Exhibition:Exhibit: The Many Faces and Figures of the Four Sons in the Passover Haggadah
2016-07-28 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Detroit) | 202 S. Thayer - Room 2000
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.

The 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.

Photo courtesy of Luna Archey

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Abstraction: A Graphic Study
2016-07-28 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
Chicago-based artist Natasha Kohli uses abstract acrylic paintings to convey her messages of positivity and love by pouring that energy into each piece. As a self-taught artist, Kohli is not bound to school taught rules but rather follows instinct and spontaneity. This also allows her to freely create her own processes. Moments of introspection and feelings of acceptance are what Kohli wishes to offer viewers of her work, and these goals are inspired by her deep love of spirituality and Bikram yoga.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Concrete Ephemera: Street Art Captured
2016-07-28 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
David Zinn has been drawing on sidewalks for well over a decade, using chalk and charcoal to create anamorphic 3D creatures which, when viewed at a precise angle, appear to exist in the real world. They often incorporate parts of the landscape and found objects, such as cracks in concrete or leaves on the ground. He is inspired by a desire to place cheerful art underfoot in unexpected places and to embrace the temporary nature of all things. For this exhibit, photographs of his street art installations will be on display. Zinn is a lifelong Michigander with a degree in creative writing from the U-M Residential College, and he worked for many years as a children’s radio host on WCBN and Michigan Radio. Zinn will also give an artist demonstration alongside a musical performance by Magdalen Fossum in the University Hospital Courtyard on Thurs, July 21, 2016 from 12:00-1:00 pm.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Area Artists Photo Portrait Project
2016-07-28 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
Donita Simpson is a Detroit based photographer who creates images of Detroit area artists in their personal creative environments. She has an M.F.A. in photography from Wayne State University, and her work is currently on exhibit in The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The Detroit Area Artists Portrait Project contains images of artists that have been making art in and around the city for over 20 years. They are captured in an environment that inspires them, often their home or their studio.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dimensions: Group Show
2016-07-28 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
This group exhibit features a collection of contemporary artist’s books. Many different styles of alternative bindings and printing methods will be shown that often push the boundaries of traditional books and, in the process, become art objects. The show will also include mixed media sculptural pieces by Ray Wetzel and Phillip Dewey. The Michigan and Ohio book artists include Char Bacon, Ruth Bardenstein, Elizabeth Begue, Barbara Brown, Cecilia Escobar, Alvey Jones and Norma Penchansky-Glasser.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscapes Imagined: Oil on Canvas
2016-07-28 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Victoria Veedell creates atmospheric landscape paintings in oil on canvas, capturing the fleeting moments of light in nature. The root of her work is an emotional reaction to the environment, implying landscapes not necessarily seen but felt. Veedell lives and works in San Francisco, and she is inspired by her global travels to places as far away as India and as near as Napa Valley, California. Travel is an important component of her work as it allows her to observe and compare gradients of color, light and atmosphere in different geographic locations.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Portals: Fiber Art Quilts
2016-07-28 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1
Creative Seasons is a small yet vibrant group of non-traditional quilters from Southeast Michigan that meets monthly. The group’s purpose is to share knowledge, techniques and work collaboratively on projects and exhibits as decided by the group. The definition of a portal is a door, means of entrance, gateway, approach or architectural composition surrounding an opening. The group chose to interpret this theme with a broad variety of art quilts incorporating hand-dyed and painted fabrics as well as a variety of surface embellishments.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Seriously Playful Jewelry: Mixed Media
2016-07-28 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
Rural Pennsylvania artists Lisa & Scott Cylinder have been husband and wife collaborators in Chickenscratch Art Jewelry since 1988, having met at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Working together they have developed a wonderful exchange and interplay of ideas, concepts and techniques, involving meticulous fabrication with many different materials and processes. Their influences are varied and vast: modern art, scientific phenomena, 20th century artifacts, nature and film play upon their ideas and how they manifest them into jewelry objects. Lisa & Scott Cylinder work to create art that stimulates conversation and curiosity.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Whimsical World of Bechler Pottery
2016-07-28 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
The mixed media work of Stacey and Corey Bechler is whimsical, colorful and fun. They use popular icons such as fish, birds, dogs and landscapes as their subjects, and they make them look whimsical with elaborate colors, shapes and textures. They work to create a powerful visual contrast within each piece. Using clay and glaze as a base for each of their pieces, they often add touches of copper, assorted wires and driftwood found near their beach home. They live on the shore of Lake Michigan inside Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park.

Exhibition:Intersections/Connections
2016-07-28 08:00 - 23:59 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library (2nd Floor Hatcher)
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.

Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation
2016-07-28 08:00 - 19:00 | Detroit Center - Monts Hall Gallery
Today the Emancipation Proclamation is one of our nation’s critical documents. It symbolizes a remarkable turning point: slavery’s extinction in the United States became possible and indeed highly likely. Still, our views of that moment may be as varied as they were 150 years ago.

Proclaiming Emancipation explores reflections upon the Proclamation and the meaning of emancipation through the holdings of the William L. Clements Library, with select items from collaborating institutions.

Through an exploration of freedom, military service, executive power and visual representations, Proclaiming Emancipation pays tribute to a near-sacred document steeped in the logic of history and the imaginings of myth.
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Sponsored by the Program in Race, Law & History and the William L. Clements Library, in cooperation with the University of Michigan Library. Martha S. Jones and Clayton Lewis, curators.

PROCLAIMING EMANCIPATION has been made possible through the generous support of Faith (AB ‘69) and Stephen (AB ‘66, JD ‘69) Brown, and at the University of Michigan: College of Literature, Science and the Arts, Office of the Vice President for Research, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Rackham Graduate School, Institute for the Humanities, Law in Slavery and Freedom Project, and the Understanding Race Theme Semester.

Exhibition:16th Annual BioResearch Product Faire
2016-07-28 10:00 - 14:30 | Palmer Commons - Great Lakes Ballroom
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* Learn Troubleshooting Skills
* Hear About Laboratory Services
* Learn about Career Opportunities

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Exhibition:A New Treasure Trove at Special Collections
2016-07-28 10:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
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.

Artifacts 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.

Exhibit Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm
Closed Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Labor Day

Workshop / Seminar:Blue Jeans and Videoconferencing: Real-time audio and video connections for teaching, meetings, and events
2016-07-28 10:00 - 11:15 | Modern Languages Building - MLB 2001B, Mac lab @ ISS Media Center
This class provides a quick-start introduction to the high-quality Blue Jeans Network service for live two-way connections, available to almost everyone at U-M, including students, faculty, and staff. Bring guest speakers into your classroom, meeting, or event. Teach remotely when you are on the road. Connect your students with students at other universities, or with places and experiences they cannot otherwise access. Arrange meetings, classes, and special events without regard to the locations of the participants. Hold mass events with up to 5000 downstream participants. Join us and explore the possibilities available with with this great high-quality service.

To register visit http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/?s=blue+jeans&submit=Search

Lecture / Discussion:The Art of Storytelling
2016-07-28 10:00 - 23:30 | Off Campus Location
The Ann Arbor Storytellers’ Guild is open to all who love stories, whether as tellers or listeners. Founded in 1998, this dynamic group exists to promote and further the traditional art of storytelling and to encourage and mentor storytellers of all skill levels. Guild meetings are open to the public. They are lively, fun events where attendees hone the craft of storytelling, practice performing for an audience, or just sit back and listen. Storytelling is an art form. This program will focus on personal stories. We will give the audience ways to observe and listen to stories that will assist them in understanding what makes a story successful. There will be a short introductory lecture. Then, five experienced storytellers will demonstrate various styles and techniques by telling some of their own unique personal stories: Beverly Black, Steve Daut, Lyn Davidge, Jill Halpern and Laura Lee Hayes.
This lecture is for adults 50+.

Exhibition:Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road
2016-07-28 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery
This exhibition presents new and recent work by Los Angeles-based artist Catherine Opie, one of the essential figures in contemporary photography. Beginning in 2010, Opie spent six months taking photographs at the Bel Air, California, residence of Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011). The exhibition includes fifty works drawn from two series, Closets and Jewels and 700 Nimes Road. Opie’s lens captures the essence of the Hollywood legend through her personal objects and mementos, and portrays Taylor’s life experience and eccentricity as an illusory subject, one that cannot be specifically designated or precisely described. In the artist’s words, the project is not about the relationship to celebrity but about “the relationship to what is human.”

Exhibition:Catie Newell: Overnight
2016-07-28 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
Detroit-based architect Catie Newell’s work is focused on the tactile, sensory qualities of the materials we use to build things: their texture, density, or malleability. Her investigations combine architectural research, material studies, and art experiments, a strategy she began as a student that now defines her career.

The most important element in her formal vocabulary is light, not only as a “material” in its own right, but also as a condition. Varying in strength, form, and duration, light constructs architecture as a situational experience rather than a fixed space. Newell’s fascination with light is a fascination with darkness. Through urban interventions, installations, and photographs, she investigates how darkness creates alternate environments, with unseen geographies, untold histories, and secret identities.

