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DTSTAMP:20160605T180011
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T235959
SUMMARY:Other:CRC's!!!
DESCRIPTION:Our second time returning to the Collegiate Rugby Championships!
UID:28712-3885010@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28712
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:PPL Park
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20151208T153106
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T170000
SUMMARY:Other:CEW offers Funding for Event Co-sponsorship for 2016
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Education of Women (CEW) is seeking opportunities to partner with units on campus via its Frances and Sydney Lewis (FSL) Visiting Leaders Fund.  This endowment fund brings visiting women leaders to campus who are distinguished scholars and/or practitioners in their fields.  Any U-M department\, unit or organization (student\, staff or faculty) may submit a funding request to CEW via our online Google application form.  Requests for event support will be evaluated based on their consistency with the purpose of the FSL Visiting Leaders Fund and should be submitted at least six (6) weeks before the proposed programming.  Please note that only those events submitted via the CEW online form will be considered.\n\nDEADLINES:\n2016 Winter Semester: December 15\, 2015\n2016 Fall Semester: August 1\, 2016\n\nIn addition\, CEW can provide promotional support for events by listing on our online calendar.  To learn more about how CEW can support your U-M event\, please refer to this CEW webpage: http://www.cew.umich.edu/RFP)\n\nQuestions about event co-sponsorship may be directed to Janice Reuben\, CEW Senior Associate for Programs & Outreach\, at 734.764.6005  (reubenjs@umich.edu).
UID:27093-2308825@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27093
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Career,Community Service,Diversity,Inclusion,Leadership
LOCATION:Center for the Education of Women
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160418T110610
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The Many Faces and Figures of the Four Sons in the Passover Haggadah
DESCRIPTION:The Four Sons of the Passover Haggadah can now be viewed in their many versions at a unique exhibit at the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. The exhibit\, featuring 29 Haggadahs from the Irwin M. Alterman Haggadah Collection\, will be on display through July.  It includes Haggadahs of various shapes and sizes\, ancient and modern\, and in a number of different languages.\n\nThe Alterman collection was acquired by the University of Michigan Library last year with the help of the Frankel Center\, and is housed in the Special Collections Library of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. It includes more than 1\,800 Haggadahs and is believed to be one of the largest Haggadah collections in the world. The unique compilation belonged to the late Irwin Alterman of West Bloomfield\, and was donated by his widow\, Marilyn McCall Alterman. \n\nPhoto courtesy of Luna Archey
UID:30296-3402290@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30296
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2000
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160325T124225
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Aging in America: Oil Portraits
DESCRIPTION:This show is a series of oil portraits by New Jersey based artist Janet Boltax of individuals who are 90 years of age and over. They are accompanied by excerpts of interviews with each person about their life and how they are coping with the aging process. Boltax is primarily a portrait painter who also does printmaking and mixed media. She teaches portrait painting\, color theory and composition at the Montclair Museum\, Montclair\, New Jersey\, and also works as a copy writer.
UID:29988-3284631@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29988
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160325T125341
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Among the Lost & Found: Collage on Panel
DESCRIPTION:In his work\, David Criner transforms twentieth century collage material in pursuit of an image that celebrates the present moment. The antiquated \"pop\" sensibility imbued by his sourced matter is countered by gestural\, spontaneous mark making\, creating compositions that manage to reference the past while also feeling timeless. Criner works out of Chicago\, and teaches at Northeastern Illinois University.
UID:29992-3285031@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29992
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160325T124859
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents K-12 Group Show
DESCRIPTION:Ann Arbor Public Schools has a comprehensive\, nationally recognized K-12 arts education program that encourages experience in a variety of media and subject matter. They also explore artistic historical and cultural connections. Finished pieces from students in all grades will be on display in both 2D and 3D. A variety of media and styles are represented including drawing\, painting\, printmaking\, ceramics\, sculpture\, photography and jewelry.
UID:29990-3284871@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29990
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160325T125827
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Light Begins at 40: A Detroit Photographer Looks Back
DESCRIPTION:In a world beset with problems and heartache\, for this retrospective\, Philip Dattilo shares photographs of cheer\, amusement and inspiration. A professional photographer since the 1970s\, Dattilo searched through 40 years of his personal photographs as well as those for medical\, architectural and industrial clients (including U-M). The search uncovered a gold mine of happy memories\, suggesting “Life can sometimes be good.”  His work includes the photo booklet Enjoy Detroit\, It’s Your City\, a family photographic portrait for President Gerald Ford\, and work on display in the permanent collection of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.
UID:29994-3285191@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29994
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160325T124541
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Recent Work: Ceramics
DESCRIPTION:Jeri Hollister draws inspiration from her experience growing up in rural Michigan and her time as a student at the University Michigan studying art history and ceramics. She employs traditional ceramics tools and building techniques to create her horse sculptures allowing the process to be evident in the finished work.
UID:29989-3284791@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29989
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160325T125604
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Surface & Structure: Jewelry & Metals
DESCRIPTION:Kristine Bolhuis is an independent jewelry maker working out of her studio in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. Her recent work has focused on lightweight metal constructions that move\, flex and collapse. She creates her work at the bench where it is conceived of and constructed from start to finish. She feels her process is one of exploration and discovery\, and it is full of surprises.
UID:29993-3285111@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29993
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160325T125124
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Swimming Upstream: Quilts
DESCRIPTION:Self-taught textile artist\, author and curator Bonnie J. Smith lives and works in San Jose\, California. She attended Indiana University-Purdue University\, Indianapolis Campus (IUPUI)\; and Indiana Central College\; and has taken Master Dyeing Classes at Dartmouth College. Smith received the 2015 NICHE Award for design\, and her textile work was selected for exhibition in the United Nations\, Geneva\, Switzerland (2016). Swimming Upstream tells her personal journey with an injury that placed her temporarily in a wheel chair\, to finally finding the courage to start creating art and living life again.
UID:29991-3284951@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20151211T113926
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Works by Belle Kogan: First Female Industrial Designer
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents industrially-produced art pottery pieces designed by Belle Kogan (1902–2000)\, for Red Wing Potteries in Red Wing\, Minnesota. Kogan is considered the first prominent female industrial designer in the United States\, a founder of the profession\, and one of the 20th century's most significant designers. Her design aesthetic was heavily influenced by the geometric and streamlined shapes of Art Deco. Belle Kogan Associates\, her New York–based studio\, was the first American female-led design firm. Her contracts with Red Wing Potteries produced over 400 different art pottery shapes from the late 1930s to the early 1960s\, as well as several dinnerware and kitchenware lines. Belle Kogan and her firm designed products not only in ceramics but also clocks and small appliances\, glassware\, and pieces in silver\, plastics\, wrought iron and wood.
UID:27190-2334039@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27190
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160310T165634
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T235900
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Intersections/Connections
DESCRIPTION:This International Studies exhibit focuses on materials from across the world\, including many nations and cultures. Rather than displaying each area separately\, the exhibit concentrates on the connections and intersections among disparate regions.
UID:29615-3148179@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29615
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160517T161807
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T163000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:ICNS
DESCRIPTION:The Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies (ICNS) is a forum for scholars\, instructors and interested community members from across the United States\, the Netherlands\, Belgium and the rest of the world to discuss their work in the area of Dutch culture and language. It is a biennial conference organized by the American Association for Netherlandic Studies (AANS).\n\nTraditional conference topics include Art History\, Literature\, Colonialism\, History\, Afrikaans\, Linguistics\, and Local Dutch-American History.\n\nIn a series of special events and exhibits\, the conference features an excursion to the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA)\, a carillon event\, a display from the university library’s Dutch collection\, a display from the university’s papyrology collection\, and a trip to the university’s botanical gardens.\n\nGenerously supported by the General Representation of the Government of Flanders to the USA
UID:30702-3695162@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30702
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Education,European,History,International,Language
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160427T173037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T164500
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Nutrition and Child Development
DESCRIPTION:This symposium will address the effects of iron deficiency on child development and consider related controversies. \n\nBasic\, translational\, and community research knowledge regarding the biological and behavioral effects of suboptimal maternal and child nutrition is crucial to inform interventions and policy decisions that will support child development and health. Iron biology is one lens through which the effects of nutritional imbalances may be understood from epigenetic to global community perspectives.
