BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250913T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250913T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879678@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250529T110505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250913T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250913T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Beyond Survival DESCRIPTION:Join us for Beyond Survival\, an exhibition of works by incarcerated artists in Michigan presented by PCAP co-founder Janie Paul and the Flint Institute of the Arts. The exhibit opens May 30th and runs through September 14th. \n\nThe pieces span nearly 30 years\, many of them having been featured in our Annual Exhibition.\n\n\"Through drawings\, paintings\, and sculptures made with simple materials\, artists expose the harsh realities of incarceration while imagining life beyond prison. These works reveal a longing for home and family\, joy and beauty\, connections to nature\, flights of the imagination\, and journeys toward freedom—acts of creation made despite and in direct response to carceral conditions.\" UID:135894-21877486@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135894 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Exhibition,Incarceration LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Graphics Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250913T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250913T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Untold Stories\, Part II: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 12 - December 13Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\nUntold Stories: Part II is the second in a series of three exhibitions featuring the work of faculty members from the Stamps School of Art &\; Design. Organized thematically\, Part II explores timely and resonant themes related to the freedom of expression\, movement\, and civic rights. Drawing on personal narratives and public archives\, the artists offer inspiring ways of storytelling that make latent ideas visible and experiential - expanding the boundaries of their artistic research.\nUntold Stories: Part II is curated by Srimoyee Mitra\, and features work by Stamps faculty Ebitenyefa Baralaye\, Annica Cuppetelli\, Quinn A. Hunter\, Carol Jacobsen\, Andy Kirshner\, Rebekah Modrak\, and Ricky Weaver. UID:137113-21879710@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137113 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251015T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250913T110100 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250913T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they've curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram UID:138031-21881223@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T181650 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250913T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250913T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:Jenna Moon\, carillon DESCRIPTION:SMTD doctoral alumna Jenna Moon performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon\, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nVisitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells\, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells. UID:138842-21884060@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138842 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250908T121638 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250913T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250913T160000 SUMMARY:Performance:Catherine Goode\, voice DESCRIPTION:DMA candidate Catherine Goode performs a dissertation recital. UID:137608-21880463@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137608 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250529T110505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Beyond Survival DESCRIPTION:Join us for Beyond Survival\, an exhibition of works by incarcerated artists in Michigan presented by PCAP co-founder Janie Paul and the Flint Institute of the Arts. The exhibit opens May 30th and runs through September 14th. \n\nThe pieces span nearly 30 years\, many of them having been featured in our Annual Exhibition.\n\n\"Through drawings\, paintings\, and sculptures made with simple materials\, artists expose the harsh realities of incarceration while imagining life beyond prison. These works reveal a longing for home and family\, joy and beauty\, connections to nature\, flights of the imagination\, and journeys toward freedom—acts of creation made despite and in direct response to carceral conditions.\" UID:135894-21877487@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135894 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Exhibition,Incarceration LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Graphics Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T161607 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T140000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Art Meetup: Kerrytown Artisan Market DESCRIPTION:Join us Sunday\, September 14 from 11-2 for an excursion to the Kerrytown Artisan Market\, an outdoor collective of works made by artists\, artisans\, and craftspeople! We will meet at the Sweetwaters in the Union\, then walk together to the market (20-minute walk\, mainly flat road). Space is limited so register now!\n\nArt Meetups are student-led excursions to explore the arts on campus and in Ann Arbor - all while giving you a chance to meet your peers who share similar interests! From local artist markets to performances to hands on artmaking\, Art Meetups have something for all interests. UID:138836-21884044@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138836 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,artists,arts,Artsrx,Free,Social,Visual Arts LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881028@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T112346 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T170000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:*Between Voice and Silence* Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force.\n\nMeet the artists at the opening reception on Sunday\, September 14 from 3-5 pm in the the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery\, where the exhibition will be displayed through October 5\, 2025. \n\nThis program was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project.\n\nPhoto is of the three artists: Ira Bondarenko\, Katya Lisova\, and Matvii Vaisberg.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137829-21880851@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137829 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,visual arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T181617 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T184500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: University Symphony Orchestra DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 6:15 pm before the 7:00 pm USO performance. UID:137652-21880503@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137652 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250902T102726 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T203000 SUMMARY:Performance:Airswimming DESCRIPTION:Airswimming by Charlotte Jones is a free staged reading about surviving silence.\n\nPresented in the Keene Theater as part of the RC Drama staged reading series.\nSunday\, Sept 14 at 7pm\nKeene Theater within East Quad UID:138603-21883435@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138603 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,Ann Arbor,Art,artists,arts,arts at michigan,Community,Community Engagement,Culture,Drama,Faculty,Free,In Person,live performance,performance,Students,Theater,theatre,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Keene Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250910T121645 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:University Symphony Orchestra DESCRIPTION:Kenneth Kiesler\, conductor\nEllen Hayashi\, 2025 SMTD Concerto Competition Winner\, violin (Tchaikovsky)\n\nPROGRAM\n\nKabalevsky – *Colas Breugnon*\nTchaikovsky – *Violin Concerto*\nMussorgsky/Ravel – *Pictures at an Exhibition*\n\nFollowing its exciting tour of South Africa and triumphant performance at Carnegie Hall\, the University Symphony Orchestra (USO)\, conducted by its GRAMMY nominated music director\, launches its 2025-2026 season with a kaleidoscopic program of Russian showpieces: the effervescent *Colas Breugnon* Overture by Kabalevsky\, and two of the most virtuosic and exciting showpieces for orchestra.\n\nThe SMTD and USO are delighted to welcome the evening’s featured soloist Ellen Hayashi\, former USO concertmaster\, recent graduate\, and Winner of the 2025 SMTD Concerto Competition\, to perform the celebrated Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto renowned for its technical demands and displays of virtuosity as well as its soaring melodies. \n\nThe USO also leads us on a monumental journey through Maurice Ravel’s colorful and brilliant realization of Mussorgsky's *Pictures at an Exhibition*. This tour de force showcases the genius of both composers\, transforming the original piano suite into a dazzling sonic tapestry. Listeners will be guided through musical portraits of romantic and grotesque characters\, solemn promenades\, delightful and humorous entertainments\, and folkloric fantasies\, all culminating in the glorious\, impressive and affirming majesty of \"The Great Gate of Kiev.”\n\nPlease join the USO for this evening of musical magic in Hill Auditorium! UID:135348-21876739@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135348 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250915T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250915T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879679@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879680@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881030@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250814T070053 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T173000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:LSA@Play: Makers Series - Monarch Butterflies DESCRIPTION:Stop by this Makers Series event and help create a collaborative art installation—a monarch butterfly roost crafted from reclaimed materials to be displayed in the LSA building. Additional activities include origami\, collage\, crochet\, custom butterfly decals\, a baked potato bar\, trivia\, and swag!\n\nThe LSA@Play Makers Series offers regular crafting events for students to practice mindfulness\, relax\, and unleash their creativity! In partnership with the LSA Sustainability\, the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, and the U-M Arts Initiative.\n\n__________\nFor LSA undergrads only. Join us for LSA@Play\, a vibrant series of events designed to welcome and support LSA students! Gatherings and activities offer an opportunity for students to prioritize well-being\, inclusivity\, and community. Plus\, get free food and LSA swag! Visit the LSA@Play webpage: lsa.umich.edu/play for more details\, subscribe to receive text/email updates\, and check for additional events being added soon! Events are first-come\, first-served\, and while supplies last. One swag item per student\, and you must be present with an MCard to receive it.\n\nThe University of Michigan College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. We are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please email lsaatplay@umich.edu if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet the requested accommodations. UID:137519-21880375@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137519 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Students,Well-being LOCATION:LSA Building - 1040 Multipurpose Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879681@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Untold Stories\, Part II: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 12 - December 13Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\nUntold Stories: Part II is the second in a series of three exhibitions featuring the work of faculty members from the Stamps School of Art &\; Design. Organized thematically\, Part II explores timely and resonant themes related to the freedom of expression\, movement\, and civic rights. Drawing on personal narratives and public archives\, the artists offer inspiring ways of storytelling that make latent ideas visible and experiential - expanding the boundaries of their artistic research.\nUntold Stories: Part II is curated by Srimoyee Mitra\, and features work by Stamps faculty Ebitenyefa Baralaye\, Annica Cuppetelli\, Quinn A. Hunter\, Carol Jacobsen\, Andy Kirshner\, Rebekah Modrak\, and Ricky Weaver. UID:137113-21879711@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137113 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251015T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T110100 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they've curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram UID:138031-21881224@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881031@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250731T181611 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T183000 SUMMARY:Performance:Voice & Opera Department Recital DESCRIPTION:Students from the Department of Voice & Opera perform a recital. UID:136872-21879263@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136872 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T181618 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: University Philharmonia Orchestra DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm UPO performance. UID:137653-21880504@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137653 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250912T121700 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:University Philharmonia Orchestra DESCRIPTION:Jayce Ogren\, conductor\n\nPROGRAM\n\n*The Hebrides*\, Mendelssohn\n*Night Ride and Sunrise*\, Sibelius\n*Anakin's Theme*\, John Williams\n*Guide to Strange Places*\, John Adams UID:135349-21876740@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135349 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879682@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Untold Stories\, Part II: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 12 - December 13Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\nUntold Stories: Part II is the second in a series of three exhibitions featuring the work of faculty members from the Stamps School of Art &\; Design. Organized thematically\, Part II explores timely and resonant themes related to the freedom of expression\, movement\, and civic rights. Drawing on personal narratives and public archives\, the artists offer inspiring ways of storytelling that make latent ideas visible and experiential - expanding the boundaries of their artistic research.\nUntold Stories: Part II is curated by Srimoyee Mitra\, and features work by Stamps faculty Ebitenyefa Baralaye\, Annica Cuppetelli\, Quinn A. Hunter\, Carol Jacobsen\, Andy Kirshner\, Rebekah Modrak\, and Ricky Weaver. UID:137113-21879712@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137113 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251015T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T110100 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they've curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram UID:138031-21881225@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881032@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T121659 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T124500 SUMMARY:Performance:Division Street Pipes DESCRIPTION:Join us as sacred music masters student Oliver Steissberg performs a 30-minute organ recital.\n\nThe University of Michigan Organ Department presents Division Street Pipes - the organ recital series at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church that brought weekly joy to attendees during its first season earlier this year - returns and will continue through early December.\n\nDivision Street Pipes concerts take place on Thursdays at 12:15 pm. Each recital features talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public\, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening. The series is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Organ Department and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in an effort to bring organ music to local audiences while connecting U-M organ students with the wider community. Concerts offer attendees the opportunity to hear the versatility of the pipe organ beyond a worship setting. \n\nPerformances begin on September 11\, 2025 at 12:15pm and will occur every Thursday until December 4 (with the exception of November 27\, Thanksgiving). You can be sure that each week\, you will be in for a thrilling musical experience. UID:138219-21882605@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138219 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250818T171337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T180000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Spectacular Stencils: Gorgeous Examples from our Pochoir Collection DESCRIPTION:Pochoir\, French for stencil\, was a popular technique for creating multicolored art popular in the early part of the 20th century. See our vibrant examples from design\, fashion\, and garden publications\, as well as a meticulously crafted new reproduction of the most famous pochoir artwork\, an artist’s book by Sonia Delaunay.\n\nJoin us (on the 6th floor of Hatcher) for Third Thursdays at the Library\, a themed monthly open house where we share materials from our collections. While you’re here\, pick up a Third Thursday Passport and collect a stamp from each of the four Third Thursday Open Houses — the Clark Library\, International Studies\, Asia Library\, and the Special Collections Research Center — to win a prize! UID:137077-21879522@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137077 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Roberto Lugo DESCRIPTION:Roberto Lugo creates defiant genre-mixing works that confront the function and subject matter of high art objects from Classical Antiquity\, East Asia\, the Italian Renaissance\, seventeenth-century Europe\, and beyond. Using the ancient medium of clay as his canvas\, Lugo draws attention to intergenerational experiences of racial injustice while honoring African American and Latino culture.\nCeramics hold particular significance for Lugo due to their deep anthropological context. Over the course of history\, finely-crafted ceramic objects stood as a symbol of class\, privilege\, and the aristocracy. Lugo intervenes in these histories\, and countless more\, to create a new mode of storytelling that blends narrative and portraiture with cross-disciplinary techniques and time-honored forms in order to introduce those notably absent from the art historical canon. The result is distinctive works in clay unified by Lugo’s call for representation.\nRoberto Lugo holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Penn State. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum\, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art\, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York\, among others. He is the recipient of numerous awards\, including a 2019 Pew Fellowship\, the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize\, a US Artists Award\, and\, most recently\, the Heinz Award for the Arts. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\; Philadelphia Museum of Art\; High Museum of Art\; Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\; Brooklyn Museum\; Metropolitan Museum of Art\; Walters Art Museum\; and more.\nPresented with support from the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.\nThis project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:137415-21880218@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137415 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250804T114600 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reading and Q&A with Garth Greenwell DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23\n\nZell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nGarth Greenwell is the author of *What Belongs to You*\, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year\, was longlisted for the National Book Award\, and was a finalist for many other awards\, including the PEN/Faulkner Award\, the *LA Times* Book Prize\, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His second book\, *Cleanness*\, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize\, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, and the Prix Sade\, among others. A *New York Times Notable Book*\, it was named a Best Book of 2020 by over thirty publications. \n\nGreenwell’s new novel\, *Small Rain* won the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award and was longlisted for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. His cultural criticism appears widely\, and he writes regularly about books\, music\, and film for the Substack newsletter *To a Green Thought*. He has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, Princeton University\, Grinnell College\, and the University of Mississippi\, where he was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the 2021 Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, he is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum\, accessible via the stairs\, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3\, 4\, 5\, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks)\, and a lactation room (Room 13W\, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom\, or Room 108B\, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:135581-21876968@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135581 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Book Discussion,Books,Contemporary Literature,Culture,Department Of English Language And Literature,Fiction,Free,Graduate,Literary,Mfa Program In Creative Writing,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250825T101033 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reading and Q&A with Garth Greenwell DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters25\n\nZell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nGarth Greenwell is the author of *What Belongs to You*\, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year\, was longlisted for the National Book Award\, and was a finalist for many other awards\, including the PEN/Faulkner Award\, the *LA Times* Book Prize\, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His second book\, *Cleanness*\, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize\, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, and the Prix Sade\, among others. A *New York Times* Notable Book\, it was named a Best Book of 2020 by over thirty publications. \n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:136976-21879387@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136976 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Book Discussion,Books,Creative Writing,Culture,Free,Garth Greenwell,Graduate,Literary,Literary Arts,Literati,Literature,Mfa Program In Creative Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250828T001517 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T203000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Exhibition Reception: Untold Stories\, Part II DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 18 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. for the opening receptions of Untold Stories\, Part II and Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project at Stamps Gallery.\nUntold Stories: Part II features the work of faculty members from the Stamps School of Art &\; Design\, exploring timely and resonant themes related to the freedom of expression\, movement\, and civic rights. Drawing on personal narratives and public archives\, the artists offer inspiring ways of storytelling that make latent ideas visible and experiential - expanding the boundaries of their artistic research.\nUntold Stories: Part II is curated by Srimoyee Mitra\, and features work by Stamps faculty Ebitenyefa Baralaye\, Annica Cuppetelli\, Quinn A. Hunter\, Carol Jacobsen\, Andy Kirshner\, Rebekah Modrak\, and Ricky Weaver. UID:137114-21879763@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137114 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T075449 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T203000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Opening Reception - Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 18 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. for the opening receptions of Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project and Untold Stories\, Part II at Stamps Gallery.