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Ann Arbor Japan Week: Animania Screening

A Week of Japan-related Programming for Youth and Families

Animania is the University of Michigan's Japanese Animation and Culture club! Our monthly screening events strive to bring Japanese...

Martha Davis & The Motels

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away—Berkeley, California—The Motels were born. With the lush, romantic vocals of Martha Davis,...

Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits

Gifts of Art presents A Calming Force: Acrylic on Canvas

Lisa Goedert

Ferndale, Michigan based artist Lisa Goedert is inspired by patterns found in nature. She works spontaneously using circles, scribbles,...

Gifts of Art presents An International Celebration of Aging: Color Photography

Jeffrey M. Levine MD, AGSF

Dr. Jeffrey M. Levine is an international exhibiting artist and geriatrician in New York City with an interest in art as applied to medicine...

Gifts of Art presents In Living Color: Painting on Wood

Timothy Gaewsky

Timothy Gaewsky is a painter and mixed media artist working out of Toledo, Ohio. His current paintings use visual aesthetics drawn from...

Gifts of Art presents Seafans & Fused Glass

Janet Kelman

Janet Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in...

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 Snowflake Flowers: Plates & Bowls

Nancy Bulkley

Nancy Bulkley throws forms on the potter's wheel almost as a canvas for her designs. For her surface design, she creates and hand cuts...

Gifts of Art presents Stones Series: Painting on Canvas

Michael Sheets

The paintings that comprise Stones Series by Michael Sheets had their genesis in a vacation he took on the shores of Lake Superior. Working...

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 Traditional & Contemporary Native American Basketry

Kelly Church & Cherish Parrish

Kelly Church and Cherish Parrish are Anishnabe Master black ash basket makers who come from an unbroken line of weavers. They are award...

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...

Institute for Innovation in Education June Gathering

Keynote by Menlo Innovations CEO Rich Sheridan, and workshops and projects on gameful learning, STEAM education, arts in engineering,...

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...

Japanese "Forest Spirits" in the Gaffield Children's Garden

Ann Arbor Japan Week

The Gaffield Children's Garden will be enchanted with Japanese "forest spirits" throughout Ann Arbor Japan Week, from June...

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...

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...

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...

Calligraphy and Origami with the South East Michigan Japanese Language Meetup Group

Ann Arbor Japan Week

The South East Michigan Japanese Language Meetup Group welcomes participants of all ages to learn Japanese calligraphy and origami (paper...

Coffee Hour

The Coffee Hours offered in the summer are designed to welcome new international students, scholars and families and introduce them to...

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

A Feast of Dances

In celebration of its 30th anniversary season, Ann Arbor Dance Works proudly presents “A Feast of Dances” featuring exciting new works...

Ann Arbor Dance Works 30th Anniversary Season: A Feast of Dances

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Ann Arbor Dance Works, proudly presents "A Feast of Dances" featuring works by Melissa Beck, Amy...

Ann Arbor Dance Works: A Feast of Dances

30th Anniversary Season

Savor exciting new dance works and revivals by U-M Dance Works founding and resident choreographers, including an excerpt from the exuberant...

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...