Exhibition:Bowling, Burgers & Dogs: Digital Color Photography
2012-10-27 08:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit) | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1
After receiving a BFA from Rutgers University, Denise Rohde went on to study photography with renowned photographer Art Sinsabaugh at the University of Illinois. Working for years in a darkroom, the switch to digital allowed her to draw from her painting and printmaking experience. Being able to combine mediums digitally has unleashed her imagination. Denise moved to Ann Arbor eight years ago from Champaign, Illinois, and she has found Michigan to be an "eyeful." Some of her exhibits include the University of Illinois, Roulette NYC, Peachtree Plaza Atlanta and the Kodak Pavilion, Epcot Center.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Exhibition:Brillo Blox & More: Sand Art Sculpture
2012-10-27 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1
Farmington Hills, Michigan artist Gail Rosenbloom Kaplan has a portfolio of work that includes trompe l'oeil clay, glass mosaics, printmaking, mixed media, and most recently, sand art. In addition to local gallery exhibitions and community installations, her work has been displayed through the U.S. Arts and Embassy Program and showcased in Norway, Barbados and Brazil. Kaplan presently works at Children's Hospital in Detroit where she creates art with children and adolescent patients to provide an atmosphere for healing. The Brillo Blox sand art sculpture is comprised of 12 cubes and is designed as a puzzle than can be assembled as an abstract sculpture. These puzzle cubes highlight the different pictures used in the advertising of Brillo over the past 100 years.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Exhibition:Contemporary Cubism: Painting & Woodcut Prints
2012-10-27 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Bright colors, strong edges, and intersecting geometric forms are the hallmarks of Patrick Dengate's current studio work. Drawing from the tradition of 20th century Cubism, Dengate presents paintings and woodcuts with subjects ranging from Utah canyons, Costa Rican towns, busy rail yards, and ships on the Great Lakes. His work is featured in the recently published book Eyes On: Landscapes, a compilation of 50 contemporary painters from around the world. Dengate's work is on display in several corporate collections in Michigan and can be found in private collections across the US, Canada and Europe.

Exhibition:David C. Turnley Photo Exhibit
2012-10-27 08:00 | School of Social Work Building - Gallery of the International Institute
David C. Turnley is a world renowned photographer, filmmaker, and University of Michigan Alumnus. He received the Pulitzer Prize in photography and filmmaking for his coverage of the Revolutions in 1989, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and Tiananmen Square in China.

In addition, he was twice awarded the World Press Picture of the Year, the prestigious Robert Capa Award for Courage, and four Overseas Press Club Awards.

Don’t miss the unique opportunity to view these twenty-five iconic photographs by David Turnley from October 4th – November 9th in the Gallery of the International Institute in the School of Social Work Building.

Mr. Turnley is also presenting at the International Institute's Symposium "Translating Human Rights: Bodies of Evidence".

Exhibition:Many Faces of Advanced Practice Nursing
2012-10-27 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
This exhibit features portraits of and stories by Advance Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) who work at the University of Michigan Health System. Stories by these nurses with advanced training overlay their portraits with words. Led by Assistant Professor Laurie Hartman, this collaboration with Gifts of Art shines a spotlight on APRNs, explaining how in their work they conduct evaluations, order and interpret diagnostic tests, deliver various treatments and prescribe medications. Nurses, who tend to treat patients in a holistic manner, viewing humans across the lifespan as biological, psychological, social and spiritual beings, are consistently among the most highly trusted professionals in the nation.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Exhibition:One Acre Ceramics: Handcrafted Stoneware
2012-10-27 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Thomas and Sarah Gelsanliter are full-time ceramic artists creating unique handmade tiles and pottery at their studio, One Acre Ceramics, located in southeastern Michigan. Thomas received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2002, and his intricate designs are influenced by historical furniture, industrial plate ware, and classic Arts & Crafts and folk art iconography. Sarah is largely self-taught as a potter and spent a year living in Japan, visiting studio potters throughout the country. She throws all of the pottery on the wheel, finishing and assembling each piece when partially dry. A palette of luminous glazes highlight the hand-carved designs and crisp lines, giving each piece a polished, radiant finish.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Exhibition:Origami Tessellations & Fractals
2012-10-27 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Main Lobby, Floor 1
This exhibit features origami artists who enjoy folding fractals, tessellations and corrugations out of paper - an area of origami that explores pattern and texture in art and design. Each artist approaches this in their own unique way, and their work highlights the variety and beauty of this little known branch of origami. The artists hail from around the US, and were selected for their expertise and artistry in folding these beautiful patterns. The show was curated by Beth Johnson and includes work by Malachi Brown, Tom Crain, Rebecca Harris, Beth Johnson, Chad Killeen and Ben Parker.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Exhibition:Reminiscence of Ann Arbor: Oil on Canvas
2012-10-27 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1
Born and raised in China, Mingshi Huang studied at Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan, where he earned his graduate degrees. Huang travels extensively between the US and China and currently teaches at Nanjing University in Jiangsu Province. Recently, he completed several monumental, museum commissioned sculptures in China. This exhibition is a reminiscence of Huang’s work done while in Ann Arbor. Although his interests spread from representational to expressionist, Huang is rooted in a traditional ground. His figure paintings and landscapes reflect his masterful approach to traditional realism.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Exhibition:Chris Jordan: “Running the Numbers”
2012-10-27 09:00 - 17:00 | Art and Architecture Building - Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
The exhibit will be presented through Nov. 20 in the Jean Paul Slusser Gallery in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Saturday hours are noon-7 p.m.