\n\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they've curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)\nPhase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21) UID:138315-21882764@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138315 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879683@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250803T204551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Craft Lecture: Daddy Augustine: Against “Autofiction” by Garth Greenwell DESCRIPTION:*IN-PERSON ONLY*\n\nGarth Greenwell is the author of *What Belongs to You*\, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year\, was longlisted for the National Book Award\, and was a finalist for many other awards\, including the PEN/Faulkner Award\, the *LA Times* Book Prize\, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His second book\, *Cleanness*\, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize\, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, and the Prix Sade\, among others. A *New York Times* Notable Book\, it was named a Best Book of 2020 by over thirty publications. \n\n\"The term “autofiction” is often applied to my books\; I think it’s meaningless\,\" Garth Greenwell says of his craft lecture \"Daddy Augustine: Against “Autofiction.” \"In this talk\, I hope to think a little about the actual sources of the tradition to which I aspire\, that of the novel of consciousness: the radical reflexivity of St. Augustine’s Confessions.\"\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on every floor of the Union. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:136924-21879336@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136924 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Culture,Fiction,Free,Garth Greenwell,Graduate,Literature,Writing LOCATION:Michigan Union - Wolverine Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Untold Stories\, Part II: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 12 - December 13Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\nUntold Stories: Part II is the second in a series of three exhibitions featuring the work of faculty members from the Stamps School of Art &\; Design. Organized thematically\, Part II explores timely and resonant themes related to the freedom of expression\, movement\, and civic rights. Drawing on personal narratives and public archives\, the artists offer inspiring ways of storytelling that make latent ideas visible and experiential - expanding the boundaries of their artistic research.\nUntold Stories: Part II is curated by Srimoyee Mitra\, and features work by Stamps faculty Ebitenyefa Baralaye\, Annica Cuppetelli\, Quinn A. Hunter\, Carol Jacobsen\, Andy Kirshner\, Rebekah Modrak\, and Ricky Weaver. UID:137113-21879713@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137113 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T120131 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Who Are You Talking To?: Identifying and Responding To Your Interlocutors DESCRIPTION:Whether you are moving directly from your undergraduate degree or returning after some time away\, the first term of graduate school will challenge you to expand skills critical to your success. Two of the most essential skills needed to thrive are reading and writing. This four-part Rackham/Sweetland workshop series will showcase reading and writing practices for new graduate students that will inform your approaches to reading and writing through the course of your graduate career.\n\nThis workshop will address how reading skills and writing conventions allow you to ethically represent others’ knowledge and support your arguments.\n\nInterlocutors are those you engage with in your research and writing\; they may appear (re: be valued) differently across disciplines. This workshop will address how reading skills and writing conventions allow you to ethically represent others’ knowledge and support your arguments. Participants will work with peers to talk through rhetorical decisions scholars make when identifying and responding to interlocutors and set goals of how to use the workshop experience in their own graduate writing careers.\n\nRegister at https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/rackham-sweetland-workshops.html UID:137184-21879888@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137184 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Writing LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - East Conference Room, 4th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251015T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T110100 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they've curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram UID:138031-21881226@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881033@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T181705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Japanese Music Workshop: \"Performance Exploration for Shakuhachi\, Koto\, and Voice\" with David Kansuke Wheeler and Yoko Hiraoka DESCRIPTION:*Presented as part of a series: \"A Celebration of Japanese Music and Dance: The Ethnomusicology Legacy of Professor William P. Malm.\" View the complete schedule at: https://myumi.ch/79rM5*\n\nPlease join us for a friendly experience of listening\, beginning to play\, and even singing with the Japanese shakuhachi (flute) and koto (zither)\, led by experts David Kansuke Wheeler and Yoko Hiraoka. Students and audience will learn about technique\, notation\, and play together simple songs\; singers will be introduced to the phrasing and vocal style of jiuta music. A great opportunity for SMTD students\; shakuhachis and kotos will be provided for musicians to try out themselves and with singers.\n\nABOUT THE GUEST ARTISTS\n\nMusician and musicologist David Kansuke Wheeler spent twenty years in Japan studying and performing the shakuhachi with traditional masters and ensembles\, beginning in Tokyo in 1977 under Kinko ryū master Junsuke Kawase III (Kansuke I). In 2008\, in recognition of three decades of performing\, producing\, and teaching\, he received the performance name Kansuke II. Wheeler has played a central role in every major world shakuhachi festival since 1994. In 1999\, he co-founded the Shakuhachi Summer Camp of the Rockies\, which held its 26th camp in June 2024. Now based in Boulder\, he aims to cross musical and artistic barriers both within and outside of the Japanese traditional performing arts world.\n\nYoko Hiraoka is a senior master performer of koto (13-string zither)\, shamisen (3-string lute)\, biwa (4- or 5-string lute)\, and voice. Born in Kyoto\, she studied Ikuta-ryū koto and shamisen music from an early age\, earning the Dai-Shihan (Grand Master) title from Sōmei Ongaku-kai\, Tokyo. She also studied Chikuzen biwa with Kōka Suga\, a prominent leader of Kōmyōji-ryū and disciple of Yamazaki Kyokusui\, the Living National Treasure. For over forty years\, Ms. Hiraoka has performed\, and lectured extensively on Japanese traditional music at leading universities\, major festivals\, on television and radio\, and on studio recordings.\n\n*Co-organized by: Center for Japanese Studies\; Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments. Co-sponsorship from: School of Music\, Theatre & Dance\; International Institute\; Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\; Nam Center for Korean Studies\; Center for South Asian Studies\; and Center for Southeast Asian Studies.* \n\n*Sponsored in part by the William P. Malm Stearns Collection Concert Series & Instrument Preservation Fund and the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series Endowment.* UID:138003-21881133@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138003 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Free,Music,North Campus,Talk,Workshop LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250908T165319 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Screenwriting Workshop DESCRIPTION:Join the Black Film Society as we teach screenwriting tips on structure\, characters\, and dialogue! All experience levels are encouraged to attend! UID:139014-21884591@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139014 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,filmmaker,Media,Michigan Arts Festival,Screenwriting,Television,Workshop,Writing LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - Large Meeting Room (1st Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251006T160330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T200000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:RC International Film Series DESCRIPTION:Join us for a film screening in the Keene Theater\, hosted by the RC Language Programs. We especially welcome students enrolled in RC language courses!\n\nScreening schedule:\n\nRC Japanese – October 10\, 2025\nFilm: Like Father\, Like Son\nThis film is Japanese with English subtitles UID:138802-21883940@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138802 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Film,Free,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Keene Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250817T143825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Dana Miller and John Yau DESCRIPTION:This event brings together curator Dana Miller and poet and art critic John Yau for a special Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series event exploring the histories of Carmen Herrera and Leon Polk Smith\, two groundbreaking artists of American abstraction. Miller and Yau will discuss the way each artist’s very different path converged to form a sustaining friendship and dive into Herrera and Smith’s work on view in the UMMA exhibition Both Sides of the Line. Despite forging a creative dialogue that spanned decades\, their work has never been presented side-by-side at this scale\, until now.\n\nDana Miller\, guest curator of the UMMA exhibition\, is an art historian and independent curator based in Seattle. Previously she was the DeMartini Family Curator and Director of the Collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, where she worked for two decades. Among her many projects there were major exhibitions and catalogues devoted to Jay DeFeo\, Buckminster Fuller\, and Claes Oldenburg. In 2016 she curated Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight\, the artist’s first museum exhibition in New York City in twenty years. She has also contributed to the publications Carmen Herrera: Estructuras (2021)\, Leon Polk Smith: Endless Space (2019)\, and Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight (2021). At the Whitney\, Miller curated numerous collection installations\, including co-curating America is Hard to See\, which inaugurated the Whitney’s downtown building in 2015. She also edited the accompanying 432-page publication\, Handbook of the Collection. She has written and lectured on artists ranging from Ruth Asawa and Felix Gonzalez-Torres to Isamu Noguchi and Edward Hopper. Miller graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University and received her master’s from Columbia University\, where she studied for her Ph.D. in Art History. \n\nJohn Yau is a poet who has been publishing reviews and essays on art and literature since 1978. He has authored and contributed to numerous monographs\, including Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal\, Liu Xiaodong\, Thomas Nozkowski\, Catherine Murphy\, John Pai: Liquid Steel\, Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert\, A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns\, and Joan Mitchell: Works on Paper 1956–1992. He was the recipient of the 2017 Jackson Prize in Poetry\, and his recent books of poetry include Tell It Slant (2023) and Genghis Chan on Drums (2021). Since 2012\, his weekly reviews have appeared in the online magazine\, Hyperallergic. He received a 2019 Rabkin Prize for his art criticism and a 2024 American Book Award for his book of essays\, Please Wait by the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art. Yau is the author of Leon Polk Smith: Constellations (2018) and a contributor to the exhibition catalogue Both Sides of the Line: Carmen Herrera &\; Leon Polk Smith. He is a Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University and lives in Beacon\, New York.\n\nBoth Sides of the Line: Carmen Herrera & Leon Polk Smith is on view at UMMA August 30\, 2025 - January 4\, 2026. Presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). \n\nThis project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:137416-21880219@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137416 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250919T181531 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T201500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Art and Lives of Carmen Herrera and Leon Polk Smith\, a conversation with Curator Dana Miller and Poet John Yau DESCRIPTION:This event brings together curator Dana Miller and poet and art critic John Yau for a special Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series event exploring the histories of Carmen Herrera and Leon Polk Smith\, two groundbreaking artists of American abstraction. Miller and Yau will discuss the way each artist’s very different path converged to form a sustaining friendship and dive into Herrera and Smith’s work on view in the UMMA exhibition Both Sides of the Line. Despite forging a creative dialogue that spanned decades\, their work has never been presented side-by-side at this scale\, until now.\n \n​Free and open to the public\, no registration required.\n UID:137119-21879768@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137119 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250916T181649 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Symphony Band Chamber Winds DESCRIPTION:The Chamber Wind Players of the University of Michigan Symphony Band kick off the concert season with a diverse collection of music both old and new. From the charming *Serenade* of Emil Hartmann and the *Sinfonia* of legendary American composer Ned Rorem\, to new works by young American composers Shuying Li and Cole Reyes\, the graduate wind conducting majors lead us on an exciting and emotional musical journey. \n\nJohn Mange\, Rachel Zephir\, DaJuan Brooks\, Kristina LaMarca\, student conductors\n\nPROGRAM\n\n*Serenade*\, Emil Hartmann\n*Inhere\, Adhere*\, Cole Reyes (SMTD DMA Student in Composition)\n*Sinfonia*\, Ned Rorem \n*The Last Hive Mind*\, Shuying Li UID:135350-21876741@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135350 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879684@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250822T121626 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Dr. Alice Hammel: \"Teaching Music to Students with Differences and Disabilities in the Elementary General Music Classroom\" DESCRIPTION:The Department of Music Education presents a workshop featuring music educator\, speaker and clinician Dr. Alice Hammel. This active and practical day will focus on ways students can show their knowledge and teachers can adapt their objectives and assessments to meet the needs of all students in the elementary general music classroom. The day will include many learning experiences as well as tools and manipulatives to assist the music learning of all elementary students. \n\nFree registration. Lunch will be provided with registration by September 12.\nCheck-in\, coffee & welcome: 9 – 9:30 am\nWorkshop: 9:30 am – 2:00 pm\n\n3.5 SCECH Credits through MOECS \n\n*Generous support provided by the Phyllis Kaplan Endowed Fund for General Music Education.* UID:137857-21880919@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137857 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus,Talk,Workshop LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Untold Stories\, Part II: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 12 - December 13Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\nUntold Stories: Part II is the second in a series of three exhibitions featuring the work of faculty members from the Stamps School of Art &\; Design. Organized thematically\, Part II explores timely and resonant themes related to the freedom of expression\, movement\, and civic rights. Drawing on personal narratives and public archives\, the artists offer inspiring ways of storytelling that make latent ideas visible and experiential - expanding the boundaries of their artistic research.\nUntold Stories: Part II is curated by Srimoyee Mitra\, and features work by Stamps faculty Ebitenyefa Baralaye\, Annica Cuppetelli\, Quinn A. Hunter\, Carol Jacobsen\, Andy Kirshner\, Rebekah Modrak\, and Ricky Weaver. UID:137113-21879714@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137113 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251015T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T110100 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they've curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram UID:138031-21881227@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T181707 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“In Honor of William P. Malm: Facilitating Global Musical Encounters\,” Christine R. Yano DESCRIPTION:*Presented as part of a series: \"A Celebration of Japanese Music and Dance: The Ethnomusicology Legacy of Professor William P. Malm.\" View the complete schedule at: https://myumi.ch/79rM5*\n\nJoin us for a lecture by Christine R. Yano\, Professor Emerita of Anthropology\, University of Hawaiʻi and President of the Society for East Asian Anthropology.\n\nWhat does it mean to encounter one another through unfamiliar musics? How do relative power dynamics frame the encounter? What are the contexts for the encounter and its numerous aftermaths? This talk takes Professor William Malm’s 1959 milestone book\, *Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments*\, as a historical touchstone that allows us to consider various framings of the global musical encounter. Written while a graduate student in his fourth month of PhD fieldwork in Japan\, this book became a classic\, introducing the English-speaking world to various forms of Japanese music and its instruments\, and remaining on the market from 1959 until 1993. In fact\, it is still taught in many ethnomusicology classrooms.\n\nHere\, I ask\, what can we still learn from Malm’s *Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments*? What kind of cross-cultural phenomenon has it been and perhaps continues to be? What is the nature of such global musical encounters\, then and now? In the introduction to the updated version of the book\, Malm says that he wrote it “with innocence and youthful enthusiasm.” What is the role of the naïve encounter\, the improvisational encounter\, the creative encounter\, even the colonial encounter between musical systems and new audiences? I propose that we consider our numerous musical encounters\, then and now (including perhaps tonight’s concert) as a juxtaposition of sound systems\, aesthetic hierarchies\, and affective frameworks. We are a jumble of differences striving for some tenuous legibility. Here is where Malm and other facilitators like him assist and even inspire in that bid to “get it.” Lastly\, let us zoom forward to an era that pays rapt attention to both the message and the politics of the messenger\, I suggest that we consider the contrastive and potentially dialogic role of the indigenous performer\, the home audience\, the knowing listener as our necessary interlocutors. In the process of considering these historicized musical meeting grounds\, how do we embrace new and critical possibilities of global musical encounters?\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n\nChristine R. Yano has conducted research on Japan and Japanese Americans with a focus on popular culture. Her publications include *Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song* (Harvard\, 2002)\, *Crowning the Nice Girl\; Gender\, Ethnicity\, and Culture in Hawaii’s Cherry Blossom Festival* (Hawaii\, 2006)\, *Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways* (Duke\, 2011)\, and *Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty and its Trek Across the Pacific* (Duke\, 2013). In 2020-2021\, she served as the President of the Association for Asian Studies\, and in 2024-2026\, she serves as President of the Society for East Asian Anthropology.\n\n*Co-organized by: Center for Japanese Studies\; Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments. Co-sponsorship from: School of Music\, Theatre & Dance\; International Institute\; Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\; Nam Center for Korean Studies\; Center for South Asian Studies\; and Center for Southeast Asian Studies.* \n\n*Sponsored in part by the William P. Malm Stearns Collection Concert Series & Instrument Preservation Fund and the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series Endowment.* UID:138004-21881134@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138004 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Dance,Diversity,Free,Interdisciplinary,Lecture,Music,North Campus,Scholarship,Talk LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T181644 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture on Japanese Music & Dance DESCRIPTION:*Presented as part of a series: \"A Celebration of Japanese Music and Dance: The Ethnomusicology Legacy of Professor William P. Malm.\" View the complete schedule at: https://myumi.ch/79rM5*\n\nJoin us for a Pre-Concert Lecture with guest artists David Furumoto (Onoe Kikunobuhide)\, David Kansuke Wheeler\, and Tsukasa Taiko.\n\nProfessor William P. Malm was one of the foremost ethnomusicologists of Japanese music and one of the founding figures of ethnomusicology in the United States. His pioneering work has influenced countless musicians\, scholars\, and students. A faculty member at the University of Michigan from 1960 to 1996\, Professor Malm authored the first English-language study of Japanese music and instruments\, and developed a distinguished graduate program that brought international perspectives to the field. As director of the university's Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments\, he brought together high level scholarship\, curation\, and performance\; acquired important instruments including the first commercially made Moog Synthesizer\; and founded the U-M Gamelan Ensemble. He contributed significantly to the understanding of music across Asia through research and teaching\, and was recognized with numerous honors\, including the Fumio Koizumi Prize in Ethnomusicology and the Order of the Rising Sun from the Japanese government.\n\nABOUT THE GUEST ARTISTS\n\nDavid Furumoto is a professor emeritus from the Department of Theatre and Drama at the University Wisconsin-Madison\, where he taught in the acting and directing program for 21 years. He earned both his A.B. and M.F.A. at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa\, focusing on traditional Asian theatre performance. While a student\, he performed in numerous English-language premieres of Kabuki plays\, including notable roles such as Benkei in *Kanjincho* and Yuranosuke in *Chushingura*. In 1982\, he received the Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship to study as a special observer at the National Theatre of Japan’s kabuki training class. He also holds a professional title from the Onoe School of Classical Japanese Dance.\n\nMusician and musicologist David Kansuke Wheeler spent twenty years in Japan studying and performing the shakuhachi with traditional masters and ensembles\, beginning in Tokyo in 1977 under Kinko ryū master Junsuke Kawase III (Kansuke I). In 2008\, in recognition of three decades of performing\, producing\, and teaching\, he received the performance name Kansuke II. Wheeler has played a central role in every major world shakuhachi festival since 1994. In 1999\, he co-founded the Shakuhachi Summer Camp of the Rockies\, which held its 26th camp in June 2024. Now based in Boulder\, he aims to cross musical and artistic barriers both within and outside of the Japanese traditional performing arts world.\n\nTsukasa Taiko\, a program of the nonprofit organization Asian Improv aRts Midwest\, aims to preserve\, develop\, and pass on traditional concepts of Japanese art as a cultural legacy\, while also expanding taiko as an art form. Its professional unit\, Gintenkai\, inherits compositions from Tokyo’s 1970s underground theater and music scene\, bringing them to the contemporary stage with complex\, refined arrangements. These works emphasize musical phrasing over rhythmic patterns and feature choreographic dance to retain an authentic Japanese aesthetic. Tsukasa reincorporates geza music using shamisen and shinobue\, reinforcing historical ties between music\, dance\, and theater. Performers include Kioto Aoki\, Miyumi Aoki\, and Neil Ducklow. UID:138005-21881135@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138005 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Culture,Dance,Free,Lecture,Music,North Campus,Talk LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Watkins Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T181710 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Concert: \"A Celebration of Japanese Music and Dance: The Ethnomusicology Legacy of Professor William P. Malm\" DESCRIPTION:*Presented as part of a series: \"A Celebration of Japanese Music and Dance: The Ethnomusicology Legacy of Professor William P. Malm.\" View the complete schedule at: https://myumi.ch/79rM5*\n\nCONCERT 7:00 - 9:30 pm\nJapanese Dance by David Furumoto (Onoe Kikunobuhide)\nShakuhachi\, Koto\, Shamisen\, Voice by David Kansuke Wheeler & Yoko Hiraoka\nTaiko by Tsukasa Taiko\n\nRECEPTION in the Brehm Pavilion following the concert program.