Archive for June 24th, 2015
Day
Group
- Gifts of Art(9)
- University Library(4)
- University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)(4)
- Kinesiology Community Programs(2)
- Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library(1)
- Institute for Research on Women and Gender(1)
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology(1)
- Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum(1)
- Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)(1)
- Museum of Natural History(1)
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Location
New Events
Two-Needle Bonsai Pine with Steve Jetzer
Grand Rapids bonsai artist Steve Jetzer discusses care, maintenance, and seasonal work performed on two-needle pine. A skilled bonsai...
Kurt Elling
Kurt Elling has been named Male Singer of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association half a dozen times, and he's a perennial winner...
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...
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...
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...
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...
