Other:Gifts of Art Call for Entries 2013-2014
2013-03-28 00:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location
Gifts of Art is currently accepting proposals for our Aug 2013-Aug 2014 exhibit year! As one of the first and most comprehensive arts in healthcare programs nationwide, Gifts of Art brings the world of art & music to the University of Michigan Health System. Our nine galleries display over 50 exhibits a year. They include 2-D and 3-D spaces that are viewed by approximately 10,000 people a day. This makes our galleries some of the most widely visited indoor, non-museum exhibit spaces in the state. Submission deadline is May 15, 2013. http://www.med.umich.edu/goa/submissions.htm

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Blown Away: epiphany studios glass
2013-03-28 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery –South Lobby, Floor 1.
A glassmaker from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, April Wagner creates beautiful hand-blown glass at her studio – epiphany studios in Pontiac, Michigan. Wagner has been working with molten glass since 1993, and she creates each piece by hand working at a 2000 °F furnace. Whether functional or decorative, the distinctive look of Wagner's work comes from her unusual combination of traditional Venetian glassmaking techniques and the unique methods she has developed over the years. Wagner's work has been commissioned for many prominent public and private collections including GM, Pfizer, Strategic Staffing Solutions, Vladimir Putin, Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Celebrations of Confetti: Bead Woven Jewelry
2013-03-28 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery –Main Corridor, Floor 2
Michigan artist Mary Cody designs colorful jewelry with a subtle message meant to inspire creativity and hope. Speck size 24 kt gold, palladium and glass beads are freely combined in her original weavings. She"picks up the pieces," a look that came by accident after costly beads scattered across the floor. Cody sees her work as representing the lessons in our lives – the unforeseen events often prior to beautiful blessings. Her work has been accepted in fine art shows from Ann Arbor, Michigan to Bellevue, Washington and has been described as miniature works of stained glass.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Charley Harper by Motawi: Ceramic Art Tile
2013-03-28 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level B2
This exhibit features Motawi's new collection of tiles based on the work of beloved wildlife artist Charley Harper (1922-2007). Harper's work is modern, sophisticated and completely charming. His minimal graphic style lends itself perfectly to Motawi's cuenca tile making technique. Nawal Motawi graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Fine Art. In 1992, she founded Motawi Tileworks in a garage studio. Today, Nawal employs more than 30 people and sells tile through hundreds of retailers around the county. In addition to this exhibit of newly released tiles, the University Hospital has Motawi tile murals in the east and west Patient Elevator Lobbies on floors 1-8.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Folding in Color: Origami Landscapes
2013-03-28 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery –Main Corridor, Floor 2
Linda Stephen's original origami bas relief landscapes incorporate elements of the Japanese textile arts of origami (paper folding), oshi-e (paintings from quilted silk scraps) and chigiri-e (painting with paper). Stephen is originally from Big Rapids, Michigan, but she lived and worked in Japan as a teacher and translator for seven years. Seeing origami as a metaphor for hope, she is inspired by nature – from the bustle of farmers markets, to cranes circling a snowy corn field, to children skipping in the rain. Linda Stephen's origami art landscapes are part of public and private collections across the U.S. and Japan, from the JW Marriott Grand Rapids’ Sister City Collection to the City Hall in Omihachiman, Japan.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Hidden Glimpses of Nature: Photography
2013-03-28 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1
The photography of Charles St. Charles reveals hidden glimpses of nature that few people have witnessed or are even aware exist. His work covers a vast spectrum, from the scale of very small while recording light passing through the natural lens of miniscule dew drops, to the scale of the very large while recording fields of daisies and fields of stars in the same image. The briefest moments of kissing and cavorting fox kits are frozen in time, while extraordinary long exposures taken during the night expose brilliant fall foliage surrounded by moving mist. Charles' unmanipulated images all point to the same conclusion – it is a phenomenal world that we live in.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Metalmorphosis 2013: Jewelry & Metalwork Group Show
2013-03-28 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1
This past year, the Michigan Silversmith Guild celebrated its 65th anniversary of serving the regional jewelry and metalsmithing community. Its lectures, workshops, exhibitions and other events serve the goal of broadening the knowledge of its members' craft and facilitating communication with other metalsmiths. This exhibition is a contemporary survey of work from a select group of teachers and their students. They are from art centers, workshops and home classrooms found in Michigan, Northern Ohio and Indiana. Work on display presents both faculty and student work and highlights the opportunities found in nearby regions in continuing arts education.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Off the Walls: Digital Pigment Ink Prints
2013-03-28 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery –South Lobby, Floor 1
Judith Engel Jacobs, an Ann Arbor native and U-M School of Art & Design graduate, has exhibited her drawings, collages and monotypes for over 45 years locally, regionally and nationally. Always interested in the worn surfaces and graffiti of city walls, she transitioned to digital printmaking in 1999. In her recent series, Wall Portraits, she creates imaginary walls onscreen using Photoshop layers made from her photos and scans of various materials including her own paper and paste collages. After further manipulation, the image is printed on a digital fine art printer using archival (pigment-based) inks and paper.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Precious People: Black & White Photography
2013-03-28 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1.
Over the past 30 years, Marco Mancinelli has evolved in his craft, combining the skills of a photojournalist, the heart of a humanitarian, and the eye of a documentary filmmaker and fine artist. Whether photographing celebrities, social events or creating sensitive portraits, Mancinelli's eye for the heart of his subjects makes his work matchless in the world of photography. Former photographer for LIFE Magazine and the Detroit Opera House, Mancinelli was awarded Michigan Photographer of the Year and Detroit Photographer of the Year four times. He currently travels the world for organizations, corporations, publications and private clients.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Wedding Book: Oil on Linen
2013-03-28 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1
Figurative artist Mary Hatch studied fine arts at Skidmore College in New York State and then earned a BA in Art Education and an MA in painting from Western Michigan University. She now works in her studio in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Hatch's work is included in over 300 public and private collections in the US and Canada with an exhibition record of more than 30 one-person shows in as many years. Hatch continues to explore the fascinating and ever changing world we inhabit today, our customs and rituals that hold to the past while progressing uncertainly toward the future. Her ongoing series Wedding Book suggests this in-between state which is always the present.

