Exhibition:Gerald Ford in Mao's China
2011-08-13 09:00 - 16:30 (America/Detroit) | Gerald Ford Library
The exhibit "Gerald Ford in Mao's China" features photos, artifacts, and especially documents, some newly declassified, from five dramatic years in U.S.- China relations. Congressional leader Ford visited China in 1972 at the behest of President Nixon. He returned to Beijing in 1975, as President himself, just months before Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong died and China entered an unpredictable transition.

Free and open to the public. Library hours: Mon-Fri 8:45am-4:45pm.

Workshop / Seminar:Batik Silk Dyeing with Renewable Soy Wax
2011-08-13 10:00 - 13:00 | Museum of Art
Ann Arbor fiber artist Michele Montour will direct students on how to use a variety of tools to apply soy wax to an 8" x 72" silk scarf. Scarves will then be dyed using a low immersion method. Sign up early, space is limited.

Advance registration required. Register online at annarborartcenter.org.

Exhibition:Ben Yomen: Labor Cartoons from the 1940s
2011-08-13 10:00 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - North Lobby Display Cases
Cartoons as a weapon. Ben Yomen used cartoons to fight bosses he felt had no respect for their laborers and to ridicule an American Congress he felt had no respect for its constituents. Many of his cartoons that were published in the 1940s have such a timeless message that they could have been published in 2011.

In a 1943 Federated Press survey, Yoman was voted "most popular cartoonist in the labor press today" by AFL (American Federation of Labor), CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) and Railroad Brotherhood editors. His cartoons documented the labor struggles of the day.

This collection of Ben Yoman cartoons is part of the Joseph A. Labadie Collection in the U-M Special Collections Library. The Labadie Collection is the oldest research collection of radical history in the United States, documenting a wide variety of international social protest movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is named for anarchist and labor organizer Joseph Antoine Labadie (1850-1933).

Exhibition:Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints
2011-08-13 10:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
This exhibition will present works by 40 leading printmakers from contemporary China to showcase the extraordinary innovations, in both technique and conception, which have transformed this long-established art form in recent years. The exhibition will feature 114 works by such artists as Xu Bing, Kang Ning, Song Yuanwen, Chen Qi, He Kun, and Fang Limin, as well as many other accomplished printmakers.

Exhibition:UMMA Projects: Amalia Pica
2011-08-13 10:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Project Gallery
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.

Class / Instruction:In Conversation with Tiffany: Gallery Discussion
2011-08-13 10:30 - 12:00 | Museum of Art
Are you interested in a summer experience that combines art-based, historical fiction with gaining a greater appreciation and understanding of the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany? If so, join us as Shelley Brocci, former UMMA docent and avid Tiffany researcher, shares her knowledge during an discussion-based tour for adults of UMMA’s notable collection of Tiffany objects, many from a single New York mansion of the Gilded Age. For those who have read or plan to read the new book Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland, an optional discussion of the book will take place after the gallery discussion, between 11:30 am and 12 noon.

This program is free, but each discussion is limited to 15 people, so please pre-register by emailing umma-tours@umich.edu or calling 734.647.0522.

Performance:Bill Bynum & Co.
2011-08-13 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark- 316 S. Main St.

Social / Informal Gathering:Hott 2 Trot
2011-08-13 22:00 | Off Campus Location - LIVE - 102 S first St (corner of FIRST and HURON), Ann Arbor, MI 18103
We are excited to announce that the folks at LIVE are starting a REGULAR dance party for the QUEER community and it's allies!

Hott 2 Trott is EVERY SECOND SATURDAY of the month

$5 cover - proceeds will be donated to local nonprofit organization

Featuring local DJs and talent !

21+

Please Spread the word and help make Hott 2 Trott a success!!!