\n\nProfessor William P. Malm was one of the foremost ethnomusicologists of Japanese music and one of the founding figures of ethnomusicology in the United States. His pioneering work has influenced countless musicians\, scholars\, and students. A faculty member at the University of Michigan from 1960 to 1996\, Professor Malm authored the first English-language study of Japanese music and instruments\, and developed a distinguished graduate program that brought international perspectives to the field. As director of the university's Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments\, he brought together high level scholarship\, curation\, and performance\; acquired important instruments including the first commercially made Moog Synthesizer\; and founded the U-M Gamelan Ensemble. He contributed significantly to the understanding of music across Asia through research and teaching\, and was recognized with numerous honors\, including the Fumio Koizumi Prize in Ethnomusicology and the Order of the Rising Sun from the Japanese government.\n\nABOUT THE GUEST ARTISTS\n\nDavid Furumoto is a professor emeritus from the Department of Theatre and Drama at the University Wisconsin-Madison\, where he taught in the acting and directing program for 21 years. He earned both his A.B. and M.F.A. at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa\, focusing on traditional Asian theatre performance. While a student\, he performed in numerous English-language premieres of Kabuki plays\, including notable roles such as Benkei in *Kanjincho* and Yuranosuke in *Chushingura*. In 1982\, he received the Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship to study as a special observer at the National Theatre of Japan’s kabuki training class. He also holds a professional title from the Onoe School of Classical Japanese Dance.\n\nMusician and musicologist David Kansuke Wheeler spent twenty years in Japan studying and performing the shakuhachi with traditional masters and ensembles\, beginning in Tokyo in 1977 under Kinko ryū master Junsuke Kawase III (Kansuke I). In 2008\, in recognition of three decades of performing\, producing\, and teaching\, he received the performance name Kansuke II. Wheeler has played a central role in every major world shakuhachi festival since 1994. In 1999\, he co-founded the Shakuhachi Summer Camp of the Rockies\, which held its 26th camp in June 2024. Now based in Boulder\, he aims to cross musical and artistic barriers both within and outside of the Japanese traditional performing arts world.\n\nYoko Hiraoka is a senior master performer of koto (13-string zither)\, shamisen (3-string lute)\, biwa (4- or 5-string lute)\, and voice. Born in Kyoto\, she studied Ikuta-ryū koto and shamisen music from an early age\, earning the Dai-Shihan (Grand Master) title from Sōmei Ongaku-kai\, Tokyo. She also studied Chikuzen biwa with Kōka Suga\, a prominent leader of Kōmyōji-ryū and disciple of Yamazaki Kyokusui\, the Living National Treasure. For over forty years\, Ms. Hiraoka has performed\, and lectured extensively on Japanese traditional music at leading universities\, major festivals\, on television and radio\, and on studio recordings.\n\nTsukasa Taiko\, a program of the nonprofit organization Asian Improv aRts Midwest\, aims to preserve\, develop\, and pass on traditional concepts of Japanese art as a cultural legacy\, while also expanding taiko as an art form. Its professional unit\, Gintenkai\, inherits compositions from Tokyo’s 1970s underground theater and music scene\, bringing them to the contemporary stage with complex\, refined arrangements. These works emphasize musical phrasing over rhythmic patterns and feature choreographic dance to retain an authentic Japanese aesthetic. Tsukasa reincorporates geza music using shamisen and shinobue\, reinforcing historical ties between music\, dance\, and theater. Performers include Kioto Aoki\, Miyumi Aoki\, and Neil Ducklow.\n\n*Co-organized by: Center for Japanese Studies\; Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments. Co-sponsorship from: School of Music\, Theatre & Dance\; International Institute\; Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\; Nam Center for Korean Studies\; Center for South Asian Studies\; and Center for Southeast Asian Studies.* \n\n*Sponsored in part by the William P. Malm Stearns Collection Concert Series & Instrument Preservation Fund and the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series Endowment.* UID:138006-21881136@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138006 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Culture,Dance,Free,Interdisciplinary,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250911T121653 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Ellen Lee\, chamber euphonium DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Ellen Lee performs a recital featuring chamber music. UID:138034-21881380@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138034 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250921T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250921T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881035@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250921T181522 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250921T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250921T170000 SUMMARY:Performance:UMMA Family Day: Dragons Everywhere All At Once DESCRIPTION:Dragons stir the global imagination\, writhing through water\, sky and earth. Join us as we learn more about the many facets of dragons through East Asian art\, culture and dance. Featuring performances\, collaborative art making\, and development of your own personal mini-zine! All ages welcome.\n \nFree and open to the public\, registration recommended.\n UID:137120-21879769@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137120 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Family,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250919T181701 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250921T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250921T180000 SUMMARY:Performance:A Grand Night for Singing DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual vocal and choral tapestry concert highlighting all facets of singing! Featuring the Chamber Choir\, Orpheus Singers\, University Choir\, Men’s Glee Club\, Women’s Glee Club\, Department of Musical Theatre\, and Department of Voice & Opera.\n\nHosted by Stephen West and Cynthia Kortman Westphal.\nUnder the artistic direction of Eugene Rogers\n\n*Student tickets are not available for this performance.*\n\nRecommended Ages: 3+\n\n*Buying Tickets\nFlex Series ticket packages available beginning June 10\; Single tickets available beginning August 4.*\n UID:135411-21876803@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135411 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250922T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250922T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879685@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879686@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881037@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250916T093500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T140000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Information Session: Accelerated Master’s Degree Program in Transcultural Studies DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn more about Transcultural Studies\, an interdisciplinary accelerated master's degree program designed to enable current undergraduate students in LSA to earn their MA degree with one additional year of study beyond their bachelor’s degree.\n\nTuesday\, September 23\, 2025 @ 1 PM\nTuesday\, September 30\, 2025 @ 4 PM\n\nThe fall application cycle is open to current LSA juniors and seniors.\nFall term applications are due October 15\, 2025.\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nDo you anticipate pursuing a PhD or a career involving international travel\, cross-cultural partnerships\, or collaborative work in a diverse workplace? U-M's accelerated MA program in Transcultural Studies can help you develop the historical\, theoretical\, and practical knowledge you need to navigate forward-looking graduate education and career pathways in an increasingly cosmopolitan and interconnected world. Transcultural Studies uses approaches from across the Humanities and Social Sciences to foster a critical and historically informed understanding of human communication and interaction across perceived boundaries of culture\, nationality\, race\, and religious identity.\n\nThis interdisciplinary program is intended to provide both advanced training and a capstone experience for current LSA undergraduates who anticipate pursuing a PhD or working in business or non-profit contexts where intercultural competency and a critical framework for thinking systematically about connections\, comparisons\, and translations among human communities will be desirable skills. UID:138961-21884371@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138961 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Graduate School,Interdisciplinary,Transcultural Studies,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250902T230014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Go Back and Fetch It DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Grammy Award–winning musician Rhiannon Giddens\, University of Michigan Artist-in-Residence\, and acclaimed writer Kristina R. Gaddy as they discuss their new book Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo (UNC Press\, 2025) in a conversation moderated by Mark Clague\, Executive Director of the University of Michigan Arts Initiative. The talk will be followed by a dessert reception\, with books available for purchase and signing.\n\n 5:00 p.m. – Doors open\n 5:30 p.m. – Authors talk begins\n 6:30 p.m. – Dessert reception and book signing\n\nPlease register at: arts.umich.edu/giddens\n\nLearn more about the book from University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/9781469690575/go-back-and-fetch-it/ \n\nPreorder your copy of Go Back and Fetch It through Schuler Books. https://www.schulerbooks.com/book/9781469690575 UID:138676-21883596@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138676 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,arts,Arts Initiative,Book Talk,Culture,Diversity,Free,Music,Talk LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250822T181642 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CWPS Faculty Lecture with Amy Chavasse: \"Contact Improvisation at the edge of democracy: improvising new steps from south to north\" DESCRIPTION:Amy Chavasse will discuss their nine-month collaborative project\, supported by the Center for World Performance Studies\, exploring the evolution of Contact Improvisation (CI) in Argentina – where it arose after the dictatorship’s end in 1985 – as a lens for examining democracy\, resistance\, and artmaking amid social upheaval. Through workshops\, lectures\, and community events in Buenos Aires with Argentinian CI leaders Marina Tampini and Cristina Turdo and U-M alum Sarah Konner\, the team mapped the South-North dynamics of the dance’s history\, using archival video and interviews to spark reflection on democracy\, authoritarianism\, and cultural exchange\, while highlighting how CI has become a vibrant\, activist art form deeply tied to Argentina’s sociopolitical context.\n\nFree and open to the public.\n\nFACULTY BIO:\n\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/profiles/amy-chavasse/ UID:138035-21881381@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138035 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Dance,Faculty,Free,Interdisciplinary,Lecture,North Campus,Scholarship,Talk LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250923T181523 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Subject Matters: Buying Art? In this Economy??! DESCRIPTION:What makes art valuable? And who decides what it’s worth? Join UMMA Curator Dave Choberka\, Curator of Art in Public Spaces Jennifer Carty\, and Ross School of Business Professor Tom Buchmueller for a dive into the strange\, fascinating world of the art market. From how UMMA has built its own collection to the wild forces that shape global art prices\, this 90-minute session unpacks the dollars and decisions behind the art you see on the walls.\n \nFree and open to the public. Registration required.\n UID:137765-21880721@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137765 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T121645 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Huanyi Yang\, trumpet DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Huanyi Yang performs a final masters degree recital. UID:138793-21883926@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138793 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879687@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Untold Stories\, Part II: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 12 - December 13Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\nUntold Stories: Part II is the second in a series of three exhibitions featuring the work of faculty members from the Stamps School of Art &\; Design. Organized thematically\, Part II explores timely and resonant themes related to the freedom of expression\, movement\, and civic rights. Drawing on personal narratives and public archives\, the artists offer inspiring ways of storytelling that make latent ideas visible and experiential - expanding the boundaries of their artistic research.\nUntold Stories: Part II is curated by Srimoyee Mitra\, and features work by Stamps faculty Ebitenyefa Baralaye\, Annica Cuppetelli\, Quinn A. Hunter\, Carol Jacobsen\, Andy Kirshner\, Rebekah Modrak\, and Ricky Weaver. UID:137113-21879715@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137113 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251015T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T110100 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they've curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram UID:138031-21881228@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881038@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250916T121522 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Visiting Artist Presentation: Toni Meštrović DESCRIPTION:Video and sound installation artist Toni Meštrović\, a Roman J. Witt short term Visiting Artist-in-Residence at the Stamps School of Art &\; Design\, will give a presentation on his work on Wednesday\, September 23 at 2 p.m. in room 1258 of the Art &\; Architecture building (with support from the Arts Initiative Course Connections program).\nMeštrović holds a degree in Graphic Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb\, as well as a diploma in Media Art from the Academy of Media Arts\, Cologne\, and studied Video/Digital Imaging with Valie Export at the International Summer Academy for Contemporary Art in Salzburg. Video\, sound\, and audio-visual installations produced during Meštrović's postgraduate studies explore his personal perception of the sea and the island where he grew up. Recent projects involve transforming eccentric sites from tunnels in Croatia's capital to the space underneath a civic theater into instruments and sonic spaces. Meštrović lives in Rijeka and Kaštela\, and is Professor at the Arts Academy University of Split in the Department of Film and Video. UID:139403-21885410@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139403 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250814T181623 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T183000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Italian Vocal Repertoire: Professors Anna Toccafondi and Leonardo De Lisi DESCRIPTION:Italian pianist Anna Toccafondi and Italian tenor Leonardo De Lisi of the Conservatory Luigi Cherubini in Florence\, Italy will lead a master class on Italian songs and arias in a variety of styles\, performed by SMTD voice students. Free and open to the public.\n\nABOUT THE GUEST ARTISTS\n\nLEONARDO DE LISI has been active in both concert and opera repertoire in Italy and throughout Europe during a forty-years career\, which began after winning several prestigious competitions\, including the Grand Prize for Lied at the ’s-Hertogenbosch\, Netherlands. His numerous CDs include the complete Respighi art songs\, the leading tenor roles in Gasparini’s *Bajazet*\, Vivaldi’s *Il Giustino*\, and Monteverdi’s *L’Orfeo* and *Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria*. In 2009\, EMI included a Vivaldi aria performed by De Lisi in the box set *100 Best Tenor Voices*. He has been teaching at the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence\, Italy\, since 1998.\n\nANNA TOCCAFONDI\, pianist and vocal coach\, is Professor of Collaborative Piano at the Florence Cherubini Conservatory. She performs at major festivals and theaters in Italy\, Europe\, and Japan with celebrated singers (such as Alessandro Corbelli and Barbara DeMaio). She taught annual master classes on Italian vocal repertoire at the University of Michigan’s former spring program in Sesto Fiorentino\, Italy\, and recently in South Korea. Committed to unpublished compositions of the Italian vocal repertoire\, Toccafondi has done research\, transcriptions\, revisions\, and recordings of important composers. She is the co-author\, with Timothy Cheek\, of *Perfect Italian Diction for Singers: An Authoritative Guide*.\n UID:137531-21880402@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137531 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus,Talk,Workshop LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T152041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T220000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Michigan Arts Festival DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Arts Festival will run from September 25 to October 26\, 2025\, across U-M’s Ann Arbor\, Dearborn Detroit\, and Flint campuses and at select community venues. Signature events will take place at the Michigan Theater\, Hill Auditorium\, Taubman College\, UMMA\, Stamps Gallery\, North Campus Diag\, and more.\n\nVisit arts.umich.edu/fest to see an updated list of featured events and opportunities and check the Michigan Arts Festival keyword on the Happening@Michigan calendar to see everything arts-related happening during the festival!\n\nThe festival is open to all—U-M students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and the public. While some events are ticketed\, many if not most events are accessible free of charge. UID:137072-21879477@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137072 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts At Michigan,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION:1027 E. Huron Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879688@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Untold Stories\, Part II: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 12 - December 13Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\nUntold Stories: Part II is the second in a series of three exhibitions featuring the work of faculty members from the Stamps School of Art &\; Design. Organized thematically\, Part II explores timely and resonant themes related to the freedom of expression\, movement\, and civic rights. Drawing on personal narratives and public archives\, the artists offer inspiring ways of storytelling that make latent ideas visible and experiential - expanding the boundaries of their artistic research.\nUntold Stories: Part II is curated by Srimoyee Mitra\, and features work by Stamps faculty Ebitenyefa Baralaye\, Annica Cuppetelli\, Quinn A. Hunter\, Carol Jacobsen\, Andy Kirshner\, Rebekah Modrak\, and Ricky Weaver. UID:137113-21879716@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137113 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251015T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T110100 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they've curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram UID:138031-21881229@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881039@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T124500 SUMMARY:Performance:Division Street Pipes DESCRIPTION:Join us as sacred music DMA student David Stultz performs a 30-minute organ recital.\n\nThe University of Michigan Organ Department presents Division Street Pipes - the organ recital series at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church that brought weekly joy to attendees during its first season earlier this year - returns and will continue through early December.\n\nDivision Street Pipes concerts take place on Thursdays at 12:15 pm. Each recital features talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public\, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening. The series is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Organ Department and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in an effort to bring organ music to local audiences while connecting U-M organ students with the wider community. Concerts offer attendees the opportunity to hear the versatility of the pipe organ beyond a worship setting. \n\nPerformances begin on September 11\, 2025 at 12:15pm and will occur every Thursday until December 4 (with the exception of November 27\, Thanksgiving). You can be sure that each week\, you will be in for a thrilling musical experience. UID:138220-21882606@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138220 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250930T100847 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T150000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Creative Reuse at the Lab Swap Shop DESCRIPTION:In association with the Michigan Arts Festival hosted by the Arts Initiative\, the Lab Swap Shop will be holding creative reuse workshops during regular Thursday hours from September 25th to October 23rd. These events use surplus lab supplies for art activities\, demonstrating the different ways that items can be reused. Workshop activities are as follows:\n--- 9/25: Pointillism painting using serological pipettes\n--- 10/2 &10/9: Lab coat embroidery (Coats are provided if needed!)\n--- 10/16: Sample cup decorating\n--- 10/23: \"Potion\" making with volumetric flasks\n\nJoin us for these events and get free supplies for your lab while you are there! You can also check out the Door-to-Door Lab Reuse Catalog for additional free lab supplies looking to find a home. Reach out to sustainable-labs@umich.edu with any questions! UID:138775-21883887@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138775 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arts For All,Creative Reuse,Environment,Michigan Arts Festival,Sustainability,Umcw25,Waste Reduction LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 5004 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250919T153433 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CANCELLED: DISCO Network Presents - Fear of Asian Tech: Chips\, Platforms\, and Social Networks DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO A NEW DATE IN THE SPRING. \n\nFear and suspicion of Asian technology-- from DeepSeek AI\, to social media platforms like TikTok\, to Taiwanese semiconductor giants like TSMC that supply the world with chips-- is higher in the U.S. than it has been for decades. This panel brings together leading Asian American researchers\, artists\, and filmmakers to explore Asia’s role in building today’s high technology. We will also examine how rising anxiety around Asian tech impacts Asian American communities in the U.S. today.\n\nFree boba from Unitea will be provided for the first 100 attendees! \n\nAll are welcome and we strongly encourage undergraduate and graduate students to attend. Advance registration is recommended: \n\nRegister to attend in person: https://myumi.ch/3RMW2\nRegister to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/NrVjD\n\nIMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO A NEW DATE IN THE SPRING.\n\nMeet the Panelists\n\nChristopher Fan is an Associate Professor of English at UC Irvine\, Director of UCI Global Asias\, and co-director of the Geographers at UCI Research Cluster. Dr. Fan holds courtesy appointments in Asian American Studies and East Asian Studies. He is a senior editor at Hyphen magazine\, which he co-founded\, and serves on the editorial board of the journal American Literary History. Dr. Fan is the author of Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia University Press\, 2024) and co-editor of Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions (Rutgers University Press\, 2025). He is currently working on two books\, one about the trope of China’s rise in fiction and film and another about a cultural history of semiconductors\, centering on the industry’s emergence in Taiwan.\n\nJanice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a Filipina American poet\, writer\, and independent scholar from the San Francisco Bay Area (unceded Ohlone land). She is the author of the poetry collections like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books\, 2022) and microchips for millions (PAWA\, Inc.\, 2016)\, along with two other chapbooks. Sapigao contributed three entries to The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. She is a 2023-2026 Lucas Arts Resident in Literary Arts at the Montalvo Arts Center and a tenured Associate Professor of English at Skyline College. Sapigao also co-founded Santa Clara County’s Youth Poet Laureate Program and Sunday Jump Open Mic in Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown. She is working on a novel and a non-fiction manuscript on Philippine American archives.