhibition Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3. Comparing objects from the exhibition to some of UMMA’s permanent collections, we will especially consider how relating the past to the present might serve as political commentary for a number of today’s Native artists.

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please register to secure your place by emailing umma-program-registration@umich.edu.

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation, 3: Contemporary Native Art from the Northeast and Southeast is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA's installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Native American Studies Program, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 20 May 2014 14:03:37 -0400 2014-07-27T15:00:00-04:00 2014-07-27T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Changing Hands
Joel Mabus (July 27, 2014 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17579 17579-1202853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 27, 2014 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Joel Mabus is an award-winning performing songwriter, folksinger, instrumentalist, and teacher. He’s played the seminal folk clubs from Cambridge to Berkeley, and the big folk festivals from Philly to Vancouver, offering wry, funny, and thought provoking songs, plus world-class instrumentals and engaging between-song banter. Joel was heard on the most recent "A Prairie Home Companion: broadcast from Detroit’s Fox Theater, where Garrison Keillor claimed he got the longest applause of anyone in the history of the show. Joel's 23 albums span a 40-year career; the latest is an award-winning clawhammer banjo album, “Pepper’s Ghost & Other Banjo Visitations,” released in the Fall of 2013. “Very quietly and under way too many people’s radar, Joel Mabus has spent the past 25 years building one of the most impressive bodies of work spanning both traditional and contemporary folk music,” says Sing Out!

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Performance Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:06:31 -0400 2014-07-27T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Joel Mabus
Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography (July 28, 2014 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 17714-1203526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 12:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library



Crystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of Natural History, books from the Library's collection, and displays of the equipment used at the X-Ray Crystallography Lab.

UNESCO chose 2014 as the International year of Crystallography because it commemorates two important anniversaries in the study of matter: the centennial of X-ray diffraction, and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals. Both breakthroughs led to subsequent studies in the role of symmetry in matter and the nature of crystalline material. U-M continues this investigation today.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:42:17 -0400 2014-07-28T00:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T23:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition photo of the inside of a geode, courtesy of the U-M Library
Gifts of Art presents A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas (July 28, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17532 17532-1202648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David Howell is a cancer physician and artist. He received his Bachelor of Science and Medical Doctorate degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and is a former faculty member of the U-M Medical School. Howell has been practicing medicine for over 30 years and art for over 50. He received inspiration from the Color Field and Abstract Expressionist artists of the 20th century, impressive humans and human achievement, and the inaugural ArtPrize exhibition held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Howell's work has been on display in three subsequent ArtPrize exhibitions. He resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Columbus, Ohio.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:20:56 -0400 2014-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas
Gifts of Art presents Blue World/Green World: Fiber Art (July 28, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/16937 16937-1199944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Member artists of the Fiber Artists Coalition employ a variety of innovative materials and techniques in the creation of fiber art. The work has a contemporary edge, ranging from representative, to impressionistic, to abstract. The Blue World/Green World collection explores humankind's multifaceted relationship with the natural world. Mining the beauties of field and forest, sea and sky, and mountain and meadow, the work invites experiential reflection on nature's capacity for centering the spirit, healing the soul and cultivating harmony and peace.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:12:59 -0400 2014-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fiber Artists Coalition
Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass (July 28, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17529 17529-1202419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Toledo, Ohio and Holland, Michigan artist Matthew J. Paskiet began glassblowing in 1993 at the Toledo Museum of Art. In 2002, he formed Firenation, ltd., his current glass studio and gallery. For the past five years, he’s also been working in the Ohio Arts Council’s artist in residency program, and he has taught kiln cast glass in schools across Ohio. Traditionally, he works in blown and or off-hand sculpture, leaning towards the abstract. His Conversation series included in this exhibition is an attempt to deal with loss and the fragility of life while realizing the illusion of invincibility from a manmade world.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:07:09 -0400 2014-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass
Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting (July 28, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17533 17533-1202705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Portland, Oregon artist CJ Hurley creates paintings and drawings that fall into separate categories of houses, landscapes, flowers and dreams; each has significance in its association with nature. The paintings are targeted to bring people back to a Romantic mind set, which places humans as a part of nature and not separate nor above it. Hurley’s inspiration for this collection was to evoke, “neo-romantic sentiment regarding nature and humanity’s place in it”. He is a member of the Roycroft Renaissance Master Artisan group, and the mark appears in his work.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:23:30 -0400 2014-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting
Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting (July 28, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17534 17534-1202762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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 unique exhibition of needle felted animal dolls. Lvovsky, who holds an MSc degree in Biology from the University of Belarus, manages to create exceptionally realistic animal dolls made of all natural fibers. Being a mother to her three young daughters, Lvovsky feels the maternal instinct in all mothers is admirable and inspiring.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:25:54 -0400 2014-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Maternity: Needle Felting
Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board (July 28, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17530 17530-1202534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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 each of these cultures, as well as a range of painting styles such as Impressionism, German Expressionism and Cubism. The result is a unique and highly personal style that brings extraordinary vibrancy to often ordinary subjects. She now has a studio in Glenview, Illinois.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:12:11 -0400 2014-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board
Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing (July 28, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17528 17528-1202476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Zahrah loves forms that have circular line; textures fascinate and colors inspire her. My Healing Art, a series of ink drawings, were first created during her recovery from thyroid cancer a few years ago. Ill and filled with distress, fear and helplessness, she could only muster enough energy to draw simple circular shapes and lines. But she soon discovered that the act of drawing these abstract shapes everyday was therapeutic and healing. She found doing the drawings meditative and calming, and for the first time since the terrifying diagnosis, she felt connected, comforted and secure. This very personal body of work tells her story of healing.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:03:45 -0400 2014-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition My Healing Art: Ink Drawing
Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass (July 28, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 15648-1196052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