Exhibition:Interrupted Life
2013-03-28 08:00 - 17:00 | Lane Hall - Lane Hall Gallery, 204 S. State Street (corner of Washington)
Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is an exhibition of five linked installation pieces examining women's experiences of incarceration alongside contemporary issues of human rights and social justice. The exhibit conveys the stark realities of incarceration, especially its impact on mothers and their children.

Interrupted Life features artwork created by inmates as well as actual correspondence between an incarcerated mother and her daughter.

Rickie Solinger is a historian and curator who writes about reproductive and welfare politics, and the relationships of race and class to these issues. She authored the award-winning Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade. Her new book is Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know.

For more than two decades, Solinger has been curating traveling exhibitions about these matters, aiming to "interrupt the curriculum."

This event is hosted by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and Women's Studies, with support from Afroamerican and African Studies, American Culture, Center for the Education of Women, English Language and Literature, Ford School of Public Policy, History, History of Art, Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, School of Social Work, and the Understanding Race Theme Semester.

Exhibition:Exhibit: The Geography of Colorants
2013-03-28 08:30 - 23:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd floor Hatcher South
The Geography of Colorants exhibit, inspired by the thesis "The Geography of Significant Colorants: Antiquity to the Twentieth Century" by Melissa Zagorski, explores the use of color in antique maps as well as the geographical origins of colorants used to make them.

Exhibition:“Kelsey Contemporaries: Kayla Romberger and Alisha Wessler”
2013-03-28 09:00 - 16:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Alisha Wessler’s “Compass” is from the exhibit “Kelsey Contemporaries: Kayla Romberger and Alisha Wessler,” open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday through June 16 at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. The exhibit features the work of Master of Fine Arts students Romberger and Wessler from the School of Art & Design and Museum Studies Program.

Exhibition:Ann Arbor Area Pastelists Exhibit
2013-03-28 09:00 - 23:00 | Michigan Union - Art Lounge
Located in the Michigan Union Art Lounge and sponsored by the Center for Campus Involvement, this exhibit features pastel paintings from local Ann Arbor area artists.

Visit and enjoy the exhibit from March 4-28. A reception will be held on Sunday, March 10th from 3-5pm in the Art Lounge.

Information about the artists and the exhibit:

The Ann Arbor Area Pastelists (AAAP) is a group of committed local pastel artists who meet to share their creative insights and support one another at monthly critique meetings. They began as an outgrowth of the Great Lakes Pastel Society, which is based in Grand Rapids and covers several states. AAAP members choose to share their work with the community by exhibiting annually in Washtenaw County.

Pastels are dry pigment combined with a binder to form sticks of color. Artists use an assortment of colors and drawing techniques to create pastel works, from linear drawings to richly layered pastel paintings. AAAP exhibits a variety of styles and approaches to this colorful and versatile medium.

Exhibition:Language Comes After Artist: The Work of Lynne Avadenka
2013-03-28 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Gallery, #1010
Lynne Avadenka is the 2013 Jill S. Harris Visiting Artist at the Institute for the Humanities. An established book artist from Detroit who has had her own one-woman press for 25 years, she is a recent recipient of the Kresge Award and an inaugural fellow at the American Academy in Jerusalem. Her work considers text, ancient and new, often incorporating old scripture, and traditional themes into modern and abstract compositions. It also examines books, handmade and digital, the value imbued into them and extrapolated out of them while wrestling with ideas of meaning, aesthetics, image, and language. www.lynneavadenka.com

This exhibit is presented in collaboration with M Library as well as the U-M Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, which will exhibit Lynne Avadenka's books.

