Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/day/2020-08-08/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (August 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
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 2020-08-08T00:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Submit a Research Project Proposal (August 8, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 2020 7:00am
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Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-08-08T07:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (August 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18778934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 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 2020-08-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (August 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18779019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 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 2020-08-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (August 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18778850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 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 2020-08-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (August 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18779355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 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 2020-08-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (August 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18778766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 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 2020-08-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (August 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18779187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 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 2020-08-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (August 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18779103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 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 2020-08-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (August 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-19489378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2020-08-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Incoming First-Year Application Open (August 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74479 74479-18744545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

This Academic Year program, in which students participate for both Fall and Winter Terms, is designed for University of Michigan first and second year undergraduate students enrolled on the Ann Arbor campus who are seeking a first time research experience. Student research assistants work alongside a faculty member, research scientist or professional practitioner on an ongoing or new research project.

Projects and Mentors come from all 19 schools and colleges as well as with community partners conducting research.

Apply at myumi.ch/uropyearone

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:44:06 -0400 2020-08-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs myumi.ch/uropyearone
UROP Research Scholars Application Open (August 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73491 73491-18770606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research, a liberal arts education, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.

Research Scholars program information and application available at myumi.ch/uroprs

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:03:51 -0400 2020-08-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Year 2
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (August 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18779271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 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 2020-08-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (August 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 2020 11:00am
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 2020-08-08T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 2020 11:00am
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 2020-08-08T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T17:00:00-04:00 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
Post No Bills: Burhan Doğançay's Archive of Urban Protest (August 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72200 72200-17957273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The upcoming exhibition Post No Bills: Burhan Doğançay’s Archive of Urban Protest highlights this important Turkish modernist’s exploration of three decades of the American social zeitgeist in works based on the abstract collages of torn posters, chipped paint, and graffiti he found on city walls.

Doğançay documented and harnessed the political content of walls in more than 100 cities around the world, an effort that was progressively recognized throughout his life. His works are in museum collections around the world and have been the focus of major exhibitions at the Pompidou Center, Paris (1982), the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (1992), and the Istanbul Modern (2012). Though many of his artworks are located in American university museums, few exhibitions have explored the shifting trajectories of 20th-century American political discourse expressed in them.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:17:44 -0500 2020-08-08T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2005_2_64_representation_7765_original.jpg
Watershed (August 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-08-08T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Meeting (August 8, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60527 60527-17745554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

UPDATE: Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, our meetings will take place virtually until further notice, using the Zoom platform. Contact annarbor@citizensclimatelobby.org for connection information.

Worried about climate change? Wondering how you can make a real difference? Come to the monthly meeting of the Ann Arbor chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL). CCL is a national, grassroots organization working to enact federal legislation to put a price on CO2. It is the most focused and influential organization working on national climate policy. We are working to build support for the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (energyinnovationact.org). This comprehensive, bipartisan legislation is projected to reduce our carbon emissions by at least 40% in 12 years. Our meetings consist of dialing in to a national conference call (featuring different guest speakers each month), followed by local discussion of actions. Newcomers are welcome to come at 12:30 for a brief overview.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 May 2020 09:47:51 -0400 2020-08-08T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual CCL Logo
POSTPONED (New Date TBA) - The Adam Ezra Group (August 8, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73571 73571-18261085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 8, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Tickets on sale March 7!

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Performance Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:57:08 -0400 2020-08-08T20:00:00-04:00 2020-08-08T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The Adam Ezra Group presented by The Ark