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Exhibition Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:48:29 -0500 2014-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition UM-Dearborn Permanent Art Collection
Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture (July 28, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17531 17531-1202591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ann Arbor based artist and designer Kirsten Lund received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and works in a variety of media including fiber, painting and printmaking. In this recent series, abstract sewn and crocheted forms are covered in embroidered, beaded and hand-printed imagery. Inspired by patterns in nature, whether anatomical, microscopic or aerial, the elements are related in form and reference point. Rooted in the seductive physicality of traditional craft processes and created with conceptual frameworks, the finished objects exist at the junction of art and craft. Lund has exhibited throughout the country and locally at the Ann Arbor Art Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:18:13 -0400 2014-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent (July 28, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 17220-1203474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This student-researched exhibit features photographs, storyboards, scripts, props, and more from the archives of the American maverick filmmaker John Sayles, director of such films as Lone Star, Matewan, and Brother from Another Planet.

[Note that the Audubon portion of the exhibit closed June 29.)

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:25:00 -0400 2014-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T23:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the John Sayles Archive, U-M Library
Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit (July 28, 2014 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 17503-1202260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Featuring some of the earliest, rarest, most beautiful, or most unusual Dutch and Flemish books and manuscripts held by the University of Michigan Library, items on display come from a collection of materials from The Netherlands and Belgium that is among the strongest in the United States.

Open Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:30:54 -0400 2014-07-28T10:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the book cover of Cruydeboeck by Dodoens, 1554; purchased by U-M in
Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait (July 28, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 18620-1211538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.” Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists.

When a photographer is faced with a subject who is so thoroughly invested in artistic representation, how might this impact his or her own photographic aesthetic? In this suite of remarkable photographs, we witness different manifestations of this phenomenon at work. For example, we see results ranging from the surreal to the seemingly straightforward through encounters between Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman; Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo; and Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. In other cases the photographer intentionally frames the photographic subject alongside the artist’s own work of art so that they become compelling participants in their own painted or sculptural compositions.

This exhibition invites viewers to consider how the difficult task of representing another artist is productively accomplished through the collaborative aesthetic resonances discernable between model and photographer in these portraits.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Health System.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:36:13 -0400 2014-07-28T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait
Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast (July 28, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 18621-1211687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both traditional and new media, acknowledging their long and diverse cultural legacies while overtly and simultaneously exploring, and often confronting, the many ongoing issues inherent to their cultural heritage.

This exhibition is the culmination of a decade-long investigation and exploration into fine art created by Indigenous artists from North America, defined by their regional origins. This concluding exhibition of the three-part series presents new work by Native American, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists and designers from the Northeastern and Southeastern regions of the United States and Canada. Curated by Ellen Taubman, this Changing Hands presentation is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA’s installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Native American Studies Program, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:38:35 -0400 2014-07-28T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native Nort
Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham (July 28, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 18619-1211438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented the work of David Osler (December 21, 2013–March 30, 2014) and Part 2, the work of Robert Metcalf (April 5–July 13, 2014). The series will culminate on October 5, 2014 with a symposium that will explore the importance of this circle of Ann Arbor-based architects, situating their regional body of domestic work into the larger context of modern architecture in the U.S. that developed on the East Coast and West Coast from the 1930s–1980s. Symposium participants include UMMA Director Joseph Rosa, Head of the University Archives Program at the Bentley Historical Library Nancy Bartlett, Bentley Associate Archivist and Head of Digital Curation Services Nancy Deromedi, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty Claire Zimmerman, Greg Saldaña, Craig Borum, and Robert Beckley.

This exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series, which showcases the renowned and diverse collections of the University of Michigan. This series inaugurates UMMA’s collaboration with the Bentley Historical Library, and is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lead support for Three Michigan Architects is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:33:58 -0400 2014-07-28T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham
Summer Bells at Michigan: John Widmann, carillon (July 28, 2014 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17192 17192-1200480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 7:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

city carillonneur, Frederick, Maryland Bring lawn chairs and picnic dinners to Ingalls Mall to enjoy a program of music performed on the third-heaviest carillon in the world. Following each recital, guests are invited to the 10th floor of the tower for a close-up view of the instrument.

