Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents From Mud to Beauty: Ceramics
2018-02-28 08:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit) | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
Jean-Marc Fontaine, a French scientist and artist who earned his Ph.D. from University of Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, presents a unique set of ceramic works inspired from 10th-8th century BC to the present day. The style varies from simple, traditional forms to elaborate, one-of-a-kind creations. Featuring rustic antique surfaces, warm colors and highly individualized textures, his work also occasionally takes whimsical forms. He also plays the accordion. Fontaine is a research scientist at the U-M Medical School in biochemistry.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ink Portraits
2018-02-28 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Based out of Chelsea, Michigan, John Pappas believes that if you can imagine a fun idea making sense, you should make it. He applies this to both his graphic design and fine art. With so much to see and ruminate on in life, Pappas keeps his hands busy by putting pen to paper. This body of work consists of portraits drawn with ink on a variety of surfaces including paper, basswood and aspen panels in an offbeat pen and ink style that leans heavily on pointillism and crosshatching. The subjects range from athletes to musicians to personal friends.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents My Playground: Assemblage Sculpture
2018-02-28 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Starting with watercolor, Joan Painter-Jones’ work kept building out farther and farther until it became sculpture. Brought up in a household where money was tight, she doesn’t like to waste anything and is captivated by old scraps of things with peeling paint and rusty metal – especially broken things that have a story to tell. She usually starts out with an interesting piece of wood and builds on it, often painting on it and adding collage, all while developing an emotional connection to it. Working in her quiet Milan, Michigan backyard art loft “playground,” she has no message to preach with her work, just her own personal wish for peace and justice.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Prairie Mantras: Paint & Vinyl on Aluminum
2018-02-28 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
Desiree Warren’s current body of work is a journey using one shape (the orzo) to create a multitude of layers that evoke landscapes and organic assimilations. Growing up in the country in Kansas, she had wide open spaces to explore, as well as many of her family’s dilapidated farm buildings and overgrown pasture lands. At the University of Kansas, she began working with street sign material and has continued to incorporate aluminum and vinyl in her work. Part of this series is included in the 2017 Women to Watch: Metals exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, where she lives and works.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Desert Southwest: Photography
2018-02-28 08:00 - 20:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1
Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, Daniel Sidoli has always had the creative itch. It led him to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a BA degree in Fine Arts. With this body of work, his intent is to capture images that illustrate the unique landscape that erosion sculpts over time. His goal with photography is to be artistic yet convey truth. He wants the subject to inspire the audience and leave a lasting impression: to elicit an emotional response. Each image represents moments in time and of journeys traveled, both figuratively and literally, since he is involved in every step of the process as he sees each piece to completion.

Workshop / Seminar:Mixed Methods Research and Intervention Designs Workshop
2018-02-28 08:00 - 17:00 | North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Are you interested in...
How mixed methods is used to develop interventions?
How mixed methods can identify the outcomes of interventions that are most meaningful to your patients, clients, students, and customers?
How mixed methods is used to evaluate interventions to both look at outcomes and hear the voices of your participants?

We will explore these topics and help you design your mixed methods grant, proposal, or study with direct feedback from MMP faculty including: John W. Creswell, PhD, Michael D. Fetters, MD, MPH, MA, Timothy C. Guetterman, PhD, Melissa DeJonckheere, PhD, Jane H. Forman, ScD, MHS & Arden M. Morris, MD, MPH.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
The workshop targets researchers, faculty, staff, and students motivated to design or working on a mixed methods research project using intervention design.

WHAT TO EXPECT:
Work on your mixed methods proposal, research study, or manuscript
Improve your project with rigorous methodology using an interactive format
Refine your project through group consultation with leading methodologists and group feedback

Exhibition:The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet
2018-02-28 08:00 - 20:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.

The 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

Community Service:Readers & Best: Spring Break Alternative
2018-02-28 08:30 - 15:00 | Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
For those who will be on campus during Spring Break (Saturday, February 24 through Sunday, March 4), the Ginsberg Center will be offering Readers & Best: Spring Break Alternative. Participants will read The Skin You Live In and The Name Jar to promote inclusion & diversity and then facilitate a classroom activity to K-5 classrooms in Washtenaw County.

Readers & Best, a collaborative initiative between Student Life’s Ginsberg Center and the Athletic Department, provides the opportunity for the UM campus to come together and share the joy of reading with local elementary-aged children.

Participants can sign-up for one or more half-day blocks. The Ginsberg Center will provide preparation and training, travel, support classroom engagement, and post-engagement reflection.
We hope to reach 80+ classrooms in our community!

Sign-up by February 8th at 11:59pm.

Exhibition:Border Crossers
2018-02-28 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
Students across campus—from LSA, Engineering, Art and Design, and Information—will work with visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie during winter semester 2018 planning, building, and launching a 40-foot robotic sculpture that poetically explores the notion of borders and boundary conditions. The project, led by the Institute for the Humanities, symbolizes the humanities in action, and the empowerment that can be achieved through working together, overcoming obstacles and divides, and discovering creative solutions.

Macmurtrie is an award winning artist, renowned internationally for his large-scale robotic sculpture, whose work combines materiality and robotics, the visceral and conceptual. His artist residency and interdisciplinary project "Border Crossers" encourages investigation of borders as constructed entities, both embodying a simple curiosity to see what lies on the other side of a border (national, architectural, environmental, etc.) and expression of a utopian desire to live in a world without borders.

In February, MacMurtrie and the students will launch the robotic sculpture during two "performances" and MacMurtrie will give a special Penny W. Stamps Lecture. The gallery exhibition will include large-scale drawings which serve as plans and maps for MacMurtrie's visionary Border Crossers. Life-size robotic models will also be presented in the exhibition in conversation with the drawings. The models, built by the all-student team with MacMurtrie's guidance, are prototypes for the project, offering preliminary steps in the workshop and the process towards realizing the large scale robotic sculpture.