Exhibition:Race: Are we so different?
2013-03-28 09:00 | Ruthven Museums Building
People are different. Throughout history, these differences have been a source of community strength and personal identity. They have also been the basis for discrimination and oppression.

The idea of “race” has been used historically to describe these differences and to justify mistreatment of people and even genocide. Today, contemporary scientific understanding of human variation is beginning to challenge “racial” differences, and even challenge the very concept of race.

Race: Are we so different?, developed by the American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota, is the first national exhibition to tell the stories of race from the biological, cultural, and historical points of view. Combining these perspectives offers an unprecedented look at race and racism in the United States. For more information about the exhibit, visit www.UnderstandingRace.org. The traveling Race exhibit has inspired the University of Michigan’s Understanding Race Project, an audience engagement initiative including the campus-wide, winter term Understanding Race Theme Semester, centered in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; participation by all ten public school districts in Washtenaw County; and extensive involvement by community members, nonprofits, government agencies, and other groups.

Exhibition:Ross Art Collection
2013-03-28 09:00 - 17:00 | Ross School of Business
The Ross Art Collection at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business is displayed at locations around the school and online at www.bus.umich.edu/RossArt/collection/.

Other:18th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
2013-03-28 10:00 - 19:00 | Duderstadt Center - Gallery
PCAP is proud to present the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. Since its inception in 1996, this nationally recognized show has grown to be the largest exhibition of prisoner art in the country, featuring more than 300 works of art by over 200 artists. Despite limited resources, exhibition artists create work in a rich range of styles, mediums and themes. The exhibition sheds light on the talents found behind prison walls and encourages the public to take a second look, inspiring dialogue and awareness. As a result of this annual event, the amount of art created in Michigan prisons has increased dramatically, and Michigan prison artists have become national leaders, inspiring others to create art behind bars.

The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Lecture / Discussion:A Writer’s Journey: From Librarian to a Bestseller’s List–OLLI at U-M (50+)
2013-03-28 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 2900 Jackson Ave (Please car pool when possible.)
Beverly Jenkins, author. Ms. Jenkins is the nation’s premier writer of African-American historical romance fiction and specializes in 19th century African-American life. She has 30 published novels to date. She has received numerous awards, including: five Waldenbooks/ Borders Group Bestsellers Award, two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times Magazine, a Golden Pen Award from the Black Writer’s Guild, and was named one of the Top Fifty Favorite African-American Writers of the 20th Century by the nation’s largest on-line African- American book club.

Ms. Jenkins will share her experience from working as a librarian at Parke-Davis/Warner Lambert Company to becoming a best seller of historical romance novels. She has lectured at such prestigious universities as Oberlin University, the University of Illinois, and Princeton University. She speaks widely on both romance and 19th century African- American history.

Exhibition:El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa
2013-03-28 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Alfred Taubman Gallery
This exhibit is a major retrospective of African artist El Anatsui, who is widely knowns for monumental wall sculptures made from discarded bottle tops.

Exhibition:Florencia Pita/FP mod
2013-03-28 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Florencia Pita/FP mod explores the provocations and intersections of digital technology, material experimentation, femininity, and ornament in the work of Argentina-born, Los Angeles-based architect and designer Florencia Pita. The exhibition and its related publication, part of the UMMA Books series, trace the evolution of Pita's design ideology through installation pieces, urban design, tableware, furniture, and architecture, as well as small adornments. Pita's boldly colored works draw from literary, art, and biological sources; employ cutting-edge architectural fabrication techniques; and cross borders of visual art, architecture, and design.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, Laura Lynch and Hugh McPherson, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Additional generous support is provided by Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Exhibition:Francis Alys: Guards
2013-03-28 11:00 | Museum of Art
Belgian artist Francis Alys's video Guards (2005) documents sixty-four of the Queen of England's guards on a "walk" throughout the City of London. There is perhaps no more symbolically unemotional character than that of a bearskin-hat-wearing guard of the Queen of England. Yet even with no break in the guards' indifferent exterior, the tale still manages to be a powerful metaphor for the human condition. Many of the elements of Guards are found throughout Alys's work: walking, rhythm, the use of the street and bridges are all common tropes in his oeuvre. These strategies, evoking the poetic and sonic palette of the urban environment, involve a sometimes loose and other times overt relationship to social resistance and to the symbolic and often political implications of these actions.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series
2013-03-28 12:00 - 13:00 | School of Social Work Building - 1636
(FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) "Gender-based differences in the types of social interactions among older adults in Japan are examined in the context of their effects on subjective well-being. We conducted a longitudinal survey to measure changes in life satisfaction and depression, and the effects of social interaction on these measures. We find that the number of children seems to be more important as sources of social support for female rather than male elders. Further, spousal conversation and non-obligatory social interaction, such as unpaid social activities and friendships, appears to be important for both male and female older adults. Our findings suggest that social relations among Japanese elders may be moving away from more gender-dependent patterns seen in the past."

