Exhibition:Animals & People: Photo Collage Jewelry
2009-06-10 08:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit) | University Hospitals - Main Lobby, Floor I
ANIMALS & PEOPLE: PHOTO COLLAGE JEWELRY Dawn Estrin & George Wilson Combining forces and a common interest in themes such as art, romance and humor, Dawn Estrin and George Wilson create a unique vision of what jewelry can be. Wilson is a master toolmaker, and he makes special tools for the creation of the jewelry, as well as inventing designs and building models for them. Estrin creates the imagery for the jewelry. Working in Photoshop, she montages different images together to create a fantasy or story, many inspired by humankind's relationship to the natural world. Their work, known as Bijou Graphique, is represented by over 300 galleries and museums in the U.S., Canada and Australia. They are currently working on a new project of jewelry for pets.

Exhibition:Art from an Eggshell
2009-06-10 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Main Lobby, Level B2
ART FROM AN EGGSHELL Tina M. Boes With a vision and a high speed drill, Tina M. Boes sets to work creating unique and inspiring heirloom quality art out of real eggshells. Since her start in 2001, the art that she produces from her studio in her hometown of Muskegon, MIchigan is now widely recognized and has been published worldwide. She has won many awards for her stunning detail and designs. Boes is founder and president of a non-profit international organization dedicated solely to the art and education of carving and sculpting real eggshells.

Exhibition:Cancer Healing Quilts: Fiber Artists @ Loose Ends
2009-06-10 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Level I
CANCER HEALING QUILTS Fiber Artists at Loose Ends The Fiber Artists @ Loose Ends created the fine art quilts in this exhibit to provide education and a pleasing environment for patients, visitors, scientists and staff at the U-M Health System. Under the theme of plants and animals that are used in chemotherapy treatments, each fiber artist brought her own individual style, interpretation and experience to the idea of cancer healing. Each quilt has an accompanying artist statement and description of the subject matter of the pieces, including scientific information about the natural subject's medicinal applications for cancer patients.

Exhibition:Gifts of Spring: Handblown Glass & Ceramics
2009-06-10 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Taubman North Lobby, Floor I
GIFTS OF SPRING: HANDBLOWN GLASS & CERAMICS Kimberley Emmert Inspired by nature and brought to life with earth and fire, Kimberley Emmert's pieces in glass and ceramics celebrate spring. Her handblown glass pieces have a landscape, almost Monet-like theme, and the designs are often whimsical and floral. John Emmert, Kimberley's husband, assists her work in their studio in Linden, MI. In addition to art making, Kimberley teaches classes at home and also works in the studio at the Flint Institute of the Arts.

Exhibition:Group Pottery Show: Village Potter's Guild
2009-06-10 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Taubman South Lobby, Floor I
GROUP POTTERY SHOW Village Potters Guild Founded in Plymouth, Michigan in 1995, the Village Potters Guild is a non-profit studio made up of ceramic artists who share the common bond of working with clay in a cooperative setting. Current members bring a rich diversity of style, form and expression to the art of pottery and ceramics. Cooperative spirit and creativity are requirements for membership, and members help fund and operate the guild through dues and participation in various guild functions, meetings and activities. The Village Potters Guild offers classes, workshops and community projects.

Exhibition:Snip Shots: Cut Paper Narratives
2009-06-10 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Main Corridor West, Floor 2
SNIP SHOTS: CUT PAPER NARRATIVES Mary Gaynier Mary Gaynier, of Toledo, Ohio, began experimenting with cut paper in 2001, and has since had over 50 exhibitions of her work. Often compared to the traditional German art form, Scherrenschnitte – scissors cutting, where paper is cut with scissors into intricate, delicate folk art designs, her work speaks in different ways from different distances. At a distance one might see a more abstract rhythmic pattern, and then up close be surprised to find a scene of a bustling city or a child at play.

