Other:College Sailing Co-Ed Fleet Race Nationals
2017-06-04 00:00 (America/Detroit) | Charleston, South Carolina
National championship regatta

Other:The Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden
2017-06-04 07:00 - 20:00 | Off Campus Location
The largest collection of heirloom peonies in North America blooms each spring with as many as 10,000 blossoms at peak. The peony garden began in 1922 with a donation by U-M alumnus W.E. Upjohn. Today the garden is undergoing a multi-year renovation project that includes new additions of heirloom varieties as well as Japanese, Chinese, and American tree peonies. Peony season runs Memorial Day through mid-June, depending on the weather. For regular updates of the bloom season visit the dedicated website that offers regular bloom updates during the season: http://peony.mbgna.umich.edu. Free admission.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Blossom by Blossom: Elvish Ceramics
2017-06-04 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
Gabrielle Soltis creates works from the Gyldenstjerne Porcelain Company lineage. The story goes that sometime in the early 1700s, a young Danish nobleman by the name of Einar Gyldenstjerne fell in love and married an Elvish woman named Gwyneira (surname unknown) who shared the family recipe for how to create hard-paste porcelain. The first items produced by the company are dated to 1715. Soltis’ porcelain flowers in this tradition are assembled meticulously petal by petal. She studied ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and is interested in European history and fiction.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Cakeasaurus: Scenes from a Picture Book
2017-06-04 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
One caffeinated afternoon in 2008, a monster appeared to Marian Short, bragging about his many cake thefts. He was arrogant, sugar-fueled and oddly appealing. Being a printmaker, Short began carving the tale into woodblocks. This picture book exhibit follows the confectionary exploits of Cakeasaurus, one cake-deprived town, and one little boy about to turn five. It also shows the evolution of a long-term project, with print variations and peeks into artistic process. Short is an Ann Arbor based artist and writer, whose work has appeared in local and national exhibitions.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Creating Emotion: Hand Painted Intaglio Prints
2017-06-04 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Dale Osterle, originally from Boston, MA, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. This body of work is hand painted intaglio prints of romantic and expressionist landscapes, all created from memory. She makes her prints by etching into magnesium plates, embossing oil paint into paper with three different rollers of color, and hand-coloring the prints with colored pencil, marker and paint. Her work hangs in art galleries all over the country and the world, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Center and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Deep Ocean View: Acrylic on Canvas
2017-06-04 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
Westland, Michigan artist Durwood Coffey was influenced at an early age by his artistic family, especially by his father and brother who were both enamored with drawing. In the US Marine Corps, he served as a combat artist, whose job is to interpret and illustrate fellow Marine experiences with emotional resonance, all while protecting himself and others. After spending his working life as an illustrator, in 2001 Coffey decided to focus entirely on his own paintings of images from the animal kingdom. In this exhibition, the viewer is plunged up-close into the beautiful world of the sea.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Exploring Color & Pattern: Photography
2017-06-04 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1
Dr. Robert P. Kelch retired from his position as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at U-M in the fall of 2009. He enjoyed a wonderful career in academic medicine ̶ as a pediatric endocrinologist, physician investigator and administrator. Retirement has given Kelch much more time and energy to devote to his lifelong interest in photography. He especially enjoys photographing beautiful scenes, animals and objects during his many travels and around his home in South Haven, Michigan.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Glass Cakes
2017-06-04 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
Janet Kelman’s glass cakes are a perfect fusion of her love of glass and love of baking. Each colorful slice or cupcake invites sampling while her mirror cakes are intriguing brain teasers. Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in her department created scientific equipment, inspiring her to later teach herself lampworking (glass worked over a torch) and open a hot glass studio. Kelman bakes with glass at her home studio in Ann Arbor.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Essence: Photography
2017-06-04 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
David L. Foster is an Atlanta based nature photographer, writer and educator best known for images that convey the essence of his favorite subjects – botanicals and water. In 2014, he collaborated with Julie Hliboki in creating a book entitled Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude. Foster received the P.C. Turczyn Art That Supports the Healing Process award from among 50 international artists chosen for Manhattan Arts International’s 2014 exhibit, Celebrate the Healing Power of Art.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Seascapes: Firenation Art Glass
2017-06-04 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Matt Paskiet is a native to the Glass City — Toledo, Ohio. He began his study of glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1993, and he continued his studies at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state in 1998 and the Fundacio Centre del Vidre in Barcelona in 2001. He later returned to Toledo and opened Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery in Holland, Ohio in 2002, where he has been blowing glass ever since. His Seascape series featured in this exhibit is composed of individually made Murrini pieces, a Venetian glass technique encased in layers of hot glass.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present
2017-06-04 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