\n\nTony Shyu is an award-winning filmmaker\, founder of Neu Wave AI Films\, and CEO of Himalaya Entertainment\, with over 20 years of experience directing across commercials\, narrative films\, and documentaries. After earning his BFA and MFA in Film from Art Center College of Design\, he began his career directing high-profile campaigns for brands like Doordash\, Mastercard\, Volvo\, and Uni-President earning Advertising Awards and the 2016 Videographer Award for API Vote\, featuring George Takei and Constance Wu. His feature debut with Lions Gate and acclaimed documentaries for PBS\, including The Race Epidemic and Builders of the Silicon Dream\, showcase his talent for impactful storytelling. As a pioneer in AI filmmaking\, Tony has directed cutting-edge AI-generated films and founded the Neu Wave AI Film Festival and Cinemarket.AI to support and mentor the next wave of creators.\n\nMeet The Moderator\n\nLisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture\, and the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Since 1994\, Nakamura has written books and articles on digital bodies\, race\, and gender in online environments\, on toxicity in video game culture\, and the many reasons that Internet research needs ethnic and gender studies. These books include\, Race After the Internet (co-edited with Peter Chow-White\, Routledge\, 2011)\; Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Minnesota\, 2007)\; Cybertypes: Race\, Ethnicity\, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge\, 2002)\; and Race in Cyberspace (co-edited with Beth Kolko and Gil Rodman\, Routledge\, 2000). In November 2019\, Nakamura gave a TED NYC talk about her research called “The Internet is a Trash Fire. Here’s How to Fix It.\"\n\nWe want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate or would like help filling out the RSVP form\, please email Cherice Chan at chericec@umich.edu.\n\nIMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO A NEW DATE IN THE SPRING. UID:136188-21878002@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136188 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Asian American Studies,Digital Culture,Digital Media,Digital Scholarship,Digital Studies,Digital Studies Institute,digital technology LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250923T101427 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Rhiannon Giddens DESCRIPTION:Rhiannon Giddens has made a singular\, iconic career out of stretching her brand of folk music\, with its miles-deep historical roots and contemporary sensibilities\, into just about every field imaginable. A two-time GRAMMY Award-winning singer and multi-instrumentalist\, MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient\, Pulitzer Prize winner\, and composer of opera\, ballet\, and film\, Giddens has centered her work around the mission of lifting up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been overlooked or erased\, and advocating for a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins through art.\n\nA founding member of the landmark Black string band Carolina Chocolate Drops\, and the all-female banjo supergroup\, Our Native Daughters\, Giddens is as much a curator as a creator. She is the current Artistic Director of the Yo-Yo Ma-founded Silkroad Ensemble\, hosts a TV show on PBS\, My Music with Rhiannon Giddens\, and has hosted two podcasts (Aria Code from New York City’s NPR affiliate station WQXR\, which ran for three seasons\, and American Railroad from Silkroad). Giddens has published two children's books and written and performed music for the soundtrack of Red Dead Redemption II\, one of the best-selling video games of all time. She appeared as a recurring cast member on ABC's hit drama Nashville and as a music history expert on Ken Burns’ Country Music series on PBS. This year\, she launched her own music festival in Durham\, NC called Biscuits &\; Banjos\, to celebrate Black culture outside the mainstream.\n\nAs Pitchfork once said\, “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration”—a journey that has led to NPR naming her one of its 25 Most Influential Women Musicians of the 21st Century and to American Songwriter calling her “one of the most important musical minds currently walking the planet.”\nGiddens has released three albums under her own name and two in collaboration with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi\, all on Nonesuch Records. American Railroad\, her first album in collaboration with the Silkroad Ensemble\, was released in November 2024\, and her most recent album\, a collaboration with Justin Robinson\, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow\, was released in April 2025.\n\nRhiannon Giddens serves as the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the University of Michigan’s Arts Initiative.\n\nPresented in partnership with the Arts Initiative. \n\nThis project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:137417-21880220@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137417 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T130635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gloria DESCRIPTION:This funny and provocative play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a Manhattan magazine. When an ordinary\, humdrum workday becomes anything but\, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.\n\nCONTENT ADVISORY\nThe production of *Gloria* contains the following: \n– workplace violence\;\n– strobe lights\;\n– simulated gunshots\; \n– death by suicide\; \n– strong and offensive language. \nIf you are concerned about what to expect during this production\, we have provided a detailed description at the link below. Please note that this description contains detailed spoilers. \nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/event/25-september-2025/#advisory\n\nWritten by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins\nDirected by Judith Moreland\n UID:135412-21876804@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135412 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Arts Festival,North Campus,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879689@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T152041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T220000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Michigan Arts Festival DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Arts Festival will run from September 25 to October 26\, 2025\, across U-M’s Ann Arbor\, Dearborn Detroit\, and Flint campuses and at select community venues. Signature events will take place at the Michigan Theater\, Hill Auditorium\, Taubman College\, UMMA\, Stamps Gallery\, North Campus Diag\, and more.\n\nVisit arts.umich.edu/fest to see an updated list of featured events and opportunities and check the Michigan Arts Festival keyword on the Happening@Michigan calendar to see everything arts-related happening during the festival!\n\nThe festival is open to all—U-M students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and the public. While some events are ticketed\, many if not most events are accessible free of charge. UID:137072-21879478@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137072 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts At Michigan,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250912T121708 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T123000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Pianist Svetozar Ivanov Master Class DESCRIPTION:Guest artist and U-M DMA alum Svetozar Ivanov (University of South Florida) will work with talented SMTD students in a master class. Free and open to the public.\n\nGUEST ARTIST BIO\n\nPianist SVETOZAR IVANOV has made numerous appearances as recitalist and orchestra soloist worldwide. Numerous publications have praised his recent solo CD’s\; the album *Naked Tango* was called “superbly original\, quite moving\, personal and musically absorbing” while his CD *Vers la flamme* was celebrated for performances which were “played with aplomb\, panache and complete conviction” and interpretation “filled with sensual longing\, anguished yearning\, anxious dread and provocative energy”. Regarding his album *Echo* one reviewer wrote: “Ivanov’s most distinctive gift as a pianist is his ability to draw us inward\, which imparts the feeling that we’re approaching a mystery”. *Dream Images* was hailed for “performances of purified beauty that can leave you breathless” and his most recent album *Intermissions* was praised for its “combination of maturity\, deeply felt expression\, and dignity.”\n\nRecent performance venues include Carnegie\, Merkin\, and Steinway Halls in New York City\, Salle Gaveau in Paris\, Splendor in Amsterdam\, Guildhall\, Royal College\, and Goldsmith in London\, Mozarteum in Salzburg\, Razumovsky Salon in Vienna\, Salon Chritophori in Berlin\, RNCM in Manchester\, Royal Academy of Music in Denmark\, RCS in Prague\, as well as numerous concert series in the US. Recent festival appearances include “Pianomaster”\, “PianoEchos”\, “Terre d’Arezzo”\, “Autunno Musicale”\, and “Classicariano” in Italy\, “Krakow Piano Festival” in Poland\, “Música de Besalú” in Spain\, “Pianotune” in Belgium\, “Seiler” in Greece\, “Walled City” in Northern Ireland\, “Salon des Arts” and “Sofia Music Weeks” in Bulgaria\, “Chautauqua” in New York\, “Killington” in Vermont\, and “Fox River” in Wisconsin.\n\nIvanov is especially recognized for his creative work designing unusual concert formats combining music with other art forms (documentary footage\, art films\, animation\, poetry\, short stories\, live dance improvisation\, paintings\, lighting design\, live streaming). His DVD Perpetual Tango explores the synthesis between music\, movement\, multimedia\, and was released by Naxos in 2018. His latest video projects include *Music of Shadows* and the *Poetry Series* - a poetry inspired collection of twelve short films that was described by *Fanfare Magazine* as \"heart-wrenching\".\n\nSvetozar Ivanov is Professor of Piano at University of South Florida\, serves as Artist Faculty at Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont\, Brancaleoni Music Festival in Italy\, Prague Piano Festival\, Walled City Music Festival in Northern Ireland\, and is the Artistic Director of the Steinway Piano Series in Florida. He is a Steinway Artist and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan.\n UID:139215-21885099@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139215 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Free,Music,North Campus,Talk,Workshop LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250806T122821 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:How to Make Revision Count: Revising Practices for Graduate Students DESCRIPTION:Whether you are moving directly from your undergraduate degree or returning after some time away\, the first term of graduate school will challenge you to expand skills critical to your success. Two of the most essential skills needed to thrive are reading and writing. This four-part Rackham/Sweetland workshop series will showcase reading and writing practices for new graduate students that will inform your approaches to reading and writing through the course of your graduate career.\n\nThis workshop will introduce new graduate students to revising practices to advance their academic writing.\n\nThe most critical phase in the writing process is also the most mysterious and least taught. Revision is especially challenging for first-year graduate writers learning to write extended academic arguments. What do academic writers do when they revise their work? How does an early draft become a polished\, publishable article? This workshop will demystify the role of revision in academic writing – to advance and refine our good ideas! – and provide strategies to help you build quality revision into your writing practice. You will expand your revising practices and elevate your writing skills for graduate school.\n\nRegister at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/96939 UID:137186-21879890@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137186 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Writing LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Earl Lewis Room, 3rd floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Untold Stories\, Part II: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 12 - December 13Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\nUntold Stories: Part II is the second in a series of three exhibitions featuring the work of faculty members from the Stamps School of Art &\; Design. Organized thematically\, Part II explores timely and resonant themes related to the freedom of expression\, movement\, and civic rights. Drawing on personal narratives and public archives\, the artists offer inspiring ways of storytelling that make latent ideas visible and experiential - expanding the boundaries of their artistic research.\nUntold Stories: Part II is curated by Srimoyee Mitra\, and features work by Stamps faculty Ebitenyefa Baralaye\, Annica Cuppetelli\, Quinn A. Hunter\, Carol Jacobsen\, Andy Kirshner\, Rebekah Modrak\, and Ricky Weaver. UID:137113-21879717@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137113 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251015T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T110100 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they've curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram UID:138031-21881230@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881040@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250908T224319 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T163000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Student Arts Org Fair DESCRIPTION:As part of the Michigan Arts Festival\, The Arts Initiative invites you to the Student Arts Org Fair on Friday September 26\, from 2-4:30pm on The Diag. \n\nThe student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation\, with 250+ diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These orgs produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. This will be a tabling and outreach event for students and the U-M community to discover an organization to join\, to learn about upcoming events\, to meet people\, or to find out about upcoming auditions and opportunities... And maybe get some snacks and freebies in the process! \n\nOrgs interested in tabling at this event can fill out the registration form here: https://arts.umich.edu/events/student-arts-org-fair UID:138795-21883928@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138795 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Dance,Michigan Arts Festival,Music,Student Org,Theater,Visual Arts LOCATION:Diag - Central Campus CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T090938 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T154000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Cherry Award Finalist Keynote: \"Learning to Look: Cultivating the Anatomical Gaze” DESCRIPTION:Dr. Melissa Gross\, associate professor of movement science and director of the Behavioral Biomechanics Laboratory\, is one of three finalists selected for Baylor University’s 2026 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. The Cherry Award is the only national teaching award – with the single largest monetary reward of $250\,000 – presented by a college or university to an individual for exceptional teaching. The winning professor will be announced by Baylor in spring 2026.\n\nDr. Gross will present her Cherry Award finalist keynote\, \"Learning to Look: Cultivating the Anatomical Gaze\,” on Friday\, Sept. 26\, from 2:30-3:40 p.m. in the School of Kinesiology Building\, rooms 2600 and 2080 (overflow seating). Open to the public\; no RSVP needed.\n\nAbout the finalist: A biomechanics researcher noted for her interdisciplinary work\, Dr. Melissa Gross has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and served on the editorial board for the Journal of Applied Biomechanics. A past president and fellow of the American Society of Biomechanics\, she has secured over $1.5 million in grant funding from NIH\, NSF\, and Veterans Affairs. In 2014\, Gross received the Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship\, which recognizes tenured U-M faculty whose commitment to and investment in undergraduate teaching has had a demonstrable impact on the intellectual development and lives of their students. She has held leadership roles in academic innovation and digital education\, including serving as director of the School of Kinesiology's Innovative Teaching and Learning initiative (2013-2019) and U-M's Women in Science and Engineering program (2019-2024). Gross currently serves on the executive committee for the U-M Center for Interprofessional Education. UID:139037-21884668@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139037 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:arts,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Basic Science,Free,Interdisciplinary,Kinesiology,Lecture,Science,Talk LOCATION:School of Kinesiology Building - 2600 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250924T103142 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T173000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:21st Century Natural-Industrial Landscapes DESCRIPTION:Across Ann Arbor\, Dearborn\, Detroit\, and Flint\, artists explore the layered entanglements between the natural and industrial worlds—interrogating ecology and economy\, decay and renewal\, resistance and control. Through artworks\, public programs\, and academic dialogue\, this exhibition invites you to witness (and challenge) the delicate dance of nature and industry.\n\nOpening Reception\nUniversity of Michigan Detroit Center\n3663 Woodward Avenue\, Suite 150 | Detroit\, MI 48201\nFriday\, September 26 | 4:00–5:30 PM\numarts.info/Natural-industrial \n\nFeatured Locations & Artists:\n\nAnn Arbor – Ruthven Building (Arts Initiative)\nDominique Chastenet de Gery\, Rob Carter\, Marta Carvajal\, Kelly Hoffer\, Shanna Merola\, Elise Marie Martin\, Samuel Turner\, Bettina Senga\, Nalani Duarte\n\nDearborn – Mardigian Library\nKas Brajkovic\, Paul Draus\, Alainna Fry\, William Hohe\, Cynthia Ellis\, Lisa Du Russel\, Alex Wand\, Bridget Quinn\, MaKenna Hatherill\, Roxy\n\nDetroit – UM Detroit Center\nAndy Arts\, Zoë Corley\, Catie Cunningham\, Laura Quattrocchi\, Scott Crandall\, Sarah Nesbitt\, L. Napier\, Megan Pellegini\, Manessa Riser\, Roberto Santaguida\, Adam Sekuler\, Elise Marie Martin\, Samuel Turner\n\nFlint – UM-Flint Fine & Performing Arts + UCEN Gallery\nGrace Carbeck\, Joe Cialdella\, Sophia Brueckner\, Lisa Du Russel\, Avery Lawrence\, Colleen O’Rourke\, Yael Sela & Amanda Smith\n\nVideo Artists (Flint & Detroit)\nMarta Frank\, Mary Jo Kietzman Gifford\, Fiona Hoffer\, Jack Liu\, Zhongxing Liu\, Cole Greenberg\, Alex Wand\, L. Napier\n\nGallery Hours:\n\nUM-Flint UCEN Gallery: Mon–Thu 8 AM–5 PM\n\nUM-Flint Fine & Performing Arts: 2nd Floor | Mon–Thu 7 AM–6 PM\n\nUM Detroit Center: Mon–Thu 8 AM–7 PM | Fri–Sat 8 AM–5 PM\n\nAnn Arbor – Ruthven Building: Mon–Fri 9 AM–5 PM\n\nDearborn – Mardigian Library: Sun Noon–10 PM | Mon–Thu 9 AM–10 PM | Fri 9 AM–6 PM\n\nPresented by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the University of Michigan Detroit Center. UID:139753-21886008@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139753 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250921T143141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T230000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Michigan Wolveraas Garba Night 1 DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate Navaratri with Michigan Wolveraas! It'll be a fun night filled with music\, dancing\, and more! UID:138190-21882560@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138190 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance,In Person,Multicultural,Religious,Social,Student Org,Visual Arts LOCATION:Michigan Union - Rogel Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T093809 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Verdi's Requiem DESCRIPTION:From the hushed opening of the “Requiem aeternam” to the thunderous cries of the “Dies irae\,” Verdi’s Requiem is one of the most powerful choral masterpieces ever written.\n\nUMS’s 25/26 Season opens with Verdi’s monumental work that fuses the drama of opera with the spiritual depth of sacred music. Written in memory of the Italian poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni\, it is a profoundly moving reflection that is simultaneously intimate and epic.\n\nThis performance celebrates UMS’s ongoing relationship with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra\, UMS Choral Union\, and DSO music director Jader Bignamini. The concert will only be performed in Ann Arbor and brings together a stellar international cast of soloists: South African soprano Vuvu Mpofu\, American mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke\, Mexican American tenor René Barbera\, and Chinese bass-baritone Shenyang. UID:137128-21879785@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137128 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,artists,arts,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Classical,Concert,Culture,hill auditorium,In Person,Michigan Arts Festival,Music,orchestra,UMS,university musical society LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T130659 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gloria DESCRIPTION:This funny and provocative play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a Manhattan magazine. When an ordinary\, humdrum workday becomes anything but\, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.\n\nCONTENT ADVISORY\nThe production of *Gloria* contains the following: \n– workplace violence\;\n– strobe lights\;\n– simulated gunshots\; \n– death by suicide\; \n– strong and offensive language. \nIf you are concerned about what to expect during this production\, we have provided a detailed description at the link below. Please note that this description contains detailed spoilers. \nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/event/26-september-2025/#advisory\n\nWritten by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins\nDirected by Judith Moreland\n UID:135413-21876805@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135413 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Arts Festival,North Campus,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879690@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T152041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T220000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Michigan Arts Festival DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Arts Festival will run from September 25 to October 26\, 2025\, across U-M’s Ann Arbor\, Dearborn Detroit\, and Flint campuses and at select community venues. Signature events will take place at the Michigan Theater\, Hill Auditorium\, Taubman College\, UMMA\, Stamps Gallery\, North Campus Diag\, and more.\n\nVisit arts.umich.edu/fest to see an updated list of featured events and opportunities and check the Michigan Arts Festival keyword on the Happening@Michigan calendar to see everything arts-related happening during the festival!\n\nThe festival is open to all—U-M students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and the public. While some events are ticketed\, many if not most events are accessible free of charge. UID:137072-21879479@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137072 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts At Michigan,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250820T121511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T140000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:2025 Stamps Undergraduate Open House DESCRIPTION:On September 27\, the U-M Stamps School of Art &\; Design will be holding our 2025 Undergraduate Open House in Ann Arbor. Prospective students and families will learn more about our programs and community\, take a tour\, meet our people\, participate in portfolio reviews\, get swag\, and more! Lunch will be provided. UID:137810-21880794@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137810 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T121648 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T122000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Sasha Cooke\, mezzo-soprano DESCRIPTION:Guest artist Sasha Cooke\, mezzo-soprano\, will lead Voice & Opera students in a master class. This event is free and open to the public\, presented with the generous sponsorship of the University Musical Society.\n\nCooke will be a soloist in Verdi's *Requiem* in Hill Auditorium with the University Musical Society and Detroit Symphony Orchestra the previous evening\, Friday\, September 26. \n\nABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST\n\nTwo-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano SASHA COOKE has been called a “luminous standout” by the *New York Times* and “equal parts poise\, radiance and elegant directness” by *Opera News*. Ms. Cooke has sung at the Metropolitan Opera\, San Francisco Opera\, English National Opera\, Seattle Opera\, Opéra National de Bordeaux\, and Gran Teatre del Liceu\, among others\, and with over 90 symphony orchestras worldwide frequently in the works of Mahler. In 2022 Ms. Cooke was appointed at the Music Academy of the West as Co-Director of the Lehrer Vocal Institute. Her album *how do I find you* was nominated for a 2022 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Solo Album. UID:138723-21883763@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138723 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus,Talk,Workshop LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T001515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stacey L. Kirby: The Bureau of Personal Belonging (Ann Arbor Edition) DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 27 - November 8\, 2025\nOpening Performances: September 27\, 1-5 p.m.Closing Performances: November 8\, 1-5 p.m.