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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 Seeing Music: Acrylic & Watercolor

Deborah L. Hoover

Deborah L. Hoover hopes to achieve what the Swiss artist Paul Klee described as, “making the invisible visible.” The music the musicians...

Gifts of Art presents The Dinnerware Museum: A Place at the Table

Dinnerware Museum Collection

The Dinnerware Museum, a new museum in Ann Arbor established in 2012, features a collection of thousands of pieces of functional dinnerware...

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...

Re-Imaging Gender - A Juried Art Exhibition

Our understandings of gender have shifted dramatically in recent decades. No longer is gender a matter of an immutable binary, or a set of...

Textile Trade Ascendancies

This exhibit features cloth samples, photographs, and maps, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from...

Drawdown Vietnam, April – May 1975

America’s long involvement in the war in Vietnam and Indochina drew to a close in April - May 1975. As the city of Saigon fell to the...

Ramiro Gomez: Cut-Outs

Artist Ramiro Gomez’s life-sized cardboard cutouts, paintings, and constructions bring attention to those who toil behind the familiar...

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...

Peony Garden Season in Nichols Arboretum

The Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden is a must-see on the University of Michigan campus each spring. Thousands of blooms in the largest...

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...

Through the Magnifying Glass: A Short History of the Microscope

This exhibit displays a selection of books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that contain extraordinary illustrations of animals...

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...

Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters

Exhibition

During World War I, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers, housewives and shipbuilders,...

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...

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...

Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?

This photography exhibit by Misha Friedman attempts to capture the pervasive culture of corruption in Russia. Friedman explains the photo...

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...