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Performance Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:15:02 -0400 2014-07-28T19:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Burton Memorial Tower
Téada (July 28, 2014 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17372 17372-1201933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 28, 2014 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Téada means "strings" in the Irish language. This group revels in the vibrant traditional music of Ireland, playing up its structural intricacies while preserving the timeless energy of traditional reels, jigs, hornpipes, and more. Now firmly established as one of Irish music's leading exponents on the international world music stage, Téada has played major festivals around North America, and in Europe they've drawn crowds of more than 30,000. The band's varied sound draws on the inspiring early recordings of Sligo emigrants who recorded in America in the 1920s era, while also engaging with new compositions by leading traditional composers. In 2012, the band added West Kerry singing legend Séamus Begley to the ranks, bringing a strong stage presence and an intergenerational aspect that has gone down a storm on tour. Téada comes to Michigan with a new album, "Ainneoin na stoirme / In spite of the storm," on the Gael Linn label.

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Performance Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:43:34 -0400 2014-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Téada
Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography (July 29, 2014 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 17714-1203527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 12:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library



Crystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of Natural History, books from the Library's collection, and displays of the equipment used at the X-Ray Crystallography Lab.

UNESCO chose 2014 as the International year of Crystallography because it commemorates two important anniversaries in the study of matter: the centennial of X-ray diffraction, and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals. Both breakthroughs led to subsequent studies in the role of symmetry in matter and the nature of crystalline material. U-M continues this investigation today.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:42:17 -0400 2014-07-29T00:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T23:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition photo of the inside of a geode, courtesy of the U-M Library
Gifts of Art presents A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas (July 29, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17532 17532-1202649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David Howell is a cancer physician and artist. He received his Bachelor of Science and Medical Doctorate degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and is a former faculty member of the U-M Medical School. Howell has been practicing medicine for over 30 years and art for over 50. He received inspiration from the Color Field and Abstract Expressionist artists of the 20th century, impressive humans and human achievement, and the inaugural ArtPrize exhibition held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Howell's work has been on display in three subsequent ArtPrize exhibitions. He resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Columbus, Ohio.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:20:56 -0400 2014-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas
Gifts of Art presents Blue World/Green World: Fiber Art (July 29, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/16937 16937-1199945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Member artists of the Fiber Artists Coalition employ a variety of innovative materials and techniques in the creation of fiber art. The work has a contemporary edge, ranging from representative, to impressionistic, to abstract. The Blue World/Green World collection explores humankind's multifaceted relationship with the natural world. Mining the beauties of field and forest, sea and sky, and mountain and meadow, the work invites experiential reflection on nature's capacity for centering the spirit, healing the soul and cultivating harmony and peace.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:12:59 -0400 2014-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fiber Artists Coalition
Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass (July 29, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17529 17529-1202420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Toledo, Ohio and Holland, Michigan artist Matthew J. Paskiet began glassblowing in 1993 at the Toledo Museum of Art. In 2002, he formed Firenation, ltd., his current glass studio and gallery. For the past five years, he’s also been working in the Ohio Arts Council’s artist in residency program, and he has taught kiln cast glass in schools across Ohio. Traditionally, he works in blown and or off-hand sculpture, leaning towards the abstract. His Conversation series included in this exhibition is an attempt to deal with loss and the fragility of life while realizing the illusion of invincibility from a manmade world.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:07:09 -0400 2014-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass
Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting (July 29, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17533 17533-1202706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Portland, Oregon artist CJ Hurley creates paintings and drawings that fall into separate categories of houses, landscapes, flowers and dreams; each has significance in its association with nature. The paintings are targeted to bring people back to a Romantic mind set, which places humans as a part of nature and not separate nor above it. Hurley’s inspiration for this collection was to evoke, “neo-romantic sentiment regarding nature and humanity’s place in it”. He is a member of the Roycroft Renaissance Master Artisan group, and the mark appears in his work.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:23:30 -0400 2014-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting
Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting (July 29, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17534 17534-1202763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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 unique exhibition of needle felted animal dolls. Lvovsky, who holds an MSc degree in Biology from the University of Belarus, manages to create exceptionally realistic animal dolls made of all natural fibers. Being a mother to her three young daughters, Lvovsky feels the maternal instinct in all mothers is admirable and inspiring.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:25:54 -0400 2014-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Maternity: Needle Felting
Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board (July 29, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17530 17530-1202535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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 each of these cultures, as well as a range of painting styles such as Impressionism, German Expressionism and Cubism. The result is a unique and highly personal style that brings extraordinary vibrancy to often ordinary subjects. She now has a studio in Glenview, Illinois.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:12:11 -0400 2014-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board
Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing (July 29, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17528 17528-1202477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Zahrah loves forms that have circular line; textures fascinate and colors inspire her. My Healing Art, a series of ink drawings, were first created during her recovery from thyroid cancer a few years ago. Ill and filled with distress, fear and helplessness, she could only muster enough energy to draw simple circular shapes and lines. But she soon discovered that the act of drawing these abstract shapes everyday was therapeutic and healing. She found doing the drawings meditative and calming, and for the first time since the terrifying diagnosis, she felt connected, comforted and secure. This very personal body of work tells her story of healing.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:03:45 -0400 2014-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition My Healing Art: Ink Drawing
Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass (July 29, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 15648-1196053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