\nStacey L. Kirby’s The Bureau of Personal Belonging is a series of interactive performances set within immersive installations and activated by viewer participation. The work fosters dialogue on identity\, community\, and civil engagement. Through bureaucratic forms\, papers\, postures\, language\, and aesthetics\, audiences are invited to participate in respectful dialogues and playful interactions with the artist. As the 2025 Roman J. Witt Artist-in-Residence\, Kirby spent 12 weeks on campus from January through March of 2025 meeting with students\, faculty\, and staff from the Stamps School and across U-M. Based on these conversations\, Kirby devised a site-specific installation that seeks to amplify the voices of the U-M community\, uphold the value of democratic civic engagement\, and highlight the power of art in building solidarity and mutual respect.\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra. UID:137179-21879855@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137179 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Untold Stories\, Part II: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 12 - December 13Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\nUntold Stories: Part II is the second in a series of three exhibitions featuring the work of faculty members from the Stamps School of Art &\; Design. Organized thematically\, Part II explores timely and resonant themes related to the freedom of expression\, movement\, and civic rights. Drawing on personal narratives and public archives\, the artists offer inspiring ways of storytelling that make latent ideas visible and experiential - expanding the boundaries of their artistic research.\nUntold Stories: Part II is curated by Srimoyee Mitra\, and features work by Stamps faculty Ebitenyefa Baralaye\, Annica Cuppetelli\, Quinn A. Hunter\, Carol Jacobsen\, Andy Kirshner\, Rebekah Modrak\, and Ricky Weaver. UID:137113-21879718@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137113 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251015T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T110100 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they've curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram UID:138031-21881231@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250924T121645 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:[Cancelled] Jenna Moon\, carillon DESCRIPTION:This performance has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. UID:138843-21884061@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138843 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T091755 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T143000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Art Meetup: Stamps Gallery DESCRIPTION:Join us Saturday\, September 27 for a student Art Meetup to visit the Stamps Gallery\, which will include the opening of Stacey L. Kirby’s The Bureau of Personal Belonging! Come experience this series of interactive performances set within immersive installations featuring students\, faculty\, and staff from the Stamps School and across U‑M. We will meet directly outside the Sweetwaters in the Michigan Union at 12 PM and walk together for 10 minutes to the Stamps Gallery.\n\nSpace is limited and registration is required.\n\nArt Meetups are student-led excursions to explore the arts on campus and in Ann Arbor - all while giving you a chance to meet other students who share similar interests! From local artist markets to performances to hands on artmaking\, Art Meetups have something for all interests. UID:139393-21885390@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139393 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,art and design,Art Meetups,artists,arts,Artsrx,Exhibition,Free,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T181513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Graduate Portfolio Day - Online (MDes only) DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a virtual event on September 27. Stamps MDes program director Sara Dean will offer portfolio feedback and answer questions about the Master in Design program.\nNational Portfolio Day events are free and open to the public.\n\nSaturday\, September 27\, 2025\, 1-5 pm EDT UID:139715-21885943@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139715 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T181519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T170000 SUMMARY:Performance:Stacey L. Kirby: Bureau of Personal Belonging Opening Performances DESCRIPTION:Opening Performances: September 27\, 1-5 p.m.Note: On September 27\, Stamps Gallery will be closed until performances begin at 1 p.m.\nJoin Stacey L. Kirby and her collaborating performers (comprising students\, faculty\, and staff) as they welcome audiences to The Bureau of Personal Belonging for a 45-minute interactive and immersive experience. All are welcome to drop-in between 1-4:30 p.m.\nLimited space available\; RSVP recommended. UID:137180-21879880@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137180 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250924T154021 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T153000 SUMMARY:Performance:U-M Men’s Glee Club and Korgossarna DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club is very excited to welcome the male choir Korgossarna from Uppsala\, Sweden to Ann Arbor as part of their US tour. The Men’s Glee Club and Korgossarna will perform a joint concert on Saturday\, September 27th at 1:30 pm at First United Methodist Church. \n\nThis concert is being given with support from the Scandinavian Program at the University of Michigan\, the Signe Karlström Fund\, SWEA Michigan\, and the Detroit Swedish Foundation.\n\nLearn more about the guest artists on their website:\nhttps://www.vgmk.se/ UID:137412-21880213@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137412 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Michigan Arts Festival,Music LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250921T143129 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T230000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Michigan Wolveraas Garba Night 2 DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate Navratri with Michigan Wolveraas! It'll be a fun night filled with music\, dancing\, and more! UID:138194-21882562@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138194 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance,In Person,Multicultural,Religious,Social,Student Org,Visual Arts LOCATION:Michigan League - 2nd Floor Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T130821 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gloria DESCRIPTION:This funny and provocative play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a Manhattan magazine. When an ordinary\, humdrum workday becomes anything but\, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.\n\nCONTENT ADVISORY\nThe production of *Gloria* contains the following: \n– workplace violence\;\n– strobe lights\;\n– simulated gunshots\; \n– death by suicide\; \n– strong and offensive language. \nIf you are concerned about what to expect during this production\, we have provided a detailed description at the link below. Please note that this description contains detailed spoilers. \nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/event/27-september-2025/#advisory\n\nWritten by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins\nDirected by Judith Moreland\n UID:135414-21876806@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135414 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Arts Festival,North Campus,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250812T121614 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250927T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Svetozar Ivanov\, piano DESCRIPTION:Guest artist and U-M DMA alum Svetozar Ivanov presents “Berceuse” – twelve audio vignettes inspired by poetry. Each vignette intertwines live music with various pre-recorded audio elements. Music by Andriessen\, Rzewski\, Ippolito\, Saariaho\, Aminikia\, Say\, Crumb\, Silvestrov\, Cowell\, Kopycinski\, Khalaf\, and Helps. Poetry by Sappho\, Pizarnik\, Prévert\, Apollinaire\, Cummings\, Lorca\, Poe\, and Alareer. \n\nGUEST ARTIST BIO\n\nPianist SVETOZAR IVANOV has made numerous appearances as recitalist and orchestra soloist worldwide. Numerous publications have praised his recent solo CD’s\; the album *Naked Tango* was called “superbly original\, quite moving\, personal and musically absorbing” while his CD *Vers la flamme* was celebrated for performances which were “played with aplomb\, panache and complete conviction” and interpretation “filled with sensual longing\, anguished yearning\, anxious dread and provocative energy”. Regarding his album *Echo* one reviewer wrote: “Ivanov’s most distinctive gift as a pianist is his ability to draw us inward\, which imparts the feeling that we’re approaching a mystery”. *Dream Images* was hailed for “performances of purified beauty that can leave you breathless” and his most recent album *Intermissions* was praised for its “combination of maturity\, deeply felt expression\, and dignity.”\n\nRecent performance venues include Carnegie\, Merkin\, and Steinway Halls in New York City\, Salle Gaveau in Paris\, Splendor in Amsterdam\, Guildhall\, Royal College\, and Goldsmith in London\, Mozarteum in Salzburg\, Razumovsky Salon in Vienna\, Salon Chritophori in Berlin\, RNCM in Manchester\, Royal Academy of Music in Denmark\, RCS in Prague\, as well as numerous concert series in the US. Recent festival appearances include “Pianomaster”\, “PianoEchos”\, “Terre d’Arezzo”\, “Autunno Musicale”\, and “Classicariano” in Italy\, “Krakow Piano Festival” in Poland\, “Música de Besalú” in Spain\, “Pianotune” in Belgium\, “Seiler” in Greece\, “Walled City” in Northern Ireland\, “Salon des Arts” and “Sofia Music Weeks” in Bulgaria\, “Chautauqua” in New York\, “Killington” in Vermont\, and “Fox River” in Wisconsin.\n\nIvanov is especially recognized for his creative work designing unusual concert formats combining music with other art forms (documentary footage\, art films\, animation\, poetry\, short stories\, live dance improvisation\, paintings\, lighting design\, live streaming). His DVD Perpetual Tango explores the synthesis between music\, movement\, multimedia\, and was released by Naxos in 2018. His latest video projects include *Music of Shadows* and the *Poetry Series* - a poetry inspired collection of twelve short films that was described by *Fanfare Magazine* as \"heart-wrenching\".\n\nSvetozar Ivanov is Professor of Piano at University of South Florida\, serves as Artist Faculty at Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont\, Brancaleoni Music Festival in Italy\, Prague Piano Festival\, Walled City Music Festival in Northern Ireland\, and is the Artistic Director of the Steinway Piano Series in Florida. He is a Steinway Artist and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan.\n UID:137413-21880214@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137413 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T152041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250928T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250928T220000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Michigan Arts Festival DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Arts Festival will run from September 25 to October 26\, 2025\, across U-M’s Ann Arbor\, Dearborn Detroit\, and Flint campuses and at select community venues. Signature events will take place at the Michigan Theater\, Hill Auditorium\, Taubman College\, UMMA\, Stamps Gallery\, North Campus Diag\, and more.\n\nVisit arts.umich.edu/fest to see an updated list of featured events and opportunities and check the Michigan Arts Festival keyword on the Happening@Michigan calendar to see everything arts-related happening during the festival!\n\nThe festival is open to all—U-M students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and the public. While some events are ticketed\, many if not most events are accessible free of charge. UID:137072-21879480@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137072 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts At Michigan,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250928T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250928T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881042@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T130804 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250928T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250928T160000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gloria DESCRIPTION:This funny and provocative play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a Manhattan magazine. When an ordinary\, humdrum workday becomes anything but\, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.\n\nCONTENT ADVISORY\nThe production of *Gloria* contains the following: \n– workplace violence\;\n– strobe lights\;\n– simulated gunshots\; \n– death by suicide\; \n– strong and offensive language. \nIf you are concerned about what to expect during this production\, we have provided a detailed description at the link below. Please note that this description contains detailed spoilers. \nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/event/28-september-2025/#advisory\n\nWritten by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins\nDirected by Judith Moreland\n UID:135415-21876807@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135415 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Arts Festival,North Campus,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T153926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250928T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250928T170000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Sunny Wilkinson\, vocal jazz DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist Sunny Wilkinson presents a vocal jazz master class\; free and open to the public.\n\nSunny Wilkinson has taken her place in that elite group of jazz vocalists who have stretched the boundaries and found themselves “one of a kind.”\n\nSunny has sung with music icons such as The Count Basie Orchestra\, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass\, Clark Terry\, Mark Murphy\, Milt Hinton\, Curtis Fuller and many more. She has recorded four CDs as leader and numerous guest appearances. “Into the Light\,” her newest CD\, is all about family – not just Wilkinson’s immediate family\, but her extended musical family as well.\n\nThis master class is generously supported by the Don Chisholm Jazz Master Class Series Fund. UID:137080-21879523@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137080 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Michigan Arts Festival,Music,North Campus,Talk,Workshop LOCATION:Stearns Building - Cady Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T133637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250928T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250928T203000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Dumb Waiter & The Bald Soprano DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday Sept 28 at 7pm for a pair of free staged readings: The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter\, and The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco. These plays explore the absurd agreements that bind us daily. \n\nBoth will take place in the Keene Theater. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Seating is first come first served. UID:138595-21883426@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138595 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:artists,arts,arts at michigan,Culture,Drama,Faculty,Free,In Person,live performance,Michigan Arts Festival,performance,Theater,theatre,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Keene Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879691@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T152041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T220000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Michigan Arts Festival DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Arts Festival will run from September 25 to October 26\, 2025\, across U-M’s Ann Arbor\, Dearborn Detroit\, and Flint campuses and at select community venues. Signature events will take place at the Michigan Theater\, Hill Auditorium\, Taubman College\, UMMA\, Stamps Gallery\, North Campus Diag\, and more.\n\nVisit arts.umich.edu/fest to see an updated list of featured events and opportunities and check the Michigan Arts Festival keyword on the Happening@Michigan calendar to see everything arts-related happening during the festival!\n\nThe festival is open to all—U-M students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and the public. While some events are ticketed\, many if not most events are accessible free of charge. UID:137072-21879481@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137072 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts At Michigan,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250917T181728 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T183000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Ilan Morgenstern\, bass trombone DESCRIPTION:Bass trombonist and SMTD alum Ilan Morgenstern (MM '08\, bass trombone) presents a master class. Free and open to the public.\n\nOn Tuesday\, September 30\, Morgenstern will perform with the U-M Concert Band in Hill Auditorium as the guest soloist for the world premiere of Sterling Maffe’s *Hollywood Concerto for Bass Trombone and Concert Band*.\n\nABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST\n\nA native of Rehovot\, Israel\, ILAN MORGENSTERN is currently the Bass Trombonist of the Vancouver Symphony. A former member of the San Antonio Symphony\, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra\, Jacksonville Symphony and Kansas City Symphony\, Morgenstern has also performed with the Detroit Symphony\, Philadelphia Orchestra\, Atlanta Symphony\, Dallas Symphony\, Utah Symphony\, Houston Symphony\, Virginia Symphony\, New Israeli Opera\, and the Israel Philharmonic.\n\nIn addition\, Morgenstern has won numerous awards for his playing including the Jeju International Brass and Percussion Competition\, Zellmer-Minnesota Orchestra Competition\, National Repertory Orchestra's Concerto Competition\, and is a recipient of the Lewis Van Haney Bass Trombone Philharmonic Prize.\n\nMorgenstern received his MM in Bass Trombone from the University of Michigan in 2008. UID:139496-21885637@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139496 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus,Talk,Workshop LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879692@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T152041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T220000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Michigan Arts Festival DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Arts Festival will run from September 25 to October 26\, 2025\, across U-M’s Ann Arbor\, Dearborn Detroit\, and Flint campuses and at select community venues. Signature events will take place at the Michigan Theater\, Hill Auditorium\, Taubman College\, UMMA\, Stamps Gallery\, North Campus Diag\, and more.\n\nVisit arts.umich.edu/fest to see an updated list of featured events and opportunities and check the Michigan Arts Festival keyword on the Happening@Michigan calendar to see everything arts-related happening during the festival!\n\nThe festival is open to all—U-M students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and the public. While some events are ticketed\, many if not most events are accessible free of charge. UID:137072-21879482@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137072 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts At Michigan,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881044@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250916T093500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T170000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Information Session: Accelerated Master’s Degree Program in Transcultural Studies DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn more about Transcultural Studies\, an interdisciplinary accelerated master's degree program designed to enable current undergraduate students in LSA to earn their MA degree with one additional year of study beyond their bachelor’s degree.\n\nTuesday\, September 23\, 2025 @ 1 PM\nTuesday\, September 30\, 2025 @ 4 PM\n\nThe fall application cycle is open to current LSA juniors and seniors.\nFall term applications are due October 15\, 2025.\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nDo you anticipate pursuing a PhD or a career involving international travel\, cross-cultural partnerships\, or collaborative work in a diverse workplace? U-M's accelerated MA program in Transcultural Studies can help you develop the historical\, theoretical\, and practical knowledge you need to navigate forward-looking graduate education and career pathways in an increasingly cosmopolitan and interconnected world. Transcultural Studies uses approaches from across the Humanities and Social Sciences to foster a critical and historically informed understanding of human communication and interaction across perceived boundaries of culture\, nationality\, race\, and religious identity.\n\nThis interdisciplinary program is intended to provide both advanced training and a capstone experience for current LSA undergraduates who anticipate pursuing a PhD or working in business or non-profit contexts where intercultural competency and a critical framework for thinking systematically about connections\, comparisons\, and translations among human communities will be desirable skills. UID:138961-21884372@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138961 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Graduate School,Interdisciplinary,Transcultural Studies,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250924T113755 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T210000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:At the Edge of Hope: 77 Steps DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening event in our new film series\, At The Edge of Hope\, with a special screening of 77 STEPS\, Tuesday September 30 @ 7PM. We’re thrilled to welcome filmmaker\, Ibtisam Mara’ana\, who is traveling from Israel to be with us for this evening. \n\n77 STEPS follows Mara’ana as she leaves her childhood home in Fureidis\, an Arab village near Haifa\, to build a new life in Tel Aviv. There she meets Jonathan\, a Jewish immigrant from Montreal\, and their romance becomes the heart of the story. What begins as a tender cross-cultural love affair soon collides with larger realities\, unfolding against the backdrop of the 2009 Gaza war. More than a decade later\, the film resonates with striking immediacy\, exploring the fragile\, complicated spaces where love\, identity\, and politics converge.\n\nSeating is limited. Admission is free for the campus community\, but please RSVP if you’d like a complimentary seat. \n\nPublic tickets are available here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/77-steps.\n\nThe screening takes place at Phoenix Theatres State Wayne 35310 W Michigan Ave\, Wayne\, MI 48184 UID:139814-21886091@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139814 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Detroit,Film,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Phoenix Theatres State Wayne CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T181621 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: Concert Band DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm Concert Band performance. UID:137654-21880505@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137654 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T121652 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Concert Band DESCRIPTION:Join the University Concert Band for it's first concert of the year. \"On Cue\" features music written at \"just the right time\" as well as music that reflects influences of film and dance. Special guest bass trombonist Ilan Morgenstern (MM '08) joins the band to perform the world premiere of Maffe's *Hollywood Concerto for Bass Trombone and Concert Band*.\n\nCourtney Snyder\, conductor\nKristina LaMarca\, conductor (Grainger)\nIlan Morgenstern\, bass trombone (Maffe)\n\nPROGRAM\n*Chester*\, William Schuman \n*Colonial Song*\, Percy Grainger\nSymphony in Bb\, Paul Hindemith\n*Hollywood Concerto for Bass Trombone and Concert Band*\, Sterling Maffe (world premiere)\n*Unidad en Rítmo*\, Michelle Fernandez UID:135351-21876742@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135351 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879693@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T152041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T220000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Michigan Arts Festival DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Arts Festival will run from September 25 to October 26\, 2025\, across U-M’s Ann Arbor\, Dearborn Detroit\, and Flint campuses and at select community venues. Signature events will take place at the Michigan Theater\, Hill Auditorium\, Taubman College\, UMMA\, Stamps Gallery\, North Campus Diag\, and more.\n\nVisit arts.umich.edu/fest to see an updated list of featured events and opportunities and check the Michigan Arts Festival keyword on the Happening@Michigan calendar to see everything arts-related happening during the festival!