Other:KidSport Summer Camp
2025-07-02 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location
KidSport Summer Camps offers children ages 4-11 the opportunity to learn and play a variety of team sports, individual sports, team building games, and other physical education activities in a non-competitive and fun sports environment. All children will have time in the pool on Tuesday and Thursday mornings and each afternoon, Monday through Friday, to work on water comfort. skills and safety. KidSport Inclusive is for all kids who do not require a high degree of personalized support to participate in large group activities. For more information and to register, visit our website listed below.

Recreational / Games:Michigan League: AADL Summer Game
2025-07-02 08:00 - 22:00 | Michigan League
Another location for the AADL Summer Game is the Michigan League, home to cool study spaces, Maizie's Kitchen & Market, water-bottle refill stations, Campus Information Desk (Main Floor), and historic displays (see Floor 3). It's also the primary office space for the Resource Navigator team, a group of students who help undergrads & grads find the spaces, places, and people they need on the Ann Arbor campus.

*Stop by and find the code for the Ann Arbor District Library Summer Game; (1) first location by the Main Floor Lobby, on the bulletin board near the Info Desk; (2) second location right inside the South Entrance doors near the accessibility door panel! (This is the entrance for the Mendelssohn Theater. nearest Rackham.)* Participants enrolled in the Summer Game can redeem those codes for points, badges, and prizes awarded by the AADL. For Summer Game information and registration, visit play.aadl.org.

Know before you go, especially over holiday weekends and during Art Fair! Check the League's building hours at uunions.umich.edu/league/ or use the Related Links on this page.

Exhibition:Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color
2025-07-02 09:00 - 20:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor)
We have many significant books from the history of our understanding of rainbows and color theory, from the writings of scholar Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham to Isaac Newton’s 1704 Opticks. Rainbows appear across the spectrum of our collections, and this exhibit includes a handwritten illuminated manuscript, practical color manuals of the industrial age, contemporary artists’ and children’s books, and more from our vast holdings.

Rainbows have captivated people for all of recorded history. It’s hard not to think of them as physical objects, but they are really just distorted images of the sun, positioned around the viewer’s head. They require someone to perceive them to exist, and thus have much in common with colors and color theory in general. And, like colors, they are about relationships: of one color next to another, and of colors and the people who see them. The rainbow has had many different cultural interpretations over the years, and most recently has become synonymous with gay pride, appearing all over each June.

Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room Hours:
Sunday, 2-8pm
Monday-Thursday, 9am-8pm
Friday, 9am-4pm
Saturday, 11am-5pm

Exhibition:Carlo Vitale Exhibition
2025-07-02 09:00 - 17:00 | North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - NCRC Galleries
Carlo Vitale is a distinguished Michigan-based artist whose vibrant contributions to the Detroit art scene have flourished since the 1970s. A native of Detroit, Vitale's work is celebrated as part of the second generation of the Cass Corridor Art Movement, Detroit’s first avante garde. His art draws inspiration from the sweeping vistas of farmland seen from above, the intricate patterns of quilt-making, the dynamic energy of cityscapes, and the rich tapestry of daily life. Vitale eloquently characterizes his mesmerizing oil paintings and prints as “kinetic, metaphysical abstractions,” inviting viewers to engage with the depth and vitality of his creative vision.

Vitale received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in Detroit. His work can be found in many collections including The Whitney Museum of Fine Art in New York, The Detroit Institute of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Wayne State University Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art and corporate, hospital, and private collections throughout the country.

Exercise / Fitness:Chair Aerobics/Stretch, Strength & Balance/Zumba
2025-07-02 09:00 - 10:00 | Off Campus Location
Lifetime Fitness classes are offered at Briarwood Mall in the JCPenney wing every Monday-Friday from 9-10am. No experience necessary. Classes are specifically designed for older adults, however, everyone is welcome. LTF classes are free, but please consider making a $2/person per class donation as our classes are supported strictly through donations. No registration is necessary, simply attend when it fits your schedule.

Presentation:Human Supervision of Multi-Robot Systems
2025-07-02 09:00 - 11:00 | Ford Robotics Building - 2300
Chair: Dimitra Panagou

Zoom passcode: hri

Abstract:
This dissertation investigates how humans can effectively supervise autonomous systems—particularly multi-robot teams—across a range of control configurations and interface designs. While much of robotics research focuses on either fully manual control or fully autonomous operation, real-world applications increasingly demand a middle ground, where perception, decision-making, and control are distributed between human and machine. Through four case studies, this work examines supervisory scenarios that vary in control authority and information flow: from autonomous robot formations that adapt to uncertain human motion, to mixed reality interfaces for spatial command, to passive haptic feedback for improving takeover performance, and finally to collaborative interventions for failure recovery. Taken together, these studies contribute new tools, insights, and empirical evidence toward designing supervision not as a fallback mode, but as an active, embodied, and scalable form of human–robot interaction.

