Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/week/2014-08-01/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography (August 1, 2014 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 17714-1203530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T00:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T23:30:00-04:00 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 (August 1, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17532 17532-1202652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas
Gifts of Art presents Blue World/Green World: Fiber Art (August 1, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/16937 16937-1199948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fiber Artists Coalition
Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass (August 1, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17529 17529-1202423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass
Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting (August 1, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17533 17533-1202709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting
Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting (August 1, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17534 17534-1202766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Maternity: Needle Felting
Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board (August 1, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17530 17530-1202538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board
Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing (August 1, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17528 17528-1202480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition My Healing Art: Ink Drawing
Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass (August 1, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 15648-1196056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition UM-Dearborn Permanent Art Collection
Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture (August 1, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17531 17531-1202595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent (August 1, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 17220-1203478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T23:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the John Sayles Archive, U-M Library
Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit (August 1, 2014 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 17503-1202264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T10:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 1, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 18620-1211542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 1, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 18621-1211691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 1, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 18619-1211442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 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 2014-08-01T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham
Kruger Brothers (August 1, 2014 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/16796 16796-1199397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 1, 2014 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

You've never heard a brother duet like this before. Swiss-born brothers Jens and Uwe Krüger on banjo and guitar, along with bassist Joel Landsberg (who they say has become just like another brother), take traditional American folk and bluegrass music in an amazing new direction. On a traditional tune, they're absolutely unmatched for speed. Their original numbers blend virtuosity and originality with a sort of wide-eyed appreciation for the beauty of Appalachian music and culture. The brothers are from Switzerland, and they performed around Europe for 20 years. In 2003 they moved permanently to North Carolina. Kruger Brothers performances are exciting, calming, entertaining and spontaneous, reflecting their sheer joy in playing music. The Kruger Brothers' musical style really defies definition, encompassing all styles of music through their personal individual development, classical European musical influences, and love of the American spirit. The Kruger Brothers come to Michigan with a new release, "Spirit of the Mountains," which they describe as "a poetic, spiraling tale about ghosts, relationships and guides–both seen and unseen. It is a story about love, spiritual legacy, the sharing of beauty, and the yearning for freedom from the restrictions of the mind."

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Performance Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:24:13 -0500 2014-08-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Kruger Brothers
Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography (August 2, 2014 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 17714-1203531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 2, 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 2014-08-02T00:00:00-04:00 2014-08-02T23:30:00-04:00 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 (August 2, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17532 17532-1202653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 2, 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 2014-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas
Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass (August 2, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17529 17529-1202424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 2, 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 2014-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass
Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting (August 2, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17533 17533-1202710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 2, 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 2014-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting
Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting (August 2, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17534 17534-1202767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 2, 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 2014-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Maternity: Needle Felting
Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board (August 2, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17530 17530-1202539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 2, 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 2014-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board
Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing (August 2, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17528 17528-1202481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 2, 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 2014-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition My Healing Art: Ink Drawing
Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture (August 2, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17531 17531-1202596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 2, 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 2014-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent (August 2, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 17220-1203479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 2, 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 2014-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-02T23:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the John Sayles Archive, U-M Library
Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait (August 2, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 18620-1211543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 2, 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 2014-08-02T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-02T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 2, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 18621-1211692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 2, 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 2014-08-02T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-02T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 2, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 18619-1211443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 2, 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 2014-08-02T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham
Storytime at the Museum (August 2, 2014 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17841 17841-1204026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 2, 2014 11:15am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Children ages four to seven are invited to hear a story in the galleries. Student docents and UMMA staff will bring art to life as they read stories related to the art on display and invite responses from our youngest patrons. Each story is followed by a short art activity. Parents must accompany children. Siblings are welcome to join the group.

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Other Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:29:41 -0400 2014-08-02T11:15:00-04:00 2014-08-02T11:45:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Storytime
Mustard's Retreat (August 2, 2014 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17443 17443-1202136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 2, 2014 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

From their start at an open mike at the Ark in the summer of 1974, this award-winning duo consisting of David Tamulevich and Michael Hough has become a perennial favorite, not only here in southeastern Michigan but all over the folk singer-songwriter circuit. Their songwriting and recordings have received consistently high praise, and their live performances even more so. Their songs are touching, humorous, insightful, and intelligent, and their music is always revealing something new lately they've become a key presence in the consistently high-quality local songwriting collective the Yellow Room Gang. Mustard's Retreat recently toured with Peter Yarrow and released a new album, "A Good Place to Be." They've recently celebrated their 40th anniversary as a duo, and they're still creating music anew!

