Exhibition:Operation AB - Katyn
2013-10-06 07:00 - 22:00 (America/Detroit) | Duderstadt Center - First Floor Connector Hall
Operation AB - Katyn: The Destruction of the Polish Elite at the Beginning of World War II, is divided into several thematic blocks. The first depicts the Soviet-German political and military alliance in the years 1939-1941. The next sections present the two notorious criminal operations of 1940, first the Katyn Massacre, and then the AB Operation. The exhibit also presents profiles of several victims, including families that fell victim to both aggressors. Finally, the exhibit looks at the big picture of these operations, depicting their geographical range and documenting the lack of punishment for the vast majority of the Third Reich and the USSR officers responsible for these crimes.

Sponsored by The Institute of National Remembrance, Poland
The University of Michigan, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The Polski Klub and Polish Cultural Fund - Ann Arbor

Exhibition:The Orange Revolution in Ukraine: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia
2013-10-06 07:00 - 22:00 | Michigan Union - Art Lounge, First Floor
The Orange Revolution exhibit includes campaign memorabilia from the 2004 presidential elections in Ukraine such as brochures, posters, the ubiquitous orange scarf, t-shirts, bumper stickers, postcards, pins, etc. The exhibit offers a small sampling of campaign rhetoric for and against each of the presidential candidates -- Yushchenko and Yanukovich. Yuschchenko was the pro-democracy and pro-Western candidate, while Yanukovich was backed by the pro-communist, authoritarian Ukrainian regime. The first round of voting took place in November 2004, however, the results were nullified by the Supreme Court when it determined that there was widespread election fraud. Viktor Yushchenko won the presidency during the second round of voting in December 2004. Visitors will also read about the experiences of two election observers from Michigan who were in Ukraine during those heady days of change.

Exhibition:Emergent Projects
2013-10-06 08:00 - 18:00 | Art and Architecture Building - Taubman College Gallery
The Emergent Project Student Grant is designed to foster student research and encourage collaboration beyond Taubman College. This unique opportunity supports two juried projects for continuing graduate and undergraduate students in order to recognize the outstanding work of Taubman students and provide financial support for selected projects.

The winners: Graduate students Dillon Erb and John Hilmes, "Michigan Drone Research Lab" will explore aerial drone photography. Undergraduate student Zachary Angles in "In Search of Stillness" will produce a visual essay investigating the phenomena, spiritual stillness, its creation, and some examples of its occurrences (within the Sacred and in other areas).

The Emergent Project Student Grant has been funded by a gift from the Class of 2013.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Annual Employee Art Exhibition
2013-10-06 08:00 - 20:00 | 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
2013-10-06 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
2013-10-06 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
2013-10-06 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
2013-10-06 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)
2013-10-06 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:Greetings from Gibraltar
2013-10-06 09:00 - 18:00 | North Quad - 2435
Reception: Friday, October 11 @ 7:00pm in North Quad Space 2435
Exhibition: October 1-18, 9am - 6pm

The exhibition foregrounds the Strait of Gibraltar both as a geographical unit that separates and links lands on either side, as well as a space in its own right with programs such as fishing, swimming, travelling, shipping, and conquering. Greetings from Gibraltar draws on the geographic as a design paradigm, a condition in which designers are being compelled to address and transform larger contexts and address issues, which had previously been confined to the domains of engineering, ecology, or regional planning.

The need to address such ”˜geographic’ aspects has prompted designers to re-examine tools of representation as well forms of the architectural object.

The work was developed in the context of a 2013 University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Travel Studio to the Strait of Gibraltar. Over the four weeks of June 2013, the studio travelled from Madrid through Granada, Seville, Cadiz, Gibraltar/La Linea, Algeciras, Ceuta, Tangier, and Fez. The studio was initiated in analytic and cartographic investigations of individual port-cities case studies, subsequently complied to highlight relational geographies, flows, add exchanges across the Strait. The travel journey began with a passion for sensory and aesthetic knowledge anchored by seascapes.