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Exhibition Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:48:29 -0500 2014-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition UM-Dearborn Permanent Art Collection
Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture (July 29, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17531 17531-1202592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ann Arbor based artist and designer Kirsten Lund received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and works in a variety of media including fiber, painting and printmaking. In this recent series, abstract sewn and crocheted forms are covered in embroidered, beaded and hand-printed imagery. Inspired by patterns in nature, whether anatomical, microscopic or aerial, the elements are related in form and reference point. Rooted in the seductive physicality of traditional craft processes and created with conceptual frameworks, the finished objects exist at the junction of art and craft. Lund has exhibited throughout the country and locally at the Ann Arbor Art Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:18:13 -0400 2014-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent (July 29, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 17220-1203475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This student-researched exhibit features photographs, storyboards, scripts, props, and more from the archives of the American maverick filmmaker John Sayles, director of such films as Lone Star, Matewan, and Brother from Another Planet.

[Note that the Audubon portion of the exhibit closed June 29.)

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:25:00 -0400 2014-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T23:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the John Sayles Archive, U-M Library
Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit (July 29, 2014 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 17503-1202261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Featuring some of the earliest, rarest, most beautiful, or most unusual Dutch and Flemish books and manuscripts held by the University of Michigan Library, items on display come from a collection of materials from The Netherlands and Belgium that is among the strongest in the United States.

Open Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:30:54 -0400 2014-07-29T10:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the book cover of Cruydeboeck by Dodoens, 1554; purchased by U-M in
Eat Smarter: Fresh Produce Series (July 29, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/13785 13785-1202813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 11:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: MHealthy

Fresh, locally grown fruits, vegetables and more, now available here on campus! Visit us at the University Hospital's Courtyard every Tuesday. Eat smarter while supporting U-M's commitment to offering sustainable, locally sourced foods.

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Other Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:36:07 -0400 2014-07-29T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T13:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals MHealthy Other Fresh produce available at the Produce Cart every Thursday. Located in the Towsl
Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait (July 29, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 18620-1211539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.” Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists.

When a photographer is faced with a subject who is so thoroughly invested in artistic representation, how might this impact his or her own photographic aesthetic? In this suite of remarkable photographs, we witness different manifestations of this phenomenon at work. For example, we see results ranging from the surreal to the seemingly straightforward through encounters between Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman; Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo; and Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. In other cases the photographer intentionally frames the photographic subject alongside the artist’s own work of art so that they become compelling participants in their own painted or sculptural compositions.

This exhibition invites viewers to consider how the difficult task of representing another artist is productively accomplished through the collaborative aesthetic resonances discernable between model and photographer in these portraits.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Health System.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:36:13 -0400 2014-07-29T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait
Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast (July 29, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 18621-1211688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both traditional and new media, acknowledging their long and diverse cultural legacies while overtly and simultaneously exploring, and often confronting, the many ongoing issues inherent to their cultural heritage.

This exhibition is the culmination of a decade-long investigation and exploration into fine art created by Indigenous artists from North America, defined by their regional origins. This concluding exhibition of the three-part series presents new work by Native American, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists and designers from the Northeastern and Southeastern regions of the United States and Canada. Curated by Ellen Taubman, this Changing Hands presentation is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA’s installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Native American Studies Program, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:38:35 -0400 2014-07-29T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native Nort
Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham (July 29, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 18619-1211439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented the work of David Osler (December 21, 2013–March 30, 2014) and Part 2, the work of Robert Metcalf (April 5–July 13, 2014). The series will culminate on October 5, 2014 with a symposium that will explore the importance of this circle of Ann Arbor-based architects, situating their regional body of domestic work into the larger context of modern architecture in the U.S. that developed on the East Coast and West Coast from the 1930s–1980s. Symposium participants include UMMA Director Joseph Rosa, Head of the University Archives Program at the Bentley Historical Library Nancy Bartlett, Bentley Associate Archivist and Head of Digital Curation Services Nancy Deromedi, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty Claire Zimmerman, Greg Saldaña, Craig Borum, and Robert Beckley.

This exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series, which showcases the renowned and diverse collections of the University of Michigan. This series inaugurates UMMA’s collaboration with the Bentley Historical Library, and is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lead support for Three Michigan Architects is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:33:58 -0400 2014-07-29T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham
Biological Software Weekly Meeting (July 29, 2014 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17439 17439-1202123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 7:30pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Biological Software

If you're interested in participating in a competition, learning computer programming, and/or creating genetic research software tools, come join us at our weekly meetings in the USB.

