The Week of: May 13, 2015
Event Types
Group
- Gifts of Art(60)
- University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)(33)
- University Library(27)
- Museum of Natural History(23)
- Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)(8)
- University of Michigan Detroit Center(8)
- Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum(7)
- Center for Emerging Democracies(5)
- Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies(5)
- Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library(5)
- Institute for Research on Women and Gender(5)
- Institute for the Humanities(5)
- Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design(5)
- Maize Pages Student Organizations(4)
- Organizational Learning(4)
- Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)(4)
- Department of Human Genetics(2)
- International Institute(2)
- Planet Blue(2)
- Advanced Research Computing (ARC)(1)
- Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM)(1)
- Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics(1)
- Department of Learning Health Sciences(1)
- Earth and Environmental Sciences(1)
- International Center(1)
- Life Sciences Institute (LSI)(1)
- Michigan Biological Software(1)
- Ross School of Business(1)
- University Career Center UCC(1)
- University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)(1)
- See All Groups (30 total)
Location
- University Hospitals(60)
- Museum of Art(33)
- Off Campus Location(25)
- Ruthven Museums Building(23)
- Hatcher Graduate Library(20)
- Detroit Center(8)
- 202 S. Thayer(5)
- Lane Hall(5)
- Matthaei Botanical Gardens(5)
- Work Gallery 306 South State Street(5)
- Power Center for the Performing Arts(4)
- Administrative Services Building(3)
- Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)(2)
- School of Social Work Building(2)
- Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building(2)
- 1100 North University Building(1)
- Michigan League(1)
- North Campus Research Complex(1)
- Palmer Commons(1)
- Ross School of Business(1)
- Undergraduate Science Building(1)
- See All Locations (21 total)
May 13th, 2015
Gerald R. Ford: Growing Up Grand
A Grand Rapids Day Trip
Plan to supplement your learning at “The Impact of Major Presidential Decisions Lecture Series” with a related day-trip to Grand Rapids....
Gerald R. Ford: Growing Up Grand
A Grand Rapids Day Trip
Plan to supplement your learning at OLLI's "The Impact of Major Presidential Decisions Lecture Series" with a day-trip to...
Gifts of Art presents Along the Way: Collage on Canvas
Sara Slee Brown
Iowa City artist Sara Slee Brown focuses on using images of natural beauty and man-made buildings to create imaginary scenarios that give...
Gifts of Art presents Big Painted Stuff: Mixed Media
Karl Laub
Karl Laub’s paintings are a mixture of acrylics, watercolors, pastels, molding paste and whatever else he can find to include in his...
Gifts of Art presents Chasing Fotos – Critters
Lynette Curtiss
Lynette Curtiss is an award winning Michigan based artist who has always had a passion for photography. She has used this passion to capture...
Gifts of Art presents Evolution of Rock Getting Wheels
Middy Potter
Ann Arbor artist Middy Potter has creativity at the center of his life. When composing a sculpture, he adds a dash of humor, a bit of...
Gifts of Art presents Pearls, Chains & Silhouettes: Handmade, Industrial & Digital Jewelry
Ashley Buchanan
Drawing on common jewelry motifs and iconic imagery, Ashley Buchanan individually hand-cuts silhouettes from sheet metal using a traditional...
Gifts of Art presents Proof: Encaustic on Wood
Graceann Warn
As she paints and constructs, Graceann Warn’s paintings and assemblages use the metaphor of excavation. Her formal education in landscape...
Gifts of Art presents Seeing Music: Acrylic & Watercolor
Deborah L. Hoover
Deborah L. Hoover hopes to achieve what the Swiss artist Paul Klee described as, “making the invisible visible.” The music the musicians...
Gifts of Art presents The Dinnerware Museum: A Place at the Table
Dinnerware Museum Collection
The Dinnerware Museum, a new museum in Ann Arbor established in 2012, features a collection of thousands of pieces of functional dinnerware...
Gifts of Art presents Transitions: Watercolor on Paper
Maria Ruggiero
The current work of Ann Arbor based artist Maria Ruggiero focuses on the large and small events in daily life through the genre of still...