The resultant is a landscape that depicts space and time. The postcard-joiners construct a map of the Strait together with the series of architectural interventions proposed in that geography. It
also creates a narrative, as if the viewer moved through the space, encountering a series of detail views as well as constructing a panorama and a map of the landscape.

Gibraltar Studio 2013
Professors: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
Students: John Arnold, Peter Dumbadze, Lyla Feinsod, Phillip Gavrilovski, Monica Griffin, Andrew Ko, Yuan Liang, Yunzhi Ou, Jason Park, Austin Tsai, Adam Wagner, Suo Ya

Special thanks to Andrew Ko for coordinating the exhibition.

Acknowledgments: Monica Ponce De Leon, Dean Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

A note about the travel studio to Gibraltar:
The studio investigates the geographic as a design question. The Strait of Gibraltar is the only natural entrance to the semi-enclosed Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, second only to the Malacca Straits in Singapore. Europe and Africa are separated by 14 km at the narrowest point, and ferries cross between the two continents every day in as little as 35 minutes.

The Strait of Gibraltar has for long stimulated the architectural imaginary. As early as the 1920s the German architect Herman Sorgel proposed damming Gibraltar and draining the Mediterranean to unite Europe and Africa into a new supercontinent. The project aspired to provide a "habitat" in North Africa for an overpopulated Europe. How do contemporary issues of access to water, food, energy, and the rescaling of the political question requalify the megaproject imaginary, regional networks, and the geographic project?

The studio explores the architectural and urban potentials of the territory of Gibraltar addressing its conditions as a spatial enclave, a gateway to the Mediterranean, and a bridge between Africa and Europe. Along the lines of the journal New Geographies, the studio responds to a condition in which designers are increasingly compelled to address and transform larger contexts and to respond to problems that had been confined to the domains of engineering, ecology, or policy.

Exhibition:Harmon of Michigan
2013-10-06 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.

Workshop / Seminar:Global Health Development Coalition Conference: Students Taking Action
2013-10-06 10:00 - 18:00 | Michigan League - Ballroom
GET INVOLVED! Come and learn about groundbreaking and innovative ways to fight poverty and health inequities from a multidisciplinary approach!

This FREE one-day conference features an activism workshop, career panel, innovation session, and many other speakers, and showcases over 20 passionate global health and development student organizations on campus.

Interested? REGISTER HERE: http://staumich.weebly.com/register.html

Check out the website for more info!
http://staumich.weebly.com/

The Global Health and Development Coalition is grateful to be hosting this event in partnership with the Center for Campus Involvement, in collaboration with MESA Trotter and the College of Engineering.

Full schedule:

10:00 AM: Registration begins

10:30-11:00 AM: Opening Speaker

11:00-11:10 AM: Break

11:10 AM-12:20 PM: Innovation Sessions

12:20-1:15 PM: Lunch Break

1:15-1:50 PM: Breakout Sessions

1:50-2:30 PM: Advocacy Panel

2:30-2:40 PM: Break

2:40-3:30 PM: Professional Development Panel

3:15-3:30 PM: Speaker on Empowering Student Groups

3:30-4:00 PM: Closing Speaker

4:00-6:00 PM: Student Action Stations

Recreational / Games:Great Lakes Gardens Fall Festival & Native Plant Sale
2013-10-06 10:00 - 16:30 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Featuring hardy Great Lakes native woody plants and shrubs for sale. Plus, guided tours, live music with Joe Reilly Sunday at 2, and activities that highlight ways we can protect our region’s botanical bounty. 647-7600.

Exhibition:"Performing Still Images: David Claerbout and Matthew Buckingham"
2013-10-06 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Hours are noon-5 p.m. Sundays; closed Mondays.

