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Commencement

Spring 2015 Commencement Ceremony

Commencement is a milestone—one of life’s landmark occasions, a time when graduates, family members, and friends gather to celebrate...

Sophie Calle: North Pole

Following her mother's death, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North...

2015 Stamps Commencement Ceremony

The 2015 Stamps Commencement celebration will be held on May 2 at 2:00 pm in the Art and Architecture Courtyard. The celebration includes...

Eilen Jewell

Boise-born and Boston-based Eilen (rhymes with feelin') Jewell calls herself "nothing but a lonely rambler girl." The Los...

Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits

@ WMU

weekend games @ Western Michigan U:Friday, May 1st: 1 9-inning gameSunday, May 3rd : 2 7-inning games 

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CWPA Nationals

Games Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 

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Sporting Event

MCSA Women's Championship

MCSA Women's Championship and Nationals Qualifier

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Sporting Event

Gifts of Art presents Along the Way: Collage on Canvas

Sara Slee Brown

Iowa City artist Sara Slee Brown focuses on using images of natural beauty and man-made buildings to create imaginary scenarios that give...

Gifts of Art presents Big Painted Stuff: Mixed Media

Karl Laub

Karl Laub’s paintings are a mixture of acrylics, watercolors, pastels, molding paste and whatever else he can find to include in his...

Gifts of Art presents Chasing Fotos – Critters

Lynette Curtiss

Lynette Curtiss is an award winning Michigan based artist who has always had a passion for photography. She has used this passion to capture...

Gifts of Art presents Evolution of Rock Getting Wheels

Middy Potter

Ann Arbor artist Middy Potter has creativity at the center of his life. When composing a sculpture, he adds a dash of humor, a bit of...

Gifts of Art presents Pearls, Chains & Silhouettes: Handmade, Industrial & Digital Jewelry

Ashley Buchanan

Drawing on common jewelry motifs and iconic imagery, Ashley Buchanan individually hand-cuts silhouettes from sheet metal using a traditional...

Gifts of Art presents Proof: Encaustic on Wood

Graceann Warn

As she paints and constructs, Graceann Warn’s paintings and assemblages use the metaphor of excavation. Her formal education in landscape...

Gifts of Art presents Transitions: Watercolor on Paper

Maria Ruggiero

The current work of Ann Arbor based artist Maria Ruggiero focuses on the large and small events in daily life through the genre of still...

Medium Rare: 2015 Stamps Senior Exhibition

Medium Rare, featuring culminating projects by the School’s graduating seniors produced during their year-long Integrative Project course,...

The Shape of the Universe

This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe, from Einstein's discovery of space-time, through the...

Under the Influence: Youth Artists in the D

Highlighting student created art from the Detroit School of Arts (DSA), “Young Artists in the D” is a visual exhibition influenced by...

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Exhibition

Anissa Ciani : Experiential Reading

2015 Stamps Senior Exhibition

Literati Bookstore, 124 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor...

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Exhibition

Charting the Wolverine

This exhibit explores the intersection of maps and art. Artist Elaine Wilson weaves the two together seamlessly in her project “Charting...

Shakespeare's Garden

In celebration of the upcoming 15th anniversary of Shakespeare in the Arb. Featuring plants and flowers that appear in the works of the...

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Exhibition

The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes, Charity Donation Boxes

This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In...

Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection

For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life...

Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper

Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s...

HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection

For more than 25 years, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art...

Katie Moran : A Right Hook

2015 Stamps Senior Exhibition

A documentary photography series exploring Detroit's Downtown Youth Boxing Gym and the community that surrounds it....

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Exhibition

Medicinal Plants and Gardens: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

This exhibition celebrates the upcoming 2015 opening of the new Medicinal Garden at the University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical...

Dance of the Neurons: The Art of Neuroscience

Beautiful full-color images of microscopic cell structures combine delicate art with cutting-edge science. The images were selected from...

Death Dogs

The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology presents Death Dogs exhibition from February 6 - May 3, 2015.

Dinosaur Tour!

Free docent-led tours of the dinosaur exhibits every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. for the first 15 people to sign up. Sign up at the host...

Planetarium: Back to the Moon

Narrated by Tim Allen (voice of Buzz Lightyear), this is a behind-the-scenes feature on the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE, the largest...

Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives

This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles, one of America's greatest directors of film, theater, radio...