\n\nThe festival is open to all—U-M students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and the public. While some events are ticketed\, many if not most events are accessible free of charge. UID:137072-21879483@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137072 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts At Michigan,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T001515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stacey L. Kirby: The Bureau of Personal Belonging (Ann Arbor Edition) DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 27 - November 8\, 2025\nOpening Performances: September 27\, 1-5 p.m.Closing Performances: November 8\, 1-5 p.m.\nStacey L. Kirby’s The Bureau of Personal Belonging is a series of interactive performances set within immersive installations and activated by viewer participation. The work fosters dialogue on identity\, community\, and civil engagement. Through bureaucratic forms\, papers\, postures\, language\, and aesthetics\, audiences are invited to participate in respectful dialogues and playful interactions with the artist. As the 2025 Roman J. Witt Artist-in-Residence\, Kirby spent 12 weeks on campus from January through March of 2025 meeting with students\, faculty\, and staff from the Stamps School and across U-M. Based on these conversations\, Kirby devised a site-specific installation that seeks to amplify the voices of the U-M community\, uphold the value of democratic civic engagement\, and highlight the power of art in building solidarity and mutual respect.\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra. UID:137179-21879856@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137179 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Untold Stories\, Part II: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 12 - December 13Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\nUntold Stories: Part II is the second in a series of three exhibitions featuring the work of faculty members from the Stamps School of Art &\; Design. Organized thematically\, Part II explores timely and resonant themes related to the freedom of expression\, movement\, and civic rights. Drawing on personal narratives and public archives\, the artists offer inspiring ways of storytelling that make latent ideas visible and experiential - expanding the boundaries of their artistic research.\nUntold Stories: Part II is curated by Srimoyee Mitra\, and features work by Stamps faculty Ebitenyefa Baralaye\, Annica Cuppetelli\, Quinn A. Hunter\, Carol Jacobsen\, Andy Kirshner\, Rebekah Modrak\, and Ricky Weaver. UID:137113-21879719@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137113 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251015T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T110100 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they've curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram UID:138031-21881232@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881045@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T154544 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:Jessi Grieser\, carillon DESCRIPTION:LSA faculty member Jessi Grieser performs on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell\, which strikes the hour\, weighs 12 tons\, while the smallest bell\, 4½ octaves above\, weighs just 15 pounds.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session\, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon. UID:138343-21882793@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138343 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Michigan Arts Festival,Music LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T181646 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T135000 SUMMARY:Performance:Adam Lenhart\, carillon DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Adam Lenhart performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon\, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals\, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells\, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells. UID:138348-21882798@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138348 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T142443 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T180000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Eco Printing on Cotton Workshop DESCRIPTION:*No prior experience required\, all materials will be provided.*\n\nJoin Eli Zemper from Curiouser Clay as we explore Eco Printing! Eco printing (or bundle dying) is a sustainable natural dyeing process that uses plant materials to create a unique print on fabric. Participants will be provided a large cotton bandana and all the plant materials necessary to create a beautiful one-of-a-kind print.\n\nEli Zemper is an artist and founder of Curiouser Clay: a mobile workshop that brings creative experiences to communities within a one-hour radius of Chelsea\, Michigan for teambuilding\, family celebrations\, community engagement\, and personal enrichment. Eli also serves as the artist-in-residence at St. Louis Center\, a residential facility for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities where she oversees the program Moxie Works\, which aims to break down barriers in access to artistic expression\, provide a creative economy for artists with disabilities\, and encourage community collaboration in the arts.\n\nThis workshop is presented in partnership with MBGNA and the Arts Initiative. UID:138767-21883849@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138767 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts For All,Culture,In Person,Michigan Arts Festival,Workshop LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T181647 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T183000 SUMMARY:Performance:Tiffany Ng\, carillon DESCRIPTION:University Carillonist Tiffany Ng performs on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower.\n\nThis program is presented in collaboration with LSA Dutch Studies as part of the 25th De Vries–VanderKooy Memorial Lecture. In the Michigan League's Hussey Room\, Dr. Shanti Venetiaan\, President of the Board of Anton de Kom University of Suriname\, presents the lecture \"Suriname 50 Years Srefidensi: Journey of a Small Multiethnic Nation\,\" in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Suriname’s independence.\n\nhttps://events.umich.edu/event/139372\n\nThe bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. UID:138844-21884062@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138844 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250924T112352 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T203000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Project Project DESCRIPTION:Project Project is a one-night only outdoor exhibition featuring the projection mapping experiments of Intro to Digital Media (Art 126) students at the University of Michigan Flint. Led by Assistant Professor of Art and Design\, Ash Arder\, students explore technical and conceptual frameworks for creating artistic interventions in the built environment. This project builds on a projection mapping workshop and demo with Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist\, Venusloc\, who visited University of Michigan Flint in Fall 2024. UID:139771-21886025@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139771 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879694@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T152041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T220000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Michigan Arts Festival DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Arts Festival will run from September 25 to October 26\, 2025\, across U-M’s Ann Arbor\, Dearborn Detroit\, and Flint campuses and at select community venues. Signature events will take place at the Michigan Theater\, Hill Auditorium\, Taubman College\, UMMA\, Stamps Gallery\, North Campus Diag\, and more.\n\nVisit arts.umich.edu/fest to see an updated list of featured events and opportunities and check the Michigan Arts Festival keyword on the Happening@Michigan calendar to see everything arts-related happening during the festival!\n\nThe festival is open to all—U-M students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and the public. While some events are ticketed\, many if not most events are accessible free of charge. UID:137072-21879484@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137072 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts At Michigan,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T001515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stacey L. Kirby: The Bureau of Personal Belonging (Ann Arbor Edition) DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 27 - November 8\, 2025\nOpening Performances: September 27\, 1-5 p.m.Closing Performances: November 8\, 1-5 p.m.\nStacey L. Kirby’s The Bureau of Personal Belonging is a series of interactive performances set within immersive installations and activated by viewer participation. The work fosters dialogue on identity\, community\, and civil engagement. Through bureaucratic forms\, papers\, postures\, language\, and aesthetics\, audiences are invited to participate in respectful dialogues and playful interactions with the artist. As the 2025 Roman J. Witt Artist-in-Residence\, Kirby spent 12 weeks on campus from January through March of 2025 meeting with students\, faculty\, and staff from the Stamps School and across U-M. Based on these conversations\, Kirby devised a site-specific installation that seeks to amplify the voices of the U-M community\, uphold the value of democratic civic engagement\, and highlight the power of art in building solidarity and mutual respect.\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra. UID:137179-21879857@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137179 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Untold Stories\, Part II: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 12 - December 13Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\nUntold Stories: Part II is the second in a series of three exhibitions featuring the work of faculty members from the Stamps School of Art &\; Design. Organized thematically\, Part II explores timely and resonant themes related to the freedom of expression\, movement\, and civic rights. Drawing on personal narratives and public archives\, the artists offer inspiring ways of storytelling that make latent ideas visible and experiential - expanding the boundaries of their artistic research.\nUntold Stories: Part II is curated by Srimoyee Mitra\, and features work by Stamps faculty Ebitenyefa Baralaye\, Annica Cuppetelli\, Quinn A. Hunter\, Carol Jacobsen\, Andy Kirshner\, Rebekah Modrak\, and Ricky Weaver. UID:137113-21879720@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137113 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251015T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T110100 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they've curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram UID:138031-21881233@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881046@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T121710 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T124500 SUMMARY:Performance:Division Street Pipes DESCRIPTION:Join us as undergraduate student Lucia Skrobola performs a 30-minute organ recital.\n\nThe University of Michigan Organ Department presents Division Street Pipes - the organ recital series at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church that brought weekly joy to attendees during its first season earlier this year - returns and will continue through early December.\n\nDivision Street Pipes concerts take place on Thursdays at 12:15 pm. Each recital features talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public\, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening. The series is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Organ Department and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in an effort to bring organ music to local audiences while connecting U-M organ students with the wider community. Concerts offer attendees the opportunity to hear the versatility of the pipe organ beyond a worship setting. \n\nPerformances begin on September 11\, 2025 at 12:15pm and will occur every Thursday until December 4 (with the exception of November 27\, Thanksgiving). You can be sure that each week\, you will be in for a thrilling musical experience. UID:138639-21883516@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138639 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250930T100847 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T150000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Creative Reuse at the Lab Swap Shop DESCRIPTION:In association with the Michigan Arts Festival hosted by the Arts Initiative\, the Lab Swap Shop will be holding creative reuse workshops during regular Thursday hours from September 25th to October 23rd. These events use surplus lab supplies for art activities\, demonstrating the different ways that items can be reused. Workshop activities are as follows:\n--- 9/25: Pointillism painting using serological pipettes\n--- 10/2 &10/9: Lab coat embroidery (Coats are provided if needed!)\n--- 10/16: Sample cup decorating\n--- 10/23: \"Potion\" making with volumetric flasks\n\nJoin us for these events and get free supplies for your lab while you are there! You can also check out the Door-to-Door Lab Reuse Catalog for additional free lab supplies looking to find a home. Reach out to sustainable-labs@umich.edu with any questions! UID:138775-21883888@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138775 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arts For All,Creative Reuse,Environment,Michigan Arts Festival,Sustainability,Umcw25,Waste Reduction LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 5004 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T154732 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T135000 SUMMARY:Performance:Jessi Grieser\, carillon DESCRIPTION:LSA faculty member Jessi Grieser performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon\, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals\, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells\, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells. UID:138346-21882796@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Michigan Arts Festival,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250926T103501 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Playing with \"the Migrants Voice\" in Digital Game Cultures DESCRIPTION:Juan Llamas-Rodriguez is assistant professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and associate director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the US-Mexico Underground (University of Minnesota Press\, 2023) and Y Tu Mamá También: A Queer Film Classic (McGill-Queen’s University Press\, 2025)\, and editor of Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media (Amherst College Press\, 2025). His work has appeared in the journals such as Social Text\; Feminist Media Histories\; Television & New Media\; Catalyst: Feminism\, Theory\, Technoscience\; Communication\, Culture\, and Critique\; and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies\, as well as several edited collections. UID:139545-21885714@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Digital Culture,Gaming,Media LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - East Conference Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T144601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“The Timbrelessness of the String Quartet\,” Emily Dolan\, Brown University DESCRIPTION:In much contemporary work on timbre\, attention to timbre is implicitly or explicitly framed as a disciplinary virtue. By this I mean that grappling with timbre is understood both to be a corrective to scholarship that has woefully ignored timbre and that attention to timbre is understood to bring us\, as listeners and scholars\, closer to some sort of sonic reality. The burgeoning subfield of timbre studies has been slow to reach chamber music\, and especially the Enlightenment-era string quartet. This lacuna is revealing: it gestures to the ways in which the string quartet has pointedly bypassed questions of timbre. The quartet has been held up as one of the paragons of “pure music” while scholars and critics have stressed questions of the genre’s “internal logic” and the interrelatedness of its musical elements (Bent 1994). For many\, the quartet is cerebral\, absolute\, and belongs to the “non-material world of the mind” (Dahlhaus 1991). This is not simply the product of later nineteenth-century formalist thought but has a longer history that is bound up with early writing on the quartet as a genre. Petiscus\, writing on the quartet in 1810\, declared that “the essential beauty of music lies not in [the] mere physical power of tone” (Petiscus 1810). Though this discourse does not necessarily name timbre\, the quartet has long been defined against music’s more material existence: it has been a space of “timbrelessness.” One inviting musicological move here would be to unmask all of this as ineluctably timbral. One could argue that timbre was ultimately vital to the instrumental blend of the quartet and that the “timbrelessness” of the quartet is intimately tied to ideas of timbral superiority and perfection associated with string instruments in the early nineteenth century. Tracing the quirky reception of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major\, Op. 74\, this essay considers how this particular quartet reveals the implicit timbral constraints that governed the behavior of string instruments in the genre of the string quartet\, inviting us to consider how listening past timbre has its own valuable history and learned audile techniques.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n\nEMILY I. DOLAN is Department Chair and Professor of Music at Brown University\, where she has taught since 2019\; previously she held positions at UPenn and Harvard. Dolan works on the music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries\, focusing on issues of orchestration\, timbre\, aesthetics\, and instrumentality. She is the author of *The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre* (Cambridge University Press\, 2013) and has published articles and essays in *Current Musicology*\, *Eighteenth-Century Music*\, *Studia Musicologica*\, *Keyboard Perspectives*\, *Representations*\, *Journal of the American Musicological Society*\, and *19th-Century Music*. In 2018\, she guest edited a double issue of *Opera Quarterly* entitled “Vocal Organologies and Philologies.” With Alexander Rehding\, Dolan co-edited *The Oxford Handbook of Timbre* (2021)\, which won the 2022 Ruth A. Solie Prize from the American Musicological Society. With Arman Schwartz and Emily MacGregor\, she co-edited *Sonic Circulations: Music\, Modernism\, and the Politics of Knowledge*\, which was recently published by University of Pennsylvania Press. Currently she is completing her second monograph\, *Instruments and Order*\, from which her talk is drawn. UID:139032-21884663@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139032 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Free,Lecture,Michigan Arts Festival,Music,North Campus,Research,Scholarship,Talk LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Watkins Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T123726 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Gary Graham DESCRIPTION:Gary Graham is an American fashion designer and artist. He founded his eponymous women’s wear line in New York City in 1999\, gaining notice for its exquisite detailing\, fine craftsmanship\, and historical erudition. For twenty years\, his designs were sold at his Tribeca retail flagship store and through luxury retailers worldwide. He now produces small-batch collections in his rural upstate New York studio under the moniker GaryGraham422\, drawing inspiration from historical figures and antique textiles to create visionary 21st-century fashion.\nAlongside his design work\, he maintains a robust artistic practice. Working with institutions such as the Old Manse\, Hancock Shaker Village\, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum\, Peabody Essex Museum\, and the American Folk Art Museum\, Graham has created installations\, clothing collections\, drawings\, and sculpture inspired by these sites’ histories\, architecture\, and curated objects. His talk\, Extracting Ghosts\, will focus on his research-based\, site-specific work.\nHe has collaborated with artists such as Kara Walker (costume design for her 2024–2026 installation Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)\, currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and Meredith Monk (the 2015 sound installation The Conversation at the Peabody Essex Museum). His work is held in the permanent collections of the Peabody Essex Museum\, the American Folk Art Museum\, the Phoenix Art Museum\, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. In his only foray into reality TV\, he was a finalist on season two of the Amazon fashion design competition series Making the Cut.\nGraham earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. He currently holds a teaching position in the Textiles Department at the Rhode Island School of Design.\nWith support from Design Core Detroit.\nThis project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:137418-21880221@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137418 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T181652 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Day of Absence DESCRIPTION:We would like to invite you to attend this semester’s Faculty Studio Production\, *Day of Absence* written by Douglas Turner Ward and directed by Antonio Disla.\n\nThis production reinterprets Douglas Turner Ward's 1965 satire through the lens of cyclical time\, showing that social progress is not always linear or assured. By using clock imagery\, circular staging\, and interruptions in the flow of time\, we create a theatrical experience that immerses the audience in the complexities of history\, where time advances\, pauses\, and sometimes even reverses.\n\nWard's play\, *Day of Absence*\, is set in an imaginary Southern town where all the Black residents suddenly vanish. This powerful work explores the impact of racial absence in modern society. First performed in 1965\, it highlights how white communities depend on Black labor and depicts the chaos that erupts when all Black residents disappear.\n\nCONTENT ADVISORY\n\n*Day of Absence* (1965) by Douglas Turner Ward is a satire that uses humor and exaggeration to critique racism in America. Audience members should be aware that their presence in the world you are about to enter will require you to experience \n\n- Whiteface as racial commentary (actors performing exaggerated portrayals of white characters — sometimes referred to as \"whiteface minstrelsy\")\n- Racial slurs and offensive language\n- Stereotypes\, bias\, and caricatures used intentionally to highlight the absurdity of bigotry and erasure\n\nWhile these depictions are racially specific\, Ward’s satire also comments on the universality of prejudice and oppression based on identity or affinity.\n\n*Free reservations are required\, and seating is limited!*\n\nPlease reserve your seats at this link:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/day-of-absence-tickets-1633164030579?aff=oddtdtcreator\n\n\nSHOW DATES\nThursday\, October 2 at 7 pm\nFriday\, October 3 at 7:30 pm\nSaturday\, October 4 at 2 pm UID:139263-21885207@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139263 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,North Campus,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Newman Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T181704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:She Loves Me at the Encore DESCRIPTION:The Encore presents the University of Michigan’s renowned Department of Musical Theatre’s production of *She Loves Me*\, a romantic gem that inspired the 1990s Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks film\, *You’ve Got Mail*. Set in a 1930s European perfumery\, this effervescent musical follows two feuding shop clerks unaware they’re each other’s anonymous pen pals. With a lush score by the Tony Award-winning team behind *Fiddler on the Roof*\, this witty and heartfelt story celebrates love\, mistaken identities\, and second chances.\n\nMusic by Jerry Bock | Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick | Book by Joe Masteroff\n\n\nDirected by Sydney Morton | Music Direction by Tyler Driskill | Choreography by Sean McKnight\n\nRunning Time: Approximately 2h 20m (includes intermission)\n\nContent Advisory: Recommended for all audiences. We do encourage you to use your judgment based on your own research of the show\, your own sensibilities\, and a child’s age and maturity level\n UID:139559-21885739@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139559 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T143240 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Cabaret DESCRIPTION:In a Berlin nightclub in 1929\, with the Emcee’s bawdy songs as commentary\, a young American writer is immediately taken with English nightclub singer Sally Bowles. Featuring the classic musical numbers “Willkommen\,” “Don’t Tell Mama\,” “Maybe This Time\,” and “Cabaret.”