Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ceramic Houses
2017-07-05 08:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit) | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Olga Stowers was born in Siberia and grew up in Moscow, Russia where she earned her degree in finance. She has always been interested in creating art, and started working with clay three years ago in Ann Arbor. Stowers has made different clay pieces, but houses and buildings are her favorites. Stower’s pieces demonstrate her unique style and great attention to detail.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Coloring with the Masters: Art Quilts
2017-07-05 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
For this exhibition, the Aussome Study Group (ASG) picked some of their current favorite artists – MaryAnn Beckwith, Peter Max, Louis Tiffany, Dr. Seuss, Ugo Nespolo, Rick Loudermilk and George Rodrigue – and created art based on their work. This exhibit also contains images and information about each of the inspiration artists. The work of ASG award winning artists, Mary Andrews, Lois Ann Fulton, Robbie Payne and Carol Tamasiunas, has appeared in Quilting Arts and Fiberarts magazines and the book, The Natural World, and they have exhibited their work locally, nationally and internationally.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Fiber Musings
2017-07-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1
Boisali Biswas is a studio artist working in mixed media fibers, currently residing in West Bloomfield, Michigan. She is originally from India, and her formative years were spent at Visva-Bharti International University, founded by the Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore. She has an attunement with nature and a deep rooted attachment to the traditional art forms of her culture rich homeland. Living in this country for over two decades and incorporating styles, techniques, and inspirations of western culture into her Indian background has made her art into a cauldron of multicultural assemblages.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents His Eye Is on the Sparrow: Watercolor
2017-07-05 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
Combining a passion for painting and a love of nature, Catherine McClung has shown her work in the Ann Arbor Art Fair since 1980. In both Michigan and Florida, she walks every day observing and photographing birds to use as a reference for her watercolor paintings. Over a two-year period, she created paintings of all of the 33 birds mentioned in the Bible. McClung also created china patterns for Lenox tableware. In 2002, the Michigan Governor’s office asked her to represent the state by designing an ornament for the White House Christmas tree.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Photography Through China
2017-07-05 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Zengquan Xu is a retired electrical engineer who worked professionally in the local automotive industry. Since his teens, photography has been his lifetime hobby. He has a great love for travel photography and landscapes, especially subjects that are culturally related. Using both film and digital photography, Xu prints his work on paper and canvas. Supporting materials for this exhibit will be in both English and Chinese, and it is in partnership with the U-M Confucius Institute.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Simpli Jessi Handmade Rag Dolls
2017-07-05 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
Jessi Halliday Mesalic is an interior designer, artist, illustrator, doll maker, painter, yarn fanatic and lots of other artistic-type things. Originally from Michigan, where she earned her BFA at the College for Creative Studies, she has recently returned from a 3-year adventure living in the countryside of England. Simpli Jessi dolls are handmade with great care and attention to detail. Natural linens, organic cotton stuffing, felt, yarn, and reclaimed fabrics are used in every doll, making each one unique and special.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Shifting Circus: Drawing & Sculpture
2017-07-05 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
The drawings and sculpture of Flushing, Michigan artist Thom Bohnert range from lyrical to poetic, playing with tension and balance in a kind of whimsical theatrical arena. His drawings show a complex layering, allowing viewers to imagine a storytelling encounter of spaces. His ceramics and sculptures are compositions often combining wire armature and wet looking clay fragments with colorful multi-glazed surfaces. He is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, among others, and museum collections include Minneapolis Art Institute and Detroit Institute of the Arts.

Exhibition:Ira Deutchman: A Commitment to Specialty Films
2017-07-05 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.

Exhibition:The Grandmother Tree Walk
2017-07-05 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:Storied Acquisitions: Highlights from the University of Michigan Library Collections
2017-07-05 08:30 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
In celebration of the university’s bicentennial, this exhibit showcases treasures from a variety of library collecting areas and explores the stories behind the development of some of our most distinctive collections. From Audubon’s Birds of America, the first book acquired for the library, to more recent arrivals like Robert Altman’s Academy Award, the items on display afford us an opportunity to reflect on the history and consider the future of one of the country's largest and most important research library collections.

The exhibit features books, maps, sheet music, manuscripts, and artifacts from the University of Michigan Library’s Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library; Clark Library; Music Library; and Special Collections Library.

Hours: Weekdays 8:30am-6pm, Saturdays 10am-6pm, Sundays 1-6 pm
Closed: May 27-29, July 1-2, July 4, August 19-20, August 26-27

Exhibition:Banner Moments: The National Anthem in American Life
2017-07-05 08:45 - 16:45 | Gerald Ford Library
The new Ford Presidential Library lobby exhibit, curated by University of Michigan musicologist Mark Clague, illustrates through interpretive panels, historical documents and photographs, the cultural 200-year history of “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1814–2014). The tale that emerges demonstrates the power of music and poetry to spark the social imagination and thus create a sense of shared community.

Inspired by the successful defense of Baltimore, Maryland from British attack in September 1814, lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key penned his now famous lyric. Rather than extraordinary, Key’s creative impulse was typical of early America’s broadside ballad tradition in which new words were written to fit well known tunes. The result, however, was far from everyday—Key could not have predicted that his song would survive the moment, yet become his nation’s singular anthem.

