New Events

New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs

In October 1947, just two years after the end of World War II, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen...

Storytime at the Museum

Storytime at the Museum promotes art enjoyment for our youngest patrons. During the summer we take advantage of the warm weather and the...

Saturday Sampler Tour | Read and Look: "In Egyptian Times"

Join us for a kid-friendly tour of the Egyptian exhibits at the Kelsey Museum! We begin by reading aloud "In Egyptian Times," by...

George Bedard

Presented by The Ark

For his sixth annual journey through American roots music, Bedard will be joined by two former bandmates, pianist Mark “Mr. B” Braun and...

Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits

Sound Education Between Healing and Mercy

Rumi Club at University of Michigan invites you for a weekend with the erudite scholar and author Imam Fode Drame as he expounds upon his...

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Lecture / Discussion

Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics

Huron Valley Ceramics Collective

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who...

Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry

Marsha Chamberlin

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting...

Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography

Patty Carroll

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers...

Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography

Larry Hauptman

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit...

Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting

John Megahan

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation...

Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls

Charlie Patricolo

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John...

Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting

Adnan Charara

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic...

Beyond Borders: Global Africa

More than ever in the era of globalization, ideas traverse geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries, even as national borders seem...

Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada...

Materials On Hand: The Art of Ellen Wilt

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra with the assistance of James Barker and Jennifer Junkermeier, Materials On Hand: The Art of Ellen Wilt is a...

See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the...

Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as...

Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-September 24, 2018

Michigan in Washington Fall 2018 Deadline for Winter 2019 and early admission Fall 2019.

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Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern

August 24, 2018–January 6, 2019

Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city....