Re-Imaging Gender - A Juried Art Exhibition
Our understandings of gender have shifted dramatically in recent decades. No longer is gender a matter of an immutable binary, or a set of...
Textile Trade Ascendancies
This exhibit features cloth samples, photographs, and maps, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from...
Drawdown Vietnam, April – May 1975
America’s long involvement in the war in Vietnam and Indochina drew to a close in April - May 1975. As the city of Saigon fell to the...
Ramiro Gomez: Cut-Outs
Artist Ramiro Gomez’s life-sized cardboard cutouts, paintings, and constructions bring attention to those who toil behind the familiar...
The Shape of the Universe
This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe, from Einstein's discovery of space-time, through the...
Under the Influence: Youth Artists in the D
Highlighting student created art from the Detroit School of Arts (DSA), “Young Artists in the D” is a visual exhibition influenced by...
CIES Fulbright Faculty Workshop
A free informal workshop on the Fulbright “Core” Program for Ann Arbor faculty and professionals who are US citizens....
The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes, Charity Donation Boxes
This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In...
Through the Magnifying Glass: A Short History of the Microscope
This exhibit displays a selection of books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that contain extraordinary illustrations of animals...
Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection
For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life...
Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s...
HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
For more than 25 years, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art...
Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters
Exhibition
During World War I, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers, housewives and shipbuilders,...
Sophie Calle: North Pole
Following her mother's death, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North...
Dance of the Neurons: The Art of Neuroscience
Beautiful full-color images of microscopic cell structures combine delicate art with cutting-edge science. The images were selected from...
Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?
This photography exhibit by Misha Friedman attempts to capture the pervasive culture of corruption in Russia. Friedman explains the photo...
Journaling as a Legacy
For your children
Retirees finally have the time to reflect on their lives and their family histories. You can learn how to record your life experiences and...
Turning Bad Communication Habits Into Good Ones
Communication does not come easy to everyone. Once bad communication habits take hold it can be hard to break them....
CBSSM Seminar: Lauren Wancata, MD -- May 13, 2015
Palliative care and the surgeon: an oxymoron or just good medicine?...
Opening Reception: Textile Trade Ascendancies Exhibit
Join us to view and celebrate the latest exhibit on display in the Stephen S. Clark Library, Textile Trade Ascendancies....
Dr. Jane Lubchenco
Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University, former Administrator of NOAA and Under Secretary of...
Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles, one of America's greatest directors of film, theater, radio...
May 14th, 2015
Gifts of Art presents Along the Way: Collage on Canvas
Sara Slee Brown
Iowa City artist Sara Slee Brown focuses on using images of natural beauty and man-made buildings to create imaginary scenarios that give...
Gifts of Art presents Big Painted Stuff: Mixed Media
Karl Laub
Karl Laub’s paintings are a mixture of acrylics, watercolors, pastels, molding paste and whatever else he can find to include in his...
Gifts of Art presents Chasing Fotos – Critters
Lynette Curtiss
Lynette Curtiss is an award winning Michigan based artist who has always had a passion for photography. She has used this passion to capture...
Gifts of Art presents Evolution of Rock Getting Wheels
Middy Potter
Ann Arbor artist Middy Potter has creativity at the center of his life. When composing a sculpture, he adds a dash of humor, a bit of...
Gifts of Art presents Pearls, Chains & Silhouettes: Handmade, Industrial & Digital Jewelry
Ashley Buchanan
Drawing on common jewelry motifs and iconic imagery, Ashley Buchanan individually hand-cuts silhouettes from sheet metal using a traditional...
Gifts of Art presents Proof: Encaustic on Wood
Graceann Warn
As she paints and constructs, Graceann Warn’s paintings and assemblages use the metaphor of excavation. Her formal education in landscape...
Gifts of Art presents Seeing Music: Acrylic & Watercolor
Deborah L. Hoover
Deborah L. Hoover hopes to achieve what the Swiss artist Paul Klee described as, “making the invisible visible.” The music the musicians...
Gifts of Art presents The Dinnerware Museum: A Place at the Table
Dinnerware Museum Collection
The Dinnerware Museum, a new museum in Ann Arbor established in 2012, features a collection of thousands of pieces of functional dinnerware...
Gifts of Art presents Transitions: Watercolor on Paper
Maria Ruggiero
The current work of Ann Arbor based artist Maria Ruggiero focuses on the large and small events in daily life through the genre of still...
Influencer Training™
The truth is, we all need to be better influencers. Hardly a day passes that we don’t try to influence ourselves or others to do something...
Positive Business Conference
The University of Michigan's Ross School of Business will host its second annual Positive Business Conference, May 14-15, 2015. Current...
Re-Imaging Gender - A Juried Art Exhibition
Our understandings of gender have shifted dramatically in recent decades. No longer is gender a matter of an immutable binary, or a set of...
Textile Trade Ascendancies
This exhibit features cloth samples, photographs, and maps, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from...
Drawdown Vietnam, April – May 1975
America’s long involvement in the war in Vietnam and Indochina drew to a close in April - May 1975. As the city of Saigon fell to the...
Ramiro Gomez: Cut-Outs
Artist Ramiro Gomez’s life-sized cardboard cutouts, paintings, and constructions bring attention to those who toil behind the familiar...
The Shape of the Universe
This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe, from Einstein's discovery of space-time, through the...
Under the Influence: Youth Artists in the D
Highlighting student created art from the Detroit School of Arts (DSA), “Young Artists in the D” is a visual exhibition influenced by...
PRESIDENT JOHNSON’S DECLARATION OF WAR ON POVERTY
Robert Mickey, Associate Professor of Political Science, U-M
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson commenced a long battle against American poverty. In an inversion of the usual politics of war, this war...
The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes, Charity Donation Boxes
This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In...
Through the Magnifying Glass: A Short History of the Microscope
This exhibit displays a selection of books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that contain extraordinary illustrations of animals...
Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection
For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life...
Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s...
HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
For more than 25 years, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art...
Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters
Exhibition
During World War I, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers, housewives and shipbuilders,...
Sophie Calle: North Pole
Following her mother's death, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North...
Dance of the Neurons: The Art of Neuroscience
Beautiful full-color images of microscopic cell structures combine delicate art with cutting-edge science. The images were selected from...
Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?
This photography exhibit by Misha Friedman attempts to capture the pervasive culture of corruption in Russia. Friedman explains the photo...
Gifts of Art presents Traditional & Contemporary Gospel for Grief Awareness Week
The Psalmists
The Psalmists is an outstanding vocal ensemble comprised of accomplished soloists from the greater Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti community. Their...
UMRA presents: A conversation with Mary Sue Coleman
President Emerita Mary Sue Coleman wishes not to give a presentation but would like to answer questions and have a discussion with the...
Current practices and future directions for evidence-based medicine
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been a fixture in medical education for over twenty years and is an expectation of clinical practice....
Biological Software Weekly Meeting
If you're interested in participating in a competition, learning computer programming, and/or creating genetic research software tools,...
For Pete's Sake: Seeger Birthday Tribute
This year our annual Pete Seeger tribute concert marks Pete's 96th birthday. A group of local performers come together to present...
Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles, one of America's greatest directors of film, theater, radio...
May 15th, 2015
Gifts of Art presents Along the Way: Collage on Canvas
Sara Slee Brown
Iowa City artist Sara Slee Brown focuses on using images of natural beauty and man-made buildings to create imaginary scenarios that give...
Gifts of Art presents Big Painted Stuff: Mixed Media
Karl Laub
Karl Laub’s paintings are a mixture of acrylics, watercolors, pastels, molding paste and whatever else he can find to include in his...
Gifts of Art presents Chasing Fotos – Critters
Lynette Curtiss
Lynette Curtiss is an award winning Michigan based artist who has always had a passion for photography. She has used this passion to capture...
Gifts of Art presents Evolution of Rock Getting Wheels
Middy Potter
Ann Arbor artist Middy Potter has creativity at the center of his life. When composing a sculpture, he adds a dash of humor, a bit of...
Gifts of Art presents Pearls, Chains & Silhouettes: Handmade, Industrial & Digital Jewelry
Ashley Buchanan
Drawing on common jewelry motifs and iconic imagery, Ashley Buchanan individually hand-cuts silhouettes from sheet metal using a traditional...
Gifts of Art presents Proof: Encaustic on Wood
Graceann Warn
As she paints and constructs, Graceann Warn’s paintings and assemblages use the metaphor of excavation. Her formal education in landscape...
Gifts of Art presents Seeing Music: Acrylic & Watercolor
Deborah L. Hoover
Deborah L. Hoover hopes to achieve what the Swiss artist Paul Klee described as, “making the invisible visible.” The music the musicians...
Gifts of Art presents The Dinnerware Museum: A Place at the Table
Dinnerware Museum Collection
The Dinnerware Museum, a new museum in Ann Arbor established in 2012, features a collection of thousands of pieces of functional dinnerware...
Gifts of Art presents Transitions: Watercolor on Paper
Maria Ruggiero
The current work of Ann Arbor based artist Maria Ruggiero focuses on the large and small events in daily life through the genre of still...
Re-Imaging Gender - A Juried Art Exhibition
Our understandings of gender have shifted dramatically in recent decades. No longer is gender a matter of an immutable binary, or a set of...
Textile Trade Ascendancies
This exhibit features cloth samples, photographs, and maps, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from...
Drawdown Vietnam, April – May 1975
America’s long involvement in the war in Vietnam and Indochina drew to a close in April - May 1975. As the city of Saigon fell to the...
Dr. Richard Alley
Dr. Richard Alley, Professor of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, “Good, Bad and Maybe: Communicating Scientific...
Listen Up! Hear What’s Important, Ignore the Rest
We are constantly bombarded by noise that makes real listening increasingly difficult. This leads to missing important information,...
Ramiro Gomez: Cut-Outs
Artist Ramiro Gomez’s life-sized cardboard cutouts, paintings, and constructions bring attention to those who toil behind the familiar...
The Shape of the Universe
This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe, from Einstein's discovery of space-time, through the...
Under the Influence: Youth Artists in the D
Highlighting student created art from the Detroit School of Arts (DSA), “Young Artists in the D” is a visual exhibition influenced by...
NCSA World Series
The University of Michigan Club Softball team is competing in Columbus, GA at the NCSA World Series.
The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes, Charity Donation Boxes
This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In...
Through the Magnifying Glass: A Short History of the Microscope
This exhibit displays a selection of books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that contain extraordinary illustrations of animals...
Special UM Structure Seminar
Realizing the full potential of single particle electron cryomicroscopy in structural biology
Richard Henderson, Ph.D., a pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules, will deliver a special UM Structure Seminar...
Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection
For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life...
Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s...
HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
For more than 25 years, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art...
Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters
Exhibition
During World War I, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers, housewives and shipbuilders,...
Sophie Calle: North Pole
Following her mother's death, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North...
Dance of the Neurons: The Art of Neuroscience
Beautiful full-color images of microscopic cell structures combine delicate art with cutting-edge science. The images were selected from...
Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?
This photography exhibit by Misha Friedman attempts to capture the pervasive culture of corruption in Russia. Friedman explains the photo...
Fourth Annual Sankofa Film Series
The University of Michigan Detroit Center is proud to present the fourth annual Sankofa Film Series, beginning Friday, February 20 at 6...
Sankofa Film Series - Maya Angelou: Creativity with Bill Moyers
The University of Michigan Detroit Center concludes the fourth annual Sankofa Film Series featuring the inspirational poet and civil rights...
Mary Poppins
One of the most popular Disney movies of all time is capturing hearts in a whole new way: as a practically perfect musical!...
Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles, one of America's greatest directors of film, theater, radio...
PigPen Theatre Co.
"Acoustic guitar, accordion, harmonies and enough Brit-folk melodies to make Mumford & Sons jealous"—American Songwriter ......
May 16th, 2015
NCSA World Series
The University of Michigan Club Softball team is competing in Columbus, GA at the NCSA World Series.
