Archive for August 24th, 2014
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Shopping: IKEA
Join us for a day of shopping at one of the most popular stores around. IKEA is one big store filled with thousands of items for kitchen,...
Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys
Lindsay Lou Rilko was raised in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in a family of musicians. Her influences, outside the family, have been...
Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits
Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography
Crystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of...
Annual Employee Art Exhibition
UMHS Employee Artists
Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by U-M Health System faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It...
Ecosystem 1952-2014: Collage
Brenda Miller-Slomovits
Brenda Miller-Slomovits has been studying and working in the field of art and design for much of her adult life. She received a BFA in 1989...
Forest Patterns: Functional Porcelain
Tom Kendall
Using tones and leaf patterns of deep forests, Tom Kendall studies deep northern woodlands with close-up still life compositions. It is as...
Gesture, Line & Color: Ceramics
Debbie Thompson
An art teacher in Ann Arbor Public Schools for over 30 years, Debbie Thompson works predominantly in clay, finding inspiration from the...
Illuminations: Painting the Night with Light
Darlene Yeager-Torre
When the sun leaves the sky, Darlene Yeager-Torre gathers flashlights, camera and tripod and ventures into the night to create luminous...
Local Color: Pictorial Art Quilts
Sue Holdaway-Heys
Sue Holdaway-Heys is an Ann Arbor artist known for her pictorial art quilts which often use imagery from nature and the environment. She has...
Sayles Pitch: John Sayles, Author, Auteur, Independent
This student-researched exhibit features photographs, storyboards, scripts, props, and more from the archives of the American maverick...
Puzzle Me This: Early Binding Fragments and Other Evidence from the U-M Papyrology Collection
Binding fragments from the U-M Papyrology Collection—including leather covers, papyrus cartonnage, sewing evidence and thread—are...
Ann Arbor Bonsai Society Annual Show
Share the tradition of the practice and art of bonsai at the Ann Arbor Bonsai Society annual show at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Bonsai...
Exhibition: Amie Siegel: Provenance
Amie Siegel’s Provenance traces in reverse the global trade in furniture from the Indian city of Chandigarh. Conceived in the 1950s by...
Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait
Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer...
Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast
Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both...
Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham
Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented...
Guided Tour: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast
The art in this major traveling exhibition celebrates the richness and diversity of contemporary Native and First Nations art. The artists...