Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/day/2017-12-28/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge (December 28, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43238 43238-12816391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 12:00am
Location: Jewish Family Services
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Volunteers will accompany older adults to medical appointments and provide support to the client.  Volunteers will facilitate communication with medical staff to ensure all necessary questions are asked, taking notes for the patients to reference.  Just 2-3 hours of your time can help patients to attend appointments safely and provide comfort and confidence to them and their family members.  Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one appointment a month for a minimum of nine months.  Must fill out application, background check, and attend a two-hour training session. Contact carolcib@umich.edu for the necessary materials and directions to apply!40 Points/SemesterSign-Up Here

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Community Service Fri, 01 Jun 2018 12:00:09 -0400 2017-12-28T00:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T23:59:59-05:00 Jewish Family Services Maize Pages Student Organizations Community Service
Food Distribution with Community Action Network (December 28, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42456 42456-12507598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 12:00am
Location: Bryant Community Center
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Volunteers help distribute food from the truck, "shop" with families, and clean the community center afterward. Volunteers must complete volunteer application and brief online training. This is a large-scale food pantry in Ann Arbor that supplies food to hungry families. Join us and make a positive difference by helping families select the foods they need to bring back to their families.  Sign-Up Here

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Other Wed, 02 May 2018 12:00:11 -0400 2017-12-28T00:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T23:59:59-05:00 Bryant Community Center Maize Pages Student Organizations Other
Season Day (offices closed) (December 28, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47822 47822-11015162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 12:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Offices are closed for Season Days from Tuesday, December 26 through Friday, December 29.

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Other Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:30:36 -0500 2017-12-28T00:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T23:59:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Other woman with scarf and warm coat in the snow
Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (December 28, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 44018-9869290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 12:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: 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.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:17:23 -0400 2017-12-28T00:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T23:59:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-28T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Detroit Music Legends (December 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47154 47154-10802333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

As a community activist and artist in Detroit who focuses on neighborhood empowerment, Nicole Macdonald makes large scale public paintings featuring city luminaries past and present on reclaimed materials. The Detroit Music Legend portraits are 6 x 8 foot, the size of the windows where they will be installed in late 2018 on the Detroit Savings Bank Building, designed by Albert Kahn at 6438 Woodward Avenue. A muralist, collagist, painter and tagger, Macdonald co-founded City Sculpture, a nonprofit Detroit art park, is a board member of Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, and has exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Casco Gallery, Netherlands.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:01:41 -0500 2017-12-28T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition CL & Aretha Franklin (detail) by Nicole Macdonald, photograph by Bruce Giffin. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Distinctive American Art Tile (December 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47151 47151-10802081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Motawi Tileworks was started in Ann Arbor, Michigan 25 years ago by Nawal Motawi in a small garage. Today, Motawi tiles are sold in over 300 locations nationwide, including galleries and the shops in Detroit Institute of Arts and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Tiles are made from a porcelain hybrid clay, a recipe unique to Motawi tiles. The raised lines on each tile require a hand glaze technique to pool the glaze between the lines. Motawi Tileworks has many themed collections, some based on the work of fine artists such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Charley Harper. You can also see 17 permanent Motawi art tile murals throughout Michigan Medicine.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:45:33 -0500 2017-12-28T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spring Chickadees by Motawi Tileworks, photograph by Matt Sturm. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents From Mud to Beauty: Ceramics (December 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47153 47153-10802249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jean-Marc Fontaine, a French scientist and artist who earned his Ph.D. from University of Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, presents a unique set of ceramic works inspired from 10th-8th century BC to the present day. The style varies from simple, traditional forms to elaborate, one-of-a-kind creations. Featuring rustic antique surfaces, warm colors and highly individualized textures, his work also occasionally takes whimsical forms. He also plays the accordion. Fontaine is a research scientist at the U-M Medical School in biochemistry.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:55:16 -0500 2017-12-28T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Amlash Bull Rhyton 3 by Jean-Marc Fontaine, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Ink Portraits (December 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47155 47155-10802417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Based out of Chelsea, Michigan, John Pappas believes that if you can imagine a fun idea making sense, you should make it. He applies this to both his graphic design and fine art. With so much to see and ruminate on in life, Pappas keeps his hands busy by putting pen to paper. This body of work consists of portraits drawn with ink on a variety of surfaces including paper, basswood and aspen panels in an offbeat pen and ink style that leans heavily on pointillism and crosshatching. The subjects range from athletes to musicians to personal friends.