UID:30574-3573032@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30574
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Children,International,Lifelong Learning,Medicine,Public Health,Research,Science,symposium
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Amphitheatre, 4th Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160512T143154
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Extreme Time
DESCRIPTION:Think you know all about time?  What about things that happen in femtoseconds or eons?  Time in the natural world is so extreme\, you can’t even perceive most of its scale unaided. You’ll be amazed by the types of time you can explore in our new exhibit\, and learn more about everyday time and how we measure it\, too!  The exhibit is open!
UID:27873-2579284@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27873
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Museum
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160506T162225
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:A New Treasure Trove at Special Collections
DESCRIPTION:This display showcases recent acquisitions that strengthen our extraordinary holdings in the areas of radical literature\, transportation history\, film\, rare books\, culinary history\, Islamic manuscripts\, children’s literature\, and Judaica. View an eclectic display of unique artifacts that reflect the broad range of our collections.\n\nArtifacts on display include historical treasures like Emma Goldman’s well-traveled suitcase\, Orson Welles’ cutting script for the film Around the World\, a fifteenth-century manuscript containing an Arabic treatise of materia media attributed to Galen\, a 1850 contract for the remount of the moving machinery of the St. Peterburg and Moscow Railway\, and Mildred Taylor’s illustrated novella for children\, The Gold Cadillac\, narrating a Northern black family’s experience of Southern segregation and prejudice during the 1950s as seen through the eyes of a young girl.\n\nExhibit Hours: Monday-Friday\, 10am-5pm\nClosed Memorial Day\, 4th of July\, and Labor Day
UID:30662-3646146@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30662
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20160519T114222
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint
DESCRIPTION:This two-day Open Science hackaton brings together researchers\, coders\, librarians and the public from around the globe to hack on open science and open data projects in their communities. This year there are four tracks anyone can contribute to: Tools\, Citizen Science\, Open Educational Resources and Open Data.\n\nRegistration is encouraged but not required (https://ti.to/mozilla-science/gs2016-ann-arbor). Show up when you want and work on what interests you for as long as you like! (Need inspiration? Check out this list of projects. https://www.mozillascience.org/collaborate)\n\nNow in its third year\, the Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint (https://www.mozillascience.org/global-sprint-2016) will be held at about 30 locations around the world. We hope you'll join us in the Duderstadt Center on June 2nd and 3rd (drinks and lunch provided)\, but you can also participate virtually (https://ti.to/mozilla-science/gs2016-virtual).\n\nMozilla Science Lab is a community of researchers\, developers\, and librarians making research open and accessible and empowering open science leaders through fellowships\, mentorship\, and project-based learning.\n\nHosted by the University of Michigan Library (Art\, Architecture & Engineering Library and the Science Library).
UID:30754-3744454@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30754
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Library,Science
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Room 1180
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160421T105421
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Picture This!
DESCRIPTION:An exhibit of photographs taken of and by young patients—many of whom were born with facial differences or cleft palates—in U-M Mott Hospital’s Craniofacial Anomalies Program. Paired with professional photographers\, the children learned new ways to look at and through the camera lens.
UID:30488-3519905@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30488
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Storytelling,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160523T155817
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Supporting Scholarship: Eight Topics Documented in the Clements Library
DESCRIPTION:Come and see what brings researchers from around the world to the William L Clements Library to explore its historical collections. This exhibit highlights eight research topics that the holdings of the Clements support. They include: Exploration and Discovery\; Colonial America\; Conflict\; Age of Revolution\; Education\; Business and Trade\; Religion & Reform\; and The Under-Represented. \n\nVisit to see rare treasures that reflect the broad range of early maps\, manuscripts\, books\, prints\, and photography in our collections.  For more information about the Library and using it for research\, please visit our website at clements.umich.edu. \n\nThis exhibit will close on October 28\, 2016.