Exhibition:Redefining the Crown
2025-07-02 09:00 - 16:00 | Lane Hall
In Winter 2025, the Lane Hall exhibit space will feature a portraiture series titled Redefining the Crown showcasing the powerful stories of six Black breast cancer survivors.

Based on a photo essay by U-M Faculty Versha Pleasant (MD/MPH) and Ava Purkiss (PhD) in Medicine at Michigan, this exhibition examines the cultural and personal significance of hair within Black communities, particularly through the lens of breast cancer treatment and recovery. The term "crown" is deeply symbolic in Black culture, signifying beauty, strength, and identity. The featured photo essay by photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman, Tanisha Kennedy, Felecia McDaniel, Shantell Elaine McCoy, Tamara Lynn Myles, and Veleria Banks.

Through their narratives and portraits, the exhibit examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy, inviting the audience to witness their stories with radical empathy. It explores the cultural pride and personal identity intricately tied to their hair, and how these elements are redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.

The exhibit will be on view from January 21, 2025 to August 8, 2025. This exhibition is presented with support from IRWG, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and Michigan Medicine.

Located on the first floor of Lane Hall (204 S. State Street), the Exhibit Space is free and open to the public, M-F, 9am-4pm.

Exhibition:Beyond Survival
2025-07-02 10:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location - Graphics Gallery
Join us for Beyond Survival, an exhibition of works by incarcerated artists in Michigan presented by PCAP co-founder Janie Paul and the Flint Institute of the Arts. The exhibit opens May 30th and runs through September 14th.

The pieces span nearly 30 years, many of them having been featured in our Annual Exhibition.

"Through drawings, paintings, and sculptures made with simple materials, artists expose the harsh realities of incarceration while imagining life beyond prison. These works reveal a longing for home and family, joy and beauty, connections to nature, flights of the imagination, and journeys toward freedom—acts of creation made despite and in direct response to carceral conditions."

Other:Moth Eden
2025-07-02 10:00 - 16:30 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Explore "Moth Eden," an evocative art exhibit by Anne Erlewine, running from April 19 to July 6, 2025. ‘Moth Eden’ is a series of works exploring the relationship between the sacred reverence of the female form depicted as landscape and the conditioned tension of objectification contrasted by omission through eclipsing desire with the natural essence of bloom and nectar as it pertains to moth sustenance.

Anne Erlewine, an artist from Ann Arbor, Michigan, cultivated her artistic talents from an early age, inspired by her fine artist grandmother. Her creative journey was further developed at the University of Michigan, where she studied art and writing.

Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2025
2025-07-02 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative showcases the depth of artistic excellence and merit of contemporary art practices in Michigan and recognizes the creativity, rigor and innovation of artists and collaboratives working in the region, inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
In the of fall of 2024, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply.
A shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Juana Williams, art curator and writer based in Detroit, Michigan; Melinda Zacher Ronayne, former director of visual arts at the Interlochen Center for the Arts; and Parisa Ghaderi, assistant professor of graphic design at Shoreline Community College and winner of the 2023 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.
Meet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2025:
Conor Fagan obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in the spring of 2014. Among his many numerous awards and grants, he has been one of twelve international artists selected to participate in The 31st annual International Symposium of Contemporary Art in Baie – Saint Paul, Quebec; a year-long artist in Residence at the Roswell artist-in-Residency in Roswell, New Mexico; and a featured artist at the 2020 Spring Break Art Show, in New York, New York. He has had solo shows with My Pet Ram and Gitler & in NYC, and most recently has been featured and won an award at The 2025 Regional Show at the Dennos Museum and Cultural Center. He has works in numerous public collections including the Waterton - Global corporate collection, the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in Baei St Paul. His work has been collected privately both nationally and internationally. Currently, he teaches and lives outside of Traverse City at Interlochen Arts Academy, nestled among the trees, rivers, and lakes of northern Michigan.Katie Mongoven/上秋莲 is a Chinese American fiber artist from Washington, DC, based in Detroit, MI. Her work investigates and fortifies the space between cultural dichotomies through multiple fiber processes. She received her BFA from the University of Michigan and MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art, with the Surface Design Association’s Outstanding Student Award. She was a Roman J. Witt Visiting Artist at the University of Michigan, a Windgate University Fellow at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, and the 2024 Barstow Artist-in-Residence at Central Michigan University. Other residencies attended include the California Institute of the Arts, the University of Michigan, Vermont Studio Center, and forthcoming Stove Works (TN) in 2025. Solo and group exhibitions include Central Michigan University (MI), Playground Detroit (MI), Riffe Gallery (OH), and ROY G BIV Gallery (OH). She has public and corporate commissions at the Cranbrook Art Museum, PayTile, and Cross River Bank. Her work is held in public collections at Central Michigan University, Summa Health, and MetroHealth, and in numerous private collections throughout the United States.Sara Nickleson is an artist, curator, and gallery director based in Detroit, Michigan. She held the position of Senior Director at Library Street Collective gallery from 2016 to 2022. Prior to moving to Detroit, Nickleson was the Head Curator and Director of Collections at the Design Exchange (DX) in Toronto, Canada, where she curated a number of internationally acclaimed exhibitions, including This is Not a Toy, The Politics of Fashion, and 3DXL. Nickleson has written for a number of arts publications, including exhibition catalogs (José Parlá: Polarities; This is Not a Toy; Coping Mechanisms, Sam Durant: Iconoclasm) and artist monographs (Sam Friedman, Tyrrell Winston). She has been a visiting curator and critic, and was invited by the British Council to take part in their Design Connections symposium as part of London Design Week in 2015. Exhibitions of her artwork include a solo show at Louis Buhl & Co. (Detroit) as well as a number of group presentations. Nickleson received her BFA from the University of Windsor (Windsor, Canada); a BID from the College for Creative Studies (Detroit, MI); and an MFA in Painting from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
From June 26 through August 2, 2025, Fagan, Mongoven, and Nickleson will present their work in a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery, with logistical and curatorial support from the Gallery's professional staff.
2025 Envision Awardee Named
At the exhibition's opening reception on June 26, the jury reconvened to select the Envision 2025 Award recipient, awarding Sara Nickleson a $5,000 prize.
In a statement about Nickleson's work, the jury noted: “Sara Nickleson’s ambitious paintings boldly invite us to explore our relationship with the unknown. At a time when the world is deeply divided, when diverse perspectives and experiences are being weaponized by fear, Nickleson’s paintings meticulously build another world - one mark, one brush stroke at a time. Layering colors and mark-making that draw on prehistoric forms and symbols, Nickleson seeks a new futurity that acknowledges the losses, and co-existence that build on our differences and commonalities. Sara has been consistently building her visual vocabulary and we are excited to see where she will go next.”
Envision: The 2025 Michigan Artist Initiative is curated by Srimoyee Mitra with the assistance of Joe Rohrer.

Sporting Event:Stamps Gallery: AADL Summer Game
2025-07-02 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Stop by Stamps Gallery to enjoy the Envision: The 2025 Michigan Artist Initiative exhibition and find the code for the Ann Arbor District Library Summer Game! Participants enrolled in the Summer Game can redeem those codes for points, badges, and prizes awarded by the AADL. For Summer Game information and registration, visit play.aadl.org.
Please note: Stamps Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., and until 7 p.m. on Thursdays. Our exhibition is open June 26 through August 2, 2025.

Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
2025-07-02 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art
Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history.

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives.

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.”

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.

Exhibition:Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775
2025-07-02 12:00 - 16:00 | William Clements Library
The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition in recognition of the 250th Anniversary of the military hostilities that began the American Revolutionary War. The Battles of Lexington and Concord are firmly established in American memory as the culmination of a range of governmental, political, economic, and social tensions that amplified in the decade leading up to 1775. In this exhibit, visitors will have the opportunity to see original historical manuscript letters, documents, newspapers, and artwork that reveal aspects of the bloody work of Empire and individual alike in April 1775.

Among the items on display will be Commander in Chief of the British Army, General Thomas Gage's draft orders for the Concord Expedition, April 18, 1775; a bundle of letters collected by former Sons of Liberty supporter Dr. Benjamin Church, which he secretly turned over to British Army intelligence; letters by Silas Deane, John Hancock, and Rachel Revere; and much more.

Open weekdays from 12-4 pm.

Film Screening:Sea Monsters
2025-07-02 12:00 - 12:30 | Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
The film follows a curious and adventurous Dolichorhynchops – familiarly known as a ‘dolly’ – as she travels through the most dangerous oceans in history. Along the way, she encounters long-necked plesiosaurs, giant turtles, enormous fish, fierce sharks, and the most dangerous sea monster of all– the mosasaur.

Workshop / Seminar:CoderSpaces - Wednesday
2025-07-02 13:30 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
Are you grappling with a piece of code, trying to compute on a cluster, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.

All members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces to get research support and connect with others.

Tuesdays, 9:30-11 a.m. ET, via Zoom (Meeting ID:94181215786)
Wednesdays, 1:30-3 p.m. ET, via Zoom (Meeting ID: 98659357324)

Lecture / Discussion:A Little Looney: Lessons Learned as a Loon Biologist
2025-07-02 19:00 - 20:00 | Gates Lecture Hall, UM Biological Station
The Common Loon is an icon of the northern wilderness as well as an indicator of the health and integrity of aquatic ecosystems. Giving the Hann Lecture in Ornithology during the 2025 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station, Dr. Jay Mager will provide an overview of the life history of the Common Loon, share insight into the past work considering behavioral mechanisms by which loons select and defend breeding territories, and discuss current conservation practices by scientists and citizens to preserve and protect loon populations, including more recent work considering the behavior of loons during the non-breeding season.

Mager is a professor of biological sciences at Ohio Northern University, where he teaches courses in biology, ecology, animal behavior, and ornithology. He received his Bachelor of Science in biology at Hiram College, his master’s degree in zoology at Miami University, and his Ph.D. in neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University. Trained as a behavioral ecologist, Mager is fortunate to have spent most of his career studying various aspects of the life history of the Common Loon and applying what he has learned to a number of conservation and management issues facing this species.

The U-M Biological Station — the largest of U-M's campuses at more than 10,000 forested acres surrounded by lakes — is one of the nation's largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.

Founded in 1909, the Biological Station supports long-term research and education. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.

The Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so our community can learn about our natural world.

The free, public talks are on Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.

Performance:Matt The Electrician
2025-07-02 20:00 | ARK Reserved
"...as carefully crafted and insightful as good Paul Simon. With a raspy voice and subtly complex arrangements, Sever brings a delightfully different energy to the often hidebound folk scene; electrifies it, actually.” –L.A. Daily News

Matt the Electrician is Matthew Sever, a quirky, sincere folk/pop singer songwriter based in Austin, TX. He has self-released 11 studio albums, and 2 live CDs since 1998. Matt moved to Austin, TX from the West Coast in 1996 to pursue music full time. He regularly tours all over the world, specifically The US, Canada, Western Europe and Japan. His songs have been featured on Network TV shows, in feature length movies, and in TV commercials. He regularly plays festivals, theaters, nightclubs, and house concerts, and will continue to do so until he cannot.

Conference / Symposium:Munger Graduate Residences (2024-2025) (Housing)
2025-07-22 19:30 | Media Room (Munger Basement)
Come Join the Munger Community by attending events hosted by our RA's! Feel free to select and attend as many events as you would like!

Performance:David Nail
2025-10-19 19:30 | ARK Reserved
“As impressive as it is felt, Nail’s robust, resonant tenor just might be country’s most limber and soulful this side of Ronnie Dunn.” –The Washington Post

Hailing from Kennett, Missouri, David Nail is well-respected up and down Music Row. Some might even call him a “tour de force” as his songs pull no punches in evoking the demons with which he has wrestled through much of his life. The GRAMMY-nominated multi-platinum singer/songwriter’s early releases, I’m About To Come Alive, The Sound Of A Million Dreams, I’m A Fire and Fighter, ignited his reputation as an innovator and creative risk-taker yet left Nail feeling restless. This led to the departure of the only record company home he’d ever known, MCA Nashville, where he’d formed friendships that endure even now.

Through dealing with his own journey of mental health and the feeling of needing to “rebel against what people expect you to be,” Nail began making his most organic work to date, David Nail & The Well Ravens, with Jason Hall and Andrew Petroff. That project liberated Nail and propelled him into his next adventure. Writing solo for the next few months led to his debut solo independent EP Oh, Mother, a reflective piece of work. Of the title track, Rolling Stone noted that “the song creeps in like a sunrise — quiet, restrained cello and keys are the only underpinning for Nail’s powerful vocals at first. But then it slowly builds to something more massive and majestic.” That release was followed by Bootheel 2020 and Bootheel 2021, projects dedicated to the singer/songwriter’s hometown in the “bootheel” of Missouri. Nail released an EP titled Best of Me in 2023 and the title track has seen heavy press support and country radio airplay.

2024 brought more touring than ever, two great single releases “If I Could Call” and “Why” featuring Aubrie Sellers. Nail plans on releasing the start of an excitingly different and elevated album project this year leaving behind any self-imposed restrictions. In Nail’s own words, “My philosophy has always been, I just hope to have a good enough year that I can have a next year while staying as true to myself as I possibly can.”
