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Many of his cartoons that were published in the 1940s have such a timeless message that they could have been published in 2011.\r\n\r\nIn 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.\r\n\r\nThis 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. 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But one fighter, Faye Schulman, had a camera. Schulman\u2019s rare collection of images captures the camaraderie, horror and loss, bravery and triumph of the rag-tag, tough partisans\u2013some Jewish, some not\u2013who fought the Germans and their collaborators.\r\n\r\nSchulman, the only known Jewish partisan photographer, says of the exhibit, \u201cI want people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. 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Th\u001fey have done this for over two millennia. Th\u001fis exhibit explores the history of medical illustration through the evolution of artistic techniques, tools, and technology. \r\n\r\nSee featured artwork by graduates of the University of Michigan School of Art Program in Medical and Biological Illustration.\r\n\r\nA Medical Illustration Workshop will be held Thursday, September 15th from 6:00-8:00pm at the Taubman Health Sciences Library (1135 E. Catherine Ann Arbor, MI). You can meet local artists and participate in hands-on demonstrations of various artistic tools.\r\n\r\n", "occurrence_notes":"University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library 1135 E. 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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.\r\n\r\nFree and open to the public. Library hours: Mon-Fri 8:45am-4:45pm.", "occurrence_notes":"", "guid":"6194-1133300@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/6194", "building_id":"1000446", "building_name":"Gerald Ford Library", "campus_maps_id":"62", "room":"", "location_name":"Gerald Ford Library", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["china"], "website":"http:\/\/www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"Gerald R. 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Register and pay for your team online!\r\n\r\nSoccer: $115\/team ||\r\nSoftball: $115\/team ||\r\nSand Volleyball: $50\/team ||\r\nFloor Hockey: $50\/team ||\r\nTennis Singles: $10\/person ||\r\nTennis Doubles: $20\/person ||\r\n\r\nCash & Check Payments will be accepted at the IM Building. 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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":"5684-1132460@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":["visual arts","museum"], "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 } , "6213-1133539": { "datetime_modified":"20110622T104950", "datetime_start":"20110908T100000", "datetime_end":"20110908T170000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2011-09-08", "date_end":"2011-09-08", "time_start":"10:00:00", "time_end":"17:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"William Faulkner's Artifacts of Authorships", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"William Faulkner's Artifacts of Authorships", "event_subtitle":"", "event_type":"Exhibition", "event_type_id":"7", "description":"William Faulkner is one of the most important novelists in the American tradition, and his work represents an endlessly generative confluence of cultural, historical, and literary frictions. Faulkner\u2019s writing is famous for its poetic density and beauty, but his process and the editorial history of his work present layers of interpretive complication and depth that remain under-examined by scholars. This exhibit highlights some of the fascinating and meaningful discrepancies evident from Faulkner\u2019s manuscripts to his publisher\u2019s galleys and between various print editions of his most famous novels.\r\n\r\nItems are from the Irwin T. and Shirley Holtzman Collection of William Faulkner, which is a comprehensive collection of published Faulkner materials. Many first editions of books and short stories will be on display as well as original University of Mississippi yearbook illustrations, and reproductions of manuscripts. The exhibit focuses on the complex editorial history of Faulkner's work, including his approach to revision (including alterations he made to his stories and characters between different forms of publication and different editions). 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