Workshop / Seminar:Parenting Through Separation and Divorce Workshop
2017-08-07 07:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location
All parents are concerned about the well-being of their children as they face the challenges of separation and divorce. Our free workshops deliver practical advice in a collaborative, caring environment. We help parents understand their children's needs during the time of separation and divorce and offer specific suggestions for creating the most beneficial post-divorce parenting relationships.

We now offer a free drop-in activity for children during the parent workshop, open to all ages.
This presentation is an approved alternative to the SMILE Program presented by the Friend of the Court.

Additional Things to Know
The workshops are free and open to the public and run the first Monday of each month.
The workshop is scheduled for 7-8 p.m.
Please arrive early. The event starts promptly at 7 p.m. and late attendees may not be admitted.
Registration is required for this event. Register 24 hours before event.

Note: The date for the July 2017 workshop has been changed due to holiday timing. Rather than being held on July 3rd (as was previously advertised) the workshop will now take place on July 10th.

Exhibition:Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial
2017-08-07 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, Second Floor
Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

Exhibition:Enter the As I See It Literary Competition!
2017-08-07 08:00 - 23:00 | Off Campus Location
Arts at Michigan is seeking student literary works for the As I See It Literary Competition! Tell us about your University of Michigan experience in 200 words or less. Looking for inspiration? Check out the UpstART 200 archive (https://www.lib.umich.edu/upstart200/collections/show/) of historic or culturally significant work that is held by or related to U-M. A winner will be selected and will receive a $200 gift card to Literati Bookstore! First and Second Runners Up will also receive prizes. The deadline to submit works is September 21, 2017. Learn more and submit here: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/asiseeit/

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ceramic Houses
2017-08-07 08:00 - 20:00 | 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
2017-08-07 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
2017-08-07 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
2017-08-07 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
2017-08-07 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
2017-08-07 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
2017-08-07 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:The Grandmother Tree Walk
2017-08-07 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
2017-08-07 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
2017-08-07 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
2017-08-07 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:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-08-07 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
2017-08-07 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:Moving Image: Portraiture
2017-08-07 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

Exhibition:Picturing Buildings
2017-08-07 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:Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction
2017-08-07 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.

Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk
2017-08-07 11:30 - 12:30, 2017-08-07 13:30 - 14:30, 2017-08-07 14:30 - 15:30 | Ruthven Museums Building
Bright stars, constellations, and planets are discussed in this live star talk, which includes a trip into space to look at far away objects.

Other:9/22--Fall 2017 Application Deadline
2017-08-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
The application deadline for Winter 2018 and early-admission Fall 2018. Please apply through M-Compass.

Recreational / Games:Deutschtisch
2017-08-07 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:Little Star that Could
2017-08-07 12:30 - 13:30 | Ruthven Museums Building
The "Little Star That Could" is a story about an average yellow star on a search for planets of his own to warm and protect. Along his way, he encounters other stars and learns what makes each star special.

Exhibition:200 Years Young: Detroit and the University of Michigan
2017-08-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Off Campus Location
An exhibition about the longstanding interactions between Detroit and the University of Michigan features arts and entertainment, classroom experiences, public servants and Wolverine sports in Detroit through the decades. It also looks to the future, highlighting U-M undergraduate and graduate students who call Detroit home, as well as the dozens of university initiatives under way in the city.

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

Other:Dinosaur Tour
2017-08-07 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.

Performance:Summer Carillon Concert Series: Ray McLellan, Michigan State University
2017-08-07 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Carillons at the University of Michigan present the last concert in annual summer carillon concert series featuring Dr. Ray McLellan, university carillonneur at Michigan State University, a post he has held for over 20 years. Dr. McLellan has performed recitals all over the US, Canada, the Netherlands, France, and Germany.

Performance:Nicole Atkins
2017-08-07 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Check back soon for more details.