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:39:27 -0500 2017-12-28T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Jason Solowczuk by John Pappas, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents My Playground: Assemblage Sculpture (December 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47156 47156-10802501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with watercolor, Joan Painter-Jones’ work kept building out farther and farther until it became sculpture. Brought up in a household where money was tight, she doesn’t like to waste anything and is captivated by old scraps of things with peeling paint and rusty metal – especially broken things that have a story to tell. She usually starts out with an interesting piece of wood and builds on it, often painting on it and adding collage, all while developing an emotional connection to it. Working in her quiet Milan, Michigan backyard art loft “playground,” she has no message to preach with her work, just her own personal wish for peace and justice.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:09:26 -0500 2017-12-28T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Fair Play II by Joan Painter-Jones, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Prairie Mantras: Paint & Vinyl on Aluminum (December 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47152 47152-10802165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Desiree Warren’s current body of work is a journey using one shape (the orzo) to create a multitude of layers that evoke landscapes and organic assimilations. Growing up in the country in Kansas, she had wide open spaces to explore, as well as many of her family’s dilapidated farm buildings and overgrown pasture lands. At the University of Kansas, she began working with street sign material and has continued to incorporate aluminum and vinyl in her work. Part of this series is included in the 2017 Women to Watch: Metals exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, where she lives and works.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:49:25 -0500 2017-12-28T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Crooning Cottonwoods by Desiree Warren, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Desert Southwest: Photography (December 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47157 47157-10802585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, Daniel Sidoli has always had the creative itch. It led him to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a BA degree in Fine Arts. With this body of work, his intent is to capture images that illustrate the unique landscape that erosion sculpts over time. His goal with photography is to be artistic yet convey truth. He wants the subject to inspire the audience and leave a lasting impression: to elicit an emotional response. Each image represents moments in time and of journeys traveled, both figuratively and literally, since he is involved in every step of the process as he sees each piece to completion.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:12:52 -0500 2017-12-28T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T20:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sacred Light by Daniel Sidoli. High resolution version available upon request.
Enter the As I See It Photography Competition! (December 28, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47767 47767-11012481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 9:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student photos of your favorite U-M campus architecture for the As I See It Photo Competition. Submit up to two photos you've taken of buildings on campus and you could win great prizes, like an iPod Touch! Deadline for submissions is Thursday, January 18 at 10pm.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Dec 2017 09:22:04 -0500 2017-12-28T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T10:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Arts at Michigan Exhibition As I See It Winter 2018 Photo Competition
Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 (December 28, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 44170-9889100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects, archival documents and images, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.

Curators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:25:09 -0500 2017-12-28T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T16:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Excavating Archaeology @ the University of Michigan
II Photo Contest (December 28, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47585 47585-10960783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The International Institute Photo Contest is open to all students affiliated with the institute or its 17 centers and programs through research, study, or an internship abroad. Please join us for the awards ceremony on January 19, 2018 at 11:00am.

This exhibit runs through February 14, 2018.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:33:31 -0500 2017-12-28T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Exhibition shirt
Sacred Plants - Holiday Conservatory Exhibit at Matthaei (December 28, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44125 44125-9886178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Focusing on plants in the conservatory collection at Matthaei Botanical Gardens,Sacred Plants explores how these plants figure in myth, lore, and ritual for cultures around the world. The exhibit also features seasonal flowers, decorated trees, kids activities, and more. Free admission. Note: Closed Christmas Eve, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve. Open New Year’s day.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:44:01 -0400 2017-12-28T10:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T16:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition
Become an Arts Ambassador! (December 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47771 47771-11012514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Student Activities Building
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic, outgoing, and friendly students who are living in a Residence Hall or living community (fraternity or sorority house, co-op, etc.) and have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve within their living communities as a resource for arts opportunities on campus. As an Arts Ambassador you'll help promote arts events and activities, learn about local arts organizations, meet local artists, and have a small programming budget to organize things like film screenings, craft nights, gallery walks, etc. for your living community! You'll attend monthly meetings and collaborate with other Arts Ambassadors to get the U-M community engaged in the arts! The application deadline for Winter 2018 is January 20.