Newell, assistant professor of architecture at U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize in architecture. Overnight includes photographs from her Rome project as well as new photography from the series Nightly, featuring nighttime images of Detroit streetscapes and interiors, alongside a site-specific sculptural installation commissioned by the Museum.

Exhibition:In Focus: Jeanne Gang
2016-07-28 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
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.

This 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.

**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm, CLOSED Mondays

Exhibition:Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light
2016-07-28 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Photography Gallery
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.

Although 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.

**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm, CLOSED Mondays

Exhibition:Mira Henry: The View Inside
2016-07-28 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Before joining the faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, Mira Henry spent several years as a project architect, immersed in the everyday, banal details of how buildings get built: construction drawings, material specs, and building codes. She became an expert in seeing the world the way an architect sees it. But as a progressive architectural thinker, Henry’s inspiration has been to deconstruct that vision, to “unsee” the very forms and representations that constitute an architect’s basic language.

Through speculative experiments and conceptual drawings Henry discovers in static architectural details an unsettling range of figurative expression, including, for example, the way the profiles of roof eaves resemble human heads. Wallpaper, with its ability to mask, transform, or animate a space, is also a prominent element in her work. Her projects explore how these features animate our subjective experience—what she calls our “shifting fantasies”—of architectural space.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

Exhibition:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink
2016-07-28 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery
The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink celebrates gifts to the museum from two accomplished scholars with eclectic interests, a keen appreciation of form, and a love of learning from objects. Nesta Spink, curator at UMMA from 1967 to 1979, is regarded as the preeminent authority on the lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. U-M professor emeritus Walter Spink is a world-renowned specialist on early Buddhist art and architecture in India. This selection of their gifts, exhibited together for the first time, provides insight into the minds of two connoisseurs with tastes that range far beyond their areas of specialization; highlights include exquisite Whistler prints that are rarely on display and a rich representation of South Asian folk art. The Connoisseurs’ Legacy also honors the Spinks’ long relationship with the museum, their roles as teachers of future scholars and curators, and their commitment to public education.

Exhibition:2016 Alumni Exhibition: Horror Vacui
2016-07-28 12:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Each year, our Alumni exhibition offers an opportunity for Stamps graduates from across the country and internationally to share their current creative work.

The theme for the 2016 Stamps Alumni Juried Exhibition is “Horror Vacui”, commonly known as “fear of empty space”.

Work will be displayed at the Argus II building (400 4th St, Ann Arbor) from July 19 - August 6, 2016, during the Ann Arbor Art Fair (July 21 - 24). Three jury prizes of $500 and 10 honorable mentions will be awarded.

We are very pleased to welcome Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) Executive Director Elysia Borowy-Reeder as the juror for this show.

Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, July 19 - Saturday, August 6, 2016
Opening Reception & Award Ceremony: Friday, July 22, 2016, 6 - 8 pm

Careers / Jobs:Chicago Finance & Trading Immersion - Visit BP, Morningstar, and Belvedere Trading
2016-07-28 12:00 - 15:00 | Chicago, IL, USA
Thinking about a career in Trading or Finance? Interested in working in Chicago?
Here is a chance for you to get an insider’s look into the world of trading in this 2 day trip that will include visits to Belvedere Trading, BP, and Morningstar.

You and a small group of UM students will have the opportunity to learn more about each organization, tour their Chicago offices and their trading floors, learn about the basics of trading along with interactive activities - like a case study and a trading simulation - and learn about full time and internship opportunities.

Your “day in the life” experience will span two days in Chicago beginning the afternoon of July 28 and concluding by 3pm on July 29. Students must be present in Chicago and available both days to participate. Career Center staff will meet you in Chicago to guide you on this Immersion. More details about the day’s event will be provided to the selected participants.

Interested in attending? Click 'join event' on the left side of the Handshake event and answer the Immersion application questions. The registration for this event will close at 9AM on June 29th.

Students are responsible for arranging their accommodations and travel to and from Chicago. If you have any concerns about this, please contact Nicole Haase at the Career Center (nhaase@umich.edu)

Undergraduates from all academic majors are encouraged to apply, although priority selection may be given to rising Juniors and Seniors.

Can’t make it to Chicago this summer? Be on the lookout for many more Immersions with the Career Center throughout the 16/17 academic year!

Workshop / Seminar:Fulbright Information Session WEBINAR
2016-07-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
Open to all U-M students, alumni, and staff applying for a 2017-18 grant through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

A U-M Fulbright U.S. Student Program Advisor (FPA) will detail components of the Fulbright application and provide helpful tips on how to craft successful grant statements.