Exhibition:Four Decades
2013-10-06 12:00 - 18:00 | Duderstadt Center - Gallery (Room 1019)
Four Decades, a new exhibition featuring the work of School of Art & Design Professor Dennis Guastella and Ron Teachworth will present a retrospective selection of each artist’s work from the 1970's to the present.

A public reception honoring the artists will take place in the Gallery on Sunday, October 13, from 3-5pm. (Free parking is available on Sundays.)

Both artists work in a variety of media, and have an ongoing commitment to non-objective painting.The richly developed surfaces of Dennis Guastella's paintings demonstrate his passion for the physical beauty of paint explored through a variety of application methods ranging from squeeze bottles to thick layers of acrylic paint that are dried on a non-absorbent surface, removed, and then cut and collaged onto a final painting panel.

Ron Teachworth's abstractions evolved from his early landscape paintings. These interpretations developed into paintings called "Sky Fields" where the entire canvas became a unified surface activated by thousands of small brush strokes of color.

To learn more about the artists visit their web sites below.

Dennis Guastella: http://theartofdennisguastella.blogspot.com

Ron Teachworth: http://www.ronteachworth.com

Exhibition:American Foodways: The Jewish Contribution
2013-10-06 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.

Performance:Red Noses
2013-10-06 14:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre
Dept. of Theatre & Drama A comedy by Peter Barnes, directed by Malcolm Tulip. A Catholic monk assembles a misfit band of comics to ease the suffering of man in this uproarious and thought-provoking work. League Ticket Office 734-764-2538

Exhibition:Marble Fairbanks
2013-10-06 15:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location - Liberty Gallery, 305 W. Liberty St, Ann Arbor
Marble Fairbanks is an architecture, design and research office in New York City founded in 1990 by Scott Marble and Karen Fairbanks. This exhibition will feature models and objects from design projects and some projects in process. Karen Fairbanks is being honored with the "Distinguished Alumna" award in early October.

Sponsored by The Guido A. Binda (B.S.A.A.'31) Lecture and Exhibition Fund.

Performance:Percussion Ensemble
2013-10-06 16:00 | Hill Auditorium
Joseph Gramley and Jonathan Ovalle, directors. This concert will feature Lou Harrison&##39;s seminal Concerto for Organ with Percussion Orchestra (1973) on Hill&##39;s unparalleled E. M. Skinner/Ã†olian-Skinner organ. This rarely heard work was last heard here in Ann Arbor during the San Francisco Symphony&##39;s American Mavericks festival. Other works on the program include works by John Cage and Lou Harrison (joint composition) Carlos Chavez, Peter Garland and Steven Stucky among others.

Performance:Student String Quartet Recital - CANCELLED
2013-10-06 16:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall

Film Screening:A2 KIFF 2013: Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival--Planet of Snail (ë‹¬íŒ½ì´ì˜ ë³„) 2012
2013-10-06 20:00 | Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater
Free and open to the public

"I came from the star of snails. I am closing my eyes to see the most valuable things. I am closing my ears to hear the most beautiful sounds. I am waiting in silence to speak the most truthful words. When I learned how to communicate with my fingertips, everything changed. And there was an angel who helped me open my heart."

Directed by Yi Seung-Jun (ì´ìŠ¹ì¤€). 85 minutes.

Performance:Peas Turn Up The Beet!
2013-10-06 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
Peas Turn Up The Beet is a concert put on by the Community Farm of A2, with Seth & May and Breathe Owl Breathe! If you love music, fresh veggies, friendship, happiness, and all things good–listen up! The Community Farm of Ann Arbor (Michigan’s oldest CSA), is partnering with Seth & May and Breathe Owl Breathe (Michigan’s very own musicians and prophets of our time) to put on a magical evening of song, dance, and general mitten love at Ann Arbor’s legendary concert venue, The Ark. The goal is to raise support and awareness for the Community Farm, pioneers of the local food movement, so that they may continue to nurture the Ann Arbor area with delicious, fresh, organic, biodynamic vegetables.
