Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/day/2020-03-22/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. (CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents La Soledad (La Soledad) (March 22, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72042 72042-18322224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

La Soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy / 2016 / 89 min
Spanish with English subtitlesWith José Dolores López, Marley Alvillares, Adrializ López, Jorge Roque Thielen, María del Carmen AgámezHandyman José lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what was once among Caracas’ most affluent neighborhoods. After learning that the villa’s owners are planning to sell the estate, José seeks any solution that might keep his six-year-old daughter from growing up in Caracas’ crime-sodden slums. Might that fabled treasure supposedly hidden in La Soledad’s walls offer José’s family a chance at a better life?Jorge Thielen Armand’s feature debut carves fiction from reality: La Soledad was once his family’s home; this story is true, acted out by the people who lived it. La Soledad looks beyond the headlines and gives a voice to those affected by contemporary Venezuela’s inner turmoil. It is a magnificent feat of real-life storytelling—and a profound fusion of creativity and compassion. Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Fair / Festival Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-22T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
Melting Ice Rising Seas Teach-Out (March 22, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73275 73275-18188495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

In this Teach-Out you will experience some of our extraordinary planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts one of the most vulnerable places on earth, the isolated Arctic island of Greenland. In June 2019, a team of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Michigan embarked on an expedition to conduct experiments and learn about how climate change is impacting this area of the planet. In this Teach-Out, you will join a group of students on their personal and professional journeys through Greenland, you will learn from leading climate scientists about how climate change is impacting Greenland and other parts of our planet, and will have the opportunity to share your stories about how you engage with the natural environment in your own backyard.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:55:26 -0500 2020-03-22T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction
Nationals 2020 (March 22, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72839 72839-18428727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00am
Location: Fort Benning, GA
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

2020 National Intercollegiate Rifle Competition

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Other Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:00:10 -0400 2020-03-22T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T23:59:59-04:00 Fort Benning, GA Maize Pages Student Organizations Other
----All In-Person Events Canceled Until Further Notice--- (March 22, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73836 73836-18337277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 7:00am
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Our events will be virtual through the fall.

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Other Wed, 05 Aug 2020 11:18:10 -0400 2020-03-22T07:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other block M with word Chemistry
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (March 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (March 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (March 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (March 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (March 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (March 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (March 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (March 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (March 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Dear Stranger: Diaries for the Private and Public Self (March 22, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70075 70075-17507808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Through this exhibit, we invite you to explore more than two centuries of diaries and diary-like documents from across the holdings of the Special Collections Research Center, ranging from privately emotive to publicly informative, from offering news reportage to depicting emotional processing, and from factual to purely fictional. As you read, consider how these journals embody elements of both private and public writing and the permeability between those spheres.

Diaries, journals, daily planners, notebooks: these ephemeral writings provide documentation of private lives and thoughts that can otherwise be difficult to find in the historical record. But does “private” necessarily imply unfiltered and unmediated? Many theorists have noted that the diarist is both writer and reader, both private and public self. Therefore the content and form of diaries are created for future reading, even if only by a future version of the self. The ambiguity of a diary’s audience is heightened in the case of published diaries. The form suggests that we, as readers, are accessing raw, unfiltered thoughts, but rounds of revision are common, and often essential to clearly convey the intended meaning. Even further from our notions of authentic, private writing, fictional diaries are written solely to be published and read by the public, but use the diary form to draw the reader into a particular relationship with the text and its protagonist.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:30:04 -0500 2020-03-22T08:30:00-04:00 2020-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Common Threads Volume LXXII. Candance Hicks, 2016. Special Collections Research Center.
CANCELLED - 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival - Student Voucher Sale! (March 22, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73448 73448-18234754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Student vouchers onsale at MUTO counters. All films are not rated. Voucher must be redeemed at Michigan Theater or Ann Arbor Film Festival box office at least15 minutes before the desired screening. More information at https://www.aafilmfest.org/.

Present your student ID at purchase.

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Film Screening Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:37:55 -0400 2020-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Film Screening Student Voucher - Ann Arbor Film Festival - 3/24-39
Canceled - 2020 Ann Arbor Orchid Festival (March 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72805 72805-18120893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Featuring displays showcasing beautiful orchids; free talks and demonstrations on orchid growing; orchid raffle; orchids and orchid-related items for sale from our vendors. Please note the different starting times of the orchid sale and show:

Orchid sales: 10 am-4:30 pm Sat. & Sun.
Orchid show: noon-4:30 pm Sat.
Photographer’s hour 9-10 am Sun.

