Exhibition:A Few Good Women: Michigan Women in the Military During WWII
2012-11-18 08:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit) | Michigan Union - Art Lounge
This exhibit from the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame highlights women who served in the US military during WWII. During WWII women served in the Army and Navy Nurses Corps, Coast Guars SPARS, Marine Corps, Navy WAVES, Women Army Corps (WACs) and Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs)

Exhibition:Bowling, Burgers & Dogs: Digital Color Photography
2012-11-18 08:00 - 20:00 | 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
2012-11-18 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
2012-11-18 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:Many Faces of Advanced Practice Nursing
2012-11-18 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
2012-11-18 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
2012-11-18 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
2012-11-18 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”
2012-11-18 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.

Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit
2012-11-18 09:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Room 100 Gallery

Exhibition:African Art and the Shape of Time
2012-11-18 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
2012-11-18 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
2012-11-18 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"
2012-11-18 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
2012-11-18 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.

Lecture / Discussion:Art as Experience
2012-11-18 13:00 - 14:30 | 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

Exhibition:Geometry of War: Fortification Plans for 18th Century America
2012-11-18 13:00 - 16:45 | William Clements Library - Great Room
Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm

Other:Public Skate
2012-11-18 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)

Lecture / Discussion:African Art and the Shape of Time
2012-11-18 14:00 - 15:30 | 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. It complicates conventional views of African art by considering diverse modes for reckoning time and its philosophical, social, and religious significance. Docents will discuss the five themes that explore the multiplicity of time in Africa: The Beginning of Things, Embodied Time, Moving Through Time, Global Time, and NOW.

Performance:Bat Boy: The Musical
2012-11-18 14:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre
a musical by Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming & Laurence O&##39;Keefe Department of Musical Theatre Directed & choreographed by Linda Goodrich Music Direction by Catherine Walker Adams Ripped from the headlines of the Weekly World News - an incredible story of a half boy/half bat. Recommended for audiences 14 and older.

Performance:HAIRSPRAY
2012-11-18 14:00 - 16:30 | Power Center for the Performing Arts
Set in the 1960's, Hairspray follows the story of Tracy Turnblad, a hopeful girl from Baltimore who is determined to dance on "The Corny Collins Show." Once her dream becomes a reality, Tracy realizes she not only wants to dance, but user her new-found celebrity to change and integrate the show as well. As a result of her courage and determination, she quickly sparks a movement to speak out against the racial injustices of her time. This energetic, soulful, and heartfelt musical includes the hits "You Can't Stop the Beat," "Without Love," and "Good Morning Baltimore."

Presentation:Weird & Wonderful Orchids
2012-11-18 14:00 - 17:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
A presentation by Dawn Schlote of Mystic Orchids in Ohio on the culture of a number of very unusual orchids. Also, show and tell, raffle, and related items for sale. Presented by Ann Arbor Orchid Society.

Performance:Percussion Ensemble
2012-11-18 15:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Joseph Gramley and Jonathan Ovalle, directors "Legacy: The Percussion Music of John Cage" As part of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance&##39;s year-long celebration of the John Cage Centennial, the U-M percussion ensemble presents a concert of Cage&##39;s music for percussion ensemble. Works include: Quartet, First Construction, Second Construction, Third Construction, Amores, Credo in US, Imaginary Landscape no. 3, Trio, and Dance Music for Elfrid Ide.

Performance:Michigan Chamber Players
2012-11-18 16:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
The program includes Bernard Herrmann&##39;s rarely heard Souvenirs de Voyage (a quintet for clarinet and string quartet), Paul Schoenfield&##39;s Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, and Michael Daugherty&##39;s, piano trio "Regrets Only."

