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Gifts of Art Call for Entries 2013-2014

Gifts of Art is currently accepting proposals for our Aug 2013-Aug 2014 exhibit year! As one of the first and most comprehensive arts in...

Birthing Reproductive Justice: 150 Years of Images and Ideas

Reproductive Justice -- the right to have children, not have children, and parent our children in healthy and safe environments -- is a...

Gifts of Art presents Behind the Veil: Monoprint & Mixed Media

Casey Blanchard

Casey Blanchard is a monoprint and mixed media artist living in Vermont. During her travels, Blanchard considers no found object too grand...

Gifts of Art presents Birdpants: Mixed Media

Missy Orge

Missy Orge creates work that is evocative of scientific curiosities and mounted butterflies, with a humor that sneaks up and inspires a much...

Gifts of Art presents Covered: A Collection of Artists' Books

U-M Book Arts Students

When viewing contemporary artist's books, we find alternative bindings and printing methods that often change the form of the...

Gifts of Art presents Mediterraneo: Watercolor

Kay Cassill

Widely traveled artist Kay Cassill looks for the unusual and the most ordinary views to save in her sketchbook and camera. In her studio,...

Gifts of Art presents Newspaper Diary: Color Photography

Joanne Leonard

For Joanne Leonard, preserving newspaper clippings is something of an urgent task since future generations may know only digital versions of...

Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass

UM-Dearborn Permanent Art Collection

The American studio glass movement started in 1962 with glass workshops held at the Toledo Museum of Art. The workshops, taught by Harvey...

Gifts of Art presents Pursuit of Happiness: Acrylic on Canvas

Adrienne Kaplan

Ann Arbor based Adrienne Kaplan explores the American search for happiness by choosing a day at the beach. Her goal is to transmit this...

Gifts of Art presents Visions of Serenity: Multi Media Group Show

Athena Art Society

One of the oldest women's professional art organizations in the country, the Athena Art Society began in 1903 at the Toledo Museum of...

Interrupted Life

Incarcerated Mothers in the United States

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is an exhibition of five linked installation pieces examining women's...

Northern Michigan Landscapes Exhibit

Artist: Rachael Van Dyke

Visit the Pierpont Commons Wall Gallery located just outside of the Commons Cafe to see this beautiful exhibit!...

The Many Hats of Robert Altman: A Life in Cinema

This exhibit draws on the riches of the University of Michigan’s Robert Altman archive, including examples of his novel approach to...

El Otro Lado/The Other Side

El Otro Lado/The Other Side: Struggles for Racial Justice and its Opposition, presented In collaboration with the LSA Winter 2013 Theme...

“Kelsey Contemporaries: Kayla Romberger and Alisha Wessler”

Alisha Wessler’s “Compass” is from the exhibit “Kelsey Contemporaries: Kayla Romberger and Alisha Wessler,” open 9 a.m.-4 p.m....

Language Comes After Artist: The Work of Lynne Avadenka

Lynne Avadenka is the 2013 Jill S. Harris Visiting Artist at the Institute for the Humanities. An established book artist from Detroit who...

Race: Are we so different?

People are different. Throughout history, these differences have been a source of community strength and personal identity. They have also...

Ross Art Collection

The Ross Art Collection at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business is displayed at locations around the school and online at...

El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa

This exhibit is a major retrospective of African artist El Anatsui, who is widely knowns for monumental wall sculptures made from discarded...

Florencia Pita/FP mod

Organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Florencia Pita/FP mod explores the provocations and intersections of digital...

Recent Acquisitions: Building on the Clements Collections

The Clements Library never stops adding to its collections of primary source material. Already one of the finest American history research...

Remembering Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012)–OLLI Study Group (50+)

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at U-M

We will read “This I Believe, An A to Z of a Life” (2005) by Carlos Fuentes, a prominent Mexican intellectual, novelist, essayist,...

Pesha's Journey: From Rabbi's Daughter to Radical Feminist

A Story in Letters and Photos

“Pesha's Journey” tells the story, in pictures and words, of Pesha–a Jewish woman born into an orthodox Palestine family who...

The American Presidents Part I: Kennedy Through Obama--OLLI Study Group

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at U-M (50+)

We will examine how feature and documentary films depict the personal and political lives of these presidents and discuss how the passage of...