Archive for July 12th, 2015
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Meet Me at UMMA
A Museum Arts Experience for Persons with Mild Memory Loss and Their Care Partners
To register for this free program, email umma-program-registration@umich.edu or call 734.647.0522 for more information. Please include date...
Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
Guided Tour
Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s...
Julian Schnabel
In Conversation
This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please register to secure your place by emailing...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
35th Annual Blissfest Music Festival
Please come to the Michigan Union Ticket Office IN PERSON to purchase. MUTO is selling Adult Weekend passes ONLY. Please see blissfest.org...
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...
Julian Schnabel
Exhibition
Julian Schnabel provides a major entry into work created by the painter celebrated for a visual language that brings together unexpected...
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,...
Share your exhibit ideas for the new U-M Museum of Natural History!
From July 10-14, and monthly through the rest of the year, the Temporary Exhibit Gallery on the fourth floor of the U-M Museum of Natural...
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...
Gallery Tours
Want to learn more about the collections at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology? Join us at the Upjohn Wing entrance on Maynard Street for a...
Planetarium: Exploring New Horizons
This fulldome movie explores the New Horizons spacecraft and its mission to a dwarf planet. It includes the history and the importance of...
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...
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...