Archive for May 31st, 2015
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Henry Butler
Henry Butler, says Richard Skelly of AllMusic.com, is arguably the greatest living proponent of the classic New Orleans piano tradition,...
Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits
Collegiate Rugby Championship
Bruised but unbroken, the men of Michigan Rugby will travel across land and lake to shake it off against 19 of the darndest teams in the...
CRC Tournamnent
UMWRFC is headed to Philly for their first battle at the CRC's.
ICSA Nationals
Team Race and Coed Nationals
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hands-On Demo: Cow's Eye Dissection
Have you ever wondered what makes our eyes work or how we see? We’ll dissect a cow’s eye to take a closer look at the organ that helps...
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...
Collegiate Rugby Championship
Bruised but unbroken, the men of Michigan Rugby will travel across land and lake to shake it off against 19 of the darndest teams in the...
CRC Tournamnent
UMWRFC is headed to Philly for their first battle at the CRC's.