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This exhibition focuses on five artists with well established reputations in Korea, whose visually stunning ceramic objects acknowledge and engage with Korean clay traditions yet embody innovative, unexpected art making and conceptual approaches. Life in Ceramics brings together for the first time the work of Kim Yikyung, Lee In Chin, Lee Kang Hyo, Lee Young-jae, and Yoon Kwang-cho. These contemporary ceramicists take familiar, everyday forms such as bowls and vases as a starting point from which to explore the astonishing beauty of these shapes as works of art. Each produces work grounded in Korea\u2019s ancient ceramic traditions, but takes it in new and often surprising directions. Objects from each artist\u2019s everyday ware collection will also be shown, so that visitors can examine how each artist makes the distinction between fine art and functional design.", "occurrence_notes":"", "guid":"5683-1132345@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/5683", "building_id":"1000151", "building_name":"Museum of Art", "campus_maps_id":"11", "room":"", "location_name":"Museum of Art", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["museum","visual arts"], "website":"", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)", "group_id":"1177", "website":"http:\/\/www.umma.umich.edu\/" } ], "image_url":"", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"", "event_large":"", "event_large_2x":"", "event_large_lightbox":"", "group_thumb":"", "group_thumb_square":"", "group_large":"", "group_large_lightbox":"", "event_large_crop":"", "event_list":"", "event_list_2x":"", "event_grid":"", "event_grid_2x":"", "event_feature_large":"", "event_feature_thumb":"" }, "occurrence_count":76, "first_occurrence":1132281 } , "5943-1132897": { "datetime_modified":"20110408T144249", "datetime_start":"20110605T100000", "datetime_end":"20110605T163000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2011-06-05", "date_end":"2011-06-05", "time_start":"10:00:00", "time_end":"16:30:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"Nichols Arboretum Peonies Galore Sale & Fundraiser", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"Nichols Arboretum Peonies Galore Sale & Fundraiser", "event_subtitle":"", "event_type":"Fair \/ Festival", "event_type_id":"10", "description":"Support Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum with your purchase of antique and heirloom peony varieties just like the ones that grow in the Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum. Also, live music Saturday, June 4 and guided tours of the garden June 4-10. The 2011 Nichols Arboretum Peony Festival continues through Friday, June 10 with guided and self-guided tours available at the garden entrance throughout the week. Free admission; call ahead for bloom updates and guided tour times.\r\n", "occurrence_notes":"", "guid":"5943-1132897@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/5943", "building_id":"1000005", "building_name":"Nichols Arboretum", "campus_maps_id":"119", "room":"", "location_name":"Nichols Arboretum", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["festival","music","peony","sale","tour"], "website":"http:\/\/www.mbgna.umich.edu", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum", "group_id":"1072", "website":"" } ], "image_url":"", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"", "event_large":"", "event_large_2x":"", "event_large_lightbox":"", "group_thumb":"", "group_thumb_square":"", "group_large":"", "group_large_lightbox":"", "event_large_crop":"", "event_list":"", "event_list_2x":"", "event_grid":"", "event_grid_2x":"", "event_feature_large":"", "event_feature_thumb":"" }, "occurrence_count":2, "first_occurrence":1132896 } , "5684-1132365": { "datetime_modified":"20110315T153154", "datetime_start":"20110605T100000", "datetime_end":"20110605T170000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2011-06-05", "date_end":"2011-06-05", "time_start":"10:00:00", "time_end":"17:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"UMMA Projects: Amalia Pica", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"UMMA Projects: Amalia Pica", "event_subtitle":"", "event_type":"Exhibition", "event_type_id":"7", "description":"Motivated by a desire for civic participation, Amalia Pica's work often takes the form of temporary interventions on buildings, monuments, or objects, documenting the artist's insertion of her own body into the landscape or her subtle alteration of it. The London-based Argentinian artist (b. 1978) works primarily with sculpture, photography, film, and installation, adopting a conceptual approach marked by wit and a sense of play. Perception, time, memory, and a sense of how particular gestures read in different cultural contexts are central to Pica's work, alternately highlighting moments of connection and disjunction. The promise - as well as the uncertainty - of communication is a persistent concern in Pica's oeuvre. Megaphones, antennae, podiums, and signal flags are recurring motifs, though rarely are these devices shown in a moment of use. Depicted at rest or disconnected from their functionality, they become figures for potential communication, carriers of a message that always remains hypothetical.", "occurrence_notes":"", "guid":"5684-1132365@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/5684", "building_id":"1000151", "building_name":"Museum of Art", "campus_maps_id":"11", "room":"Project Gallery", "location_name":"Museum of Art", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["museum","visual arts"], "website":"", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)", "group_id":"1177", "website":"http:\/\/www.umma.umich.edu\/" } ], "image_url":"", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"", "event_large":"", "event_large_2x":"", "event_large_lightbox":"", "group_thumb":"", "group_thumb_square":"", "group_large":"", "group_large_lightbox":"", "event_large_crop":"", "event_list":"", "event_list_2x":"", "event_grid":"", "event_grid_2x":"", "event_feature_large":"", "event_feature_thumb":"" }, "occurrence_count":114, "first_occurrence":1132357 } , "5607-1132147": { "datetime_modified":"20110308T112151", "datetime_start":"20110605T130000", "datetime_end":"20110605T190000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2011-06-05", "date_end":"2011-06-05", "time_start":"13:00:00", "time_end":"19:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"Historical Bookbindings: A Thousand Years of Structure and Style", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"Historical Bookbindings: A Thousand Years of Structure and Style", "event_subtitle":"", "event_type":"Exhibition", "event_type_id":"7", "description":"You may not be able to judge a book by its cover, but you can learn a lot about history and the skills of people in bygone times by looking closely at book bindings. This exhibit, \"Historical Bookbindings: A Thousand Years of Structure and Style,\" created by guest curator and expert book historian Julia Miller, shows book bindings of a wide assortment of types and styles dating from the last 1000 years. \r\n\r\nFree and open to the public. 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