Follow the “The Star-Spangled Banner” from the moments leading up to September 14, 1814 through the present day and explore the social history of our national song.
March 2017 to September 2017

Monday - Friday. 8:45 am - 4:45 pm
Closed all Federal holidays.

Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-07-05 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:Exhibition and Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-07-05 09:00 - 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.

Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-07-05 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
2017-07-05 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
2017-07-05 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
2017-07-05 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 II: Abstraction
2017-07-05 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 presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art 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 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.

Workshop / Seminar:Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS): The Impact of Allopathic Medical School Openings on Student Quality
2017-07-05 11:30 - 13:00 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240
Details to come.

Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk
2017-07-05 11:30 - 12:15, 2017-07-05 13:30 - 14:15, 2017-07-05 14:30 - 15:15 | 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:9/22--Fall 2017 Application Deadline
2017-07-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
The application deadline for Winter 2018 and early-admission Fall 2018. Please apply through M-Compass.

Exhibition:Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition
2017-07-05 12:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design is pleased to announce Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition, on view Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017 in the new downtown Ann Arbor Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor). An exhibition reception will take place on Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition brings together a cross-section of rigorous and research-based works that highlight the range and diversity of creative practices emerging from the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps Faculty wear multiple hats as educators, storytellers, artists, and designers. Their work is a vehicle to deepen research and expand the pedagogical frameworks of contemporary art and design practices in the 21st Century. By experimenting with mediums, materials, audience interaction, and participation, Reach brings together energizing and compelling paintings, sculpture, new media installations, collage and found objects, video, performance, and textile design. Reach is the first of a series of projects that will examine and highlight art, design and creative work produced by Stamps faculty in the years to come.

Participating faculty members include:

James Cogswell
Roland Graf
Holly Hughes
Osman Khan
Heidi Kumao
Louis Marinaro
Rebekah Modrak
Anne Mondro
Robert Platt
Marianetta Porter
Michael Rodemer
Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker
Sherri Smith
Bruce Tharp and Stephanie Tharp
Nick Tobier
Joseph Trumpey

Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm

Image: Sherri Smith, Mercury, 2015. Woven fiber, 114” x 60”

Exhibition:The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children
2017-07-05 12:00 - 17:00 | Duderstadt Center - Gallery
Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

Recreational / Games:Deutschtisch
2017-07-05 12:15 - 13:00 | Michigan League - Beanster's Cafe or if the weather permits, the League's Courtyard Garden
The Deutschtisch for Spring 2017 is associated with German 100, but all are welcome! The group will meet Mondays and Wednesdays 12:15-1:00. You can find the group with your ears (i.e. listen for a group of people speaking German). Look for the group at Beanster's Cafe on the ground floor of the Michigan League (typically the group will meet here) OR occasionally on Mondays with good weather, in the "Courtyard Garden" of the League, across from UHS (one way to get to it would be to go directly through the League from the front doors (facing the Bell Tower) to the back doors). ALTERNATIVELY, you can come to the end of the morning class session at 12:00 in Room 2106 MLB and then walk to lunch with the group.

There will always be at least one instructor present; in the first half of the Summer semester, that will be Shubhangi Dabak or Julie Gruber.

All interested German speakers are welcome!

If you are taking German 232 in the Summer, you can make up 2 "A&P Tally" points by attending. Just ask one of the instructors present to let your instructor(s) know you were there.

Presentation:Larry Cat in Space
2017-07-05 12:30 - 13:15 | Ruthven Museums Building
"Larry Cat In Space" is a playful, imaginative cartoon presentation about an inquisitive cat that takes a trip to the Moon. We learn that his human, Diana, has been sent to the Moon. Larry finds a way to sneak on board a shuttle, and goes looking for Diana. Along the way, he learns about space and the Moon. This program is followed by a live star talk.

Other:Dinosaur Tour
2017-07-05 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:Beginner Lindy Hop Series
2017-07-05 19:00 - 20:00 | Space 2435, North Quad
Learn to Lindy! This is a 4-week series for beginner dancers. In these intensive, progressive classes, you'll learn the basics of 8-count Lindy Hop, plus some moves and concepts to help you spice things up on the dance floor.
**backup location: Mason Hall, room 3437**Regular: $35 (full series pass)
Student or Member: $30 (full series pass)
Student+Member: $25 (full series pass)

Performance:Center Stage Strings Master Class: Eric Nowlin, viola
2017-07-05 19:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Glenn E. Watkins Lecture Hall
Erick Nowlin is the principal violinist for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Lecture / Discussion:Pollinator Conservation: Are Current Efforts Enough? - 2017 Summer Lecture Series All Camp Lecture
2017-07-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Off Campus Location - Gates Lecture Hall
Dr. Alexandra Harmon-Threatt is the Bennett endowed lecturer at UMBS this summer. She is a pollination ecologist with broad interests in understanding the patterns and processes that govern plant-pollinator interactions for conservation.

As an Assistant Professor of Entomology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she and her students focus on identifying and understanding patterns in natural environments to help conserve and restore pollinator diversity. With a particular focus on bees, she investigates how plant diversity, fire, grazing and fragmentation, affect bee diversity in local communities.

Exhibition:The Student Experience: Flappers, Mappers, and the Fight for Equality on Campus
2017-07-05 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.