2 pm Sat. and Sun.:
Talk: “Orchids 101; 3 pm Sat., “Orchid pests and diseases”: 3 pm Sun.: “How to Repot Your Orchid.” Free admission to all programming.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:57:43 -0400 2020-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Fair / Festival
Suspended - Magic among the Trees: A Celebration of Shakespeare in the Arb’s Productions of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (March 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72922 72922-18094706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Event has been suspended through April 21 because Matthaei Botanical Gardens is closed.

For twenty years, Shakespeare in the Arb has been celebrating the beauty of Nichols Arboretum as a backdrop for a multitude of plays by William Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been performed five times, starting from the first year in 2001, then in 2002, 2005, 2010, 2015, and now in 2020 for Shakespeare in the Arb's twentieth year. Shakespeare in the Arb is a collaboration between Nichols Arboretum and the Residential College at the University of Michigan.

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Performance Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:10:26 -0400 2020-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Performance
Triple Header Against Eastern Michigan University (March 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73803 73803-18322349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Varsity Field
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

The Michigan Club Softball team will be making the short travel trip to Ypsilanti to play Eastern Michigan University in a conference triple header.Go Blue!

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Sporting Event Sun, 22 Mar 2020 12:00:21 -0400 2020-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 Varsity Field Maize Pages Student Organizations Sporting Event
CANCELLED: Family Day, of the 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73419 73419-18217163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Artist Panel begins at 11:00am, followed by Family/Linkage Luncheon, at 12:30pm, followed by the annual reading of the Lit Review at 2:00pm, followed by a reception and the Out of the Blue Choir at 4:00pm.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:55:23 -0400 2020-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Masters Recital: Chadwick Thomas, clarinet (March 22, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73774 73774-18315746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Weinberg - Sonata, op. 28; Carter - Gra; Koechlin - Quatre Petites Pièces, op. 32; Brahms - Clarinet Sonata no. 2 in E-flat Major, op. 120, no. 2.

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Performance Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:15:41 -0400 2020-03-22T12:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
UMMA Pop Up: Jacob Warren - Solo Bass (March 22, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71629 71629-17846974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jacob Warren is a multi-style bassist originally from Ann Arbor, MI. Jacob's background and interests include a wide variety of acoustic styles, such as classical, traditional and contemporary folk, jazz, bluegrass, newgrass, Swedish, and many others. He obtained his Bachelor's in Music Performance at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. He also holds a Masters of Music in Improvisation and Chamber Music from the University of Michigan. This program will feature an eclectic mix of solo double bass arrangements from many different genres.

You can find him on Instagram and Facebook.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:10 -0400 2020-03-22T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square (March 22, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70153 70153-17540893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Office of the President, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:16:50 -0400 2020-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
The Wiz (CANCELLED) (March 22, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72752 72752-18070563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Full refunds will be issued via original payment method.
This “super soul” 1975 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical retells L. Frank Baum’s
classic “The Wizard of Oz” in the context of African-American culture. Dorothy, a
restless Kansas farm girl eager to see more of the world, is transported by a tornado to a
magical world of Munchkins, witches, and a yellow brick road. On her way to the
Emerald City to meet the Wizard of Oz, who she believes can help her get back home to
Kansas, she encounters the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion - friends who help
her battle the Wicked Witch of the West and eventually learn that there really is “no
place like home.”

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:05:45 -0400 2020-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The Wiz presented by MUSKET
Senior Recital: Leah Pernick, violin (March 22, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73833 73833-18333022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Pejacevic - Sonata in D Major for Violin and Piano; Montgomery - Rhapsody no. 1 for Solo Violin; Beach - Violin Sonata, op. 34.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:15:50 -0400 2020-03-22T14:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
Witness Lab Event: Artist Reflections with Courtney McClellan: Artist as Researcher (March 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70554 70554-17604947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Witness Lab is a project of Roman Witt Artist-in-Residence, Courtney McClellan. It is part museum exhibit, part performance art, part research project, which seeks to illuminate the intersection of performance and the law in new ways. Join McClellan for a discussion of her exploration of the act of witnessing as it relates to her art practice. Additionally, she will share motivations for creating Witness Lab and current findings from work in progress. 