Exhibition:Ira Deutchman: A Commitment to Specialty Films
2017-06-04 08:00 - 11:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
What if you made a movie and nobody came to see it? Ira Deutchman has spent his five-decades long career as producer, marketer, and distributor making sure that doesn't happen. This exhibit offers a behind the scenes look at how he went about finding audiences for some of the most important and influential independent and specialty films of the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

Conference / Symposium:Sgt. Pepper Symposium
2017-06-04 08:00 - 11:45 | Earl V. Moore Building
June 1, 2017, will mark the 50th anniversary of the worldwide release of the Beatles' album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. While a handful of other titles may vie for the honor of the group's "best" album, Pepper inarguably marks the peak of the band's creativity, and stands among the most imaginative and culturally significant artistic products of its age.

The "Summit of Creativity" conference will bring together prominent Beatles-based scholars, inner-circle figures, and journalists to lead a gathering of academics, students and the general public in exploring Pepper and its world. The event is to take place at the School of Music, Theatre and Dance, from the afternoon of Thursday through the morning of Sunday, June 1-4, 2017.

Conference registration closed

Exhibition:The Grandmother Tree Walk
2017-06-04 08:00 - 20:00 | Nichols Arboretum
Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-06-04 09:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

Exhibition:Magnificent Miniatures: Azalea Bonsai in Bloom at Matthaei Botanical Gardens
2017-06-04 10:00 - 20:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Featuring a collection of blooming satsuki azalea bonsai on loan from renowned Ohio collector and University of Michigan alumnus Melvyn Goldstein. Satsuki azalea are one of the most popular and prized species used for bonsai in Japan and have been for at least 400 years. Trees are often used to create bonsai but other woody plants such as azalea are also trained. Magnificent Miniatures is a rare opportunity to see bonsai azalea in bloom at their peak.

Exhibition:Magnificent Miniatures: Azalea Bonsai in Bloom at Matthaei Botanical Gardens
2017-06-04 10:00 - 20:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
A rare opportunity to see a display of azalea bonsai in bloom on loan from renowned Ohio collector and University of Michigan alumnus Dr. Melvyn Goldstein. These bonsai azalea, called satsuki, have been long-prized in Japan. Some of the satsuki contain blooms of different colors on the same plant. Open to the public in the Bonsai and Penjing Garden. Bloom time is approximate. Visit the Matthaei-Nichols website for more information: mbgna.umich.edu. Free.

Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-06-04 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

Exhibition:Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
2017-06-04 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

Exhibition:Picturing Buildings
2017-06-04 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Featuring a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from the Museum’s collection, Picturing Buildings illuminates the enduring appeal of photographing architecture, from historic Turkish mosques and New York City skyscrapers, to industrial factories and intimate domestic interiors. Each of these visually and spatially complex sites provides photographers with representational challenges and endless opportunities to innovate. This exhibition explores how photographers working in a range of contexts—from travel photography and photojournalism to historical documentation and modern art—use architecture to develop pictorial strategies in their own medium. Through selective framing, dramatic perspectival distortion, and heightened contrasts between light and dark, photographers reinterpret their architectural subjects by focusing on the creative act of constructing a photograph. The resulting images reveal our surrounding built environment in new ways and highlight the intriguing transformation that takes place when the camera converts three dimensions into two.

Lead support for Picturing Buildings: Photographers and Architecture, 1855-1985 is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

Exhibition:Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
2017-06-04 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

Exhibition:Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration
2017-06-04 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world. This two-part exhibition (Part I: Figuration followed by Part II: Abstraction on view July 1– October 29) presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. The works themselves are equally diverse, ranging from ancient sculptures to contemporary multimedia works. Part I: Figuration features works by Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Mark Tansey, and Mickalene Thomas, among others, and allows visitors to explore the variety of artistic responses and purposes encompassed by the term “figuration”. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for the Arts: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

Other:9/22--Fall 2017 Application Deadline
2017-06-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
The application deadline for Winter 2018 and early-admission Fall 2018. Please apply through M-Compass.

