Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Annual Employee Art Exhibition
2013-09-22 08:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit) | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery –South Lobby, Floor 1.
Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by U-M Health System faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It is our pleasure to display the artistic accomplishments and showcase the exceptional talent and creativity of our UMHS family. For this eagerly anticipated annual event, 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 to be held on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2012 from 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the exhibit gallery.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Contemporary Forged Jewelry
2013-09-22 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2
Deborah Fehrenbach believes that jewelry should be fun, bold and exciting. She plays texture against mirror finishes and loves to include movement and dimension to create bold, yet feminine jewelry. She includes Tahitian pearls, natural stones and materials, custom glass, enameling and raku pottery in her designs. Exhibiting her work both nationally and internationally, Fehrenbach also teaches near her studio in southeastern Michigan. Her award winning sterling silver and gold jewelry is all hand fabricated and forged, using traditional goldsmithing techniques combined with unconventional methods.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Presence: Macro-Botanical Photography
2013-09-22 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1.
Robert W. Cleveland was an advertising photographer for 30 years after studying botany at Alma College and art at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His macro-botanical landscapes allow the eye to travel beneath the surface of reality into a realm of visual surprises of texture, color, light and design. Cleveland sees his photographs as metaphorical, inviting viewers to experience the totality of nature's presence and the wonderment and tranquility it can evoke. Cleveland resides in Michigan, but also enjoys exploring Hawaii, Japan, Europe, the western United States as well as Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Landscapes: Collage
2013-09-22 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2
Ann Arbor artist Cheryl Dawdy received her BA from U-M and then dabbled in different media (printmaking, weaving, natural dyes) until discovering collage. She adores it for its spontaneity and perfect expression of her "make it up as you go along" approach to life. Expectation invites disappointment, she contends, but an open mind offers unlimited potential. With that attitude, she works with old postcards, paper scraps, and pieces of old wallpaper washed with acrylic paint, creating landscape images some have described as "wonderful little worlds you want to climb into" and "the stuff of dreams." Dawdy is also a singer for the Ann Arbor based musical performance group the Chenille Sisters.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Songs of the Birds: Airbrushed Acrylics
2013-09-22 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1
Mixing science and art, local artist Carol Hanna interprets the songs of birds using visual language that represents the color of the birds and the notes of their songs. The various stripe combinations of vibrating color in each painting represent each individual bird's measure of time or rhythm, the pitch or frequency of its vibrations per second, and the softness or loudness of its call. Hanna works with the U-M Biology Department to match each bird's exact color. Hanna has exhibited both locally and nationally, and her works are in permanent collections at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the C. S. Mott Children's and Women's Hospital. She received both a BFA and an MA from Eastern Michigan University.

Exhibition:Sibande On Campus: Exhibit: The wait seems to go on forever (mural, 2008)
2013-09-22 08:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art - Commons
Rising young South African artist Mary Sibande constructs elaborate visual narratives to consider race, gender, and class in post-colonial South Africa. Rooted in her own family’s history of three generations of women as domestic servants, Sibande’s larger-than-life figures clothed in yards of fabric confront the viewer with the stark limits of cultural heritage as well as the possibility of transformation. Sibande’s Ann Arbor fellowship includes an original installation at the U-M Institute for the Humanities gallery, a Penny Stamps lecture, an open studio at the Stamps School on North Campus, and exhibition of Sibande’s existing work at Gallery DAAS, the U-M Museum of Art, and the Stamps School Slusser Gallery.

Exhibition:Harmon of Michigan
2013-09-22 09:00 - 17:00 | Bentley Historical Library - Lobby
The Bentley Historical Library is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibit, “Harmon of Michigan” focusing on the life and career of University of Michigan football legend Tom Harmon. The exhibition, in conjunction with the "unretiring" of Harmon's famed number 98 jersey this season, highlights Harmon’s college career at Michigan, both as a student and an athlete. Using archival documents, photographs, and artifacts, including material recently acquired through Harmon’s son, Mark Harmon, the exhibit traces Harmon’s career as the University of Michigan’s first Heisman Trophy winner, World War II pilot and war hero, and a pioneering radio and television broadcaster. The exhibit is curate by Greg Kinney.

Exhibition:"Performing Still Images: David Claerbout and Matthew Buckingham"
2013-09-22 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Hours are noon-5 p.m. Sundays; closed Mondays.

Exhibition:American Foodways: The Jewish Contribution
2013-09-22 13:00 - 19:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
Highlighting Jewish contributions to American culinary history from 1660 to 2013, this exhibit includes Jewish-American charity cookbooks representing all fifty states from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan Library. Many other treasures will also be on display, including the first Jewish cookbook published in America (1871). Original early works will be on display in the Audubon Room, with examples of 20th and 21st century items in the North Lobby cases of the Hatcher Library.

Curated by Jan Longone, Adjunct Curator in the U-M Special Collections Library, and Avery Robinson, Graduate Student in Judaic Studies, the exhibit is available during Audubon Room hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-7pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 1-7pm.

Please join us for an exhibit lecture and reception on September 24 at 4:00 p.m.

Presentation:Growing Orchids to Their Potential
2013-09-22 14:00 - 17:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
John Stubbings of Texas-based Clown Alley Orchids is an accredited AOS orchid judge. He will have a number of different types of orchids for sale. Also, show & tell of members’ orchids in bloom, a raffle table of orchids and related items, and orchid plants and supplies for sale. Free. Presented by Ann Arbor Orchid Society.

Social / Informal Gathering:Panhellenic Recruitment - Bid Day
2013-09-22 17:00 | Off Campus Location - Chapter Houses
Students who complete the recruitment process and receive a bid attend a welcome event with their new sororities.

Performance:Music in the Arb
2013-09-22 19:00 | Nichols Arboretum
Classical music in the amphitheater at Nichols Arboretum with local professional chamber orchestra group Arborata. Bring a picnic dinner (no alcohol, please) and a blanket or chair to enjoy. Weather permitting. Free. Presented by Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum.

Performance:Specialist Recital: Olivia Betzen, soprano
2013-09-22 19:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Previn - Sallie Chisum Remembers Billy The Kid; Cipullo - Late Summer; Derr - I Never Saw Another Butterfly; Poulenc - FianÃ§ailles pour rire; Granados - Selections from ColecciÃ³n de tonadillas; Flanders/Swann - A Word On My Ear

Performance:California Guitar Trio
2013-09-22 19:30 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
The California Guitar Trio plays progressive rock, surf music, jazz, blues, country, probably the definitive version of "Bohemian Rhapsody," and some traditional North African and Asian sounds for good measure. And did you hear them at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival a few years ago, playing the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, minus the voices but with pretty much everything else intact? Their latest album is "Masterworks," an all-classical release featuring music by Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Schubert, Rossini, Vivaldi, and Arvo PÃ¤rt. Like most Californians, the three members of the California Guitar Trio all come from someplace else: Bert Lams is Belgian, Hideyo Moriya is from Japan (where the band has a strong following), and Paul Richards is from Salt Lake City. The CGT is a melding of diverse talents unlike anything you've heard before, and one you can't afford to miss!