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Meeting Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:42:01 -0400 2014-07-29T19:30:00-04:00 2014-07-29T20:30:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building Michigan Biological Software Meeting
Wheeler Brothers (July 29, 2014 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17557 17557-1202837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Formed in Austin, Texas, the Wheeler Brothers have emerged as one of the region's most exciting bands. This five-piece folk-rock ensemble combines the indie vibe of Austin with the lyrical strategies of Texas folk. Brothers Nolan, Tyler, and Patrick Wheeler attended Louisiana State University, where they spent much of their time picking guitars and swapping stories in the barrooms of Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Once back in Austin their magnetic sound was amplified by the addition of lifelong friend and singer/songwriter A.J. Molyneaux and vocalist Nathan Rigney. Each member brings his own ideas and sounds to the group, with styles blending indie rock, blues, and folk. The Wheeler Brothers have been selling out major venues and climbing the charts of radio stations in Austin, the Live Music Capital Of The World, and they share a record label (Bismeaux) with the likes of Willie Nelson, the Texas Tornados, and Asleep at the Wheel. and all in all they're a young band that we're looking forward to big things from!

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Performance Mon, 09 Jun 2014 13:32:53 -0400 2014-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Wheeler Brothers
Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography (July 30, 2014 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 17714-1203528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 12:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library



Crystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of Natural History, books from the Library's collection, and displays of the equipment used at the X-Ray Crystallography Lab.

UNESCO chose 2014 as the International year of Crystallography because it commemorates two important anniversaries in the study of matter: the centennial of X-ray diffraction, and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals. Both breakthroughs led to subsequent studies in the role of symmetry in matter and the nature of crystalline material. U-M continues this investigation today.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:42:17 -0400 2014-07-30T00:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T23:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition photo of the inside of a geode, courtesy of the U-M Library
Gifts of Art presents A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas (July 30, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17532 17532-1202650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David Howell is a cancer physician and artist. He received his Bachelor of Science and Medical Doctorate degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and is a former faculty member of the U-M Medical School. Howell has been practicing medicine for over 30 years and art for over 50. He received inspiration from the Color Field and Abstract Expressionist artists of the 20th century, impressive humans and human achievement, and the inaugural ArtPrize exhibition held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Howell's work has been on display in three subsequent ArtPrize exhibitions. He resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Columbus, Ohio.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:20:56 -0400 2014-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas
Gifts of Art presents Blue World/Green World: Fiber Art (July 30, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/16937 16937-1199946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Member artists of the Fiber Artists Coalition employ a variety of innovative materials and techniques in the creation of fiber art. The work has a contemporary edge, ranging from representative, to impressionistic, to abstract. The Blue World/Green World collection explores humankind's multifaceted relationship with the natural world. Mining the beauties of field and forest, sea and sky, and mountain and meadow, the work invites experiential reflection on nature's capacity for centering the spirit, healing the soul and cultivating harmony and peace.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:12:59 -0400 2014-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fiber Artists Coalition
Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass (July 30, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17529 17529-1202421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Toledo, Ohio and Holland, Michigan artist Matthew J. Paskiet began glassblowing in 1993 at the Toledo Museum of Art. In 2002, he formed Firenation, ltd., his current glass studio and gallery. For the past five years, he’s also been working in the Ohio Arts Council’s artist in residency program, and he has taught kiln cast glass in schools across Ohio. Traditionally, he works in blown and or off-hand sculpture, leaning towards the abstract. His Conversation series included in this exhibition is an attempt to deal with loss and the fragility of life while realizing the illusion of invincibility from a manmade world.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:07:09 -0400 2014-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass
Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting (July 30, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17533 17533-1202707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Portland, Oregon artist CJ Hurley creates paintings and drawings that fall into separate categories of houses, landscapes, flowers and dreams; each has significance in its association with nature. The paintings are targeted to bring people back to a Romantic mind set, which places humans as a part of nature and not separate nor above it. Hurley’s inspiration for this collection was to evoke, “neo-romantic sentiment regarding nature and humanity’s place in it”. He is a member of the Roycroft Renaissance Master Artisan group, and the mark appears in his work.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:23:30 -0400 2014-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting
Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting (July 30, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17534 17534-1202764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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 unique exhibition of needle felted animal dolls. Lvovsky, who holds an MSc degree in Biology from the University of Belarus, manages to create exceptionally realistic animal dolls made of all natural fibers. Being a mother to her three young daughters, Lvovsky feels the maternal instinct in all mothers is admirable and inspiring.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:25:54 -0400 2014-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Maternity: Needle Felting
Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board (July 30, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17530 17530-1202536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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 each of these cultures, as well as a range of painting styles such as Impressionism, German Expressionism and Cubism. The result is a unique and highly personal style that brings extraordinary vibrancy to often ordinary subjects. She now has a studio in Glenview, Illinois.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:12:11 -0400 2014-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board
Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing (July 30, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17528 17528-1202478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Zahrah loves forms that have circular line; textures fascinate and colors inspire her. My Healing Art, a series of ink drawings, were first created during her recovery from thyroid cancer a few years ago. Ill and filled with distress, fear and helplessness, she could only muster enough energy to draw simple circular shapes and lines. But she soon discovered that the act of drawing these abstract shapes everyday was therapeutic and healing. She found doing the drawings meditative and calming, and for the first time since the terrifying diagnosis, she felt connected, comforted and secure. This very personal body of work tells her story of healing.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:03:45 -0400 2014-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition My Healing Art: Ink Drawing
Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass (July 30, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 15648-1196054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