Exhibition:The Journey in a Day: 200 Years of Student Life at the University of Michigan
2017-06-04 12:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location - 500 N. Main St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104
U-M students have teamed up to create this sweeping exhibition, surveying 200 years of daily rituals, social life, challenges, victories, and the roles U-M students have played in historic events. "The Journey in a Day" exhibition includes nearly 50 historic objects and dozens of photos. The exhibition includes a recreation of a Martha Cook Residence Hall room, circa 1917, amongst the first on campus to house women. A poster kiosk occupies the middle of one room in the Museum, plastered with fliers and posters from across time. A reproduction of student scrapbooks brings visitors in direct contact with individuals at various times throughout history. From the morning ritual of reading the Michigan Daily, to student reaction and involvement in U.S. wars, from the mandates and tweets of student organizations, to a survey of infamous late night Ann Arbor hot spots, this is a wide ranging exhibition with many interesting, entertaining and illuminating stories to tell.

Designed by U-M students participating in MUSEUMS 498, in the History of Art Department, in collaboration with the U-M Bicentennial Office, and the Washtenaw County Historical Society.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

Exhibition:Exhibition and Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-06-04 13:00 - 16:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk
2017-06-04 13:30 - 14:15, 2017-06-04 15:30 - 16:15 | Ruthven Museums Building
Bright stars, constellations, and planets are discussed in this live star talk, including a trip into space to look at far away objects.

Other:Dinosaur Tour
2017-06-04 14:00 - 14:30 | Ruthven Museums Building
Attention dinosaur fans! Join us for a free, 30-minute, docent-led tour of the dinosaur exhibits. Sign up on the day of the tours. Limit: 15 people.

Other:Drop-In Tour | Highlights of the Kelsey Museum
2017-06-04 14:00 - 15:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Have you always wanted to learn more about Roman frescoes? Or maybe our cat mummy fascinates you? On this docent-led tour, you will be introduced to some highlights of the museum's Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern collections.

Lecture / Discussion:Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory
2017-06-04 14:00 - 15:00 | Museum of Art
In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II. For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist.
Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

Presentation:Eclipse
2017-06-04 14:30 - 15:15 | Ruthven Museums Building
Get ready for the total solar eclipse occurring on August 21, 2017! By looking at both the history and the astronomy of eclipses, this program will help you understand the significance of this upcoming astronomical event. Michigan will experience a partial eclipse. This program is followed by a live star talk.

Lecture / Discussion:Breaching Artistic Barriers: Artists in Dialogue in Victors For Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors—Part I: Figuration
2017-06-04 15:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Art
Victors For Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors—Part I: Figuration encompasses works of art representing various artistic styles, historical contexts, temporal periods, and geographical spheres. Go behind the scenes with Lehti Mairike Keelmann, UMMA’s Assistant Curator of Western Art, to discover how artists such as Alfred Sisley, Tom Friedman, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jan Saenredam, Andy Warhol, and Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, among others, interpret and challenge established categories of art and subject matter through their choice of technique and social commentary. Keelmann will also discuss how curators approached the installation and layout of these disparate works.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

Performance:Faculty Recital: Joseph Gascho, harpsichord & Matthew Bengtson, fortepiano
2017-06-04 19:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
This recital is the opening event for SMTD’s Youth and Adult Programs Early Keyboard Institute.

PROGRAM: J.S. Bach - Partita in B-flat major, BWV 825; Beethoven - Sonata in A major, op. 2 no. 2; W.F. Bach - Sonata in F Major for Harpsichord and Fortepiano

Performance:Slocan Ramblers
2017-06-04 19:30 | Off Campus Location
Homegrown Canadian bluegrass!

Exhibition:The Student Experience: Flappers, Mappers, and the Fight for Equality on Campus
2017-06-04 20:00 - 23:59 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor Hatcher
Join flappers as they stroll through 1926 Ann Arbor with a beautiful pictorial map and experience the busy student life of the 1920s, celebrate two University of Michigan alumna who have greatly influenced the field of cartography, and explore the rise of diversity and the fight for equality on campus through protest posters from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection of the U-M Library’s Special Collections.

Film Screening:NCKS Cinetopia Film Screening | The Wailing
2017-06-04 20:30 - 22:30 | Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater, Main Auditorium
MICHIGAN PREMIERE. Set at the intersection of faith and mysticism, director HONG-JIN NA’s modern take on supernatural mystery takes the viewer on an unforgettable trip through the dizzying and twisty mountains of Korea. A stranger’s arrival in a remote town precedes the spread of a disease that causes a viciousness to spread through the infected. The police officer who is sent to investigate winds up dealing with more than he bargained for when the disease infects his daughter.

Tonally at home with the best European crime thrillers, George Romero’s zombie films, and the darkest corners of Hitchcock’s canon, The Wailing is a visceral mystery interested in exploring the familial bonds that are tested when a father is at his most desperate.

South Korea, 156 min, Horror, Korean and Japanese with English subtitles.

NR, Contains violence, explicit language, and gore.
