New Events

U-M Survival Flight jet and helicopters (and much more) on display at free family event in Howell

Enjoy family fun (with a healthy dose of safety) at the Livingston County Health & Safety Fair!

Did you know the University of Michigan Survival Flight helicopters fly at an average speed of 175 miles per hour when they’re flying a...

Julian Schnabel

Guided Tour

Celebrated for a visual language of unexpected materials and radically unconventional techniques, New York painter Julian Schnabel (born...

Junior Brown

If you haven't seen Junior Brown yet, you need to "guit with it"! Junior Brown is a one-man musical hot fusion machine, and...

Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits

Ann Arbor Art Fair

Over 1,100 artists from all over the world will return to the streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan for one of the nation's best art fairs....

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...

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,...

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...

Planetarium: Star Talk: The Sky Tonight

Bright stars, constellations, planets, and telescopic objects in the current night sky are discussed in this live "star talk."...

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...

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...

Planetarium: Star Talk: The Sky Tonight

Bright stars, constellations, planets, and telescopic objects in the current night sky are discussed in this live "star talk."...

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...