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Mayor's Green Fair

15th Annual

Planet Blue and several U-M departments will have exhibits as part of Ann Arbor's 15th annual Mayor's Green Fair on Main Street,...

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Fair / Festival

BoDeans

“I’ve always thought of the BoDeans as a truly American band,” says Kurt Neumann, the founder, primary writer and frontman of the...

Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits

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...

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...

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...

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...

Working With Difficult People and Personalities

Overcoming the stress experienced when interacting with “difficult” people is a challenge. By focusing on personalities and behavioral...

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Workshop / Seminar

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...

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Exhibition

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...

Cinetopia: East Side Sushi

Presented by CJS and the Cinetopia International Film Festival

Released in 2014 | 116 minutes | Directed by Anthony Lucero...

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...

Martha Cook Board of Governors

Monthly meeting at Martha Cook Building

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...

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Performance

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...