Conference / Symposium:From Bodies to Billboards: Alternative Sites of Display
2012-10-27 09:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
To greater and lesser degrees, a viewer’s engagement with works of art will always be informed by the conditions of display. This symposium will build upon recent developments in curatorial practice and museum theory by focusing attention on alternative sites and modes of display. (Additional sponsors, not listed below: Nineteenth-Century Forum and the Visual Studies Workshop.)

Exhibition:Presidential Campaign Posters
2012-10-27 09:00 - 23:30 | Michigan Union - Art Lounge
Visit the Michigan Union Art Lounge to see this exhibit of memorable campaign posters collected by the Library of Congress and featured in the book “Presidential Campaign Posters: Two Hundred Years of Election Art” (Quirk Books, 2012).

The back of each poster includes commentary and additional artwork; when visiting the exhibit, do not hesitate to turn any of the posters over to read more about the election that year.

Enjoy the exhibit and remember to vote on Tuesday, November 6th then join us for an Elections Results Viewing Party at 8pm in the Michigan Union U-Club.

Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit
2012-10-27 09:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Room 100 Gallery

Lecture / Discussion:2012 History of Art Graduate Student Symposium From Bodies to Billboards: Alternative Sites of Display
2012-10-27 09:30 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
This year’s symposium, From Bodies to Billboards: Alternative Sites of Display, seeks to build upon recent developments in curatorial practices and museum theory by focusing attention on alternative sites and modes of display. One of the goals of this symposium is to consider critically how meaning is generated from specific sites, and how context changes our understanding of the work of art. “Alternative” is viewed as an open category that might embrace unusual or overlooked spaces and display practices, or encourage new, critical approaches to traditional exhibition arenas (galleries, museums, etc.). Another goal is to spur interdisciplinary dialogue, intellectual debate, and to broaden the community of art historians and other scholars working with visual material and culture beyond the walls of the University of Michigan.

This event is sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of the History of Art, UMMA, and the Institute for the Humanities. Speaker details are posted on the History of Art website www.lsa.umich.edu/histart.

Exhibition:Travel Through Maps and Narrative: An Exhibition on Travel and Tourism
2012-10-27 10:00 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, Second Floor
Travel, an essential activity of human societies, has evolved into an industry with social, economic and environmental impacts. From pilgrimage and exploration to trade and tourism, advances in transportation have enabled new types of travel and created new places, some existing solely for the vacationer. This exhibition highlights changes in travel including information on early pilgrimages, exploration narratives, the grand tour of Europe, women travellers, World’s Fairs, the birth of the family vacation and specialized tourism using maps and narratives from the Library collections.

Exhibition:African Art and the Shape of Time
2012-10-27 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
African Art and the Shape of Time explores how African art gives material form to diverse concepts of temporality, history and memory. 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 considering diverse modes for reckoning time and its philosophical, social, and religious significance. The exhibition includes 30 works from the University of Michigan Museum of Art, National Museum of African Art, Fowler Museum at UCLA, as well as several Detroit area private collections, and is organized around five themes that explore the multiplicity of time in Africa: The Beginning of Things, Embodied Time, Moving Through Time, Global Time, and "NOW."

This exhibition is generously supported by the University of Michigan Health System. Additional support provided by the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

Exhibition:Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire
2012-10-27 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776) depicts the death of James Wolfe, the British commander at the 1759 Battle of Quebec during what in this country is known as the French and Indian War. In conflating a momentous contemporary event with the genre of large-scale history painting, West flouted the conventions of academic painting and the work became one of the most celebrated paintings in Britain. The artist went on to produce six versions of the painting, one of which belongs to the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Through approximately 40 works from Michigan, Canadian, and British collections, this ambitious and thematically focused exhibition will include the Clements canvas as well as other depictions of James Wolfe and his death on the battlefield.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Office of the Vice President for Research, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, and THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (of R. & P. Heydon).

