Archive for August 9th, 2009
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Trevor Hall
A South Carolina native who has been writing songs since he was 14 and who was influenced by Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Ben Harper and Bjork....
Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits
Exhibit
Apollo 11: 40 Years Later
July 20th marks the 40th anniversary of the landing of the Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon, and the first time humans stepped onto the...
Exhibit
Reaching for the Stars and Beyond
This temporary exhibit presents the research of eight U-M astronomers. Go to www.lsa.umich.edu/exhibitmuseum/exhibits or call 764-0480 for...
Francisco Goya’s Caprichos
The Museum of Art recently added to its collections a complete first edition (80 etchings) of Francisco Goya y Lucientes's...
Permanent Exhibits at the Exhibit Museum of Natural History
The Hall of Evolution houses Michigan's largest display of prehistoric life. More than 600 million years of life on Earth are traced...
ViewSpace
ViewSpace is an internet-fed, self-updating, permanent exhibit from the Space Telescope Science Institute, home of NASA's Hubble Space...
Volunteer Photographers for Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living
Are you looking for a great volunteering opportunity?...
(Un)Bound: Artist Books and Prints by Book Artists of Ann Arbor
This exhibit, curated by Ben Reynaert, explores contemporary bookmaking as an art form. Within the artists' book movement, there has...
Duct Tape Paintings by Pete Warburton
Warburton is a local, self-trained artist. What started as a brief adventure making ties exploded into a large collection of paintings using...
Exhibit
Recent Works: Art Quilts by the Paradigm Quilters
Paradigm is a group of 18 artists from southeast Michigan who are dedicated to the concept of quilt as art. Although most of the art is...
Exhibit
Art from an Eggshell by Tina Boes
With vision and a high speed drill, Boes, of Muskegon, sets to work creating unique and inspiring heirloom quality art out of eggshells. She...
Exhibit
Cancer Healing Quilts by The Fiber Artists @ Loose Ends
Under the theme of plants and animals that are used in chemotherapy treatments, each fiber artist brought her own individual style,...
Landscapes
Oils on Canvas and Linen by Cecily Donnelly
n her landscape paintings, Donnelly is interested in distilling the details of time, place, weather and light into simplified color...
Nature Silhouettes
Metal and Paper Sculptures by Anne Mondro
Mondro received her undergraduate education at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at Kent...
U-M Health System Annual Employee Art Exhibition
This annual event showcases the talent and creativity of the people who work at UMHS. The exhibition is juried, and there are ribbon awards...
Ida: Darwinius masillae
"Ida," a new exhibit in the Exhibit Museum's Rotunda, displays a high-resolution cast of an extremely rare fossil discovered...
Treasures Rediscovered
Chinese Stone Sculptures from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University
This exhibition features 22 important sculptures that now for the first time can be ascribed to specific Buddhist sites such as...
UMMA Projects: Lisa Anne Auerbach
July 11 through October 11, 2009...
Untitled (History Painting)
Painting and Public Life in the 21st Century
May 23 through September 20, 2009...
Tours of the New UMMA
Take a free guided tour of the new UMMA! All tours start at the information desk in the Apse in Alumni Memorial Hall.