About the Speaker:
Gavin W. Hougham, a medical sociologist at the University of Chicago, is Deputy Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences and Assistant Professor of Medicine. He has published in the areas of aging, research ethics, informed consent, Japanese gerontology, trajectories of grief, and quality of care. He is currently developing new methods of data analysis using sequence pattern matching algorithms borrowed from computational genomics.

Presentation:Who Is "We"? Exhibiting Race through Local Voices
2013-03-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Museum of Art - Multi-Purpose Room (125)
The presenter discusses her theme semester exhibit that addressed the question: “What does understanding race mean here, in the local community?” She discusses practical and ethical considerations that many museums face when engaging with community members in the representation of cultural, social, and racial identities.

Performance:Gifts of Art presents Chamber Music with Piano
2013-03-28 12:10 - 13:00 | University Hospitals - Main Lobby, Floor 1
Members of the U-M Life Sciences Orchestra are joined by friends to perform Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, K297b and the Beethoven Piano Quintet, Op. 16. In addition, the group will play an excerpt from either the Beethoven or Mozart piano quintets. The musicians in the group are doctors and university professors based in Ann Arbor: William Burnham, clarinet; Ruth McAdams, oboe, Amy Kilbourne, bassoon and Edward Norton, horn. The piano accompanist is Tracey Baetzel.

Class / Instruction:Advanced French–OLLI Study Group (50+)
2013-03-28 12:30 - 14:30 | Off Campus Location - Turner Senior Resource Center, 2401 Plymouth Road, Suite C, Ann Arbor.
This is a continuation of the fall class in French competency. The class time will be organized as follows: free or structured conversation for one-half hour, grammar for one-half hour and reading “Le Rouge et le Noir” by Stendahl for one hour. We may switch from grammar to an interactive video program midway through the course. Adele McCarus is a retired French teacher in the Ann Arbor school system.

Exhibition:Recent Acquisitions: Building on the Clements Collections
2013-03-28 13:00 - 16:30 | William Clements Library
The Clements Library never stops adding to its collections of primary source material. Already one of the finest American history research libraries in the world, its curators are always seeking new items to improve traditional strengths of the collection or to support new perspectives on the study of America before 1900. This exhibit features recent acquisitions of the Book, Manuscripts, Map, and Graphics divisions and shows how they fit in to the Clements overall collections.

Workshop / Seminar:Understanding Interview Formats & Multiple Mini Interviews
2013-03-28 14:00 - 15:00 | Student Activities Building - The Career Center, 3200 SAB, 515 E. Jefferson
This session, offered twice, is part of The Career Center's "Gearing Up to Apply to Medical School" Series. Today, we will focus on the new interviewing format of the Multiple Mini-Interviews (MMIs), which is being adopted by an increasing number of medical schools.

Lecture / Discussion:Competition, Cooperation, and Community in Prison
2013-03-28 16:00 - 17:30 | Lane Hall - 2239 Lane Hall, 204 S. State Street (corner of Washington)
This talk focuses the tension between conflict and cooperation in prison by utilizing an original data set to empirically assess transgender prisoners' collective identity and collective efficacy. The findings provide evidence for inmate communities rooted in commonality of experience and identity around gender and sexuality that exist despite residing in an environment where a common mantra is "trust no one."

This event is cosponosred by IRWG-LGQRI and the School of Social Work.

Valerie Jenness is a Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and the Department of Sociology and is Dean of the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the links between deviance and social control; the politics of crime control; social movements and social change; and corrections and public policy. She is the author of three books and many articles published in sociology, law, and criminology journals.

Lecture / Discussion:Conversations on Europe/ WCED Lecture. “Fiscal Policy and Growth: Implications for the Euro Area.”
2013-03-28 16:00 - 17:30 | School of Social Work Building - 1636
Philippe Aghion, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Sponsors: CES, WCED.

Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar Series
2013-03-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200
Dr. Park is an assistant professor at the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia.

The “more transmission equals more disease” paradigm is rightly a central concept in infectious disease science. However, there are mechanisms that can lead to more complicated relationships. Hemorrhagic disease in white-tailed deer (caused by a virus vectored by biting midges) displays evidence suggesting the parasite is most active (even maintained in a source-sink sense) in regions with little, or no disease. I will lay out the case for complex and cryptic transmission using surveillance data, seroprevalence studies, statistical and mechanical models and sequence-based phylogeography. In addition to reflecting on the power of interdisciplinary science to shed light on disease ecology, I will review the potential for similar processes to operate widely in a range of disease systems along with the challenge that cryptic refuges for parasites brings regarding surveillance, intervention and inference.