Gifts of Art presents Along the Way: Collage on Canvas
Sara Slee Brown
Iowa City artist Sara Slee Brown focuses on using images of natural beauty and man-made buildings to create imaginary scenarios that give...
Gifts of Art presents Big Painted Stuff: Mixed Media
Karl Laub
Karl Laub’s paintings are a mixture of acrylics, watercolors, pastels, molding paste and whatever else he can find to include in his...
Gifts of Art presents Chasing Fotos – Critters
Lynette Curtiss
Lynette Curtiss is an award winning Michigan based artist who has always had a passion for photography. She has used this passion to capture...
Gifts of Art presents Evolution of Rock Getting Wheels
Middy Potter
Ann Arbor artist Middy Potter has creativity at the center of his life. When composing a sculpture, he adds a dash of humor, a bit of...
Gifts of Art presents Pearls, Chains & Silhouettes: Handmade, Industrial & Digital Jewelry
Ashley Buchanan
Drawing on common jewelry motifs and iconic imagery, Ashley Buchanan individually hand-cuts silhouettes from sheet metal using a traditional...
Gifts of Art presents Proof: Encaustic on Wood
Graceann Warn
As she paints and constructs, Graceann Warn’s paintings and assemblages use the metaphor of excavation. Her formal education in landscape...
Gifts of Art presents Transitions: Watercolor on Paper
Maria Ruggiero
The current work of Ann Arbor based artist Maria Ruggiero focuses on the large and small events in daily life through the genre of still...
Textile Trade Ascendancies
This exhibit features cloth samples, photographs, and maps, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from...
Ann Arbor Blooms Day (Rain or Shine)
It is a great volunteering opportunity where you can help beautify the city and connect with other international students/scholars/families...
The Shape of the Universe
This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe, from Einstein's discovery of space-time, through the...
Under the Influence: Youth Artists in the D
Highlighting student created art from the Detroit School of Arts (DSA), “Young Artists in the D” is a visual exhibition influenced by...
Butterfly Festival
Explore the beautiful and fascinating world of butterflies at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History! Watch live Monarchs and...
Kitchen Favorites - Matthaei Botanical Gardens Sale & Fundraiser
A large selection of herbs, herbs containers, and heirloom vegetables grown by Cultivating Community, the U-M student gardening group. Plus,...
May Flowers at Matthaei
Children accompanied by their parents invited to bring a walking stick, binoculars, and water bottle for a hike along the trails and meadows...
The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes, Charity Donation Boxes
This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In...
Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection
For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life...
Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s...
Hands-On Demo: Cow's Eye Dissection
Have you ever wondered what makes our eyes work or how we see? We’ll dissect a cow’s eye to take a closer look at the organ that helps...
HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
For more than 25 years, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art...
Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters
Exhibition
During World War I, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers, housewives and shipbuilders,...
Sophie Calle: North Pole
Following her mother's death, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North...
Storytime at the Museum
Children ages four to seven are invited to hear a story in the galleries. Stories will be followed by a short activity responding to the art...
Dance of the Neurons: The Art of Neuroscience
Beautiful full-color images of microscopic cell structures combine delicate art with cutting-edge science. The images were selected from...
Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?
This photography exhibit by Misha Friedman attempts to capture the pervasive culture of corruption in Russia. Friedman explains the photo...
Planetarium: Two Small Pieces of Glass
While attending a local star party, two teenage students learn how the telescope has helped us understand our place in space and how...
Horner Woods Eco-Restoration Workday
Join volunteers from the Michigan Botanical Club and Matthaei Botanical Gardens to help with light trail maintenance and removal of invasive...
Mary Poppins
One of the most popular Disney movies of all time is capturing hearts in a whole new way: as a practically perfect musical!...
Dinosaur Tour!
Free docent-led tours of the dinosaur exhibits every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. for the first 15 people to sign up. Sign up at the host...
Planetarium: Back to the Moon
Narrated by Tim Allen (voice of Buzz Lightyear), this is a behind-the-scenes feature on the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE, the largest...
Hands-On Demo: Cow's Eye Dissection
Have you ever wondered what makes our eyes work or how we see? We’ll dissect a cow’s eye to take a closer look at the organ that helps...
Mary Poppins
One of the most popular Disney movies of all time is capturing hearts in a whole new way: as a practically perfect musical!...
Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles, one of America's greatest directors of film, theater, radio...
May 17th, 2015
NCSA World Series
The University of Michigan Club Softball team is competing in Columbus, GA at the NCSA World Series.
Gifts of Art presents Along the Way: Collage on Canvas
Sara Slee Brown
Iowa City artist Sara Slee Brown focuses on using images of natural beauty and man-made buildings to create imaginary scenarios that give...
Gifts of Art presents Big Painted Stuff: Mixed Media
Karl Laub
Karl Laub’s paintings are a mixture of acrylics, watercolors, pastels, molding paste and whatever else he can find to include in his...
Gifts of Art presents Chasing Fotos – Critters
Lynette Curtiss
Lynette Curtiss is an award winning Michigan based artist who has always had a passion for photography. She has used this passion to capture...
Gifts of Art presents Evolution of Rock Getting Wheels
Middy Potter
Ann Arbor artist Middy Potter has creativity at the center of his life. When composing a sculpture, he adds a dash of humor, a bit of...
Gifts of Art presents Pearls, Chains & Silhouettes: Handmade, Industrial & Digital Jewelry
Ashley Buchanan
Drawing on common jewelry motifs and iconic imagery, Ashley Buchanan individually hand-cuts silhouettes from sheet metal using a traditional...
Gifts of Art presents Proof: Encaustic on Wood
Graceann Warn
As she paints and constructs, Graceann Warn’s paintings and assemblages use the metaphor of excavation. Her formal education in landscape...
Gifts of Art presents Transitions: Watercolor on Paper
Maria Ruggiero
The current work of Ann Arbor based artist Maria Ruggiero focuses on the large and small events in daily life through the genre of still...
Textile Trade Ascendancies
This exhibit features cloth samples, photographs, and maps, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from...
The Shape of the Universe
This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe, from Einstein's discovery of space-time, through the...
Kitchen Favorites - Matthaei Botanical Gardens Sale & Fundraiser
A large selection of herbs, herbs containers, and heirloom vegetables grown by Cultivating Community, the U-M student gardening group. Plus,...
The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes, Charity Donation Boxes
This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In...
Dance of the Neurons: The Art of Neuroscience
Beautiful full-color images of microscopic cell structures combine delicate art with cutting-edge science. The images were selected from...
Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection
For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life...
Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s...
HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
For more than 25 years, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art...
Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters
Exhibition
During World War I, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers, housewives and shipbuilders,...
Sophie Calle: North Pole
Following her mother's death, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North...
Dinosaur Tour!
Free docent-led tours of the dinosaur exhibits every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. for the first 15 people to sign up. Sign up at the host...
Guided Tour: Engaging with Art
UMMA docents will guide visitors through the galleries on tours as diverse as their interests and areas of expertise. Each docent plans a...
Mary Poppins
One of the most popular Disney movies of all time is capturing hearts in a whole new way: as a practically perfect musical!...
Planetarium: Back to the Moon
Narrated by Tim Allen (voice of Buzz Lightyear), this is a behind-the-scenes feature on the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE, the largest...
Hands-On Demo: Cow's Eye Dissection
Have you ever wondered what makes our eyes work or how we see? We’ll dissect a cow’s eye to take a closer look at the organ that helps...
In Conversation: Men That Got Away: Chasing Queer Masculinities in the Hergott Shepard Collection
This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please register to secure your place by emailing...
Brother Sun
Brother Sun is the trio of Greg Greenway, Pat Wictor, and Joe Jencks, who offer an explosion of musical diversity and harmony, in the finest...
Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles, one of America's greatest directors of film, theater, radio...
May 18th, 2015
NCSA World Series
The University of Michigan Club Softball team is competing in Columbus, GA at the NCSA World Series.
Gifts of Art presents Along the Way: Collage on Canvas
Sara Slee Brown
Iowa City artist Sara Slee Brown focuses on using images of natural beauty and man-made buildings to create imaginary scenarios that give...