Exhibition:Suspended Moments: Panoramic Photographs
2009-06-10 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Taubman North Lobby, Floor I
SUSPENDED MOMENTS: PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHS Gary Mesa-Gaido, Professor of Art at Morehead State University in Kentucky, records suspended moments of migratory human activity within historical architectural places and spaces, such as plazas, train stations, courtyards, churches and museums. Utilizing digital technology, Mesa-Gaido takes up to forty photographs in a 180 degree rotation at each location, from which he selects an average of eighteen images to stitch together with Adobe Photoshop. The result is a singular panoramic photograph which captures the movement of individuals during a sequence of time.

Exhibition:Symphony of Quilts: Michigan Quilt Artists Invitational
2009-06-10 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Taubman South Lobby, Floor I
SYMPHONY OF QUILTS Michigan Quilt Artists Invitational Welcome music lovers to the 11th annual exhibit of the Michigan Quilt Artists Invitational. Curators Mary Andrews of Grand Blanc and Marty Calhoun of Flint have invited fiber artists from around the state to create a small quilt exploring the facets of music. The quilts express different nuances of many varieties of music from classical to country to rock and roll. In fiber art, the exhibit celebrates the grandeur of music in nature as well as musical instruments, composers, singers and bands.

Exhibition:Threads of Light: Fiber Art
2009-06-10 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Main Lobby, Floor I
THREADS OF LIGHT: FIBER ART Laurie Wohl Internationally known fiber artist Laurie Wohl unweaves canvas to create symbolic shapes – wings, trees, prayer shawls, veils, windows, scrolls and ladders. She embeds spiritual narratives in these delicate pieces through form, color, texture, calligraphy and her own iconographic language, imbuing the pieces with the spirit and mystery of ancient textile traditions. Her Unweavings ® fiber art have been on long-term loan to the United States Embassies in Beirut, Vienna, Tunis, Cape Town, and Pretoria. Wohl has studios in both New York City and southwestern Wisconsin.

Other:Exhibit
2009-06-10 10:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections Library, 7th Floor
He may be best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes stories but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's own pursuits reached beyond a fictional character. This exhibit features items representing the life, work and interests of Sir Doyle, selected from over 2000 artifacts in the Parker Family Arthur Conan Doyle Collection.

Other:Dancing at 100: Ann Arbor Dance Works
2009-06-10 20:00 | Duderstadt Center - Video Studio
An evening of short chamber works by current dance faculty and guest artist alumni presented by Ann Arbor Dance Works, the resident professional dance company of the University of Michigan Department of Dance. The concert will feature alumna Dana Reitz performing a solo. Dana Reitz is a choreographer, dancer and visual artist who has developed and produced projects since 1973. In 1996, she and Mikhail Baryshnikov toured together with a program of solos; in 1998, she created Cantata for Two, a duet for Baryshnikov and Tamasaburo Bando (Tokyo). Her work has been commissioned and produced by the Festival d'Automne in Paris, the Hebbeltheater in Berlin, the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival, The Kitchen, and PepsiCo Summerfare, among many others. Reitz has toured extensively as a performer and teacher throughout North America, Europe, Australia, Hong Kong and Japan, and she is currently on the faculty of Bennington College. She is the recipient of two New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Awards, she is the Artistic Director of Field Papers, Inc, and her work has been supported in part by many foundations including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts.Also featured will be alumna Leyya Tawil, who will be creating a new work inspired by the archetypal characters of the Commedia dell'Arte, particularly the play between wistful Pedrolino and the trickster Arlecchino. Tawil will collaborate with composer Topher Keyes for an original score for the work. Tawil has performed, choreographed, and taught nationally for the last thirteen years. This year marks her first international collaboration with Maqamat Theatre Dance in Beirut, Lebanon. Tawil has held faculty positions at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor (Visiting Artist), the University of San Francisco and Sonoma State University. She is currently the Middlebury College Artist-In-Residence in Dance. She received an MFA from Mills College and in 2008 was the recipient of an Emerging Artist Award from the UM School of Music, Theatre & Dance.Several current UM dance faculty will be presenting works on the concert. Melissa Beck Matjias will be restaging her solo, The Yellow Wallpaper. Amy Chavasse will be creating a new trio for the concert. Bill DeYoung, and Peter Sparling will also be contributing short chamber works to the program.Tickets available at the League Ticket Office 734-764-2538 or at the door.