\n\n*Content Advisory: This musical is for mature audiences. Recommended for ages 16+.*\n\nBook by Joe Masteroff\nMusic by John Kander\nLyrics by Fred Ebb\n\nDirected by André Garner\nMusic direction by Catherine A. Walker\nRépétiteur Linda Goodrich\n\n*Buying Tickets\nFlex Series ticket packages available beginning June 10\; Single tickets available beginning August 4.*\n UID:135416-21876808@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135416 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Arts Festival,Music,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T130841 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gloria DESCRIPTION:This funny and provocative play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a Manhattan magazine. When an ordinary\, humdrum workday becomes anything but\, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.\n\nCONTENT ADVISORY\nThe production of *Gloria* contains the following: \n– workplace violence\;\n– strobe lights\;\n– simulated gunshots\; \n– death by suicide\; \n– strong and offensive language. \nIf you are concerned about what to expect during this production\, we have provided a detailed description at the link below. Please note that this description contains detailed spoilers. \nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/event/02-october-2025/#advisory\n\nWritten by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins\nDirected by Judith Moreland\n UID:135417-21876809@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135417 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Arts Festival,North Campus,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T140554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)! UID:137129-21879788@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts Initiative,Climate Change,Community,Concert,Culture,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,environmental,environmental education,environmental justice,Humanities,In Person,Language,Michigan Arts Festival,Native American,performance,Performance Art,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Sustainability,UMS,university musical society LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879695@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T152041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T220000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Michigan Arts Festival DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Arts Festival will run from September 25 to October 26\, 2025\, across U-M’s Ann Arbor\, Dearborn Detroit\, and Flint campuses and at select community venues. Signature events will take place at the Michigan Theater\, Hill Auditorium\, Taubman College\, UMMA\, Stamps Gallery\, North Campus Diag\, and more.\n\nVisit arts.umich.edu/fest to see an updated list of featured events and opportunities and check the Michigan Arts Festival keyword on the Happening@Michigan calendar to see everything arts-related happening during the festival!\n\nThe festival is open to all—U-M students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and the public. While some events are ticketed\, many if not most events are accessible free of charge. UID:137072-21879485@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137072 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts At Michigan,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T001515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stacey L. Kirby: The Bureau of Personal Belonging (Ann Arbor Edition) DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 27 - November 8\, 2025\nOpening Performances: September 27\, 1-5 p.m.Closing Performances: November 8\, 1-5 p.m.\nStacey L. Kirby’s The Bureau of Personal Belonging is a series of interactive performances set within immersive installations and activated by viewer participation. The work fosters dialogue on identity\, community\, and civil engagement. Through bureaucratic forms\, papers\, postures\, language\, and aesthetics\, audiences are invited to participate in respectful dialogues and playful interactions with the artist. As the 2025 Roman J. Witt Artist-in-Residence\, Kirby spent 12 weeks on campus from January through March of 2025 meeting with students\, faculty\, and staff from the Stamps School and across U-M. Based on these conversations\, Kirby devised a site-specific installation that seeks to amplify the voices of the U-M community\, uphold the value of democratic civic engagement\, and highlight the power of art in building solidarity and mutual respect.\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra. UID:137179-21879858@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137179 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Untold Stories\, Part II: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 12 - December 13Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\nUntold Stories: Part II is the second in a series of three exhibitions featuring the work of faculty members from the Stamps School of Art &\; Design. Organized thematically\, Part II explores timely and resonant themes related to the freedom of expression\, movement\, and civic rights. Drawing on personal narratives and public archives\, the artists offer inspiring ways of storytelling that make latent ideas visible and experiential - expanding the boundaries of their artistic research.\nUntold Stories: Part II is curated by Srimoyee Mitra\, and features work by Stamps faculty Ebitenyefa Baralaye\, Annica Cuppetelli\, Quinn A. Hunter\, Carol Jacobsen\, Andy Kirshner\, Rebekah Modrak\, and Ricky Weaver. UID:137113-21879721@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137113 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251015T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T110100 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they've curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram UID:138031-21881234@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881047@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250924T103345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Approaches to Artmaking for an Environmentally Just World DESCRIPTION:What is required to approach the creation of performance\, visual art\, architecture and design in a sustainable way? As climate change continues\, how do artists\, architects and designers need to reconsider how they do their work? How might students incorporate environmental justice into their emerging artistry? \n\nIn this interactive conversation\, facilitated by U-M Faculty Director of Arts Research/Creative Practice Clare Croft\, artists\, architects and arts administrators–from across U-M and Southeast Michigan–will share approaches to these necessary and contemporary questions. Together\, we’ll look at examples of how all of us in the arts are shifting how we work and/or amplifying particular aspects of our practice in response to climate change and other environmental realities.\n\nAs part of the gathering\, upcoming U-M funding opportunities at the intersection of arts and environment will be discussed.\n\nJointly sponsored by OVPR and Arts Initiative\, and also part of U-M Climate Week UID:139234-21885167@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139234 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Taubman Room 1360 + Taubman Courtyard CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250929T152059 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Search Engines: Search History Volume 2 Zine Launch DESCRIPTION:Register to attend in-person: https://myumi.ch/pVrnA\nRegister to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/79nzD\n\nSearch History is a student-led zine publication from the University of Michigan community\, hosted by Search Engines: Art\, Tech\, Justice. Search Engines is funded by the U-M Arts Initiative and the DISCO Network\, housed in the Digital Studies Institute. In the last year\, Search Engines brought artists such as Astria Suparak\, Beth Coleman\, Morehshin Allahyari\, Paul Preciado\, and Molly Soda to the Ann Arbor campus for workshops\, performances\, and panel discussions.\n\nThe Search History zine mediates on the implications of an increasingly digital world and asks questions like: How does art help us redefine what technology is? What is your vision of the future and how can art and technology make it a reality? And how do interdisciplinary practices in technology expand traditional knowledge production and storytelling?\n\nSearch History Vol. 2 is titled and themed \"Into the Rabbit Hole.\"\n\nThe Search History Zine Launch will include conversation\, food\, and reading from zine contributors. Join us on Friday\, October 3rd\, 3PM-5PM ET in Weiser Hall 10th Floor or on Zoom to celebrate the launch of Search History Vol. 2!\n\nWe want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate or would like help filling out the RSVP form\, please email Giselle Mills at gimills@umich.edu.\n\nWe would like to thank the following co-sponsors:\n\nArts Initiative\nCenter for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing\nInstitute for Research on Women and Gender\nScience\, Technology\, & Public Policy UID:139077-21884886@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139077 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Culture,Digital,Digital Culture,Digital Media,Digital Studies,Digital Studies Institute,Free,Media,performance LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T121709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Informal Talk and Reception with Sam Stone\, Professional Achievement in Dance Alumni Award Recipient DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of Dance for an informal talk and reception with alum Sam Stone (BFA ’07\, dance)\, winner of the 2025 Professional Achievement in Dance Award presented by the SMTD Alumni Board.\n\nThis event will be held in the Perry K. Granoff Studio (Studio 4) in the Dance Building on North Campus.\n\nSAM STONE is a dance performance artist\, teacher\, community organizer\, and creator working as an Assistant Professor of Dance Studies at Appalachian State University. She has studied a range of focuses in the dance field\, coming away with a BFA in Modern Dance from the University of Michigan\, then spending her career soaking up studies in release technique\, improvisation (solo and contact)\, anatomy and biomechanics research through the Axis Syllabus\, and a many wanders through travel and nature\, before arriving at the University of Utah for an MFA in Modern Dance. Sam has presented work in theaters in and outside of the US but prefers enchanting the homes and found spaces that she passes with art and design. Sam is responsible for directing and conceiving seven evening-length productions\, dozens of shorter pieces\, and more than 50 children’s dance works. She is also a creator of music\, clothing\, found object formations and discreetly performs in plays.\n\nSam has taught adult and professional dancers as a certified Axis Syllabus teacher. As a dance advocate\, Sam participates in the collective vîv\, who offers space (“Free Up the Space”)\, class (“Peer Practices”)\, and opportunities to underserved local choreographers\, disrupting the status quo of what it means to be a dancer in the US and challenging certain static tendencies of the scene. Sam also is responsible for organizing Salt Lake City’s twice-a-week\, rotating Contemporary dance series\, “Dance Class for Humans\,” in conjunction with her research about social skills as subscores within the dance classroom. As a performer\, Sam has worked with Joanna Kotze\, Kathleen Hermesdorf\, Bianca Cabrera\, Rosemary Hannon\, Ashley Trottier\, Aura Fischbeck and Leyya Tawil. Sam loves to dance in the studio\, on the stage\, in the club\, and in her kitchen…. She values the expression\, freedom and play that dance offers and always pushes for arts awareness and opportunity for all.\n\nsamstonedance.com\nIG @otherdance\n\nSam will also be presenting at the NDEO conference in Detroit during her visit to Michigan.\n UID:139516-21885682@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139516 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Dance,Free,North Campus,Talk LOCATION:Dance Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T181706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:She Loves Me at the Encore DESCRIPTION:The Encore presents the University of Michigan’s renowned Department of Musical Theatre’s production of *She Loves Me*\, a romantic gem that inspired the 1990s Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks film\, *You’ve Got Mail*. Set in a 1930s European perfumery\, this effervescent musical follows two feuding shop clerks unaware they’re each other’s anonymous pen pals. With a lush score by the Tony Award-winning team behind *Fiddler on the Roof*\, this witty and heartfelt story celebrates love\, mistaken identities\, and second chances.\n\nMusic by Jerry Bock | Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick | Book by Joe Masteroff\n\n\nDirected by Sydney Morton | Music Direction by Tyler Driskill | Choreography by Sean McKnight\n\nRunning Time: Approximately 2h 20m (includes intermission)\n\nContent Advisory: Recommended for all audiences. We do encourage you to use your judgment based on your own research of the show\, your own sensibilities\, and a child’s age and maturity level\n UID:139560-21885740@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T181527 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webster MFA Reading Series: Desireé Dallagiacomo and Sean Cavanaugh DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program and presented in partnership with UMMA\, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.\n \nDesireé Dallagiacomo: Desireé Dallagiacomo (Choctaw) is a poet and teaching artist from Northern California. She wrote SINK (Button Poetry\, 2019) and founded The Heart of It\, a poetry-centered retreat for writers of marginalized genders. She is writing poetry\, creative nonfiction\, and scholarly work about indigeneity\, abortion\, and the carceral state as it relates to girlhood and class.\n \nSean Cavanaugh: Sean Cavanaugh is a writer based in Ann Arbor\, MI. His writing has been published in The Stinging Fly and Joyland Magazine.\n \nFriends\, family\, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person at UMMA or live on Zoom. \n \nThis series is free and open to the public. For questions\, accommodation needs\, or the password to attend the event via Zoom\, please contact co-hosts\, Micah Muhammad (micahmuh@umich.edu) and Jennifer Nessel (jnessel@umich.edu).\n UID:138433-21883054@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138433 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T121642 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: Band & Choir Collaborative Concert DESCRIPTION:This pre-concert lecture will be held *in the Mezzanine Lobby at Hill Auditorium*. It begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm collaborative concert of the Symphony Band\, Chamber Choir and University Choir\, titled \"Symphonies of Psalms.\" UID:137911-21881100@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137911 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T181654 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Day of Absence DESCRIPTION:We would like to invite you to attend this semester’s Faculty Studio Production\, *Day of Absence* written by Douglas Turner Ward and directed by Antonio Disla.\n\nThis production reinterprets Douglas Turner Ward's 1965 satire through the lens of cyclical time\, showing that social progress is not always linear or assured. By using clock imagery\, circular staging\, and interruptions in the flow of time\, we create a theatrical experience that immerses the audience in the complexities of history\, where time advances\, pauses\, and sometimes even reverses.\n\nWard's play\, *Day of Absence*\, is set in an imaginary Southern town where all the Black residents suddenly vanish. This powerful work explores the impact of racial absence in modern society. First performed in 1965\, it highlights how white communities depend on Black labor and depicts the chaos that erupts when all Black residents disappear.\n\nCONTENT ADVISORY\n\n*Day of Absence* (1965) by Douglas Turner Ward is a satire that uses humor and exaggeration to critique racism in America. Audience members should be aware that their presence in the world you are about to enter will require you to experience \n\n- Whiteface as racial commentary (actors performing exaggerated portrayals of white characters — sometimes referred to as \"whiteface minstrelsy\")\n- Racial slurs and offensive language\n- Stereotypes\, bias\, and caricatures used intentionally to highlight the absurdity of bigotry and erasure\n\nWhile these depictions are racially specific\, Ward’s satire also comments on the universality of prejudice and oppression based on identity or affinity.\n\n*Free reservations are required\, and seating is limited!*\n\nPlease reserve your seats at this link:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/day-of-absence-tickets-1633164030579?aff=oddtdtcreator\n\n\nSHOW DATES\nThursday\, October 2 at 7 pm\nFriday\, October 3 at 7:30 pm\nSaturday\, October 4 at 2 pm UID:139264-21885208@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139264 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,North Campus,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Newman Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T140554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)! UID:137129-21879789@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts Initiative,Climate Change,Community,Concert,Culture,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,environmental,environmental education,environmental justice,Humanities,In Person,Language,Michigan Arts Festival,Native American,performance,Performance Art,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Sustainability,UMS,university musical society LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T144747 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Band & Choir Collaborative Concert DESCRIPTION:Symphony Band: Jason Fettig\, conductor\nChamber Choir and University Choir: Eugene Rogers guest conductor\nJohn Mange\, student conductor\n\nThe University of Michigan Symphony Band and the top Choirs at the School of Music\, Theatre & Dance team up for a dramatic concert of music for voices and winds. Anchored by the Consortium Premiere of a major new piece by famed American composer for film and the concert stage\, Bruce Broughton\, this program also features one of the great masterpieces for choir and wind ensemble\, Igor Stravinsky's *Symphony of Psalms*. This special collaboration showcasing the talents of the music students as SMTD will be led by both Director of Choirs\, Eugene Rogers and Director of Bands\, Jason Fettig.\n\nPROGRAM\n\nVariations on \"*Mein junges Leben hat ein Ende*\" \nJan Sweelinck/ arr. Ricker \n\n*Symphony of Psalms* \nIgor Stravinsky \n\n*Two Sermons* \nBruce Broughton UID:135352-21876743@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135352 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Michigan Arts Festival,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T143219 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Cabaret DESCRIPTION:In a Berlin nightclub in 1929\, with the Emcee’s bawdy songs as commentary\, a young American writer is immediately taken with English nightclub singer Sally Bowles. Featuring the classic musical numbers “Willkommen\,” “Don’t Tell Mama\,” “Maybe This Time\,” and “Cabaret.”\n\n*Content Advisory: This musical is for mature audiences. Recommended for ages 16+.*\n\nBook by Joe Masteroff\nMusic by John Kander\nLyrics by Fred Ebb\n\nDirected by André Garner\nMusic direction by Catherine A. Walker\nRépétiteur Linda Goodrich\n\n*Buying Tickets\nFlex Series ticket packages available beginning June 10\; Single tickets available beginning August 4.*\n UID:135419-21876811@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135419 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Arts Festival,Music,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T130927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gloria DESCRIPTION:This funny and provocative play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a Manhattan magazine. When an ordinary\, humdrum workday becomes anything but\, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.\n\nCONTENT ADVISORY\nThe production of *Gloria* contains the following: \n– workplace violence\;\n– strobe lights\;\n– simulated gunshots\; \n– death by suicide\; \n– strong and offensive language. \nIf you are concerned about what to expect during this production\, we have provided a detailed description at the link below. Please note that this description contains detailed spoilers. \nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/event/03-october-2025-2/#advisory\n\nWritten by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins\nDirected by Judith Moreland\n UID:135418-21876810@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135418 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Arts Festival,North Campus,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250928T161813 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Look What You Made Us Do\, a FREE improvised musical comedy show! DESCRIPTION:...Are You Ready for it? Come see The Impro-Fessionals' first show of the semester! Eight improvisers will create scenes on the spot using suggestions from YOU in the audience! Be there\, October 3rd at 8 pm. You Belong in Aud B! UID:139975-21886446@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139975 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Comedy,Free,Improv,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Angell Hall - Auditorium B CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:August 18 - October 24\, 2025Exhibition Reception: September 11\, 3-5 p.m.\n\"In their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students 'develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.' Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now? At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \nUntil now\, the classroom studios and review rooms have been the only place to catch a glimpse of the art and design work resulting from this pivotal course. Last year\, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Rebecca Strzelec proposed something new: an exhibition installed throughout the Art &\; Architecture Building during the summer that would celebrate Second Year Studio work and help to welcome the community back in the Fall. This inaugural 2025 Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases our rising third-years and transfer students\, and invites first-years and other newcomers to explore both the building\, and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 44 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \nThe pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path—experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\"\n- Sally Clegg\, Lecturer and Student Exhibitions Coordinator\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n\nRobin Beaney\nAdi Behar\nDavid Byun\nZoë Corley\nChloe Dennis\nViktoriya Finyak\nMaria Elena García-Murguía\nElisa Gasser\nOlivia Glynn\nRoe Halbert\nNadav Havilio\nDee Holmes\nRuby Hough\nUrvi Joshi\nEunice Kim\nHannah Kryzhan\nBen Levitsky\nJoyce Liu\nKatelyn Ma\nAlexandria Mainor\nErin Malone\nSummer Mansi\nCheyenne Moore\nElla Moxon\nShafiq Muqit\nAlex Nguyen\nAnna Noh\nLeanna Mokihana Paik\nEva Park\nMichelle Peng\nEliana Pettigrew\nZainab Rahmani\nOlivia Reed\nSky Roberts\nZachary Sebestyen\nOliver Lee St Cyr\nSophie Stillwagon\nVeronica Weinberg\nCaitlin Weingarden\nNala Arielle White\nAriel Williams\nSilas Williams\nKatherine Xu\nJoy Yang\n UID:137111-21879696@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T152041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T220000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Michigan Arts Festival DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Arts Festival will run from September 25 to October 26\, 2025\, across U-M’s Ann Arbor\, Dearborn Detroit\, and Flint campuses and at select community venues. Signature events will take place at the Michigan Theater\, Hill Auditorium\, Taubman College\, UMMA\, Stamps Gallery\, North Campus Diag\, and more.\n\nVisit arts.umich.edu/fest to see an updated list of featured events and opportunities and check the Michigan Arts Festival keyword on the Happening@Michigan calendar to see everything arts-related happening during the festival!\n\nThe festival is open to all—U-M students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and the public. While some events are ticketed\, many if not most events are accessible free of charge. UID:137072-21879486@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137072 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts At Michigan,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T001515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stacey L. Kirby: The Bureau of Personal Belonging (Ann Arbor Edition) DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 27 - November 8\, 2025\nOpening Performances: September 27\, 1-5 p.m.Closing Performances: November 8\, 1-5 p.m.