A link to the webinar will be made available on the Fulbright Resources CTools Project site. Please see our website for details on how to join: https://proxy.qualtrics.com/proxy/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fii.umich.edu%2Fii%2Ffulbright-program.html&token=[REDACTED]

Performance:Gifts of Art presents Rockabilly, Blues, Swing & Rock
2016-07-28 12:00 - 13:00 | University Hospitals - University Hospital Courtyard
George Bedard is a supremely talented guitar player and a longtime fixture on the Ann Arbor roots music scene. He’s been blowing the roof off of gin joints and folk clubs all over the Detroit/Ann Arbor area for more than 30 years. Continuing to excite crowds at regional festivals and clubs, his Kingpins band is famous for bringing fans of all ages to their feet through the swinging rockabilly originals and high-energy blues, swing and rock tunes. Bedard and drummer Rich Dishman are joined by extraordinary bassist Pat Trouty this year for the season finale of the Gifts of Art UMHS Summer Courtyard Concert Series. Rain/heat location: University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1

Presentation:Study Abroad First Step Session
2016-07-28 13:00 - 13:30 | East Quadrangle - 1338
Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 1–1:30pm from June 8–August 4 (except July 5-6).
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program. Fulfill this requirement before the school year even begins!

Workshop / Seminar:REU Seminar Series
2016-07-28 14:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - Nesbitt Room
Come listen to REU students speak about their summer research projects.

Lecture / Discussion:Inaugural City Study: Making Place in Detroit
2016-07-28 17:00 - 18:30 | Detroit Center - Ann Arbor Room and Monts Hall Gallery
Join us for an evening of co-learning with Stephen Henderson and the Place-Making Research Cluster.

We will begin the evening with a short group study on the topic of making, unmaking and remaking place in Detroit, through excerpts from the work of local Detroit writers, facilitated by the City Study Stewards. Stephen Henderson will share reflective remarks on his own experience with place-making in Detroit through his Tuxedo Project, and as a journalist for the Detroit Free Press. We will then move into a guided conversation on the topic between Stephen and the students of the Place-Making research cluster, as well as the community.

Stephen Henderson is editorial page editor and a columnist at the Detroit Free Press and a 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner for his coverage of his native city, Detroit. In 2012, he returned back to his recently abandoned childhood home at 7124 Tuxedo and decided not to leave. This choice led to the creation of the Tuxedo Project, a partnership with Marygrove College and the Knight Foundation, to restore Stephen’s home and to turn it into a writer’s residency, which would benefit the students of Marygrove and the surrounding community. In conversation with the City Study Stewards from the Place-Making research cluster, Stephen will share his own reflections on making, unmaking and remaking place in post-bankruptcy Detroit, as well as the unique features of and vision for transforming a home into a place of learning.

The Place-Making Research Cluster at the Detroit City Study explores the diverse elements that make, unmake and remake place. Students in this cluster take up this question through a variety of disciplines and entry points, including social space, material space, visual space and mental space, as well as the role of art, community, the built environment, deconstruction, affect and power and how they intersect within place. The cluster is motivated by the question, what constitutes “place” and what does it actually hold together? The Place-Making Research Cluster is made up of four PhD students, Joseph Richard DeLeon, Samantha Hobson, Michael RJ Koscielniak, and Shebani Rao. To learn more about the Place-Making research cluster and how you might join their efforts, contact Detroit City Study project director, Shira Schwartz, shiras@umich.edu.

Transportation from Ann Arbor: https://ridemdcc.umich.edu/schedule
There will be a special 6:30 return-ride to Ann Arbor in accommodation of this event.

For more information on this event, contact Shira Schwartz, shiras@umich.edu

Film Screening:Polish Animation Night
2016-07-28 20:00 - 21:30 | North Quad - 2175
Snacks provided

Thursdays at 8pm
June 9-August 4 & August 25
2175 North Quad

Performance:Scythian
2016-07-28 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
Named after Ukrainian nomads, Scythian (SITH-ee-yin) plays immigrant rock with thunderous energy, technical prowess, and storytelling songwriting, beckoning crowds into a barn-dance rock concert experience. Celebrating 10 years of getting people dancing all night, Scythian comes to town with a new album, "Old Tin Can." It's the companion piece ot last year's "Jump at the Sun," which was funded entirely by Scythian's legion of enthusiastic fans. Nashville's Music City Roots says Scythian is "what happens when rock star charisma meets Celtic dervish fiddling." Scythian's "Immigrant Road Show" consists of Alexander Fedoryka, Josef Crosby, Danylo Fedoryka, Tim Hepburn, and Larissa Fedoryka on cello.
