Other:Call for entries: U-M CashCourse Video Challege
2012-09-17 08:00 (America/Detroit) | Student Activities Building
Students are encouraged to create 3-minute videos using topics from the CashCourse website (www.cashcourse.org/umofa). Grand Prize: $250 gift certificate to the U-M Computer Showcase. Entry deadline: Oct. 31. Visit www.cashcourse.org/umofa/school-page for entry details.

Exhibition:Diversity of Nature in North America
2012-09-17 08:00 - 23:30 | 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
2012-09-17 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
2012-09-17 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
2012-09-17 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals
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 Expressions of Light: Photography by Monte Nagler
2012-09-17 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Level 1
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
2012-09-17 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
2012-09-17 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
2012-09-17 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
2012-09-17 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.

Exhibition:Architecture+Adaptation: Designing for Hypercomplexity
2012-09-17 09:00 - 17:00 | School of Social Work Building - 1644
Call 734-764-0352 for exhibit availability.

Exhibition:Back to School Poster Sale
2012-09-17 09:00 - 17:00 | Pierpont Commons - Atrium
Are your walls looking a little bare? Check out the Back to School Poster Sale - the largest of its kind on campus all year. With the start of the school year, now is the perfect time to add some color to your walls. We have thousands of posters to choose from!

Exhibition:Beautiful Michigan
2012-09-17 09:00 - 23:30 | Michigan Union - Art Lounge
Visit the Michigan Union Art Lounge to see this art exhibit featuring landscape oil on canvas paintings from some of the most beautiful places in Michigan.

Exhibit: “Beautiful Michigan” - Landscape Paintings, Oil on Canvas

Artist: Anil Dhir

Artist Statement:
For a painter, Michigan offers one of the most beautiful landscapes, whether here in Ann Arbor, up-north or anywhere else. These paintings are my attempt to capture some of the Michigan beauty. I believe that a great painting is a like a beautifully composed piece of music. My wish is to create a painting with a simple aim of honestly capturing the very essence of what I saw, and be able to make the viewer feel what I felt. (To read the full artist statement, please visit campusinvolvement.umich.edu, it is also posted with the exhibit.)

The exhibit will be displayed until Friday, October 5th.

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.

Please note: The Center for Campus Involvement (CCI) provides opportunities for student and professional artists to display work suitable for a general audience. CCI hosting an artist’s work does not mean we endorse the artist’s point of view; we recognize the free speech rights of our exhibitors.

Lecture / Discussion:Health Equity Matters
2012-09-17 11:00 | School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower - M1020 SPH II
Join us for a talk on health equity and chronic disease given by Dr. Anthony Iton, Senior Vice President of Healthy Communities at The California Endowment. Sponsored by the SPH Office of Public Health Practice and the Michigan Public Health Training Center.

Presentation:Health Equity Matters - Dr. Anthony Iton
2012-09-17 11:00 - 12:15 | Public Health II - 1020 Auditorium, SPH II
Join us for a talk given by Anthony Iton, MD, JD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities at The California Endowment. Dr. Iton’s primary interest is the health of disadvantaged populations and the contributions of race, class, wealth, education, geography, and employment to health status. In this presentation, Dr. Iton will describe the impact of health inequity, provide a framework for public health practice, and offer concrete examples of public health solutions around issues of health disparities and chronic disease.

Workshop / Seminar:Choosing a Citation Management Program that Works for You
2012-09-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Faculty Exploratory
Citation managers are software packages used to create personalized databases of citation information and notes. They allow you to:

- import and organize citation information from article database and other sources
- save links to pdfs and other documents, and in some cases save the document itself
- format citations for your papers and bibliographies
- collaborate and share references with colleagues
- include your own notes

This workshop will look at four common citation managers: EndNote, RefWorks, Zotero, and Mendeley. Their features will be compared so you can decide which option best meets your needs. The format of this workshop will be discussion and demonstration.

Class / Instruction:Latin American Women Writers--OLLI Study Group
2012-09-17 15:00 - 16:45 | Off Campus Location - Turner Senior Resource Center, 2401 Plymouth Road, Suite C, Ann Arbor.
The class will present a collection of short stories by Latin American women writers. A brief discussion of the short story as a literary form will be included. For that purpose we will read “Some Aspects of the Short Story” by Julio Cort’azar. All reading material will be provided in class. Facilitated by Eliana Moya-Raggio.