\nStacey L. Kirby’s The Bureau of Personal Belonging is a series of interactive performances set within immersive installations and activated by viewer participation. The work fosters dialogue on identity\, community\, and civil engagement. Through bureaucratic forms\, papers\, postures\, language\, and aesthetics\, audiences are invited to participate in respectful dialogues and playful interactions with the artist. As the 2025 Roman J. Witt Artist-in-Residence\, Kirby spent 12 weeks on campus from January through March of 2025 meeting with students\, faculty\, and staff from the Stamps School and across U-M. Based on these conversations\, Kirby devised a site-specific installation that seeks to amplify the voices of the U-M community\, uphold the value of democratic civic engagement\, and highlight the power of art in building solidarity and mutual respect.\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra. UID:137179-21879859@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137179 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Untold Stories\, Part II: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: September 12 - December 13Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\nUntold Stories: Part II is the second in a series of three exhibitions featuring the work of faculty members from the Stamps School of Art &\; Design. Organized thematically\, Part II explores timely and resonant themes related to the freedom of expression\, movement\, and civic rights. Drawing on personal narratives and public archives\, the artists offer inspiring ways of storytelling that make latent ideas visible and experiential - expanding the boundaries of their artistic research.\nUntold Stories: Part II is curated by Srimoyee Mitra\, and features work by Stamps faculty Ebitenyefa Baralaye\, Annica Cuppetelli\, Quinn A. Hunter\, Carol Jacobsen\, Andy Kirshner\, Rebekah Modrak\, and Ricky Weaver. UID:137113-21879722@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137113 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251015T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T110100 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they've curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram UID:138031-21881235@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T121643 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:Meghan Wysocki\, carillon DESCRIPTION:Undergraduate student Meghan Wysocki performs on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell\, which strikes the hour\, weighs 12 tons\, while the smallest bell\, 4½ octaves above\, weighs just 15 pounds.\n\nThe bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon. UID:140138-21886665@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140138 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T181651 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T180000 SUMMARY:Performance:Friends of Opera Competition - Undergraduate DESCRIPTION:Come watch students compete for the Anna Chapekis Graduate Award and John Knapp Undergraduate Award. Please attend however long you see fit. We kindly request you enter/exit the auditorium in between performers and keep talking to a minimum.\n\nSchedule:\nUndergraduate Students - Saturday\, October 4\, from 1:00 - 6:00PM\nGraduate Students - Sunday\, October 5\, from 2:00 - 7:40PM\n UID:139933-21886362@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139933 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T075235 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Curator-Led Exhibition Tour of Untold Stories: Part II & Stacey L. Kirby: The Bureau of Personal Belongings DESCRIPTION:Join us for a tour of Stamps Gallery’s fall 2025 exhibitions led by Stamps Gallery curator\, Srimoyee Mitra. Engage in discussion about the artwork and the role of art and artists as catalysts for civic empowerment and democracy. UID:137651-21880502@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137651 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T181656 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T160000 SUMMARY:Performance:Day of Absence DESCRIPTION:We would like to invite you to attend this semester’s Faculty Studio Production\, *Day of Absence* written by Douglas Turner Ward and directed by Antonio Disla.\n\nThis production reinterprets Douglas Turner Ward's 1965 satire through the lens of cyclical time\, showing that social progress is not always linear or assured. By using clock imagery\, circular staging\, and interruptions in the flow of time\, we create a theatrical experience that immerses the audience in the complexities of history\, where time advances\, pauses\, and sometimes even reverses.\n\nWard's play\, *Day of Absence*\, is set in an imaginary Southern town where all the Black residents suddenly vanish. This powerful work explores the impact of racial absence in modern society. First performed in 1965\, it highlights how white communities depend on Black labor and depicts the chaos that erupts when all Black residents disappear.\n\nCONTENT ADVISORY\n\n*Day of Absence* (1965) by Douglas Turner Ward is a satire that uses humor and exaggeration to critique racism in America. Audience members should be aware that their presence in the world you are about to enter will require you to experience \n\n- Whiteface as racial commentary (actors performing exaggerated portrayals of white characters — sometimes referred to as \"whiteface minstrelsy\")\n- Racial slurs and offensive language\n- Stereotypes\, bias\, and caricatures used intentionally to highlight the absurdity of bigotry and erasure\n\nWhile these depictions are racially specific\, Ward’s satire also comments on the universality of prejudice and oppression based on identity or affinity.\n\n*Free reservations are required\, and seating is limited!*\n\nPlease reserve your seats at this link:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/day-of-absence-tickets-1633164030579?aff=oddtdtcreator\n\n\nSHOW DATES\nThursday\, October 2 at 7 pm\nFriday\, October 3 at 7:30 pm\nSaturday\, October 4 at 2 pm UID:139265-21885209@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139265 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,North Campus,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Newman Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T140554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T160000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)! UID:137129-21879791@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts Initiative,Climate Change,Community,Concert,Culture,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,environmental,environmental education,environmental justice,Humanities,In Person,Language,Michigan Arts Festival,Native American,performance,Performance Art,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Sustainability,UMS,university musical society LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T181709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T170000 SUMMARY:Performance:She Loves Me at the Encore DESCRIPTION:The Encore presents the University of Michigan’s renowned Department of Musical Theatre’s production of *She Loves Me*\, a romantic gem that inspired the 1990s Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks film\, *You’ve Got Mail*. Set in a 1930s European perfumery\, this effervescent musical follows two feuding shop clerks unaware they’re each other’s anonymous pen pals. With a lush score by the Tony Award-winning team behind *Fiddler on the Roof*\, this witty and heartfelt story celebrates love\, mistaken identities\, and second chances.\n\nMusic by Jerry Bock | Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick | Book by Joe Masteroff\n\n\nDirected by Sydney Morton | Music Direction by Tyler Driskill | Choreography by Sean McKnight\n\nRunning Time: Approximately 2h 20m (includes intermission)\n\nContent Advisory: Recommended for all audiences. We do encourage you to use your judgment based on your own research of the show\, your own sensibilities\, and a child’s age and maturity level\n UID:139561-21885741@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139561 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T181710 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:She Loves Me at the Encore DESCRIPTION:The Encore presents the University of Michigan’s renowned Department of Musical Theatre’s production of *She Loves Me*\, a romantic gem that inspired the 1990s Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks film\, *You’ve Got Mail*. Set in a 1930s European perfumery\, this effervescent musical follows two feuding shop clerks unaware they’re each other’s anonymous pen pals. With a lush score by the Tony Award-winning team behind *Fiddler on the Roof*\, this witty and heartfelt story celebrates love\, mistaken identities\, and second chances.\n\nMusic by Jerry Bock | Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick | Book by Joe Masteroff\n\n\nDirected by Sydney Morton | Music Direction by Tyler Driskill | Choreography by Sean McKnight\n\nRunning Time: Approximately 2h 20m (includes intermission)\n\nContent Advisory: Recommended for all audiences. We do encourage you to use your judgment based on your own research of the show\, your own sensibilities\, and a child’s age and maturity level\n UID:139562-21885742@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T181623 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: University Symphony Orchestra DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm USO performance. UID:137655-21880506@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137655 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T140554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)! UID:137129-21879790@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts Initiative,Climate Change,Community,Concert,Culture,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,environmental,environmental education,environmental justice,Humanities,In Person,Language,Michigan Arts Festival,Native American,performance,Performance Art,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Sustainability,UMS,university musical society LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T143759 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Cabaret DESCRIPTION:In a Berlin nightclub in 1929\, with the Emcee’s bawdy songs as commentary\, a young American writer is immediately taken with English nightclub singer Sally Bowles. Featuring the classic musical numbers “Willkommen\,” “Don’t Tell Mama\,” “Maybe This Time\,” and “Cabaret.”\n\n*Content Advisory: This musical is for mature audiences. Recommended for ages 16+.*\n\nBook by Joe Masteroff\nMusic by John Kander\nLyrics by Fred Ebb\n\nDirected by André Garner\nMusic direction by Catherine A. Walker\nRépétiteur Linda Goodrich UID:135421-21876813@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135421 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Arts Festival,Music,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T130723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gloria DESCRIPTION:This funny and provocative play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a Manhattan magazine. When an ordinary\, humdrum workday becomes anything but\, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.\n\nCONTENT ADVISORY\nThe production of *Gloria* contains the following: \n– workplace violence\;\n– strobe lights\;\n– simulated gunshots\; \n– death by suicide\; \n– strong and offensive language. \nIf you are concerned about what to expect during this production\, we have provided a detailed description at the link below. Please note that this description contains detailed spoilers. \nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/event/04-october-2025-2/#advisory\n\nWritten by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins\nDirected by Judith Moreland\n UID:135420-21876812@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135420 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Arts Festival,North Campus,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T144838 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251004T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:University Symphony Orchestra DESCRIPTION:Kenneth Kiesler\, conductor\nCheryl Pandora\, Winner\, 2025 SMTD Concerto Competition\, piano\n\nPROGRAM\n\n*Toccata* (world premiere) - Braxton Blake\n\nPiano Concerto No. 3 - Sergei Prokofiev \n\nSymphony No. 8 in G Major - Antonín Dvořák\n\nThe University Symphony Orchestra\, led by its GRAMMY-nominated music director Kenneth Kiesler\, invites you to a concert of brilliant\, powerful\, and expressive music – some new and exciting\, some known and beloved – for large symphony orchestra. The program opens with the world premiere of *Toccata* by the brilliant and accomplished Ann Arbor composer Braxton Blake. Written expressly for the USO\, it is a thrilling sonic whirlwind designed to showcase the skills of each musician and the collective virtuosity of this GRAMMY-winning orchestra! Winner of the 2025 SMTD Concerto Competition\, Cheryl Pandora (MM ’26\, piano) takes center stage to perform the high voltage tour de force which is Sergei Prokofiev’s colorful and dramatic Piano Concerto No. 3\, and the evening concludes in the heart of Bohemia with the beloved Symphony No. 8 of Dvořák with its folk-inspired songs\, dances\, and marches\, as well its warm nostalgia\, pastoral imagery\, and dramatic storytelling. UID:135353-21876744@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135353 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Michigan Arts Festival,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T152041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T220000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Michigan Arts Festival DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Arts Festival will run from September 25 to October 26\, 2025\, across U-M’s Ann Arbor\, Dearborn Detroit\, and Flint campuses and at select community venues. Signature events will take place at the Michigan Theater\, Hill Auditorium\, Taubman College\, UMMA\, Stamps Gallery\, North Campus Diag\, and more.\n\nVisit arts.umich.edu/fest to see an updated list of featured events and opportunities and check the Michigan Arts Festival keyword on the Happening@Michigan calendar to see everything arts-related happening during the festival!\n\nThe festival is open to all—U-M students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and the public. While some events are ticketed\, many if not most events are accessible free of charge. UID:137072-21879487@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137072 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts At Michigan,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T083411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibition. \"Between Voice and Silence\" DESCRIPTION:CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov\, the exhibit’s title is borrowed from one of his poems. Exploring the role of empathy and humanity in the times of crisis\, Ukrainian and American artists Katya Lisova (textiles)\, Matvii Vaisberg (prints)\, and Ira Bondarenko (ceramics) reflect on the power and limits of human agency in the face of overwhelming force. The value of humanity lies in its capacity to transcend adversity by embracing compassion and keeping empathy and human connection alive in the most oppressive darkness. The project examines this concept through the lens of Ukrainian artists and poets and emphasizes the role of ordinary people in building resilience and saving the country.\n\nThe exhibition\, which will be displayed in the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center Gallery from September 14-October 5\, 2025\, was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) also provided support for the project. \n \n Image: *Fly* by Katya Lisova\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137884-21881049@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250825T141902 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:Art Outta Town: Flint Institute of Arts DESCRIPTION:Join us on a trip to the Flint Institute of Arts! We’ll take a blue bus to the museum\, where you’ll have the chance to check out a variety of exhibitions\, including MI Ink: The Art of Tattoos! Additionally\, glass blowing demonstrations will be held throughout the visit. Tickets are $5 and include round trip transportation and admission to the museum. Open to all current U-M students. Seating for the trip is limited so register today! UID:137854-21880909@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137854 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Mutotix LOCATION:GA - 50 Capacity CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T143546 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T160000 SUMMARY:Performance:Cabaret DESCRIPTION:In a Berlin nightclub in 1929\, with the Emcee’s bawdy songs as commentary\, a young American writer is immediately taken with English nightclub singer Sally Bowles. Featuring the classic musical numbers “Willkommen\,” “Don’t Tell Mama\,” “Maybe This Time\,” and “Cabaret.”\n\n*Content Advisory: This musical is for mature audiences. Recommended for ages 16+.*\n\nBook by Joe Masteroff\nMusic by John Kander\nLyrics by Fred Ebb\n\nDirected by André Garner\nMusic direction by Catherine A. Walker\nRépétiteur Linda Goodrich\n\n*Buying Tickets\nFlex Series ticket packages available beginning June 10\; Single tickets available beginning August 4.*\n UID:135423-21876815@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135423 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Arts Festival,Music,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T181654 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T194000 SUMMARY:Performance:Friends of Opera Competition - Graduate DESCRIPTION:Come watch students compete for the Anna Chapekis Graduate Award and John Knapp Undergraduate Award. Please attend however long you see fit. We kindly request you enter/exit the auditorium in between performers and keep talking to a minimum.\n\nSchedule:\nUndergraduate Students - Saturday\, October 4\, from 1:00 - 6:00PM\nGraduate Students - Sunday\, October 5\, from 2:00 - 7:40PM\n UID:139934-21886363@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139934 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T130902 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T160000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gloria DESCRIPTION:This funny and provocative play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a Manhattan magazine. When an ordinary\, humdrum workday becomes anything but\, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.\n\nCONTENT ADVISORY\nThe production of *Gloria* contains the following: \n– workplace violence\;\n– strobe lights\;\n– simulated gunshots\; \n– death by suicide\; \n– strong and offensive language. \nIf you are concerned about what to expect during this production\, we have provided a detailed description at the link below. Please note that this description contains detailed spoilers. \nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/event/05-october-2025/#advisory\n\nWritten by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins\nDirected by Judith Moreland\n UID:135422-21876814@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135422 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Arts Festival,North Campus,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T140554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T160000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nigamon/Tunai DESCRIPTION:In the heart of a forest of sound\, Canadian artist Émilie Monnet and Colombian artist Waira Nina deliver a poetic manifesto inspired by the bonds of friendship and solidarity.\n\nNigamon / Tunai (the words translate to “song” in the Anishinaabemowin and Inga languages) is an immersive performance ritual rooted in the presence of the natural world and co-exists with the audience\, who are in close proximity to the performers on the Power Center stage.\n\nAt the crossroads of friendship and resistance\, the two women invite us to listen deeply and to understand the knowledge and struggles that link their respective cultures: the depletion and plundering of natural resources that are core to their existence.\n\nInterweaving immersive performance and audio documentary with Indigenous knowledge and voices\, this mesmerizing new theatrical work invites audiences into ritualized listening\, and to feel the sound vibrations emitted by the surrounding water\, stones\, copper\, and tree trunks. Linked by the figure of the turtle\, which is central to both of their origin stories\, the two women form an effective alliance advocating for the protection of water\, land\, stars\, and ancestral knowledge.\n\nLooking for free student tickets? All U-M undergraduate students are eligible to receive a FREE ticket to a UMS performance per academic year through the Bert’s Ticket program (a $20 value)! UID:137129-21879792@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137129 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts Initiative,Climate Change,Community,Concert,Culture,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,environmental,environmental education,environmental justice,Humanities,In Person,Language,Michigan Arts Festival,Native American,performance,Performance Art,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Sustainability,UMS,university musical society LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T181712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T170000 SUMMARY:Performance:She Loves Me at the Encore DESCRIPTION:The Encore presents the University of Michigan’s renowned Department of Musical Theatre’s production of *She Loves Me*\, a romantic gem that inspired the 1990s Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks film\, *You’ve Got Mail*. Set in a 1930s European perfumery\, this effervescent musical follows two feuding shop clerks unaware they’re each other’s anonymous pen pals. With a lush score by the Tony Award-winning team behind *Fiddler on the Roof*\, this witty and heartfelt story celebrates love\, mistaken identities\, and second chances.\n\nMusic by Jerry Bock | Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick | Book by Joe Masteroff\n\n\nDirected by Sydney Morton | Music Direction by Tyler Driskill | Choreography by Sean McKnight\n\nRunning Time: Approximately 2h 20m (includes intermission)\n\nContent Advisory: Recommended for all audiences. We do encourage you to use your judgment based on your own research of the show\, your own sensibilities\, and a child’s age and maturity level\n UID:139563-21885743@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139563 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T121715 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T180000 SUMMARY:Performance:[Cancelled] Michigan Chamber Players DESCRIPTION:This performance has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. UID:137609-21880464@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137609 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T145144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T184500 SUMMARY:Performance:Student Carillon Recital: \"Notes from the Clock Tower\" DESCRIPTION:A thirty-minute carillon recital featuring performances by Adam Lenhart\, Meghan Wysocki\, Austin Zhu\, Bjorn Brolin-Olson\, Joseph Antrim\, and Sarah Penrose. The Charles Baird Carillon is an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. \n\nFree and open to the public\; presented in conjunction with the 2025 U-M Organ Conference: \"Ludus Chronalis: Time\, Cadence\, and Temporality in Keyboard Music and Sacred Spaces.\" UID:140139-21886666@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140139 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Michigan Arts Festival,Music LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250820T181633 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nicole Keller\, organ DESCRIPTION:Professor Nicole Keller\, University Organist and Chair of the Organ Department\, performs at Hill Auditorium. This concert is free and open to the public\, presented in conjunction with the annual U-M Organ Conference.\n\nFACULTY BIO:\n\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/profiles/nicole-keller/ UID:137858-21880920@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137858 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T091320 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Percussion Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first concert of the year featuring *Pillars* I\, III\, and IV by Andy Akiho\, *(Un)Wavering Souls* by VIvian Fung\, *Shui* by Juri Seo\, and *Gravity* by Marc Mellits. \n\nThe University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble is an ensemble known for bold artistry and innovation through their performances and project. The ensemble has collaborated with composers such as Michael Gordon\, John Luther Adams\, Emma O'Halloran\, Tristan Perich\, Susanna Hancock\, Finola Merivale\, Robert Maggio\, Ted Babcock\, Lesley Flanigan\, Shruthi Rajeskhar\, Jason Treuting\, and Ivan Trevino. \n\nRecent recordings with Cantaloupe Records include the Grammy nominated *Sila: The Breath of the World* and *An Atlas of Deep Time* by John Luther Adams\, as well as *Field of Vision* by Michael Gordon. The ensemble has performed at Caramoor Festival\, Mass MoCA\, Bang on a Can's Long Play Festival\, and recently premiered Michael Gordon’s *Forest of Metal Objects* at The Met Cloisters in New York\, collaborating with director Paul Lazar\, choreographer Annie-B Parson\, and artist Todd Colby. UID:137610-21880465@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137610 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Michigan Arts Festival,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR