Archive for December 24th, 2016
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Slauson Tutoring
STEM Society collaborates with Slauson Middle School for tutoring opportunities where University of Michigan club members are transported to...
Enter the Art 4 Activism Poster Competition
2017 Theme: Access to Opportunity
ENTER THE ART4ACTIVISM POSTER COMPETITION!...
Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel
by Carlye Crisler
Carlye Crisler, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her...
Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads
by Suzanne L. Cross
Suzanne L. Cross, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, is a shawl...
Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation, Holidays & Beyond
by Thomas L. Clark
As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut...
Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush
From the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson
These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the...
Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art
by Studio Art Quilt Associates of New Mexico
Since the dawn of history, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick, heal wounds, and promote health. This group of fiber...
Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture
by Tim Shoemaker
In the year 2000, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the...
Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage
by John Gutoskey
John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces, gum wrapper chain, American...
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present
From the collection of Elaine Reed
Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic...
It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75
Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane, often...
Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art
Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite...
Moving Image: Landscape
Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell,...
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book...
The Aesthetic Movement
Artists of the Photo-Secession
Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and...
Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask
The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the...