UID:30795-3776659@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30795
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Education,Exhibition,History,Library,Lifelong Learning
LOCATION:William Clements Library
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160404T105502
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction
DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29456-3120449@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160329T123251
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Focus: Jeanne Gang
DESCRIPTION:Widely acclaimed for her integrative approach to materials\, technology\, and ecological context\, Chicago-based architect Jeanne Gang was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. Shortly thereafter Gang proposed an ambitious restoration of the Chicago riverfront through a series of small but transformational projects. The WMS Boathouse\, designed by Gang and located north of downtown\, is one such project\, encompassing a field house with state-of-the art training facilities\, a boat storage building\, and a floating dock at the river’s edge. Completed in 2013\, the 22\,000-square-foot boathouse is the city’s premier rowing center\, serving a range of public rowing clubs\, many of whose amateur athletes come from the city’s underserved communities.\n\nThis installation showcases dynamic exterior and interior sketches of the complex—recently acquired by UMMA—depicting the distinctive rhythmic contours of the roof\, derived from studies of rowers in motion\, and the open\, angular\, and light-filled spaces within.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:30041-3321278@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30041
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160329T124905
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light
DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences\, ranging from the Modernism of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti\, whom he met when they spent time in Mexico in the 1920s\, to the formally exquisite photojournalism of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans\, whose work he knew in New York\, and the Surrealism of André Breton\, who visited Mexico around 1940.\n\nAlthough not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood\; one of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The twenty-three photographs in the exhibition\, drawn from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist’s ability to synthesize a personal—even nationalistic—style that merged the motifs of Mexican religious and indigenous works and plant forms (such as agave leaves) with a Modernist approach to image making. Throughout\, the presence of light as a wondrous metaphor and revealer of life animates even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:30043-3321364@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30043
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Photography Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160308T121704
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016)
DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29503-3129533@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Information and Technology,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160516T150913
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T203000
SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Booksigning with Sarah D. Wald: The Nature of California
DESCRIPTION:Literati is pleased to welcome Sarah D. Wald in support of her book The Nature of California: Race\, Citizenship\, and Farming since the Dust Bowl.\n\nThe California farmlands have long served as a popular symbol of America's natural abundance and endless opportunity. Yet\, from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart to Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus\, many novels\, plays\, movies\, and songs have dramatized the brutality and hardships of working in the California fields. Little scholarship has focused on what these cultural productions tell us about who belongs in America\, and in what ways they are allowed to belong. In The Nature of California\, Sarah Wald analyzes this legacy and its consequences by examining the paradoxical representations of California farmers and farmworkers from the Dust Bowl migration to present-day movements for food justice and immigrant rights.\n\nAnalyzing fiction\, nonfiction\, news coverage\, activist literature\, memoirs\, and more\, Wald gives us a new way of thinking through questions of national belonging by probing the relationships among race\, labor\, and landownership. Bringing together ecocriticism and critical race theory\, she pays special attention to marginalized groups\, examining how Japanese American journalists\, Filipino workers\, United Farm Workers members\, and contemporary immigrants-rights activists\, among others\, pushed back against the standard narratives of landownership and citizenship.
UID:30730-3728298@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30730
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Books,Culture,Multicultural,Social Impact
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160301T121114
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160603T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Judy Collins
DESCRIPTION:Judy Collins has thrilled audiences worldwide with her unique blend of folksong interpretations and contemporary themes. Her career has spanned well over 50 years. In 1961 Judy released her first album\, \"A Maid of Constant Sorrow.\" at the age of 22 and began a 35-year association with Elektra Records. She interpreted the songs of fellow artists\, particularly the social poets of the time such as Bob Dylan\, Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton. Judy was instrumental in bringing singer-songwriters to a wider audience\, including Bob Dylan\, Phil Ochs\, Tom Paxton\, Leonard Cohen\, Joni Mitchell\, and Randy Newman. Judy's career has included new album releases in every decade since the 1960s\, and she's written books including \"Sanity & Grace\,\" a memoir focusing on the death of her only son and the healing process that followed. Judy Collins is still a relentlessly creative spirit who's writing\, performing 80 to 100 dates a year\, and nurturing fresh talent. What's the perfect start to your summer? A live Judy Collins show at The Ark\, of course! But don't delay on tickets. Judy comes to Michigan with a brand new album\, \"Strangers Again\,\" a collection of duets.
UID:28004-2620032@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28004
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
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