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DTSTAMP:20160325T125604
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Surface & Structure: Jewelry & Metals
DESCRIPTION:Kristine Bolhuis is an independent jewelry maker working out of her studio in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. Her recent work has focused on lightweight metal constructions that move\, flex and collapse. She creates her work at the bench where it is conceived of and constructed from start to finish. She feels her process is one of exploration and discovery\, and it is full of surprises.
UID:29993-3285060@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29993
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
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DTSTAMP:20160325T125124
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Swimming Upstream: Quilts
DESCRIPTION:Self-taught textile artist\, author and curator Bonnie J. Smith lives and works in San Jose\, California. She attended Indiana University-Purdue University\, Indianapolis Campus (IUPUI)\; and Indiana Central College\; and has taken Master Dyeing Classes at Dartmouth College. Smith received the 2015 NICHE Award for design\, and her textile work was selected for exhibition in the United Nations\, Geneva\, Switzerland (2016). Swimming Upstream tells her personal journey with an injury that placed her temporarily in a wheel chair\, to finally finding the courage to start creating art and living life again.
UID:29991-3284900@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
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DTSTAMP:20151211T113926
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Works by Belle Kogan: First Female Industrial Designer
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents industrially-produced art pottery pieces designed by Belle Kogan (1902–2000)\, for Red Wing Potteries in Red Wing\, Minnesota. Kogan is considered the first prominent female industrial designer in the United States\, a founder of the profession\, and one of the 20th century's most significant designers. Her design aesthetic was heavily influenced by the geometric and streamlined shapes of Art Deco. Belle Kogan Associates\, her New York–based studio\, was the first American female-led design firm. Her contracts with Red Wing Potteries produced over 400 different art pottery shapes from the late 1930s to the early 1960s\, as well as several dinnerware and kitchenware lines. Belle Kogan and her firm designed products not only in ceramics but also clocks and small appliances\, glassware\, and pieces in silver\, plastics\, wrought iron and wood.
UID:27190-2333988@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27190
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
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DTSTAMP:20160310T165634
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T235900
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Intersections/Connections
DESCRIPTION:This International Studies exhibit focuses on materials from across the world\, including many nations and cultures. Rather than displaying each area separately\, the exhibit concentrates on the connections and intersections among disparate regions.
UID:29615-3148128@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29615
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
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DTSTAMP:20160211T131722
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T220000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Jon Onye Lockard: Celebrating His Life and Legacy\, 1932-2015
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit\, on display in the Fine Arts Library\, honors the life and work of the late U-M Professor Jon Onye Lockard\, who was instrumental in the development of African-American arts and culture in Michigan. His distinctive style of artistic expression captured the spirit of civil rights and black pride.\n\nAs an artist and educator\, Lockard was a mentor to many on the University of Michigan campus and beyond. Among other accolades\, he was a founder of the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. His paintings can be viewed across the U-M campus\, including many of the murals in residence hall multicultural lounges.\n\nHours: Sun 1-10pm\, Mon-Thurs 8am-10pm\, Fri 8am-5pm\, Sat 1-6pm\n\nJoin us for a reception on Tuesday\, February 23\, 3-6pm in the Fine Arts Library\, with honored guest Mrs. Leslie Kamil\, the artist's widow. Light refreshments will be served.
UID:28912-2895378@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28912
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Library,Multicultural,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Tappan Hall - Fine Arts Library
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DTSTAMP:20160428T063005
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T190000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:NewCo. Detroit Festival - Volunteers Needed!
DESCRIPTION:Reap the educational\, networking and \"feel good\" benefits of supporting businesses on a mission to affect positive change in how we work\, why we work and the world around us - right here in Detroit. Volunteer and connect to Motor City industry like never before. Meet the forces driving Detroit with founds and senior leadership.\n\nTo volunteer\, please visit: http://det.newco.co/volunteer/\n\nThis volunteer position is an important job that will help deliver an excellent onsite experience to both our host companies (a.k.a. NewCos) and attendees. Here is a top‐level description of the tasks required to satisfy this role: During the NewCo Festival each Ambassador will: Go to each host company's office 30 minutes ahead of the start time and ensure that the signage is in place\, assist with attendee check in and answer any questions from the attendees or host company. Following the session you will be asked to provide the NewCo team with feedback on the presentation.
UID:30128-3341725@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30128
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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DTSTAMP:20160310T165254
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T235900
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Winteractive: The Art of Video Games
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean for a game to be art? Many independent game developers stretch the definition of what a game can be and create games that blur the boundaries between art and traditional entertainment.\n\nThe games in this exhibition—all created by individual or small groups of developers—will lead you into realms of sound and beauty\, or provoke reflection on the human condition\, or entertain you with innovative takes on established game genres—or perhaps all of the above at once!\n\nThis is a hands-on exhibition. We invite you play and explore the games\, and offer your thoughts at http://bit.ly/winteractive\n\nSponsored by the Ann Arbor District Library and the University of Michigan Library Computer & Video Game Archive.
UID:29614-3148098@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29614
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Games,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
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DTSTAMP:20160302T151215
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T100000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract and paper not yet available.
UID:27795-2561862@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27795
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Education,Research,seminar
LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240
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DTSTAMP:20151118T141053
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Shakespeare on Page and Stage: A Celebration
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit is a historical journey through different versions of Shakespeare’s plays as they were edited for publication or interpreted  for the stage. Starting with the Second Folio (1632)\, our display includes a selection of landmark editions by authors and scholars like John Dryden\, Nicholas Rowe\, Alexander Pope\, Samuel Johnson\, and Edmond Malone. It explores the staging and costuming of productions such as Charles Kean’s archaeologically-informed\, elaborately-costumed 1856 production of The Winter’s Tale\, and Maurice Browne-Ellen Van Volkenburg 1930 production of Othello casting Paul Robeson as the first black actor to play Othello in a century.\n\nMost of the titles included in this display come from the McMillan Shakespeare Library. Materials are also displayed from the Maurice Browne and Ellen Van Volkenburg Papers\, 1792-1968 and the Zelma Weisfeld Archive\, 1954-2006. All these books and artifacts are held in the Special Collections Library.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm
UID:26647-2127360@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/26647
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Books,Exhibition,Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
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DTSTAMP:20160229T124117
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Use Your 6 Thinking Hats: A Creative Approach to Problem Solving
DESCRIPTION:Think outside the box! Let’s look at this from another angle! In this session\, you will learn how to use Edward de Bono’s classic Six Thinking Hats concepts to improve your problem-solving abilities.\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nIdentify the six different thinking hats and how they apply to problem-solving\nUse the Six Thinking Hats tool to help determine “what can be” rather than “what is”\nDiscuss how to use Dewitt Jones’ Nine Key Concepts of Creativity to improve your problem solving and decision-making skills\nApply systematic thinking and process mapping to the problem-solving process\nUse critical thinking skills to improve your management of individual and shared tasks\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nDeveloping whole-brain thinking to improve the speed\, creativity\, and quality of your problem-solving and decision-making abilities\nApplying the skills\, techniques and strategies learned in this session to real work situations\nHaving application worksheets and tools to use back on the job\n\nAudience:\n\nAnyone desiring a new approach to developing their critical thinking and problem-solving skills
UID:29286-3058437@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29286
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Leadership,Networking,Professional Development,Workshop
LOCATION:Administrative Services Building
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DTSTAMP:20160309T163823
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Wall in Process
DESCRIPTION:This wall-in-process represents a snapshot into the year long collaborative project Humanize the Numbers at the University of Michigan. Led by Virginia artist and prison reform activist Mark Strandquist\, this campus-wide endeavor aims to link together community partners—prison reformers and advocates\, faculty\, staff\, students\, artists\, the incarcerated\, and their families—in various artistic outputs to foster knowledge and to reveal the human face of the Michigan prison system. \n\nWhat will emerge on this wall over the course of its eight week duration is the product of partnerships between the Institute for the Humanities and artists and prison reform activists. We have collected material from the Prison Creative Arts Program (PCAP)\, the Citizens’ Alliance on Prisons and Public Spending (CAPPS)\, Ana Fernandez’s undergraduate printmaking course in the Residential College\, Natalie Holbrook from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)\, the AFSC’s Good Neighbor Letter Writing Project as facilitated by Ron Simpson-Bey\, and a quilting workshop in a Michigan girls’ treatment unit facilitated by Theadra Fleming and Heather Martin. \n\nThis wall is not static\, fixed\, or ever meant to be complete. Its appearance will change week by week\, both in an additive and reductive sense. The room will also serve as a meeting place for lectures and workshops by Humanize the Numbers partners throughout the exhibit’s duration. Displaying both the seemingly mundane and the extraordinary\, the wall aims to engage viewers and garner interest in the pursuit of knowledge on Michigan’s prison system\, acting as a humanistic lens into the lives affected by our prison system on a personal\, institutional\, statewide\, and nationwide scope.
