Happening @ Michigan

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...

Magnificent Miniatures

Azalea Bonsai in Bloom at Matthaei Botanical Gardens

Featuring a collection of satsuki azalea bonsai in bloom on loan from renowned Ohio collector and U-M alumnus Melvyn Goldstein. Satsuki...

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...

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...

Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin’s Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures

Phase I

An American artist who lives in Rome, Wendy Artin has been working for over a decade on a series of watercolor paintings of ancient Greek...

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...

Guided Tour: Engaging with Art

UMMA docents will guide visitors through the galleries on tours as diverse as their interests and areas of expertise. Each docent plans a...

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: Marvelous Mendelian Mutants

Have you ever been curious about genes and inheritance? Gregor Mendel was. Over one hundred years ago, he studied pea plants to develop...

Shakespeare in the Arb 15th Anniversary

Featuring A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare in the Arb turns 15 in '15. Join the Residential College and Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum in...

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...