New Events

Engaging with Art

UMMA's award-winning docents will guide visitors to experience art through active looking at selected highlights of the collections....

Curator's Talk: Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire

How is it that an American painter came to define the British Empire? Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776)...

Rev Robert Jones

featuring Sis Bernice Jones

A Detroit champion of American roots music and storytelling...

Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits

Juried Art Competition

YOU be the judge!...

Art & Environment Gallery: Work of Sara Adlerstein

The third exhibit in the Art & Environment Gallery is "Water Blues," featuring work by Sara Adlerstein, an associate research...

Gifts of Art presents Brain Fitness PuzzleArt: Interactive Installation

Alli Berman

New York artist Alli Berman had a CVA (stroke) years ago. She experimented in her studio and came up with art that is viewable, touchable,...

Gifts of Art presents Garden of Eden & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings

Dr. Thomas L. Clark

Did you know that the Garden of Eden is also the Garden of Infancy? That the tree of life is also the life giving womb? In new work...

Gifts of Art presents Inside & Out: Fragments & Narratives in Clay

Mari Ogihara

Mari Ogihara uses clay as a medium for its close resemblance to skin. Her ceramic sculptures create tension and unity between raw and...

Gifts of Art presents K-12 Student Group Show

Saline Area Schools

This exhibit celebrates the emerging artistry of students from Saline public schools. Saline Area Schools are strong in visual education,...

Gifts of Art presents Landscape Forms: Painting Retrospective

Karin L. Bodycombe

A U-M graduate from the School of Art & Design in 1949, Karin L. Bodycombe forged new territory in the arts. Working to pave the way for...

Gifts of Art presents The Birthday Party: Ceramic Sculpture

Marcia Polenberg

Marcia Polenberg is an award winning artist whose figurative and architectonic sculptural ceramics, drawings and paintings have been...

Gifts of Art presents: “Garden of Infancy & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings” by Dr. Thomas L. Clark

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Exhibition

"An Exhibit of Exceptional Bindings by James W. Craven"

On the Occasion of Craven's Retirement after 63 Years of Service at the University of Michigan

The exhibit comprises a selection of Jim's favorite repair and preservation projects over the years, including examples of his design...

Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit

Feast!

A Cross-Cultural Culinary Tour of Plants around the World

From cinnamon in Sri Lanka to figs in ancient Rome, the winter exhibit at Matthaei Botanical Gardens takes a look at how plants have played...

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Other

African Art and the Shape of Time

African Art and the Shape of Time explores how African art gives material form to diverse concepts of temporality, history and memory....

Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire

Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776) depicts the death of James Wolfe, the British commander at the 1759...

Discovering Eighteenth-Century British America through the William L. Clements Library Collection

This significant exhibition provides glimpses of British America in the 1700s and is designed to complement the Museum's concurrent...

Francis Alys: Guards

Belgian artist Francis Alys's video Guards (2005) documents sixty-four of the Queen of England's guards on a "walk"...

Geometry of War: Fortification Plans for 18th Century America

Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm

Public Skate

Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!...