Archive for August 30th, 2009
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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...
Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe
Sections of the exhibit show what Hubble has revealed about planets in our solar system, stars far beyond the Sun and galaxies beyond the...
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?...
Want to be in a movie?
You may have seen that Trivial Pursuits has been filming around Ann Arbor this month. They will be shooting on campus on Saturday and...
Art in Nature
Quilts by Mary Andrews
In these small art quilts Grand Blanc artist Mary Andrews, depicts nature from the smallest detail to the larger landscape. She dyes her own...
Chicago: Hand-Altered Polaroid Photographs by Cynthia Davis
The award-winning artist captures the Windy City in these enlargements from her fifth book, "Chicago," published by the University...
Daydreams: Mixed Media Sculpture
By Barbara Thomas Yerace and Valerie Mann
The two artists have been collaborating for nine years, bringing together their respective backgrounds as glass artist and sculptor to...
Lots O’ Pots
Sculptural and Functional Porcelain by Philip Wilson
Working out of his studio in Grand Rapids for almost 25 years, all of Wilson's pieces are wheel-formed porcelain, altered and...
Our Diversity: Group Show by the Chelsea Painters
The Chelsea Painters is a vibrant group of men and women who have a passion for developing their own artistic vision. They express this...
Pictorial Tapestries by Anna Kocherovsky
Russian-born tapestry artist Anna Kocherovsky draws inspiration for her handwoven works from reading and reflection, creating numerous...
Secrets of the Garden
Scanner Art by Phyllis Ponvert
These images were taken without a camera. Ponvert places her subjects directly on a digital scanner and then alters them in Photoshop. The...
Tear Jars
Flameworked Glass by Lisa Walsh
Working with hot glass since 1998, Walsh draws inspiration from a lifelong fascination with rocks and minerals. Her award-winning designs,...
Wearable Art
Handwoven Fibers and More by Carol Furtado
U-M School of Art & Design alumna Furtado started as a weaver over 30 years ago, working on a loom. She is now engaged in a variety of...
Ida: Darwinius masillae
"Ida," a new exhibit in the Exhibit Museum's Rotunda, displays a high-resolution cast of an extremely rare fossil discovered...
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.