Performance:Michigan Youth Ensembles
2012-11-18 16:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
MYE Chamber Singers, Eugene Rogers, Director David Gilliland, Pianist MYE Women&##39;s Chorale, Julie Skadsem, Director Emily Lai Ying-jhu, Pianist

Film Screening:The Phantom Father (Tatal Fantoma) (2011; dir. Lucian Georgescu, English subtitles, 90 min), Screening and Q and A
2012-11-18 16:00 - 18:30 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Join us for the final screening of the Fourth Annual Romanian Film Festival at UMMA–The Phantom Father. American professor Robert Traum embarks on an adventurous and amusing journey through Bucovina to find Sami, the projectionist, the only person still alive who can tell him anything about his Romanian Jewish descent. His symbolic journey is filled with danger, the unknown, and the surreal, but finally rewarded with a double love: for a woman; and for early cinema.

This program is part of the Fourth Annual Romanian Film Festival at UMMA. Check the website listings for November 3, 4, and 17 for earlier Romanian Film Festival programs, including a talk by visiting director Bogdan George Apetri and screening of his award-winning Outbound (Periferic) (2010) on November 3.

Performance:SMTD@UMMA: The Hero in Battle
2012-11-18 19:00 | Museum of Art - Apse
Directors Aaron Berofsky and Edward Parmentier lead the UM Early Music Ensemble in heroic works by Biber and others.

Performance:SMTD@UMMA: The Hero in Battle
2012-11-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Museum of Art - Apse
UMMA’s exhibition Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire is a close look at Benjamin West’s iconic depiction of the death of British commander General James Wolfe at the 1759 Battle of Quebec, one of Great Britain's most famous military victories, during what in this country is known as the French and Indian War. Directors Aaron Berofsky and Edward Parmentier lead the UM Early Music Ensemble in works by Biber and others that evoke the heroic.

Other:AN EVENING WITH CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS
2012-11-18 19:30 | Off Campus Location
The Ark's 16th Annual Fall Fundraiser

With their 2010 Nonesuch debut, "Genuine Negro Jig"–which garnered a Best Traditional Folk Album Grammy last year–the Carolina Chocolate Drops proved that the old-time, fiddle and banjo-based music they’d so scrupulously researched and passionately performed could be a living, breathing, ever-evolving sound. Starting with material culled from the Piedmont region of the Carolinas, they sought to highlight the central role African Americans have played in shaping our nation’s popular music from its beginnings. Now, with their brilliant 2012 release "Leaving Eden," the Drops have expanded (their Ark appearance will be as a quartet), and their new repertoire incorporates more blues, jazz, and folk balladry alongside crackling string-band tunes. Banjoist and founding member Dom Flemons points out: “There’s a new diversity that comes from the new ensemble. My thought process of how I put together songs for the Carolina Chocolate Drops now is more like working with a jazz group." Though often striking out in new directions, the Drops return to familiar turf with tracks like “Riro’s House,” a traditional piece they’d learned from their late mentor, North Carolina fiddler Joe Thompson. Once again they break out such unique instrumentation as jugs and bones; vocalist Rhiannon Giddens performs on the unusual bass banjo (also known as a five-string cello banjo), while Dom Flemons employs his quills, a panpipe instrument of African origin. Much more than simply revivalists, the Carolina Chocolate Drops have evolved into American tradition-bearers of the first order–and their show is as much fun as anybody else's in the business.

Dinner reception provided by Zingerman’s Roadhouse from 5 until 6:45 p.m. for our Jug Band Benefactors ($500), Guitar Strummin' Sponsors ($250) and Banjo Pickin' Patrons ($125)
Doors open at 7:15 p.m. for our Fiddlin' Friends ($50, general admission tickets)
Music starts at 7:30 p.m.

The evening will also feature a Silent Auction for your bidding pleasure and an afterglow dessert reception provided by Café Felix for patrons at all ticket levels.

Performance:Masters Recital: Jing Irene Wu, trombone
2012-11-18 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
PROGRAM: Martin - Ballade; Chambers - 3B&##39;s; Gonzalez - Cantos; Arutunian - Armenian Scenes; Jobim - No More Blues