Exhibition:Discovering Eighteenth-Century British America through the William L. Clements Library Collection
2012-10-27 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
This significant exhibition provides glimpses of British America in the 1700s and is designed to complement the Museum's concurrent exhibition "Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire," which features the Clements collection's major painting "The Death of General Wolfe." William L. Clements assembled an outstanding array of primary sources on North America dating between 1492 and 1800, with a heavy emphasis on early European exploration and discovery and the eighteenth-century wars for control of the continent. The exhibition features a mix of rare items from Mr. Clements’s original donation and pieces the Library has acquired since 1923 to complement and enhance its strength in eighteenth-century American history.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Exhibition:Jesper Just: "This Nameless Spectacle"
2012-10-27 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Visitors encountering Danish artist Just’s exhibit will find themselves captivated in stages, as the experience of viewing it unfolds over time. In this breathtaking installation, as in much of his work, Just situates the viewer in his signature landscape of beauty, provocation, and a general uneasiness that is as seductive as it is ominous. The storyline is at once deceptively simple and perplexing: a wheelchair-bound protagonist travels through a neighborhood in the outskirts of Paris to her apartment, while a young male character appears to follow her. Once home, she is able to leave her wheelchair but is overcome by a powerful seizure. One of Just’s unique strengths is his ability to engage the viewer in an open-ended, unresolved narrative in a manner that is more intriguing than frustrating. It is impossible to parse but equally impossible to abandon, and this is the essence of Just’s gift for hypnotic storytelling.
Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

Exhibition:YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
2012-10-27 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
The Seoul-based art collaborative, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI) is known for innovative video works that exist at the nexus of visual art and digital literature. Blurring the boundaries between media, technologies, and cultural histories, YHCHI has gained international acclaim for their "net art" productions-mostly black- and-white videos of quickly flashing capitalized text in a generic font with synchronized music. This exhibition will present a newly commissioned piece by UMMA, which will be added to the artists' website, yhchang.com.

This exhibition is generously supported by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, and the Nam Center for Korean Studies. Additional support provided by the Dr. Robert and Janet Miller Fund.

Workshop / Seminar:Storytime at the Museum
2012-10-27 11:15 | Museum of Art
Children ages four to seven are invited to hear a story in the galleries. Student docents and UMMA staff will bring art to life as they read stories related to the art on display and invite responses from our youngest patrons. Each story is followed by a short art activity. Parents must accompany children. Siblings are welcome to join the group. Meet at the Information Desk.

Workshop / Seminar:Connect with UMSI
2012-10-27 13:00 - 17:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Fourth Floor
This information session for prospective master's and doctoral students in the School of Information includes presentations by faculty, students, and staff. Topics include career options in the information field and how to fund a degree.

Registration is requested. For more information visit the website.

Exhibition:Geometry of War: Fortification Plans for 18th Century America
2012-10-27 13:00 - 16:45 | William Clements Library - Great Room
Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm

Other:Public Skate
2012-10-27 13:00 - 14:50 | Yost Ice Arena
Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!

Open to the public!

Cost: $6 (Adults) $4 (UM Faculty and Staff, Students, Youth and Seniors)
($2 additional cost for skate rental)

Performance:Hot Styles & Passionate Sentiments from Northeast China
2012-10-27 14:00 | Power Center for the Performing Arts
Free and open to the public

* Breathtaking acrobatics

* Humorous skits

* Unique regional music

* And much more!

Sponsor: Hanban/ Confucius Institute Headquarter

Co-sponsors: Liaoning Education Department, Liaoning University, and the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Performance:Senior Recital: Michael Avitabile, Flute
2012-10-27 14:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
PROGRAM: Debussy - Prélude Ã l&##39;après-midi d&##39;un faune; Berio - Sequenza no. 1 for Solo Flute; Mozart - Flute Quartet No. 1 in D Major, K. 285; Bach - Sonata in B Minor for Flute and Harpsichord, BWV 1030; Zyman - Sonata for Flute and Piano; Debussy - Beau Soir

Performance:Student Brass Chamber Music Recital
2012-10-27 14:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
PROGRAM: Bozza - Sonatine; McKee - Escape; Ewald - Brass Quintet no. 1 in B-flat Minor, op. 5; Bach - Rounds and Dances

Performance:Senior Recital: Sean Krissman, Clarinet
2012-10-27 17:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Brahms - FÃ¼nf Lieder, op. 105; Finzi - Five Bagatelles for Clarinet and Piano, op. 23a; von Weber - Grand Duo Concertant, op. 48; Mackey - Breakdown Tango

Performance:Mason Jennings
2012-10-27 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
A collage of love!

Minneapolis singer-songwriter Mason Jennings draws inspiration from his own life and family: for one of his albums, he started writing music when his six-year-old son saw an electric guitar ornament on the family Christmas tree and asked what it was. Since the late 1990s he's accumulated a songbag of consistently high quality, covering themes from personal to political to historical. A staple of outdoor festivals from the Midwest to California, Mason has toured with surfer-songwriter Jack Johnson and was recently signed to his Brushfire label. He comes to Michigan with a new release, "Minnesota," that sets his experiences of love and family against the geography of his native state.

Performance:Masters Recital: Nathan Salazar, Collaborative Piano
2012-10-27 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Barber - Sonata op. 6 for Cello and Piano; Obradors - Canciones clÃ¡sicas espaÃ±olas; Schoenfield - Six British Folksongs for Cello and Piano; Rachmaninoff - Six Songs, op. 38