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:04 -0400 2020-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T16:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
[Canceled]: JC Penney Suit Up Event (March 22, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68717 68717-17140903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 6:30pm
Location: 500 Briarwood Circle, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108, United Statesof America
Organized By: University Career Center

JCPenney is partnering with the University of Michigan to offer career wear up to 60% off. Everything you need to finish your look for the career fair or an interview. Shop suits, dresses, coats, pants and shoes—all at deeply discounted prices.

JCPenney will close their storeto the public - this is a special UMICH student offering. Bring your UM ID to check-in and receive your 30 percent off coupon as you enter the door.

A bus will be provided by Central Student Government (CSG) that will leave from the Student Activities Building across from the Fleming Administrative Building area located on 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
See the bus schedule below:
*6:30 PM University Career Center > Briarwood-JCPenney
**7:00 PM Briarwood-JCPenney > University Career Center
*7:30 PM University Career Center > Briarwood-JCPenney
**8:00 PM Briarwood-JCPenney > University Career Center
*8:30 PM University Career Center > Briarwood-JCPenney
** 9:00 PM Briarwood-JCPenney > University Career Center
** 9:30 PM Briarwood-JCPenney > University Career Center

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 06 Apr 2020 12:30:15 -0400 2020-03-22T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-22T21:30:00-04:00 500 Briarwood Circle, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108, United Statesof America University Career Center Careers / Jobs
*CANCELED* Dancing Justice: 2019-20 Daring Dances Student Fellowship Performance (March 22, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72893 72893-18090315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

Performances featuring new work by the 2019-20 Daring Dances Student Fellows: Ambiance Dance, Arabesque Dance Troupe, Iraqi Student Association, and the Queer Arts Collective. Centered in the southeastern region of Michigan, Daring Dances embraces how dance, through art-making and spectatorship, invites us into difficult conversations—conversations among those with whom we share identities and values and conversations across differences. As racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia proliferate in public space and public policy in our current moment, Daring Dances supports emerging new work by choreographers based in the Midwest, encouraging students at the University of Michigan making dance related to social justice, and conducting “Experiments in Coalition,” community engagement work that brings together communities around dance performance making and viewing.

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Performance Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:45 -0400 2020-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Museum of Art
Dancing Justice (March 22, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70557 70557-17604950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Daring Dances Student Fellows present global dance exploration of social issues in this evening performance. The Daring Dances project, led by U-M dance professor Clare Croft, embraces how dance invites us into difficult conversations. This project includes a Student Fellowship program to support U-M students with interests in dance and social justice.

Ambiance Dance Team, a U-M Student organization, is a collective of dancers interested in fostering a social, artistic and diverse community. Their latest work, Deviation, acknowledges the struggle and strength of young women making their mark in a male dominated world.

Arabesque Dance Troupe, a U-M Student organization, brings focus to Middle Eastern and North African Culture through artmaking. “Arab Expressions” brings these art forms together for a yearly celebration. Arabesque will perform an excerpt from this concert, highlighting their history, culture and experiences. 

Iraqi Student Association (ISA) aims to promote and raise awareness of Iraqi and Middle Eastern culture. The association strives to bring the Iraqi community together while educating the student population at the University of Michigan on topics within the Iraqi and Middle Eastern society. ISA will invite the audience to join in learning “Chobi”, a traditional dance performed at public events and weddings. *Audience Participation Optional 

Queer Artist Collective, an organization founded by dance majors Alana ​Packo and Rose Janusiak, aims to create a space where Queer artists from any craft can establish community. Their latest work, “An Exploration of Intimacy in Queer Friendship," asks the question how can two people of the same sexuality develop a friendship of deep intimacy despite the prospect of attraction?  

This program is funded by University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre and Dance, with support from the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:05 -0400 2020-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
*CANCELED* Guest Recital: Taya König-Tarasevich, flute (March 22, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73843 73843-18341647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

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Performance Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:32 -0400 2020-03-22T19:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
*CANCELED* University of Michigan Euphonium/Tuba Ensemble (UMETE) (March 22, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72493 72493-18011564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

This will be the last UMETE performance directed by Prof. Fritz Kaenzig, who has served at the helm for 31 years.

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Performance Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:37 -0400 2020-03-22T19:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
CANCELLED - David Wilcox (March 22, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68371 68371-17071641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:53:00 -0400 2020-03-22T19:30:00-04:00 2020-03-22T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance David Wilcox