Presentation:Learning from Museum Collections: The Creation of New Knowlsedge from Old Data
2013-03-28 16:00 - 17:30 | Haven Hall - Eldersveld Room (5670)
The presenter will discuss digital representations of museum collections and how museum practice affects research use of these collections.

Workshop / Seminar:Moving from Career Success to Retirement Success
2013-03-28 16:00 - 18:00 | Center for the Education of Women - 330 E. Liberty Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
This workshop will help you plan for the non-financial aspects of this decision, such as redefining who you are, exploring new interests and opportunities, and maintaining social connections. You will also learn about what researchers find makes for retirement success.

For those anticipating retirement in the next 24 months, this six-session group on preparing for a satisfying retirement will combine exploration of retirement topics with supportive discussion.

The focus of this group will be the transition of retirement and the challenges that come with it -- from questions like "How will I define myself?" to suggestions like revisiting life priorities. (This series will not cover financial planning).

Fee: $150 (Registration and fee cover all sessions)

Space is very limited, so register early! Please click on the provided link to register for this series.

Presentation:Orientation and Q&A for Students Considering a Concentration or Minor in International Studies
2013-03-28 16:00 - 17:00 | School of Social Work Building - 2609
If you are considering a concentration or minor in international studies you should plan to attend an information session. The CICS director and academic advisors will discuss prerequisites, degree requirements, and the increasing importance of international studies in a globally networked workplace.

Attendance at one of these sessions, while not strictly required, is still strongly encouraged. We appreciate the efficiency of sharing the same basic information fewer times, and you'll get better information because more students asking questions means fewer questions you later wish you had asked. And the if you like what you hear, you can declare on the spot.

A half hour presentation will be followed by time for questions and discussion.

Lecture / Discussion:Th 6th Annual Faeth Memorial Lecture
2013-03-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - Boeing Lecture Hall
Dr. Alan H. Epstein, Pratt & Whitney, is the 6th Annual Gerard M. Faeth Memorial Lecture guest speaker. Dr. Epstein will give a lecture entitled, “Aeropropulsion for Commercial Aviation in the 21st Century and Research Directions Needed.” His lecture will focus on two driving imperatives of 21st century commercial aviation and how each will improve fuel consumption and reduce environmental impact. He will outline specific ways that designers and researchers can realign their research priorities to address 21st century challenges, and prepare for new opportunities. Register for the webcast!

Performance:Masters Recital: Azariah Peng Chay Tan, piano
2013-03-28 17:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
PROGRAM: Brahms - Violin Sonata no.3 in D Minor, op. 108; Strauss - Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, op. 18

Lecture / Discussion:Carmelita Tropicana: Kunst Waffen
2013-03-28 17:10 | Off Campus Location
Events in the Penny Stamps series are always free of charge and open to the public.

Alina Troyano, aka Carmelita Tropicana, straddles the world of performance art and theatre using irreverent humor and fantasy to rewrite history from the viewpoints of woman, man, child, and assorted animals and insects. As a bicultural artist, she uses both spoken language and a visual language that integrates live performance with mutimedia, and costumes of fruit, faux fur, camouflage, and Saran wrap to provide social commentary.

Established with the generous support of UM School of Art and Design alumna Penny W. Stamps, the Stamps Speaker Series brings respected emerging and established artists/designers from a broad spectrum of media to the School to conduct a public lecture and engage with students, faculty, and the larger University and Ann Arbor communities.

Additional support is provided by our media sponsor, Michigan Radio. With support from the Program in Latina/o Studies, Program in American Culture, Department of Theatre and Drama, and the Office of the Provost UM Dearborn.

Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
2013-03-28 17:10 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater
Unless otherwise noted, all programs take place on Thursdays at 5:10 pm at the historic Michigan Theater, located at 603 E. Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor, and are free of charge and open to the public.

January 17: RENOIR and SURREALIST PARIS in Black & White
A short film directed by Renoir in the late twenties, right after he had discovered jazz, Sur un air de Charleston is a little masterpiece, albeit unknown, of the silent movie period. In 2028 Paris, a mysterious African explorer lands with his aeronef on Terra Incognita. There, he meets a beautiful young Parisian dancer, who eventually initiates him to the pleasures of Charleston.
An essay in reverse anthropology, a burlesque and surrealist vaudeville, Sur un air de Charleston is a singular piece of art. A product of the roaring twenties, it can be construed as a critique of France’s racial context, then at the height of its colonial Empire. But it also has to be considered on the much broader scale of transatlantic cultural exchanges. Thus, we start to envision some of the unsuspected links that irrigate and reconfigure the seamingly neat cartography of Western modernism.
Two musicians, Olivier Thémines and Guillaume Hazebrouck, invite you with anthropologist Emmanuel Parent to discover this astonishing movie with a ciné-concert/conference. The movie, accompanied by a live original music, will be followed by a lecture and discussion on the question of race within the artistic context of 1920s France.

