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GSI Teaching Orientation

The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) has designed the Graduate Student Instructor Teaching Orientation (GSITO) to help...

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...

Heart & Home: Primitive Painting

Sandra Somers

The art of Primitive Americana comes naturally to Sandra Somers who was born and raised in a small midwestern town "full of large old...

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...

Maker Spaces

This panel explores the ways in which the University Library and the Ann Arbor community maker spaces are serving the local DIY culture. U-M...

Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit

Featuring some of the earliest, rarest, most beautiful, or most unusual Dutch and Flemish books and manuscripts held by the University of...

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...