Chico MacMurtrie is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works, an interdisciplinary creative collective located in Brooklyn, NY. MacMurtrie/ARW have received numerous awards for their experimental new media artworks, including five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, VIDA Life 11.0, and Prix Ars Electronica. Chico MacMurtrie was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2016.

Visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie's residency and project is sponsored by the U-M Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with U-M Museum of Art, Michigan Robotics, Michigan Engineering, School of Information, Penny Stamps Speaker Series, Stamps School of Art and Design, and ArtsEngin.

Careers / Jobs:DC Immersion- visit the Office of Justice Programs, NASEM & Partnership for Public Service!
2018-02-28 09:00 - 17:00 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States
APPLICATIONS OPEN ON MONDAY, JANUARY 22ND AND CLOSE ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH

On Wednesday, February 28th, the University Career Center will be taking 20 students to spend a day and a half visiting the Office of Justice Programs with the U.S. Department of Justice, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine, and the Partnership forPublic Service in Washington, D.C. over spring break. During this experience, students will engage with each team to gain a deeper understanding of their different areas of work. Participants will leave with a complete understanding of each organization, their roles, and make new & valuableconnections! There will also be a networking reception with U-M alumni.

Want to check out a past Immersion in New York? Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ASeU-EFws&feature=youtu.be

WASHINGTON D.C. IMMERSION SCHEDULE:
- Tuesday, February 27: students arrive in Washington, D.C. and later that evening meet downtown for a welcome & alumni networking reception from 5:00pm-7:30 at the Mad Hatter 1319 Connecticut Ave, Washington, DC 20036
- Wednesday, February 28: visit the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice, have lunch/listen to a speaker panel with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine & finish the day by meeting the team at the Partnership for Public Service

Interested in learning more about roles in Government/Public Service? This is the experience for you! Submit your application today & encourage your friends to join you! This opportunity is open to all undergraduate studentsin all 19 schools/colleges wanting to see what it is like to work in thisarea.

OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS - THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
- Tour their dynamic work space to get a feel of the environment/culture
- Meet with subject experts on crime victims and a member of the National Institute of Justice to hear about their work and ask them questions
- Gaina thorough understanding of USAJOBS.gov and the pathways program for finding an opportunity that's right for you!

NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING & MEDICINE (NASEM)
- Have lunch with members of their teamthat are UM alumni!
- Learn about different roles and what a typical daylooks like from current staff, who have experience in international development, science policy, and international economics/banking
- Network to learn about science policy and international development and tips for career success

PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
- Meet with various team members & UM alumni to hear about the different areas of work at their organization
- Tour their work space, which used to be an old bus station &has since been remodeled
- Hear from team members through a panel discussion on working in public service & the different career options available

Any questions? Email Kathleen at kathlmcd@umich.edu

***This application will open on Monday, January 22nd and close on Sunday, February 11th- please click 'join event' to fill out your application if you are certain you would be available to attend. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and if there is a large interest in the event and we receive a large number of applications early on, this application may close early. Students must be able to attend the full program to participate. University Career Center staff will be along with you on the Immersion to guide you through the visits, and more details will be provided to the selected participants. Please note that students that have participated in PSIP will not be eligible for this opportunity.

Lunch will be provided for attendees on 2/28/18. Students participating in this event are responsible for their own lodging & transportation. If this is of concern, please reach out to Kathleen at kathlmcd@umich.edu to discuss other options!

If you are no longer able to attend this Immersion, you must notify Kathleen of the cancellation via email at kathlmcd@umich.edu by Friday, February 2nd. If you do not formally cancel by 2/2/18, you will receive a cancellation penalty. For more information on Immersion policies, please visit:https://careercenter.umich.edu/article/handshake-policy-statement

Exhibition:Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017
2018-02-28 09:00 - 16:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects, archival documents and images, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.

Curators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/

Exhibition:Interior Streets
2018-02-28 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022
Join us March 9, 3pm, for a reception and Carl Wilson in conversation with our curator Amanda Krugliak.

The "Interior Streets" exhibition features the work of Detroit artist Carl Wilson, known for his stark black and white linocut prints. The self-taught artist sees himself as a documentarian of lives easily ignored in a world obsessed with materialism and celebrity. His work frequently highlights not only the strength found in conquering the everyday and mundane, but also the pain and defeat of those not able to rise to the occasion. His love of film noir and pulp fiction novels from the 1940s and '50s has led him to experiment with minimalist animation and comic book illustration. He embraces the whimsy hidden in the darkness.

Carl is the recipient of a 2013 Kresge Artist Fellowship and is an alumni of the historic Yaddo Artists’ Community. During his residency there he carved the prints for, and wrote the book, Her Purse Smelled like Juicyfruit, a recollection of his mother’s life. Carl was named 2014 guest curator of Detroit’s Carr Center. Also in 2014 Complex Online Magazine named him one of Twenty Detroit Artists You Should Know. He was featured in Essay'd, a monthly publication about Detroit artists. 2017 sees the release of a comic book, the first installment of his graphic novel, Dead and Lost in Detroit.

Exhibition:New at UMMA: Paul Rand
2018-02-28 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - The Connector
Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC, IBM, UPS, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus, or visual puzzle, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight,” “industriousness,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo.

Exhibition:Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter
2018-02-28 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by, or even created by, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA, "The Comforter" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture, though curious and unexplained, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.

Lead support for "Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Exhibition:Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece
2018-02-28 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Media Gallery
Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.