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Meeting Tue, 19 Dec 2017 09:32:13 -0500 2017-12-28T11:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T12:00:00-05:00 Student Activities Building Arts at Michigan Meeting Arts Ambassadors Apply by January 20
Gloss: Modeling Beauty (December 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41652 41652-9417960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Focusing on the prominent role of women as the subject of photography, GLOSS: Modeling Beauty explores the shifting ideals of female beauty that pervade European and American visual culture from the 1920s to today. The exhibition features images of sleek and poised female models and celebrities destined for the glossy pages of fashion magazines and catalogs by leading photographers such as Edward Steichen, Philippe Halsman, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, and Guy Bourdin. Outside of commercial advertising practice, documentary photographers Elliott Erwitt, Joel Meyerowitz, and Ralph Gibson portray candid images of fashionable women on city streets and mannequins in shop windows, resulting in intriguing juxtapositions of haute couture and everyday life. And
artists James Van Der Zee, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Nikki S. Lee employ the visual strategies of traditional fashion photography, while offering alternative narratives to mainstream notions of female beauty.

Lead support for Gloss: Modeling Beauty is provided by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:12:57 -0400 2017-12-28T11:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Halsman Halle
Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection (December 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46544 46544-10546855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection" showcases the master draftsmanship of two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Curated by Kelly in 2014, the exhibition speaks to his admiration for Matisse, as well as to the centrality of drawing in both artists’ practices. To accompany the forty-five rarely exhibited works by Matisse made in the first half of the 20th century, which reveal his process and range of creativity as a draftsman, Kelly selected nine of his own lithographic drawings that derive from his time in France during the 1960s, when the American artist studied Matisse’s sketches and studies of nature and human figures. Together, the works by Matisse and Kelly form a thought-provoking, visually striking artistic dialogue, allowing viewers to experience one artist through the eyes of another and to immerse themselves in the pleasures of close looking.

"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection" is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.

This exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:01:04 -0500 2017-12-28T11:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Henri Matisse
New at UMMA: Paul Rand (December 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 46548-10547089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC, IBM, UPS, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus, or visual puzzle, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight,” “industriousness,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:23:47 -0500 2017-12-28T11:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Paul Rand
Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter (December 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 46549-10547210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by, or even created by, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA, "The Comforter" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture, though curious and unexplained, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.

Lead support for "Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:26:03 -0500 2017-12-28T11:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition The Comforter
Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (December 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 41651-9417831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:58:14 -0400 2017-12-28T11:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (December 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10546934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2017-12-28T11:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk (December 28, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45293 45293-10569801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 11:30am
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

Bright stars, constellations, and planets are discussed in this live startalk, which includes a trip into space to look at far away objects.

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Presentation Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:42:14 -0500 2017-12-28T11:30:00-05:00 2017-12-28T12:30:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Presentation Ruthven Museums Building
Season of Light (December 28, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46645 46645-10569820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 12:30pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

This presentation traces the history and development of many of the world's most endearing holiday customs, all of which involve lighting up the winter season.

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Presentation Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:18:59 -0500 2017-12-28T12:30:00-05:00 2017-12-28T13:30:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Presentation Ruthven Museums Building
The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk (December 28, 2017 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45293 45293-10569804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 1:30pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

Bright stars, constellations, and planets are discussed in this live startalk, which includes a trip into space to look at far away objects.

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Presentation Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:42:14 -0500 2017-12-28T13:30:00-05:00 2017-12-28T14:30:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Presentation Ruthven Museums Building
Seth Glier (December 28, 2017 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41489 41489-9308242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

New music!

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:54:13 -0400 2017-12-28T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance