A Conversation with Chrislan Fuller Manuel about Legacy: Art across Generations

Please join us as artist Chrislan Fuller Manuel discusses her first exhibit, which also includes pieces by her great-grandmother Meta Vaux...

Exhibiting the Reformation

Join us for an opening lecture by Professor Helmut Puff to celebrate the exhibit Reforming the Word: Martin Luther in Context, which...

Exhibiting the Reformation

Helmut Puff, U-M German, History, and Women's Studies

This lecture will formally introduce the exhibition "Reforming the Word: Martin Luther in Context." In 1517, Martin Luther, a...

Nights at the Museum | Wall-E

UMMA will once again illuminate its facade with eight days of artwork, performances, and video during Nights At the Museum this September....

Gloss: Modeling Beauty

Guided Tour

Focusing on the prominent role of women as the subject of photography, GLOSS: Modeling Beauty explores the shifting ideals of female beauty...

Nights at the Museum | SMTD@UMMA Performance: Heart of Tones

UMMA will once again illuminate its facade with eight days of artwork, performances, and video during Nights At the Museum this September....

Gifts of Art presents Americana Musical Instruments

The Stearns Collection

The Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments within the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance is one of the largest accumulations of...

Gifts of Art presents Flights of Fancy: Oil Painting

Ellie Harold

Since Ellie Harold started painting in 2003, she has primarily been a landscape artist, painting Michigan barns and lake shore scenes in...

Gifts of Art presents Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition

Michigan Medicine

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It...

Gifts of Art presents Photography into Fiber: ArtPrize Winner

Steve & Ann Loveless

Steve and Ann Loveless both grew up in northwestern lower Michigan and love the nature and beauty of the outdoors. Steve is a fine art...

Gifts of Art presents The Cut Ups: Paper Collage

Laura Cavanagh

Laura Cavanagh is a Michigan native who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan in 2011 with a BFA in Art & Design and...

Gifts of Art presents Under Covers: Encaustic & Mixed Media

Cat Crotchett

Cat Crotchett’s current work combines elements of eastern and western cultural patterns in fragments that together form something...

Gifts of Art presents When Pigs Fly: Oil Painting

Gregory Potter

Professional artist and instructor Gregory Potter believes that anyone can develop artistic skill if they put the work into it. Potter’s...

Become an Arts Ambassador!

Want to share your love of the arts? Arts at Michigan is seeking students for our Arts Ambassadors program who live in a Residence Hall or...

Enter the As I See It Photography Competition!

Arts at Michigan is seeking student photos for our Fall 2017 As I See It Photo Competition! The theme for this round is Black and White...

EXHIBITION Reception: A Place in the Shade:  Selected Projects by Charles Correa

Exhibition on view September 1 - 22...

Mark Dion Redux, panel discussion

Panelists Osman Khan, Sarah Rose Sharp, and Paul Amenta, and moderator Amanda Krugliak, discuss "Waiting for the Extraordinary," a...

Exhibition Opening Reception: The Future Needs...Something Blue

Could anyone have foreseen the technical, social, and conceptual issues that have confronted the University of Michigan since its founding...

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Exhibition Presentation and Opening: The Future Needs..Something Blue

Could anyone have foreseen the technical, social, and conceptual issues that have confronted the University of Michigan since its founding...

Nights at the Museum | Student Films and Digital Art

UMMA will once again illuminate its facade with eight days of artwork, performances, and video during Nights At the Museum this September....

FOKUS Mass Meeting

FOKUS is a student organization on campus whose mission is to educate, empower, and unite communities using the arts....

Nights at the Museum | Video highlights from SMTD performances

UMMA will once again illuminate its facade with eight days of artwork, performances, and video during Nights At the Museum this September....

History of Art Symposium: Visualizing the Social

This conference explores the powerful engagement with the social in visual art and media, from the aftermath of the Revolutions of 1848 and...

Storytime at the Museum

Storytime at the Museum promotes art enjoyment for our youngest patrons. Children ages three to six are invited to join in on some...