Performance:Masterclass: Katherine Kemler, flute
2012-09-17 16:30 | Stearns Building - Cady Room
Professor of Flute, Louisiana State University

Performance:Zell Visiting Writers Series
2012-09-17 17:10 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Fiona Sampson was born in London. After a brief career as a concert violinist, she studied at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate Prize. Her collections of poetry include Folding the Real (2001); The Distance Between Us (2005); and Common Prayer (2007), short-listed for the 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize. She was short-listed for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem) in 2006. Since 2005, she has been the editor of Poetry Review and in 2009, edited the Poetry Book Society Recommended A Century of Poetry Review. She contributes regularly to radio and to a number of publications, including The Guardian , the Irish Times and The Liberal . Fiona Sampson received a Cholmondeley Award in 2009. Her latest collection of poetry, Rough Music (2010) was shortlisted for the 2010 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2011 she was elected a Fellow and a Council Member of the Royal Society of Literature. She joins the MFA Program in Creative Writing this fall for a term as Visiting Professor of Poetry.
The author will be available to sign books after the reading. As always, books will be available for purchase on site.

Lecture / Discussion:Ken Smith, WORKSHOP
2012-09-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Art and Architecture Building - A+A Auditorium (Rm 2104)
Ken Smith is one of the best-known of a new generation of landscape architects equally at home in the worlds of art, architecture, and urbanism. Trained in both design and the fine arts, he explores the relationship between art, contemporary culture, and landscape. His practice, WORKSHOP: Ken Smith Landscape Architect, was established in 1992 and is based in New York City with a southern California office in Irvine.

He is committed to creating landscapes, especially parks and other public spaces, as a way of improving the quality of urban life. Much of his work pushes beyond traditional landscape typologies - plaza, street, and garden - to landscapes that draw on diverse cultural traditions and influences of the contemporary urban landscape. Smith's approach is directed at projects of varying scales and types: temporary installations, private residential gardens, public spaces, parks and commercial projects. With a particular emphasis on projects that explore the symbolic content and expressive power of landscape as an art form, the WORKSHOP specializes in the investigation of new expressions in landscape design.

Ken Smith is a graduate of Iowa Sate University and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has taught and lectured at Harvard, the City College of New York, and other universities and institutions around the world. Smith's work has been published widely in the popular and trade press.

Performance:Masterclass and Recital: Marion Hayden Ensemble
2012-09-17 18:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Rehearsal Hall
Born in Detroit, MI, Marion Hayden is one of the nation&##39;s finest proponents of the acoustic bass. An accomplished composer and educator, Hayden has performed or recorded with such luminaries as Marcus Belgrave, Roy Brooks, Kirk Lightsey, Ralph Peterson, Kenny Burrell, Regina Carter, and James Carter.

Performance:Jessye Norman Masterclass Series: Laura Aikin, soprano
2012-09-17 19:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
World renowned American soprano Laura Aikin is considered a leader amongst the dynamic sopranos performing today. Possessing an arresting stage presence and a range of over three octaves, her repertoire embraces works from the Baroque to the contemporary on both the concert and operatic stages. PROGRAM: Adamo - “Perfect as we are” from Little Women; Strauss - “Presentation of the rose” from Der Rosenkavalier; Handel - “Sibilar gli angui d’Aletto” from Rinaldo; Smetana - “Tak plane lÃ¡ska pravÃ¡” from TajemstvÃ; Bach - “Ei! wie schmeckt der kaffee sÃ¼ÃŸe” from Kaffee Cantata; Mozart - “Porgi amor” from Le nozze di Figaro

Lecture / Discussion:Hiking and Botany of Isle Royale
2012-09-17 19:45 - 21:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation naturalist Faye Stoner leads a presentation on hiking on Isle Royale and the botany of this rugged national park in Lake Superior.

Performance:Guest Recital: Katherine Kemler, flute and Michael Gurt, piano
2012-09-17 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Katherine Kemler is the Charles and Mary Barré Alumni Professor of Flute at Louisiana State University, flutist with the Timm Wind Quintet, and a regular visiting teacher at the Oxford Flute Summer School in England. Michael Gurt is the Paula Garvey Manship Distinguished Professor of Piano at Louisiana State University, and serves as piano mentor at the Hot Springs Music Festival, and is also the head of the piano department at the Sewanee Summer Music Center. PROGRAM: La Berge - Revamper for solo flute; Taktakishvili - Sonata for Flute and Piano; Fauré - Sonata in A Major; Genin - Fantasy Variations on Carnival of Venice; Patillo - First Beat from Three Beats for Beatbox Flute

Performance:Todd Snider
2012-09-17 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