UID:28555-2757587@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28555
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Public Policy,Social Justice
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Osterman Common Room
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DTSTAMP:20160316T171311
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Accent Elimination
DESCRIPTION:About Accent Elimination\n\nNina Katchadourian’s work Accent Elimination\, the last installation in the Institute’s Year of Conversions\, meanders and parses through our notions of identity. Katchadourian considers the ongoing quandary of where we really come from\, who we are\, trying to isolate our sense of ourselves in counterpoint with the way people define or judge us based upon their assumptions. It is\, of course\, the unique combination of things that offers our most comprehensive and authentic self-reflection\, not one thing or another\, and this amalgamation is to some degree indecipherable.\n\n\nAlthough they have lived in the United States for over 45 years\, Katchadourian’s foreign-born parents both have distinctive but hard-to-place accents that the artist has never been able to imitate correctly. Inspired by posters around New York advertising courses in “accent elimination\,” Katchadourian decided to hire a professional who could teach her to speak in each of her parents’ accents and teach them to speak with a so-called “standard American accent.” Katchadourian and her parents took intensive lessons with accent coach Sam Chwat at his office every other day for several weeks\, and also practiced in the artist’s studio between lessons. They worked with two scripts: one written by her mother and the other by her father\, both modeled on the typical conversation that each of them has when talking with a stranger who notices an accent and is curious about its origins.\n\nKatchadourian plays the part of the stranger. The dialogues are first performed in everyone’s natural accents\, then at the end of the piece\, after much practice and struggle\, they attempt to perform the\nsame scripts—in the best version they can muster—of their new accents.\n\nIn light of recent and all-too-familiar seismic political shifts consumed with “otherness\,” and building walls rather than bringing them down\, Accent Elimination feels especially prescient. It reminds us there\nare so many layers that comprise our cultural identities\, stacked up like markers\, artifacts of our points of origin as well as our extraordinary journeys. It is an ongoing and painstaking process as to what we save and what we lose along the way by choice\, necessity\, or circumstance. And in all of this\, perhaps we discover ourselves on common ground.\n\nAccent Elimination was included at the 2015 Venice Biennale in the Armenian pavilion\, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Nina Katchadourian is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery.\n\nNina Katchadourian’s University of Michigan visit is the result of a collaboration between the Institute for the Humanities and the Armenian Studies Program.
UID:28557-2757633@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28557
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,History,Language,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20160512T143154
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Extreme Time
DESCRIPTION:Think you know all about time?  What about things that happen in femtoseconds or eons?  Time in the natural world is so extreme\, you can’t even perceive most of its scale unaided. You’ll be amazed by the types of time you can explore in our new exhibit\, and learn more about everyday time and how we measure it\, too!  The exhibit is open!
