Archive for August 13th, 2009
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New Events
Acoustic Roots Music
Skylark
Gifts of Art brings the world of art and music to the University of Michigan Health System. For more information, call 936-ARTS (2787) or...
Austin Lounge Lizards
Bluegrass meets Tom Lehrer-style satire in the music of the Austin Lounge Lizards! Since 1980 the Lizards have been skewering social...
Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits
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Eventful Lives
Permanent lobby exhibits present the stories of President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford through archival photos and documents.
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Apollo 11: 40 Years Later
July 20th marks the 40th anniversary of the landing of the Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon, and the first time humans stepped onto the...
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Reaching for the Stars and Beyond
This temporary exhibit presents the research of eight U-M astronomers. Go to www.lsa.umich.edu/exhibitmuseum/exhibits or call 764-0480 for...
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Economy in Crisis, 1974-75
Economic crises on an international scale are not new, and President Ford inherited a tough one in 1974. A new exhibit at the Ford Library...
Francisco Goya’s Caprichos
The Museum of Art recently added to its collections a complete first edition (80 etchings) of Francisco Goya y Lucientes's...
Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe
Sections of the exhibit show what Hubble has revealed about planets in our solar system, stars far beyond the Sun and galaxies beyond the...
Permanent Exhibits at the Exhibit Museum of Natural History
The Hall of Evolution houses Michigan's largest display of prehistoric life. More than 600 million years of life on Earth are traced...
ViewSpace
ViewSpace is an internet-fed, self-updating, permanent exhibit from the Space Telescope Science Institute, home of NASA's Hubble Space...
Volunteer Photographers for Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living
Are you looking for a great volunteering opportunity?...
(Un)Bound: Artist Books and Prints by Book Artists of Ann Arbor
This exhibit, curated by Ben Reynaert, explores contemporary bookmaking as an art form. Within the artists' book movement, there has...
Duct Tape Paintings by Pete Warburton
Warburton is a local, self-trained artist. What started as a brief adventure making ties exploded into a large collection of paintings using...
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Cancer Healing Quilts by The Fiber Artists @ Loose Ends
Under the theme of plants and animals that are used in chemotherapy treatments, each fiber artist brought her own individual style,...
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Art from an Eggshell by Tina Boes
With vision and a high speed drill, Boes, of Muskegon, sets to work creating unique and inspiring heirloom quality art out of eggshells. She...
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Recent Works: Art Quilts by the Paradigm Quilters
Paradigm is a group of 18 artists from southeast Michigan who are dedicated to the concept of quilt as art. Although most of the art is...
History of Dentistry exhibits at the Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry
Exhibits at the Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry include Dental Operatories of the 1860s to 1930s, St. Apollonia-Patron Saint of Dentistry and...
Landscapes
Oils on Canvas and Linen by Cecily Donnelly
n her landscape paintings, Donnelly is interested in distilling the details of time, place, weather and light into simplified color...
Nature Silhouettes
Metal and Paper Sculptures by Anne Mondro
Mondro received her undergraduate education at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at Kent...
U-M Health System Annual Employee Art Exhibition
This annual event showcases the talent and creativity of the people who work at UMHS. The exhibition is juried, and there are ribbon awards...
Ida: Darwinius masillae
"Ida," a new exhibit in the Exhibit Museum's Rotunda, displays a high-resolution cast of an extremely rare fossil discovered...
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“Clues Beyond Sherlock Holmes: The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at Michiganâ€
He may be best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes stories but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's own pursuits reached beyond a fictional...
Stearns Collection of Music
The Stearns Collection at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance is one of six major collections of musical instruments in North America....
Treasures Rediscovered
Chinese Stone Sculptures from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University
This exhibition features 22 important sculptures that now for the first time can be ascribed to specific Buddhist sites such as...
UMMA Projects: Lisa Anne Auerbach
July 11 through October 11, 2009...
Untitled (History Painting)
Painting and Public Life in the 21st Century
May 23 through September 20, 2009...
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1759: Britain's Year of Victory
The Clements Library observes the 250th anniversary of the main events of the climactic year of the French & Indian war with an...
Art Workshop: Calligraphy and Brush Painting
This is a two session workshop. Learn first hand from the ancient masters represented in UMMA's wonderful collection of Chinese...