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Breathe Owl Breathe

Michigan's Breathe Owl Breathe is a trio with roots in indie, classical, and traditional music. They play original songs that combine...

Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits

D-SIP: U-M Paid Internship

Join a diverse community of undergraduates taking advantage of University of Michigan's unique, 12-week paid development internship....

Juried Art Competition

The Juried Art Competition is an annual art exhibit put on by the University of Michigan's Center for Campus Involvement in mid-January...

Women's History Exhibit

The Center for Campus Involvement and the Michigan League will be hosting a Women's History Month exhibit in March at the Michigan...

Women's History Month Exhibit

The Center for Campus Involvement and the Michigan League will be hosting a Women's History Month exhibit in March at the Michigan...

Gifts of Art presents Chasing the Cherubim: Snowflake Paper Cuttings

Dr. Thomas L. Clark

This year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut paper creations highlights work from his two collections, “Chasing...

Gifts of Art presents Folk Art Wood Carvings

Marlene Dusbiber

Marlene Dusbiber is a self-taught folk art woodcarver who has been carving since 1985. She lives in a reproduction timber frame saltbox...

Gifts of Art presents Junior Duck Stamps: Colored Pencil & More

Michigan & Ohio Student Artists

The US Fish & Wildlife Service’s Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program is a dynamic art and science program that teaches...

Gifts of Art presents Michigan Life: Watercolor

LeAnne Mawby Sowa

LeAnne Mawby Sowa is a west Michigan artist who paints with an appreciation of history and love of the Great Lakes. Her lighthouses and...

Gifts of Art presents Sterling Characters: Silver Jewelry

Betsy Lehndorff

In 2008, Betsy Lehndorff began studying silversmithing at a local recreation center in Colorado. She had a sock full of silver dimes and...

Gifts of Art presents The Art of Gesture: Watercolor & Sumi

Jean L. Thomson

For Jean L. Thomson, watercolor in any form comes from both a love of nature and a desire for self-expression. Chinese Sumi painting...

Gifts of Art presents The Motion of Standing Still: Porcelain Teapots

Mikey McGhee

Mikey McGhee pushes the familiar medium of the teapot to its limits by sculpting asymmetrical, gravity-defying works that play with...

Gifts of Art presents Woodland Seasons: Acrylic on Canvas

Elizabeth Schwartz

Following a successful career as an attorney and administrative law judge, Elizabeth Schwartz turned to painting in 1990 and soon received...

Eleven Years: An Exhibition by Jen Davis

This exhibition represents a series of self- portraits created over eleven years, chronicling the artist’s relationship to her body and...

Planes and Trains and Things that Go!

Picture books, board books, chapter books, pop-ups and other mechanic styles of books present a solid picture of how the development of...

Exhibit: Letters & Leaves - Nature as Inspiration for Poetry

Explore the ancient link between nature and poetry in this collaborative exhibit with U-M students, faculty, and community members. Exhibit...

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Exhibition

Letters and Leaves – Nature as Inspiration for Poetry

An exhibit showcasing nature’s influence on and inspiration for poetry from around the world. Poems featured in the conservatory at...

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Exhibition

Nicholas Delbanco: A Literary Life

This exhibit, drawn from the papers of teacher and author Nicholas Delbanco, Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English...

Exhibition: Fred Tomaselli: The Times

Even in our digital age of constant information, the rhythmic cycle of the daily newspaper is still a central form of organizing the world...

Exhibition: Paramodel

This exhibition will present Paramodel, an art collaborative established by two contemporary Japanese artists, Yasuhiko Hayashi (born 1971)...

Exhibition: Reductive Minimalism: Women Artists in Dialogue, 1960–2014

Nearly fifty years after its heyday, Minimalism is enjoying a resurgence of critical attention, though much of the focus continues to be on...

Exhibition: Suspended Moments: Photographs from the David S. Rosen Collection

Each of the works in Suspended Moments: Photographs from the David S. Rosen Collection offers insights into an interior world, most glimpsed...

Season of Light Planetarium

An elegant and sophisticated program about the coldest and darkest of seasons — a time which holds some of the warmest and brightest...