Gifts of Art presents Big Painted Stuff: Mixed Media
Karl Laub
Karl Laub’s paintings are a mixture of acrylics, watercolors, pastels, molding paste and whatever else he can find to include in his...
Gifts of Art presents Chasing Fotos – Critters
Lynette Curtiss
Lynette Curtiss is an award winning Michigan based artist who has always had a passion for photography. She has used this passion to capture...
Gifts of Art presents Evolution of Rock Getting Wheels
Middy Potter
Ann Arbor artist Middy Potter has creativity at the center of his life. When composing a sculpture, he adds a dash of humor, a bit of...
Gifts of Art presents Pearls, Chains & Silhouettes: Handmade, Industrial & Digital Jewelry
Ashley Buchanan
Drawing on common jewelry motifs and iconic imagery, Ashley Buchanan individually hand-cuts silhouettes from sheet metal using a traditional...
Gifts of Art presents Proof: Encaustic on Wood
Graceann Warn
As she paints and constructs, Graceann Warn’s paintings and assemblages use the metaphor of excavation. Her formal education in landscape...
Gifts of Art presents Seeing Music: Acrylic & Watercolor
Deborah L. Hoover
Deborah L. Hoover hopes to achieve what the Swiss artist Paul Klee described as, “making the invisible visible.” The music the musicians...
Gifts of Art presents The Dinnerware Museum: A Place at the Table
Dinnerware Museum Collection
The Dinnerware Museum, a new museum in Ann Arbor established in 2012, features a collection of thousands of pieces of functional dinnerware...
Gifts of Art presents Transitions: Watercolor on Paper
Maria Ruggiero
The current work of Ann Arbor based artist Maria Ruggiero focuses on the large and small events in daily life through the genre of still...
Re-Imaging Gender - A Juried Art Exhibition
Our understandings of gender have shifted dramatically in recent decades. No longer is gender a matter of an immutable binary, or a set of...
Textile Trade Ascendancies
This exhibit features cloth samples, photographs, and maps, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from...
Drawdown Vietnam, April – May 1975
America’s long involvement in the war in Vietnam and Indochina drew to a close in April - May 1975. As the city of Saigon fell to the...
Ramiro Gomez: Cut-Outs
Artist Ramiro Gomez’s life-sized cardboard cutouts, paintings, and constructions bring attention to those who toil behind the familiar...
The Shape of the Universe
This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe, from Einstein's discovery of space-time, through the...
Under the Influence: Youth Artists in the D
Highlighting student created art from the Detroit School of Arts (DSA), “Young Artists in the D” is a visual exhibition influenced by...
CIES Fulbright Faculty Workshop
A free informal workshop on the Fulbright “Core” Program for Ann Arbor faculty and professionals who are US citizens....
The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes, Charity Donation Boxes
This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In...
Through the Magnifying Glass: A Short History of the Microscope
This exhibit displays a selection of books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that contain extraordinary illustrations of animals...
Dance of the Neurons: The Art of Neuroscience
Beautiful full-color images of microscopic cell structures combine delicate art with cutting-edge science. The images were selected from...
Special Lecture: Benjamin H. Passey
Expanding the stable isotope toolkit in carbonates: Clumped isotopes and triple oxygen isotopes
In the past decade, the stable isotope toolkit available to paleoclimate researchers has doubled to include clumped isotopes (Δ47) and...
Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles, one of America's greatest directors of film, theater, radio...
May 19th, 2015
Career Fair Day: NYC Immersion: Careers in Media
New York Immersion: Careers in Media Event Day: NYC Immersion: Careers in Media Event Type: Career Fair Attendee Type: Student
Gifts of Art presents Along the Way: Collage on Canvas
Sara Slee Brown
Iowa City artist Sara Slee Brown focuses on using images of natural beauty and man-made buildings to create imaginary scenarios that give...
Gifts of Art presents Big Painted Stuff: Mixed Media
Karl Laub
Karl Laub’s paintings are a mixture of acrylics, watercolors, pastels, molding paste and whatever else he can find to include in his...
Gifts of Art presents Chasing Fotos – Critters
Lynette Curtiss
Lynette Curtiss is an award winning Michigan based artist who has always had a passion for photography. She has used this passion to capture...
Gifts of Art presents Evolution of Rock Getting Wheels
Middy Potter
Ann Arbor artist Middy Potter has creativity at the center of his life. When composing a sculpture, he adds a dash of humor, a bit of...
Gifts of Art presents Pearls, Chains & Silhouettes: Handmade, Industrial & Digital Jewelry
Ashley Buchanan
Drawing on common jewelry motifs and iconic imagery, Ashley Buchanan individually hand-cuts silhouettes from sheet metal using a traditional...
Gifts of Art presents Proof: Encaustic on Wood
Graceann Warn
As she paints and constructs, Graceann Warn’s paintings and assemblages use the metaphor of excavation. Her formal education in landscape...
Gifts of Art presents Seeing Music: Acrylic & Watercolor
Deborah L. Hoover
Deborah L. Hoover hopes to achieve what the Swiss artist Paul Klee described as, “making the invisible visible.” The music the musicians...
Gifts of Art presents The Dinnerware Museum: A Place at the Table
Dinnerware Museum Collection
The Dinnerware Museum, a new museum in Ann Arbor established in 2012, features a collection of thousands of pieces of functional dinnerware...
Gifts of Art presents Transitions: Watercolor on Paper
Maria Ruggiero
The current work of Ann Arbor based artist Maria Ruggiero focuses on the large and small events in daily life through the genre of still...
Re-Imaging Gender - A Juried Art Exhibition
Our understandings of gender have shifted dramatically in recent decades. No longer is gender a matter of an immutable binary, or a set of...
Textile Trade Ascendancies
This exhibit features cloth samples, photographs, and maps, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from...
Drawdown Vietnam, April – May 1975
America’s long involvement in the war in Vietnam and Indochina drew to a close in April - May 1975. As the city of Saigon fell to the...
Ramiro Gomez: Cut-Outs
Artist Ramiro Gomez’s life-sized cardboard cutouts, paintings, and constructions bring attention to those who toil behind the familiar...
The Shape of the Universe
This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe, from Einstein's discovery of space-time, through the...
Under the Influence: Youth Artists in the D
Highlighting student created art from the Detroit School of Arts (DSA), “Young Artists in the D” is a visual exhibition influenced by...
The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes, Charity Donation Boxes
This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In...
Through the Magnifying Glass: A Short History of the Microscope
This exhibit displays a selection of books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that contain extraordinary illustrations of animals...
Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection
For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life...
Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s...
HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
For more than 25 years, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art...
Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters
Exhibition
During World War I, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers, housewives and shipbuilders,...
Sophie Calle: North Pole
Following her mother's death, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North...
Dance of the Neurons: The Art of Neuroscience
Beautiful full-color images of microscopic cell structures combine delicate art with cutting-edge science. The images were selected from...
Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?
This photography exhibit by Misha Friedman attempts to capture the pervasive culture of corruption in Russia. Friedman explains the photo...
James V. Neel Lecture in Human Genetics
Emminent geneticist, Haig H. Kazazian, Jr., MD, guest speaker
Haig Kazazian, Professor of Human Genetics at the Institute of Genetic Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will...
James V. Neel Lecture in Human Genetics
Emminent geneticist, Haig H. Kazazian, Jr., MD, guest speaker
Haig Kazazian, Professor of Human Genetics at the Institute of Genetic Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will...
Fleeting Beauty, Enduring Value
The Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden
One of Ann Arbor's favorite gardens will soon be in bloom. Join Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Curator David C....
Beauty and the "Beasts"
How Native Plants in Home Landscapes Feed Eyes and Ecosystems
Date: 5/19/2015...
It’s Everyone’s Back Yard: Keeping it Clean for All
Members of Citizens for Oil Free Back Yards discuss how the local group worked to protect neighborhoods and continues to monitor oil and gas...
Ballroom Thieves
With a slow, deliberate build, the Ballroom Thieves make their presence known onstage immediately as the first chord is struck, transforming...
Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles, one of America's greatest directors of film, theater, radio...