January 24: WILSON SMITH
Wilson W. Smith III is a Design Director at Nike, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon. Smith is currently involved in Nike's Better World projects, and is a lead designer as a part of Nike's "Innovation Kitchen". After becoming a Senior Designer in 1990, Smith was involved primarily with the concepts of Nike's cross-training and basketball products.
Smith established much of the design direction for Tennis footwear throughout the 1990s, and created many athlete-endorsed products including Andre Agassi's signature line. In 1997, Wilson Smith became the first dedicated designer for Jordan brand, and is best known for designing the Jordan 16(XVI) and 17(XVII). In 2003, Wilson became the Design Director of Nike Court, encompassing all tennis & racquet driven footwear, while also designing signature products for Nike endorsees Serena Williams, and Roger Federer. Black Enterprise Magazine recently named Wilson one of America’s Top Black Designers.

January 31: LISA STRAUSFELD
Lisa Strausfeld’s work lies at the intersection of physical and virtual space: where information structures and physical structures meet, and where the navigation of information and the navigation of buildings join in a single experience. She and her team specialize in digital information projects including the design of large-scale media installations, software prototypes and user interfaces, signage and websites for a broad range of civic, cultural and corporate clients including One Laptop per Child, GE, Litl, Bloomberg, Gallup, The New York Times, M.I.T., Brown University, the Museum of Arts and Design and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Strausfeld holds four patents relating to user interfaces and intelligent search and retrieval, and in 2006 she was named to the Senior Scientist program at the Gallup Organization. In addition to many awards and honors, Strausfeld was selected as one of Fast Company's "Masters of Design" in 2009 and received the National Design Award in the category of Interaction Design in 2010.

February 7: El ANATSUI
El Anatsui was born in Anyanko, Ghana in 1944. Many of Anatsui’s sculptures are mutable in form, conceived to be so free and flexible that they can be shaped in any way and altered in appearance for each installation. Working with wood, clay, metal, and–most recently–the discarded metal caps of liquor bottles, Anatsui breaks with sculpture’s traditional adherence to forms of fixed shape while visually referencing the history of abstraction in African and European art. The colorful and densely patterned fields of the works assembled from discarded liquor-bottle caps also trace a broader story of colonial and postcolonial economic and cultural exchange in Africa, told in the history of cast-off materials. The sculptures in wood and ceramics introduce ideas about the function of objects (their destruction, transformation, and regeneration) in everyday life, and the role of language in deciphering visual symbols. El Anatsui received a BA from the College of Art, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (1969) and since 1975 has taught at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His works are in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art; British Museum, London; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, among many others. Major exhibitions of his work have appeared at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (2011); Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (2010); National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka (2010); Rice University Art Gallery, Houston (2010); Venice Biennale (2007); and the Biennale of African Art, Senegal (2006). El Anatsui lives and works in Nsukka, Nigeria.

February 21: TANIA BRUGUERA
Tania Bruguera is one of the leading political and performance artists of her generation. Her work researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life, creating a public forum to debate ideas in a state of contradiction, focusing on the transformation of the "viewer" into one of "citizenry." Bruguera's terms “arte de conducta” (conduct/behavior art) and “arte Ãºtil” (useful art) define her practice. In 2010, Bruguera launched Immigrant Movement International, a five-year project that helps define the immigrant as a unique, new global citizen in a postnational world and tests the concept of “useful art,” by artists actively implementing the merging of art into society’s urgent social, political, and scientific issues.
Bruguera’s work has been presented internationally at Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany and several biennials including Performa, Venice, Gwangju, and Havana. She has exhibited at the Tate Modern, London; KÃ¼nsthalle Wien, Vienna; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

March 14: LYNDA BARRY
Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator and teacher and found they are very much alike. She is the inimitable creator behind the seminal comic strip that was syndicated across North America in alternative weeklies for two decades, Ernie Pook's Comeek, as well as the books One! Hundred! Demons!, The! Greatest! of! Marlys!, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! and The Good Times are Killing Me, which was adapted as an off-Broadway play and won the Washington State Governor's Award. In 2011, Drawn & Quarterly published Blabber Blabber Blabber, the first in a 10-volume retrospective series of her comics work. Her bestselling and acclaimed creative writing-how to-graphic novel for Drawn & Quarterly, What It Is (2008), won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Graphic Novel and R.R. Donnelly Award for highest literary achievement by a Wisconsin author.
What It Is (2008) is based on “Writing the Unthinkable”, a tried-and-true method creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or remember. With What It Is and Picture This (2010), Barry explores the depths of the inner and outer realms of creation and imagination, where play can be serious, monsters have purpose, and not knowing is an answer unto itself.

