Exhibition:Diversity of Nature in North America
2012-09-09 08:00 - 23:30 (America/Detroit) | Pierpont Commons - Wall Gallery (outside Commons Cafe)
Visit the Pierpont Commons Wall Gallery located just outside of the Commons Cafe to see this beautiful exhibit featuring framed photography of nature in North America.

”‹Photographs by Artists: Sue and Dick Rigterink

Artist Statement: These images communicate the diversity, characteristics, habitats, behavior, and beauty of the plants and animals with whom we share the earth. Rather than simply looking, we hope you will pause, observe and really see. By stopping movement, the patterns and grace of those around us are there for us to learn from, enjoy and protect.

The exhibit will be displayed until Friday, September 28th.

All pieces in the exhibit are for sale. Please contact the Center for Campus Involvement (uminvolvement@umich.edu) if you are interested in purchasing art from this exhibit.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents 25th Anniversary Employee Art Exhibition
2012-09-09 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - South Lobby, Floor 1
This year, Gifts of Art celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Employee Art Exhibition! This eagerly anticipated annual event showcases the exceptional talent and creativity of the people who work at the University of Michigan Health System, and for the first time this year, family members too! There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show, and a People's Choice award will be determined by the votes of visitors to the exhibit. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 from 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the exhibition gallery, which will be hosted by Dr. Ora H. Pescovitz, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents A Study in Nature: Gelatin Silver Prints by Darryl Baird
2012-09-09 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - North Lobby, Floor 1
Darryl Baird is Associate Professor of Art at U-M Flint in graphic design and photography. This body of photographic work is a series of highly magnified plant sections offered as homage to natural life cycles and the inherent potential for beauty in mature forms. These images are a means to explore the cycles of all living things and a way to find understanding through the process. For this series, Baird used antique lenses and the now discontinued Polaroid Positive/Negative 55 film. His work is included in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Art, Museum of Fine Art in Houston, Texas and U-M Museum of Art in Ann Arbor.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Connections: Linoleum Block Prints by Elizabeth Busey
2012-09-09 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2
Elizabeth Busey has been inspired by global travel to explore the forces that shape our world – growth, pressure, erosion and decay. Through this exploration, she highlights patterns from many disparate perspectives in order to celebrate their universality in the natural world. Her work is created by printing multiple layers of ink onto cotton rag paper, where a single linoleum block is gradually reduced with each color layer. Busey is a primarily self-taught printmaker who produces her work in Bloomington, Indiana on a press made of recycled steel.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Connections: Linoleum Block Prints by Elizabeth Busey
2012-09-09 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Expressions of Light: Photography by Monte Nagler
2012-09-09 08:00 - 20:00 | Cancer Center
A driving force in Monte Nagler’s artist quest is to have others see the world in a finer light and to appreciate life a little more. He has the ability to make visible what others can only sense, sharing with viewers the emotional beauty he experiences. Nagler’s photographs, which have won numerous awards, are found in many private and public collections, including the Detroit Institute of Art, the U-M Museum of Art and the Grand Rapids Art Museum. He is also a noted writer, lecturer and teacher of photography and the author of six highly successful photography books.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents French Connections: Polymer Clay Sculpture by Jean-Marc Fontaine
2012-09-09 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2
By day, Jean-Marc Fontaine is a molecular biologist, and by night and weekend, he is an artist. He spent his childhood and youth in Normandy, France, and his dream of becoming a scientist grew together with his imagination and passion for oil painting and drawing. After moving to the US in 1998, Fontaine became fascinated with sculpting. This self-taught artist explores funny and familiar subjects, with close attention to details in human anatomy. Viewers will meet French, Belgian, British and American characters. Fontaine hopes that “”¦these cartoon characters will bring a smile to patients (children and adults, alike).”

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Love’s Emotion in Chinese Opera: Photography by Xu, Zengquan
2012-09-09 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Lobby, Floor 1
Traditional kunqu, a genre of classical Chinese theatre, comes alive in the large scale photographs of Xu, Zengquan. The viewer experiences the personalities of the characters and the spirit of the dance, opening a window into traditional Chinese culture and history. Now a local practicing engineer, Xu was born into a family of 10 brothers and sisters, in Jiangsu, China, and discovered his passion for photography in his teens. His work has been published by the Smithsonian Institution. Gifts of Art is pleased to present this exhibition in partnership with the U-M Confucius Institute.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Right Tool for the Job: Paint & Encaustic on Wood by Valerie Mann
2012-09-09 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - North Lobby, Floor 1
Valerie Mann has been showing her work professionally throughout the US and in Canada and Germany for 23 years. She grew up on a large family farm in Indiana, went to University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana to earn a BFA in painting, then to MSU to earn an MFA in sculpture. Now working and teaching in Ann Arbor, Mann’s use and study of tools inspired this body of work. Used every day and sometimes taken for granted, tools are indispensable in the making of art. These favorite tools are beautifully designed and well-thought out for their specific job.

Exhibition:Translating Homer: from Papyri to Alexander Pope
2012-09-09 08:30 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
The exhibit "Translating Homer: from Papyri to Alexander Pope" includes papyri and early printed books illustrating how the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems originally composed in the oral tradition, were first written down, edited, and eventually translated into the main European languages. This journey of transmission and interpretation throughout the centuries ends with the first editions of Alexander Pope’s renderings of the poems.

Visitors to the exhibit will hear a series of readings from the poems in the original Greek and in several other languages, including Latin, English, Dutch, and Spanish.

The exhibit is part of the LSA Fall 2012 theme semester, Translation.

Other:Exotic Plant Sale
2012-09-09 10:30 - 16:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Featuring a large selection of cactus, succulents, and bromeliads, including air plants and orchids, in sizes ranging from seedlings to mature plants. Also: growing supplies, books, and art prints. Presented by Michigan Cactus and Succulent Society & Southeast Michigan Bromeliad Society. Info: 248.380.7359

Exhibition:While the Cat Was Away: the 9th Annual A&D Staff Show
2012-09-09 12:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location - Work â€¢ Ann Arbor

Exhibition:Art as Experience
2012-09-09 13:00 | Museum of Art
UMMA's award-winning docents will guide visitors to experience art through active looking at selected highlights of the collections. These general tours provide a good introduction to the collection and to strategies for looking at art through lively and engaging conversation.

Other:Growing Bromeliads in Michigan
2012-09-09 13:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Tips on choosing the bromeliads that best suit your needs: the easiest, the prickliest, the ones that keep their color during winter gloom, the winter bloomers, and those that make a stunning accent in the summer garden. Plus, a discussion of potting mix, fertilizing, watering, plant propagation, and pest control. Presented by Southeast Michigan Bromeliad Society.

Exhibition:Gallery Tour: African Art and the Shape of Time
2012-09-09 14:00 | Museum of Art
African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as expressions of timeless myths and rituals, interrupted only by the colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such conventional views by exploring material forms of diverse concepts of temporality, history, and memory. Join UMMA Docents as they discuss the thirty works from UMMA, other museums, and private collections.

Workshop / Seminar:UROP Presentation Workshop
2012-09-09 14:00 - 15:00, 2012-09-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Angell Hall - Aud. C
This workshop is designed for first and second year students who are participating in UROP. Through this interactive workshop, students will walk away with a better understanding of how to present their story to potential sponsors.

Performance:Billy Joe Shaver
2012-09-09 19:30 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