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Exhibition Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:48:29 -0500 2014-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition UM-Dearborn Permanent Art Collection
Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture (July 30, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17531 17531-1202593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ann Arbor based artist and designer Kirsten Lund received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and works in a variety of media including fiber, painting and printmaking. In this recent series, abstract sewn and crocheted forms are covered in embroidered, beaded and hand-printed imagery. Inspired by patterns in nature, whether anatomical, microscopic or aerial, the elements are related in form and reference point. Rooted in the seductive physicality of traditional craft processes and created with conceptual frameworks, the finished objects exist at the junction of art and craft. Lund has exhibited throughout the country and locally at the Ann Arbor Art Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:18:13 -0400 2014-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent (July 30, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 17220-1203476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This student-researched exhibit features photographs, storyboards, scripts, props, and more from the archives of the American maverick filmmaker John Sayles, director of such films as Lone Star, Matewan, and Brother from Another Planet.

[Note that the Audubon portion of the exhibit closed June 29.)

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:25:00 -0400 2014-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T23:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the John Sayles Archive, U-M Library
Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit (July 30, 2014 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 17503-1202262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Featuring some of the earliest, rarest, most beautiful, or most unusual Dutch and Flemish books and manuscripts held by the University of Michigan Library, items on display come from a collection of materials from The Netherlands and Belgium that is among the strongest in the United States.

Open Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:30:54 -0400 2014-07-30T10:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the book cover of Cruydeboeck by Dodoens, 1554; purchased by U-M in
Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait (July 30, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 18620-1211540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.” Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists.

When a photographer is faced with a subject who is so thoroughly invested in artistic representation, how might this impact his or her own photographic aesthetic? In this suite of remarkable photographs, we witness different manifestations of this phenomenon at work. For example, we see results ranging from the surreal to the seemingly straightforward through encounters between Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman; Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo; and Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. In other cases the photographer intentionally frames the photographic subject alongside the artist’s own work of art so that they become compelling participants in their own painted or sculptural compositions.

This exhibition invites viewers to consider how the difficult task of representing another artist is productively accomplished through the collaborative aesthetic resonances discernable between model and photographer in these portraits.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Health System.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:36:13 -0400 2014-07-30T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait
Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast (July 30, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 18621-1211689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both traditional and new media, acknowledging their long and diverse cultural legacies while overtly and simultaneously exploring, and often confronting, the many ongoing issues inherent to their cultural heritage.

This exhibition is the culmination of a decade-long investigation and exploration into fine art created by Indigenous artists from North America, defined by their regional origins. This concluding exhibition of the three-part series presents new work by Native American, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists and designers from the Northeastern and Southeastern regions of the United States and Canada. Curated by Ellen Taubman, this Changing Hands presentation is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA’s installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Native American Studies Program, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:38:35 -0400 2014-07-30T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native Nort
Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham (July 30, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 18619-1211440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented the work of David Osler (December 21, 2013–March 30, 2014) and Part 2, the work of Robert Metcalf (April 5–July 13, 2014). The series will culminate on October 5, 2014 with a symposium that will explore the importance of this circle of Ann Arbor-based architects, situating their regional body of domestic work into the larger context of modern architecture in the U.S. that developed on the East Coast and West Coast from the 1930s–1980s. Symposium participants include UMMA Director Joseph Rosa, Head of the University Archives Program at the Bentley Historical Library Nancy Bartlett, Bentley Associate Archivist and Head of Digital Curation Services Nancy Deromedi, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty Claire Zimmerman, Greg Saldaña, Craig Borum, and Robert Beckley.

This exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series, which showcases the renowned and diverse collections of the University of Michigan. This series inaugurates UMMA’s collaboration with the Bentley Historical Library, and is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lead support for Three Michigan Architects is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:33:58 -0400 2014-07-30T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham
Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography (July 31, 2014 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 17714-1203529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library



Crystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of Natural History, books from the Library's collection, and displays of the equipment used at the X-Ray Crystallography Lab.

UNESCO chose 2014 as the International year of Crystallography because it commemorates two important anniversaries in the study of matter: the centennial of X-ray diffraction, and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals. Both breakthroughs led to subsequent studies in the role of symmetry in matter and the nature of crystalline material. U-M continues this investigation today.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:42:17 -0400 2014-07-31T00:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T23:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition photo of the inside of a geode, courtesy of the U-M Library
Gifts of Art presents A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas (July 31, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17532 17532-1202651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David Howell is a cancer physician and artist. He received his Bachelor of Science and Medical Doctorate degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and is a former faculty member of the U-M Medical School. Howell has been practicing medicine for over 30 years and art for over 50. He received inspiration from the Color Field and Abstract Expressionist artists of the 20th century, impressive humans and human achievement, and the inaugural ArtPrize exhibition held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Howell's work has been on display in three subsequent ArtPrize exhibitions. He resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Columbus, Ohio.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:20:56 -0400 2014-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas
Gifts of Art presents Blue World/Green World: Fiber Art (July 31, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/16937 16937-1199947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Member artists of the Fiber Artists Coalition employ a variety of innovative materials and techniques in the creation of fiber art. The work has a contemporary edge, ranging from representative, to impressionistic, to abstract. The Blue World/Green World collection explores humankind's multifaceted relationship with the natural world. Mining the beauties of field and forest, sea and sky, and mountain and meadow, the work invites experiential reflection on nature's capacity for centering the spirit, healing the soul and cultivating harmony and peace.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:12:59 -0400 2014-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fiber Artists Coalition
Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass (July 31, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17529 17529-1202422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Toledo, Ohio and Holland, Michigan artist Matthew J. Paskiet began glassblowing in 1993 at the Toledo Museum of Art. In 2002, he formed Firenation, ltd., his current glass studio and gallery. For the past five years, he’s also been working in the Ohio Arts Council’s artist in residency program, and he has taught kiln cast glass in schools across Ohio. Traditionally, he works in blown and or off-hand sculpture, leaning towards the abstract. His Conversation series included in this exhibition is an attempt to deal with loss and the fragility of life while realizing the illusion of invincibility from a manmade world.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:07:09 -0400 2014-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass
Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting (July 31, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17533 17533-1202708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Portland, Oregon artist CJ Hurley creates paintings and drawings that fall into separate categories of houses, landscapes, flowers and dreams; each has significance in its association with nature. The paintings are targeted to bring people back to a Romantic mind set, which places humans as a part of nature and not separate nor above it. Hurley’s inspiration for this collection was to evoke, “neo-romantic sentiment regarding nature and humanity’s place in it”. He is a member of the Roycroft Renaissance Master Artisan group, and the mark appears in his work.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:23:30 -0400 2014-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting
Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting (July 31, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17534 17534-1202765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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 unique exhibition of needle felted animal dolls. Lvovsky, who holds an MSc degree in Biology from the University of Belarus, manages to create exceptionally realistic animal dolls made of all natural fibers. Being a mother to her three young daughters, Lvovsky feels the maternal instinct in all mothers is admirable and inspiring.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:25:54 -0400 2014-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Maternity: Needle Felting
Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board (July 31, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17530 17530-1202537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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 each of these cultures, as well as a range of painting styles such as Impressionism, German Expressionism and Cubism. The result is a unique and highly personal style that brings extraordinary vibrancy to often ordinary subjects. She now has a studio in Glenview, Illinois.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:12:11 -0400 2014-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board
Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing (July 31, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17528 17528-1202479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Zahrah loves forms that have circular line; textures fascinate and colors inspire her. My Healing Art, a series of ink drawings, were first created during her recovery from thyroid cancer a few years ago. Ill and filled with distress, fear and helplessness, she could only muster enough energy to draw simple circular shapes and lines. But she soon discovered that the act of drawing these abstract shapes everyday was therapeutic and healing. She found doing the drawings meditative and calming, and for the first time since the terrifying diagnosis, she felt connected, comforted and secure. This very personal body of work tells her story of healing.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:03:45 -0400 2014-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition My Healing Art: Ink Drawing
Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass (July 31, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 15648-1196055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

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Exhibition Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:48:29 -0500 2014-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition UM-Dearborn Permanent Art Collection
Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture (July 31, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17531 17531-1202594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ann Arbor based artist and designer Kirsten Lund received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and works in a variety of media including fiber, painting and printmaking. In this recent series, abstract sewn and crocheted forms are covered in embroidered, beaded and hand-printed imagery. Inspired by patterns in nature, whether anatomical, microscopic or aerial, the elements are related in form and reference point. Rooted in the seductive physicality of traditional craft processes and created with conceptual frameworks, the finished objects exist at the junction of art and craft. Lund has exhibited throughout the country and locally at the Ann Arbor Art Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:18:13 -0400 2014-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent (July 31, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 17220-1203477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This student-researched exhibit features photographs, storyboards, scripts, props, and more from the archives of the American maverick filmmaker John Sayles, director of such films as Lone Star, Matewan, and Brother from Another Planet.

[Note that the Audubon portion of the exhibit closed June 29.)

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:25:00 -0400 2014-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T23:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the John Sayles Archive, U-M Library
2014 Summer Research Opportunity Program Research Symposium (July 31, 2014 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17851 17851-1204108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 9:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The University of Michigan Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) offers outstanding undergraduates underrepresented in their field of study the opportunity to conduct intensive research across a variety of disciplines. The goal is to prepare students for advanced studies in a Ph.D. program at U-M.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 18 Jul 2014 10:37:15 -0400 2014-07-31T09:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T12:35:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Rackham Graduate School Conference / Symposium Symposium Flyer
Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit (July 31, 2014 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 17503-1202263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Featuring some of the earliest, rarest, most beautiful, or most unusual Dutch and Flemish books and manuscripts held by the University of Michigan Library, items on display come from a collection of materials from The Netherlands and Belgium that is among the strongest in the United States.

Open Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Exhibition Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:30:54 -0400 2014-07-31T10:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the book cover of Cruydeboeck by Dodoens, 1554; purchased by U-M in
Eat Smarter: Fresh Produce Series (July 31, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/13787 13787-1202829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex
Organized By: MHealthy

Fresh, locally grown fruits, vegetables and more, now available here on campus! Visit us at the North Campus Research Complex (NCRC). Eat smarter while supporting U-M's commitment to offering sustainable, locally sourced foods.

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Other Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:11:11 -0400 2014-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T13:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex MHealthy Other Fresh produce at NCRC Produce Day
Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait (July 31, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 18620-1211541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.” Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists.

When a photographer is faced with a subject who is so thoroughly invested in artistic representation, how might this impact his or her own photographic aesthetic? In this suite of remarkable photographs, we witness different manifestations of this phenomenon at work. For example, we see results ranging from the surreal to the seemingly straightforward through encounters between Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman; Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo; and Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. In other cases the photographer intentionally frames the photographic subject alongside the artist’s own work of art so that they become compelling participants in their own painted or sculptural compositions.

This exhibition invites viewers to consider how the difficult task of representing another artist is productively accomplished through the collaborative aesthetic resonances discernable between model and photographer in these portraits.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Health System.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:36:13 -0400 2014-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait
Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast (July 31, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 18621-1211690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both traditional and new media, acknowledging their long and diverse cultural legacies while overtly and simultaneously exploring, and often confronting, the many ongoing issues inherent to their cultural heritage.

This exhibition is the culmination of a decade-long investigation and exploration into fine art created by Indigenous artists from North America, defined by their regional origins. This concluding exhibition of the three-part series presents new work by Native American, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists and designers from the Northeastern and Southeastern regions of the United States and Canada. Curated by Ellen Taubman, this Changing Hands presentation is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA’s installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Native American Studies Program, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:38:35 -0400 2014-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native Nort
Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham (July 31, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 18619-1211441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented the work of David Osler (December 21, 2013–March 30, 2014) and Part 2, the work of Robert Metcalf (April 5–July 13, 2014). The series will culminate on October 5, 2014 with a symposium that will explore the importance of this circle of Ann Arbor-based architects, situating their regional body of domestic work into the larger context of modern architecture in the U.S. that developed on the East Coast and West Coast from the 1930s–1980s. Symposium participants include UMMA Director Joseph Rosa, Head of the University Archives Program at the Bentley Historical Library Nancy Bartlett, Bentley Associate Archivist and Head of Digital Curation Services Nancy Deromedi, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty Claire Zimmerman, Greg Saldaña, Craig Borum, and Robert Beckley.

This exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series, which showcases the renowned and diverse collections of the University of Michigan. This series inaugurates UMMA’s collaboration with the Bentley Historical Library, and is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lead support for Three Michigan Architects is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:33:58 -0400 2014-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham
Gifts of Art presents Congolese Music & Dance (July 31, 2014 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17565 17565-1202845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:00pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 1988, Titos Sompa founded Mbongi Dance Theater Project, a nonprofit group dedicated to advancing and celebrating the cultural arts of Africa, especially the music and dance of the Congo. Sompa is a renowned dancer, choreographer and musician, noted especially as a master Congolese drummer, percussionist and kalimba player. As artistic director of Mbongi Dance Theater, Sompa designs performances that offer healing, spiritual grounding and affirm community. For children and young adults, his educational programs teach self-esteem, promote values and behaviors that build community awareness, and help them imagine a future. This concert is part of the UMHS Summer Courtyard Concert Series presented by Gifts of Art.


***Rain location: University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1

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Performance Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:36:12 -0400 2014-07-31T12:00:00-04:00 2014-07-31T13:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Performance Sompa
Bill Kirchen (July 31, 2014 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17316 17316-1200770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Bill Kirchen is an Ann Arbor-bred guitar god, a Telecaster titan who whirls through a whole gallery of country and rock styles over the course of an evening. After a stint as lead guitarist with Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, he's gone on to an acclaimed solo career, and when he returns to town at the holidays his concerts turn into joyous reunions celebrating the glory days of the Ann Arbor honky-tonk scene, with special guests often on hand. Some things haven't changed--the Austin American-Statesman recently praised his "no-nonsense diesel guitar attack, powered by great booming, bottom-heavy licks still covered with axle grease." But Bill has evolved into a very skillful rockabilly and country songwriter as well, one who praised his trademark Telecaster guitar as "born at the junction of form and function." His live shows are not to be missed! Just in time for the movement toward marijuana legalization, Bill comes back home with a new release, "Seeds and Stems."

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Performance Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:17:38 -0400 2014-07-31T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Bill Kirchen