March 21: KEN BURNS
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has been producing films for PBS for more than 25 years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made. A December 2002 poll conducted by Real Screen Magazine listed The Civil War as second only to Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North as the “most influential documentary of all time,” and named Ken Burns and Robert Flaherty as the “most influential documentary makers” of all time. In March, 2009, David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun said, “”¦ Burns is not only the greatest documentarian of the day, but also the most influential filmmaker period. That includes feature filmmakers like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. I say that because Burns not only turned millions of persons onto history with his films, he showed us a new way of looking at our collective past and ourselves.” The late historian Stephen Ambrose said of his films, “More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source.” Ken’s films have won twelve Emmy Awards and two Oscar nominations, and in September of 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Burns' documentaries include The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mark Twain, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, The War, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, Prohibition and The Dust Bowl.

March 28: CARMELITA TROPICANA
Carmelita Tropicana (a.k.a. Alina Troyano) is a performance artist, playwright, and actor. Troyano burst on New York’s downtown performing arts scene in the eighties with her alter ego, the spitfire Carmelita Tropicana and her counterpart, the irresistible archetypal Latin macho Pingalito Betancourt, followed by performances as Hernando Cortez’s horse and la Cucaracha Martina from her childhood fairy tales in Cuba. In Tropicana’s work humor and fantasy become subversive tools to rewrite history.
Tropicana’s performances plays and videos have been presented at venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Hebbel Am Ufer in Berlin, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea in Barcelona, the Berlin International Film Festival, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Mark Taper Forum’s Kirk Douglas Theater in Los Angeles, and El Museo del Barrio in New York. Her work has received funding support from the Independent Television Service, the Jerome Foundation, and the Rockefeller Suitcase Fund. She has received numerous awards including the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts as well as an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Performance. She is the author of a collection of performance pieces and short essays called I, Carmelita Tropicana: Performing between Cultures (2000).

April 4: PAOLA ANTONELLI
Perspectives
Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design and Director of Research and Development at the Museum of Modern Art. Her first MOMA exhibition was, Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design (1995). Her latest exhibition was 2011’s Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects. Antonelli earned the “Design Mind” Smithsonian Institution’s National Design Award and was named one of the 25 most incisive design visionaries by Time Magazine. She has been a contributing Editor for Domus magazine, an editor of Abitare, and the author of the publication Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design. Antonelli’s goal is to insistently promote design’s understanding until its positive influence on the world is fully acknowledged and exploited. She is currently at work on contemporary design exhibitions, and on Design Bites, a book about foods as examples of outstanding design.
Paola Antonelli's lecture, originally scheduled for November 1, 2012, will take place on April 4, 2013.
With support from Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the U-M Museum of Art.

April 11: MASSIMO BANZI
Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project. He is an Interaction Designer, Educator and Open Source Hardware advocate. He has worked as a consultant for clients such as: Prada, Artemide, Persol, Whirlpool, V&A Museum and Adidas.
Massimo started the first FabLab in Italy which led to the creation of Officine Arduino, a FabLab/Makerspace based in Torino.
He spent 4 years at the Interaction Design Institue Ivrea as Associate Professor. Massimo has taught workshops and has been a guest speaker at institutions all over the world.
Before joining IDII he was CTO for the Seat Ventures incubator. He spent many years working as a software architect,both in Milan and London, on projects for clients like Italia Online, Sapient, Labour Party, BT, MCI WorldCom, SmithKlineBeecham, Storagetek, BSkyB and boo.com.
Massimo is also the author of Getting Started with Arduino, published by O’Reilly Press. He is a regular contributor to the italian edition of Wired Magazine and Che Futuro, an online magazine about innovation.
He currently teaches Interaction Design at SUPSI Lugano in the south of Switzerland and is a visiting professor at CIID in Copenhagen.

Presentation:People, Power, Place: Health, Race & Equity in Our Neighborhoods
2013-03-28 17:45 - 19:45 | Michigan League - Ballroom
-The average age of death for African Americans in the city of Ypsilanti, Superior Township and Scio Township is comparable to the life expectancy of citizens in Haiti, Rwanda and Ghana.

-The high school dropout rates in Ypsilanti and Willow Run are higher than those of other states in the nation.

-Washtenaw County has one of the greatest income inequality levels in the state of Michigan.

-African American infants in Washtenaw County are twice as likely as whites to be born early and underweight. They are also three times more likely to die before their first birthday.

These and other public health facts about Washtenaw County will be highlighted in a unique, research-based dramatization, featuring the work of UM SPH alumna, Adreanne Waller, Epidemiologist. The dramatization will also feature acting by SPH HBHE masters student, Carol Gray.

The UM School of Public Health is pleased to offer this event to the Theme Semester on Understanding Race as an opportunity for the UM community, along with our local community, to explore health equity in our own neighborhoods on a deeper and more personal level.

Reception to follow.

Sponsored by: U-M School of Public Health, Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, School of Social Work, Alumni Association, Educational Theatre Company, Washtenaw County Public Health, and Understanding Race Project.