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...

Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction

Guided Tour

Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni on the global art world. This exhibition features works collected by a...

Majestic | Dream: A Selection of Color Woodcuts

Presented by Endi Poskovic, Professor of Art, Stamps School of Art and Design, U-M

The Confucius Institute at U-M proudly presents “Majestic | Dream,” a solo exhibition by Endi Poskovic, Professor of Art at the Penny W....

Exhibition Opening Talk & Reception

Presented by Endi Poskovic, Professor of Art, Stamps School of Art and Design, U-M

Please join us for the opening reception of Professor Endi Poskovic’s art exhibition and his informal art talk....

Exhibition on view: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural

Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary...

Vote now in the As I See It Photography Competition!

18 finalists have been selected from all the amazing black and white photography submissions we received and it's time to cast your...

Possession, a conversation and reception with artist Jaye Schlesinger

Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger talks about her exhibition Possession, which evolved in response to her interest in mindfulness and...

Mark Webster Reading Series

Helmut Stern Auditorium Free...

Art Outta Town: ArtPrize Nine!

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from ArtPrize Nine and a sack lunch for just $10! ArtPrize is an open,...

Family Art Studio: LED / 3D

Free. Registration is required: email umma-program-registration@umich.edu. Please include date and title of program in the subject line of...

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...

In Conversation: All wrapped up: Figures of Power in Central and West Africa

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please register to secure your place by emailing...

The People Against Climate Change: Resistance Through Art

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis

This art exhibition, curated by Sara Alderstein-Gonzalez, will focus both on the history of social impact towards climate change, the role...

Symposium Kickoff and Exhibit Opening

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis

University and community members join forces to deliver a message about climate change through the arts. Featuring cello major Kayla Mathes,...

Art & Archive panel discussion with The Hinterlands and Design 99

A conversation with Detroit performance-art group The Hinterlands (Liza Bielby and Richard Newman) and Detroit design collective Design 99...

Penny Stamps Speaker Series and UMMA Present: Christo, The Floating Piers, Lake Iseo, Italy, and Work in Progress: The Mastaba, Project for Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Christo is a sculptor known for co-creating large scale ephemeral works worldwide with his longtime artistic partner and wife, Jeanne-Claude...

The Staring Eyes: 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...

Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa Guided Tour

Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and...

In Conversation: Abstract Moments throughout History in Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please register to secure your place by emailing...

Send Silence Packing

Send Silence Packing is a traveling educational display of 1,100 backpacks that represent the number of U.S. college students that die by...

Family Art Studio: Window Tattoos

Free, but registration is required: email umma-program-registration@umich.edu. Please include date and title of program in the subject line...

Mark Dion: Waiting for the Extraordinary

In 2011, Mark Dion created the the site-specific installation, "Waiting for the Extraordinary," commissioned by the U-M Institute...

Exhibition Opening Lecture | Guaranteed a 99.3% Survival Rate: The Archaeological Futures of U-M Museums

Prof. Susan Alcock, University of Michigan

In celebration of the opening of 'Excavating Archaeology' and the University’s Bicentennial, Prof. Susan Alcock will be...

Curatorial Dilemmas: Representing Africa at UMMA with Mary (Polly) Nooter-Roberts

A series of talks by leading curators and thinkers in African art will launch a reimagining process for the forthcoming reinstallation of...

Processes of Making

Processes of Making is an undergraduate group exhibition featuring works in a variety of medias, on view Friday, October 20 - Friday,...

Alumni Art Show Opening Reception

Curator Isaac Wingfield, Lecturer, Photography; Artists: Kat Bowden, Lynn Peterfreund, Nancy Blum, Joel Greene, Jean Mandeberg, Lee McKee, Nancy Gildart, Lynn Cazabon, Alex Hirsch, Chris Kubick/Anne Walsh (aka Archive), Matthew Lopas, Sarah Grew, Susan Ho

A Residential College 50th Anniversary Celebration Event