Exhibition:U-M and the Peace Corps: It All Started Here
2010-11-26 00:00 (America/Detroit) | Hatcher Graduate Library - Library Gallery (Room 100)
This dynamic exhibit showcases the unique role of University of Michigan students and faculty in the creation and popularizing of the Peace Corps. As Sargent Shriver said, "It might still be just an idea but for”¦those Michigan students and faculty." The exhibit highlights the development of student activism as well as important historical events.

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Exhibition:The View From Below
2010-11-26 09:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Humanities Gallery
Curator: Sara Blair, University of Michigan

Exhibition:On Beauty and the Everyday: The Prints of James McNeill Whistler
2010-11-26 10:00 | Museum of Art
UMMA's rare and important collection of James McNeill Whistler works on paper represents one of the finest holdings of Whistler's graphic output in North America. This major exhibition features more than 100 works of art from UMMA's Whistler collection, which covers the artist's entire career in Europe, ranging from his student days and exposure to the vanguard artistic movements of the 19th century to the groundbreaking and atmospheric lithographs and etchings of his mature style. It is the first exhibition devoted to Whistler's works at UMMA since 1994.

Nearly all of the Whistler works came to the Museum through the bequest of Margaret Watson Parker, an early collector of both Whistler's prints as well as Japanese art. The exhibition explores Whistler's illustrious life and career; his artistic themes and concerns, including portraiture and his well-known series from England, Italy, and France; the interests and legacy of early-20th-century Whistler collector Margaret Watson Parker; and the tools and techniques that Whistler employed as a printmaker.

Exhibition:Out of the Ordinary: Selections from the Bohlen Wood Art and Fusfeld Folk Art Collections
2010-11-26 10:00 | Museum of Art
This exhibition, which runs from September 11 through Spring of 2011, allows visitors to explore two extraordinary collections of art–the Robert M. and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Collection of Wood Art and the Daniel and Harriet Fusfeld Folk Art Collection. The Bohlen collection presents an astonishing range of contemporary artworks fashioned from wood and includes works that explores traditional and non-traditional vessel forms as well as works that are more purely sculptural. The outstanding objects that make up the Fusfeld collection are both geographically and historically wide-ranging, including work by early nineteenth-century itinerant folk portraitists as well as late twentieth-century sculpture and painting by “outsider” artists from the American South, Midwest, and Northeast.

Exhibition:UMMA Projects: Simon Dybbroe MÃ¸ller
2010-11-26 10:00 | Museum of Art - Projects Gallery
Things are not always as they seem in the work of Simon Dybbroe MÃ¸ller. Indeed, the Danish artist's works can at times appear to have been teleported from a slightly askew, alternate version of the past. Seemingly familiar forms often appear in unexpected configurations and objects we think we recognize turn out to be something else entirely. An abstract wall painting emerges from beneath a layer of peeling plaster. A group of minimalist sculptures turn out to be the pieces of an enlarged Soma cube. This uncertainty is central to the experience of Dybbroe MÃ¸ller's work, where an initial misrecognition leads to a moment of aesthetic discovery.

Dybbroe MÃ¸ller's penchant for puzzles and paradoxes reflects his interest in modernism's theoretical aspirations as well as its practical failings. Similarly, his frequent adoption of “outmoded” media both provides him with a diverse artistic palette and a means of questioning the past century's faith in progress through technology and the avant-garde promise of continual artistic development.

For Dybbroe MÃ¸ller's first solo exhibition in a North American museum, UMMA will present a new body of work that continues his ongoing engagement with and critique of the modernist paradigm of transparency.