Exhibition:Pesha's Journey: From Rabbi's Daughter to Radical Feminist
2013-03-28 18:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Room 1022
“Pesha's Journey” tells the story, in pictures and words, of Pesha–a Jewish woman born into an orthodox Palestine family who struggled to live a life unfettered by the oppressive bonds of her cultural moment. The photos, taken between 1911 and 1940, trace her early life to her education in Germany and, eventually, her marriage and move to New York with husband Benno, the photographer who took many of these pictures. These images and Pesha’s story were discovered after Benno’s death by his son, Eric Bermann, who co-curated this exhibit.

Exhibition:M-Passioned Art Reception
2013-03-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Michigan Union - Art Lounge ( First floor on your right when you walk into the union
M-Passioned Art is an exciting new program in which your fellow wolverines,talented students and organizations were selected to customize a 4’x4’x6” wooden “M” which will showcased all over campus. This is it come see the unveiling of all of the "M"s and meet the artists. Enjoy some appetizers and drinks hope to see you there!

Film Screening:10x10 Presents: Girl Rising
2013-03-28 19:00 - 21:00 | North Quad - Room 2435
Sponsored by University of Michigan AfricAid

UM AfricAid is screening the 10x10 film Girl Rising, which spotlights the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change a girl - and the world. Many millions of girls face barriers to education that boys do not. We can help break those barriers by bringing global attention to the enormous benefits of educating girls.

FREE! No registration required. For additional information go the the UMAfricAid website.

Lecture / Discussion:Understanding Intimate Partner Violence And Why Race Matters
2013-03-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Kraus Natural Science - Natural Science Auditorium (room 2140)
The author of “The Ultimate Betrayal: A Renewed Look at Intimate Partner Violence,” Tricia Bent-Goodley is Professor of Social Work and Chair of the Community, Administration and Policy Practice Sequence at Howard University School of Social Work. She has a passion for advancing social justice and human rights in relation to women’s development, violence against women, and issues impacting Black families and communities. Dr. Bent-Goodley’s research has focused on violence against women and girls, HIV prevention, and healthy relationship education. She has received the Council on Social Work Education’s National Award for Distinguished Achievement in Social Work Education.

Reception and Community Conversation after the program.

Performance:Ariadne auf Naxos
2013-03-28 19:30 | Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
University Opera Theatre directed by Kay Walker Castaldo, University Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Kamal Khan In this opera mixing sublime music with slapstick comedy, opera divas are forced to join with Commedia dell’arte actors to present the Greek myth of Ariadne. Sung in German with projected translations. League Ticket Office 734-764-2538

Performance:Dance MFA Thesis Concert: Other
2013-03-28 20:00 | Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theatre
Anna ”˜Tru’ Jonkman, dancer/choreographer

Performance:Masters Recital: Kristin Lloyd, harp
2013-03-28 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
PROGRAM: Britten - Suite for Harp, op. 83; Bax - Elegiac Trio; Renie - Contemplation; Ginastera - Harp Concerto, op. 25.

Performance:Masters Recital: Ryan Reynolds, bassoon
2013-03-28 20:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
PROGRAM: Beecher - High Sierra Zen; Reise - Yellowstone Rhythms; Mellits - Black; Hutchinson - bioMechanics; Wilson - The Avatar.

Other:Public Skate
2013-03-28 20:00 - 21:50 | 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:Thao & the Get Down Stay Down
2013-03-28 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
Based in San Francisco after growing up in Falls Church, Virginia, Thao Nguyen first picked up a guitar at age 12. She has worked with a long list of acclaimed artists including Andrew Bird, Mirah, Laura Veirs and producer Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens). This year, in addition to recording her forthcoming album, Thao has toured the US with the nationally syndicated NPR program “Radiolab.” Says the New York Times: "Ms. Nguyen’s voice, wobbly and rich, is engaging, and her gently confessional lyrics ”¦ are equally beguiling.” And Spin calls the new Thao & The Get Down Stay Down single, "Holy Roller," "a lusty yet flighty song ... an intricate, enigmatically charming creation. The group's new release "We the Common," Thao says, "is an album about wanting to be a human who tries and is grateful for the opportunity. It is about wanting to be better and closer to people." This is a fresh sound that is breaking out all over! Tonight's opener is Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, who mine a sweet spot between modern and vintage. Sallie’s voice has elicited comparisons to classic jazz and blues icons, yet it is stoked with the fire of youth and rebellion; it's an instrument capable of conveying raw emotion and nuanced artistry in the same breath.

Performance:University Philharmonia Orchestra
2013-03-28 20:00 | Hill Auditorium
Christopher James Lees, conductor This chamber orchestra concert brings together a philosophical inquiry, a romantic musical gift, and a staple of German string repertoire together to create a unique blend of styles and characters. PROGRAM: Ives - The Unanswered Question; Wagner - Sigfried Idyll; Mendelssohn - Sinfonia No. 7
