Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs

Join a docent on a journey through time and memory, as you explore over 1,000 found photographs together. Take Your Pick invites you—the...

Reflections: An Ordinary Day

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the...

Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share...

Copies and Invention in East Asia

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works...

In Conversation: Travel into Infinity with artist Chul Hyun Ahn

Korean artist Chul Hyun Ahn uses mirrors and light to create geometric shapes that repeat infinitely into the...

NOS: Dismantling the Otro

An exhibition profiling eight U-M Latinx students by Residential College Social Theory & Practice senior Tess Garcia

“NOS: Dismantling the Otro” is a presentation of work from the thesis project of Social Theory and Practice major Tess Garcia. The...

Special Tour: The Directors of the William L. Clements Library, 1923-2019

Curator of Manuscripts Cheney J. Schopieray

This special tour of the Clements Library will introduce our Directors since 1923 and the ways in which their leadership shaped the growth...

Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens

With its plants and habitats, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history...

Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs

Join a docent on a journey through time and memory, as you explore over 1,000 found photographs together. Take Your Pick invites you—the...

Stories of Refuge

An installation by Tania El Khoury

Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in 2011, Syrian refugees have been fleeing the brutal regime in search of safe haven. Munich,...

Civil Rights through the Lens of Declan Haun

A collection of photos capturing some of the most important events during the civil rights movement. Shot by Chicago-based freelance...

Exhibit Opening & Reception: New York City’s Vanished Cafeterias

Marcia Bricker Halperin, Photographer

Remarks at 4:30pm by the artist and by Jennifer Friess, UMMA Assistant Curator of Photography....

Opening Reception: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson

A multimedia exhibition of contemporary art with a focus on printmaking and other methods of image replication and reproduction

Join us for the Opening of the Exhibition: The Indexical Print...

Mari Katayama

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and...

UMMA Book Club: Stories from the North

Please join us for a monthly gathering that offers a starting point to discover a variety of narratives pertaining to the cultures of North...

Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson

A multimedia exhibition of contemporary art with a focus on printmaking and other methods of image replication and reproduction

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols,...

Artist Talk with Cullen Washington, Jr.: Abstract Meditations on the Grid and Humanity presented by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series

Co-presented by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series and UMMA

Cullen Washington, Jr.’s work offers meditations on human interconnectivity and “the universal framework that undergirds all things.”...

Paani Culture Night 2020

EVERYONE’S INVITED....

LACS Event. Archaeological Fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, 1961-2003: A Conversation with Jeffrey Parsons

Jeffrey Parsons, Professor Emeritus, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan

Half a century ago, when archaeologist Jeffrey R. Parsons began fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, he could not know that many of the sites he...

Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent...

Saturday Sampler Tour | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile

Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located...

A Conversation with Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Hope of Abstraction and the Possibilities of the Public Square

Artist Cullen Washington, Jr. uses non-representational abstraction to understand order, chaos, and social relationships. His practice makes...

Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent...

Privacy@Michigan 2020

Symposium & Research Showcase

Register to attend the Privacy@Michigan Symposium and Research Showcase Tuesday, January 28, 1 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. in the Rackham...

Local Learning at Literati: The Art of Cullen Washington Jr.

Vera Grant, curator of the UMMA exhibition Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square, presents an expansive look at the exhibition, and the...

Vote NOW in the As I See It Drawing Competition!

Vote for your favorite drawing among the 18 finalists in the As I See It Drawing Competition! Finalist drawings are on view outside of the...

As to the Woman Question

The Admission of Women to the University of Michigan

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier,...

The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests

Sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill...

Register to vote with the Ginsberg Center

Register to vote with the Ginsberg Center as part of the Big-Ten Voting Challenge! This will take place on February 4th, 11th and 18th,...

Family Art Studio: Printing the World Around Us

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop inspired...

Family Art Studio: Printing the World Around Us

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop inspired by UMMA's...

The Power Family Program for Inuit Art Reflections: An Ordinary Day

Our second exhibition on Inuit art explores the serene expressions of day-to-day activities found in mid-century to contemporary Inuit...

In Conversation with Jennifer Friess: Curating Mobile Memories

The votes are in! For the last four months UMMA visitors have voted for their top favorite photographs of the 1,000 on view in the Take...

Register to vote with the Ginsberg Center

Register to vote with the Ginsberg Center as part of the Big-Ten Voting Challenge! This will take place on February 4th, 11th and 18th,...

HH(C)*/An American Interior

Valery Jung Estabrook

Hometown Hero (Chink): An American Interior, by Valery Jung Estabrook, re-creates a life-size living room sewn by hand, suggestive of the...

Artist Conversation & Opening Reception for "Hometown Hero (Chink): An American Interior"

With Valery Jung Estabrook and curator Amanda Krugliak

Join us as we welcome artist Valerie Jung Estabrook to the Institute for the Humanities for an engaging conversation with curator Amanda...

Pop-up Exhibit: Love Letters & Romance in the Archives

The rich collections at the Clements Library teem with love letters and romance of all kinds. Come swoon with us as we share examples of...

UMMA Book Club: Stories from the North

Please join us for a monthly gathering that offers a starting point to discover a variety of narratives pertaining to the cultures of North...

The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this...

Register to vote with the Ginsberg Center

Register to vote with the Ginsberg Center as part of the Big-Ten Voting Challenge! This will take place on February 4th, 11th and 18th,...

Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present,...

Saturday Sampler Tour | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile

Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located...

Radio Campfire: Town Square -- stories that unfold in public places

Radio Campfire and UMMA present Town Square -- audio stories that unfold in public places   Set to the backdrop of artist Cullen...

Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs

Join a docent on a journey through time and memory, as you explore over 1,000 found photographs together. Take Your Pick invites you—the...

Launch of O Menelick 2 Ato #21 and Opening of “O Menelick 2Ato. Making Black Press in 21st Century Brazil”

Panel Discussion and Exhibit Opening

This event is part of the O Menelick 2Ato: Art, Culture and Society From the Perspective of Contemporary Brazilian Black Press...

Witness Lab

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames...

Abstraction, Color, and Politics: Kaleidoscope

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present,...

Collection Ensemble

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER ...

Family Art Studio: Community Creations

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop inspired by...

Family Art Studio: Community Creations

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop inspired by...