UID:27873-2579451@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27873
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Museum
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
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DTSTAMP:20160319T130732
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fellow Fellows
DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents...\"Fellow Fellows\"\, the Architecture Fellows Presentation and Exhibition Opening. \n\nThe exhibition of projects of the 2015-2016 Architecture Fellows opens on Wednesday\, March 23 and runs through the end of the Winter term (May 2). The Fellows will present their projects to the college at 6:00 p.m. in the Auditorium. The projects present their ongoing research during their yearlong fellowship. A reception will follow the presentations\, with exhibition on view in the college gallery.\n\n\nCyrus Peñarroyo - William Muschenheim Fellow\n\nBLDG_DRWG\nBLDG_DRWG recoups handwrought drawing effects and rearranges drawing conventions at the building scale in order to reorient the ways in which architecture is produced and consumed. Oscillating between analog methods (ink\, paint\, tape) and digital processes (scanning\, photoshop filtering\, milling)\, this project intensifies attributes of drawing otherwise lost in translation. A series of 1:1 investigations harnesses the potency of these effects and uses them to emphasize\, deemphasize\, or reconstitute existing architectural conditions. The results of these studies are reassembled in the gallery as a room––one fragment of an unfinished building––that speaks to the instability of its own representation.\n\nTeam members: Andrew Barkhouse\, Peter Watkins\nWith assistance from: Chris Campbell\, Samantha Eng\, Matt Culver\, Asa Peller\, Tafhim Rahman\n\n\nAshley Bigham - Walter B. Sanders Fellow\n\nSafety Not Guaranteed\nArchitecture is inseparable from defense. From its most primitive and revered “origins\,” architecture was rehearsed in environments of conflict. As an alternative to the term defense architecture\, a category which typically refers to forms and types (fortresses\, citadels\, bastions\, urban walls)\, this project proposes the idea of an architecture of defense. An architecture of defense sees all of architecture as a reaction to some measure of paranoia and studies the built environment to recognize measures and methods used to subdue these fears. Safety Not Guaranteed explores the architecture of paranoia through a series of design manipulations and exaggerations. Its setting is the network of suburbia and everyday domestic scenes—spaces most commonly associated with privacy\, safety\, and security and where fortification occurs on the scale of the front door\, the home\, the cul-de-sac\, and the neighborhood.\n\nTeam Members: Connor Brindza\, James Howe\, Neall Oliver\, Sasha Pfeiffer\, Mark Boynton\, Kamsy Anyachebelu\n\n\nDavid Eskenazi - Willard A. Oberdick Fellow\n\nFor the Trees\nAt first I noticed how naked the papers were\, since they didn’t seem to be acting like something else. I guess they were supposed to be models\, it was an architecture exhibit after all\, but they were missing all those things that point elsewhere: no doors\, no windows\, nothing that particularly looks like anything but itself. They were formed\, sure\, but that’s not really enough to point outwards. Or is it? Before you answer\, there was one more thing: some of the papers were near an enlarged duplicate. Actually\, maybe they were shrunken copies. It was a lot like that moment at the top of Runyon Canyon when you turn around and realize there’s an entire other\, slightly smaller Los Angeles behind you. Were you just looking at the original\, or the copy? I think the most interesting part is right afterwards when your focus shifts around you to the ground\, the dirt\, the trees.. all that stuff that frames what you’re looking at\, like the base of a model or scale figures or model trees. Come to think of it\, the papers did look like trees. But the resemblance is fleeting\, and now I’m certain the papers were in fact models pointing around at each other. Or were they in the background\, acting like a frame for something else\, something that wasn’t there?\n\n\nAbout University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning:\n\nThe Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan is a leader in interdisciplinary education and research with a focus on creating a more beautiful\, inclusive and better built environment. The college and its alumni are committed to pushing the boundaries of architectural practice\, advancing global engagement\, and significantly enhancing diversity in the profession. The college offers the following degrees: Bachelor of Science in Architecture\, Master of Architecture (currently ranked #6 nationally\; ranked #1 in 2010 by Design Intelligence Report)\, Master of Science in Architecture\, Master of Urban Planning\, Master of Urban Design\, and PhD programs.
UID:29842-3230271@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29842
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Education,Graduate,Graduate School,Lecture
LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Auditorium (Rm 2104)
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DTSTAMP:20151208T161407
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T160000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Garden Ambassador Training
DESCRIPTION:Two options: Wed.\, April 13 or Sat.\, April 16 (both at Matthaei)\, 9 am–4 pm \nTraining provides an introduction to the Visitor Services Dept.\, best practices for working with the public\, and an overview of the most popular points of interest in the display gardens\, Gaffield Children’s Garden and beyond. We seek volunteers with a love of learning and interest in working with a diverse population of visitors\, including children and families. Monthly garden tours/talks are led by our horticulturists throughout the season. Shifts are available daily\, May–October.
UID:27107-2308858@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27107
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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