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Performance Mon, 05 May 2014 11:18:41 -0400 2014-08-02T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Mustard's Retreat
Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography (August 3, 2014 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 17714-1203532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 3, 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 2014-08-03T00:00:00-04:00 2014-08-03T23:30:00-04:00 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 (August 3, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17532 17532-1202654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 3, 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 2014-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-03T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas
Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass (August 3, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17529 17529-1202425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 3, 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 2014-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass
Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting (August 3, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17533 17533-1202711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 3, 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 2014-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-03T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting
Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting (August 3, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17534 17534-1202768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 3, 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 2014-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-03T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Maternity: Needle Felting
Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board (August 3, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17530 17530-1202540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 3, 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 2014-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board
Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing (August 3, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17528 17528-1202482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 3, 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 2014-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition My Healing Art: Ink Drawing
Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture (August 3, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17531 17531-1202597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 3, 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 2014-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent (August 3, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 17220-1203480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 3, 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 2014-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-03T23:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the John Sayles Archive, U-M Library
Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait (August 3, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 18620-1211544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 3, 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 2014-08-03T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 3, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 18621-1211693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 3, 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 2014-08-03T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 3, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 18619-1211444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 3, 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 2014-08-03T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham
Guided Tour: Engaging with Art (August 3, 2014 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17842 17842-1204027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA docents will guide visitors through the galleries on tours as diverse as their interests and areas of expertise. Each docent plans a theme and includes a variety of styles and media to illuminate his or her ideas. Themes may be repeated but each docent's approach and choice of objects is unique.

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Other Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:33:07 -0400 2014-08-03T14:00:00-04:00 2014-08-03T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Engaging with Art
Liz Larin (August 3, 2014 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17406 17406-1202080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 3, 2014 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Detroiter, perennial Detroit Music Award winner, and self-taught musician Liz Larin has recorded for the legendary Atlantic label, and the buzz surrounding this forthright yet experimental artist continues to build. Liz returns to The Ark with an exciting new project, "Hurricane," which she describes as a song cycle that takes you on a journey through the chaos of love and life, where you are faced with the question of what it means to be human. Liz's music evokes vast landscapes and powerful emotions through cinematic production and irresistible hooks, combining rock/pop, jazz, techno, and world music, and generally embodying fearless anti-genre thinking.

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Performance Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:02:09 -0400 2014-08-03T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Liz Larin
Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography (August 4, 2014 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 17714-1203533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T00:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T23:30:00-04:00 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 (August 4, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17532 17532-1202655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas
Gifts of Art presents Blue World/Green World: Fiber Art (August 4, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/16937 16937-1199951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fiber Artists Coalition
Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass (August 4, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17529 17529-1202426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass
Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting (August 4, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17533 17533-1202712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting
Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting (August 4, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17534 17534-1202769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Maternity: Needle Felting
Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board (August 4, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17530 17530-1202541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board
Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing (August 4, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17528 17528-1202483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition My Healing Art: Ink Drawing
Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass (August 4, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 15648-1196059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition UM-Dearborn Permanent Art Collection
Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture (August 4, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17531 17531-1202598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent (August 4, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 17220-1203481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T23:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the John Sayles Archive, U-M Library
Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit (August 4, 2014 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 17503-1202267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T10:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 4, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 18620-1211545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 4, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 18621-1211694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 4, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 18619-1211445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 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 2014-08-04T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham
Fulbright Information Session (August 4, 2014 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17645 17645-1202961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 2014 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: International Institute

A Fulbright Program Advisor will provide information on the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and the U-M campus application process. All U-M students, alumni, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend. Laptops are welcome and encouraged.

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Other Wed, 02 Jul 2014 13:05:57 -0400 2014-08-04T12:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building International Institute Other School of Social Work Building
2014 Summer Opera Film Festival: The Myth of Orpheus—OLLI Study Group (50+) (August 4, 2014 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17869 17869-1204279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 2014 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Class meets Monday - Friday, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
August 4 - August 15


 
This tale represents one of the most profound examples in virtually all art forms of the interpretation of classical mythology by Western culture, including nearly six dozen operas. The study group will watch and discuss a selection of relevant DVDs that include opera performances and related material. Participation requires no reading materials or prior operatic expertise. Richard Adelman is an Emeritus Professor of Biological Chemistry, past director of the UofM Institute of Gerontology and a past president of the Gerontological Society of America.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:05:05 -0400 2014-08-04T19:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction
Native Pollinators (August 4, 2014 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17282 17282-1200735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 2014 7:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Learn about native pollinators with U-M staff member Mark O’Brien. Free. Presented by Evening Herb Study Group.

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Presentation Mon, 14 Apr 2014 14:01:39 -0400 2014-08-04T19:00:00-04:00 2014-08-04T21:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Presentation
Summer Bells at Michigan: Rachel Perfecto, carillon (August 4, 2014 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17193 17193-1200481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 2014 7:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

student carillonneur, Yale University 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, 04 Aug 2014 18:15:02 -0400 2014-08-04T19:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Burton Memorial Tower
A.J. Croce (August 4, 2014 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17465 17465-1202176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 4, 2014 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The son of 1970s icon Jim Croce, Adrian James Croce suffered another tragedy in childhood: he went completely blind at age four. As he gradually regained partial sight in one eye, he began to play the piano, emulating records by Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder. He grew into a musician who was anything but a Jim Croce clone, taking off from classic piano blues and growing into a unique keyboard-playing songwriter, with a preference for vintage instruments and a way of making a lot out of a very minimal song. A lot of musicians call themselves eclectic, but few can claim this: each of A.J.'s first five album releases hit the charts in a different genre (jazz, Americana, blues, AAA, college, and top 40, if you're keeping score). A.J. Croce has grown as a musician with each new release. He comes to Michigan with a new album, "Twelve Tales," that was recorded in Nashville with a team of producers that included the late Cowboy Jack Clement and New Orleans funk master Allen Toussaint, and he did a tremendous opening set at The Ark for Arlo Guthrie last spring.

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Performance Tue, 13 May 2014 13:51:43 -0400 2014-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance A.J. Croce
Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography (August 5, 2014 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 17714-1203534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T00:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T23:30:00-04:00 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 (August 5, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17532 17532-1202656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas
Gifts of Art presents Blue World/Green World: Fiber Art (August 5, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/16937 16937-1199952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fiber Artists Coalition
Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass (August 5, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17529 17529-1202427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass
Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting (August 5, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17533 17533-1202713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting
Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting (August 5, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17534 17534-1202770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Maternity: Needle Felting
Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board (August 5, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17530 17530-1202542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board
Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing (August 5, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17528 17528-1202484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition My Healing Art: Ink Drawing
Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass (August 5, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 15648-1196060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition UM-Dearborn Permanent Art Collection
Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture (August 5, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17531 17531-1202599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent (August 5, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 17220-1203482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T23:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the John Sayles Archive, U-M Library
Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit (August 5, 2014 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 17503-1202268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T10:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 5, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/13785 13785-1202814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T13:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals MHealthy Other Fresh produce available at the Produce Cart every Thursday. Located in the Towsl
Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait (August 5, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 18620-1211546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 5, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 18621-1211695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 5, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 18619-1211446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham
Biological Software Weekly Meeting (August 5, 2014 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17439 17439-1202124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 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 2014-08-05T19:30:00-04:00 2014-08-05T20:30:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building Michigan Biological Software Meeting
We Banjo 3 (August 5, 2014 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/16797 16797-1199398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The award-winning quartet We Banjo 3 (+1), from Galway, Ireland combines Irish music with old-time American and bluegrass influences to reveal the banjo’s rich legacy and roots. When this band of brothers take flight in a wave of virtuosity, verve, and joie-de-vivre, feet tap and pulses race. The members of We Banjo 3 are among the most celebrated and distinguished young musicians in Ireland today, and several have made their mark on the U.S. bluegrass scene as well. They play with swing and soul, effortlessly combining the best of Irish and bluegrass banjo music and song, mining the rich vein of the American old-time tradition and thoroughly reinventing the banjo band sound. Modern rhythms, traditional melodies, virtuosic technique, and innovative arrangements of music and song add up to an incredible feast of banjo andmandolin music–guaranteed to put a smile on your face and get your feet tapping.

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Performance Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:31:43 -0500 2014-08-05T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance We Banjo 3
Detroit Observatory Viewing Night (August 5, 2014 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/16220 16220-1197713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 9:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

This is your chance to look through the 1857 Fitz refractor.
The Detroit Observatory in Ann Arbor is a 19th century building, so things move at a 19th century pace. You must be able to climb stairs to get to the telescope.
Criteria for opening the dome:
It must be between 40 º and 90 º F, less than 80% humidity, and less than 10% chance of rain. We prefer less than 50% cloud cover, though that depends on the clouds (thin vs. thick) and what's out.
Get updates on the Detroit Observatory Viewing Nights website, or look for the Detroit Observatory on Facebook

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Reception / Open House Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:39:46 -0500 2014-08-05T21:00:00-04:00 2014-08-05T22:30:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Department of Astronomy Reception / Open House The Moon and Jupiter over the observatory
Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography (August 6, 2014 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 17714-1203535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T00:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T23:30:00-04:00 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 (August 6, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17532 17532-1202657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas
Gifts of Art presents Blue World/Green World: Fiber Art (August 6, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/16937 16937-1199953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fiber Artists Coalition
Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass (August 6, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17529 17529-1202428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass
Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting (August 6, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17533 17533-1202714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting
Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting (August 6, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17534 17534-1202771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Maternity: Needle Felting
Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board (August 6, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17530 17530-1202543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board
Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing (August 6, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17528 17528-1202485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition My Healing Art: Ink Drawing
Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass (August 6, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 15648-1196061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition UM-Dearborn Permanent Art Collection
Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture (August 6, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17531 17531-1202600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent (August 6, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 17220-1203483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T23:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the John Sayles Archive, U-M Library
Nature’s Detectives (August 6, 2014 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17290 17290-1200744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Children and their parents invited to participate in a botanical whodunnit on the Sam Graham Trees Trail at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. $5.00/child includes activities and materials. Presented by Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum.

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Other Mon, 14 Apr 2014 14:25:48 -0400 2014-08-06T10:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T12:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Other
Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit (August 6, 2014 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 17503-1202269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T10:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 6, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 18620-1211547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 6, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 18621-1211696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 6, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 18619-1211447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 6, 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 2014-08-06T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-06T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 7, 2014 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 17714-1203536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T00:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T23:30:00-04:00 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 (August 7, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17532 17532-1202658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition A Retrospective: Mixed Media on Canvas
Gifts of Art presents Blue World/Green World: Fiber Art (August 7, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/16937 16937-1199954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fiber Artists Coalition
Gifts of Art presents Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass (August 7, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17529 17529-1202429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Firenation: An Odyssey in Cast & Blown Glass
Gifts of Art presents Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting (August 7, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17533 17533-1202715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Mixed Media Painting
Gifts of Art presents Maternity: Needle Felting (August 7, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17534 17534-1202772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Maternity: Needle Felting
Gifts of Art presents Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board (August 7, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17530 17530-1202544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Moments of Clarity: Oil on Board
Gifts of Art presents My Healing Art: Ink Drawing (August 7, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17528 17528-1202486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition My Healing Art: Ink Drawing
Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass (August 7, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 15648-1196062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition UM-Dearborn Permanent Art Collection
Gifts of Art presents Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture (August 7, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17531 17531-1202601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sewn Morphology: Embroidered Sculpture
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent (August 7, 2014 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 17220-1203484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T23:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the John Sayles Archive, U-M Library
Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit (August 7, 2014 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 17503-1202270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T10:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 7, 2014 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/17551 17551-1202798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 2014 10:30am
Location: Wolverine Tower
Organized By: MHealthy

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

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Other Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:28:29 -0400 2014-08-07T10:30:00-04:00 2014-08-07T13:00:00-04:00 Wolverine Tower MHealthy Other Wolverine Tower Produce Days
Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait (August 7, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 18620-1211548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 7, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 18621-1211697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 7, 2014 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 18619-1211448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 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 2014-08-07T11:00:00-04:00 2014-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham
Poor Angus (August 7, 2014 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/17507 17507-1202293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 7, 2014 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Poor Angus dynamically interprets the music of past and present, performing original and traditional Scottish, Irish, and East Coast–themed pieces, transforming them into thoroughly original arrangements. Formed in 2005 and hailing from Hamilton, Ontario, this collection of musicians expresses their admiration for Celtic music in a manner that appeals to both traditional purists and modern audiences equally. Featuring the masterful highland and uilleann piping and tin whistles of Ross Griffiths, the profound fiddling of virtuoso Andrew Bryan, the bodhran, guitar, and mandolin of Brian LeBlanc, and the bass of DJay Moons, Poor Angus has recently been joined by the talented singer songwriter Joel Guenther. Poor Angus is noted specifically for impressive vocal harmony, and this Celtic quintet always gets feet stomping and leaves audiences of all ages roaring for more. The combination of Scots, Irish, and East Coast music styles in each Poor Angus performance bends every ear to delightful interpretations of Celtic music and ensures that one and all leave the show with a smile on their face and a song in their heart.

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Performance Thu, 22 May 2014 15:42:37 -0400 2014-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Poor Angus