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DTSTAMP:20250908T080307
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Watcher of the Sky: Making and Remaking the Detroit Observatory
DESCRIPTION:The Detroit Observatory was once a hub of astronomical discovery that put the University of Michigan on the map as a world-class research institution. A century later\, it was an abandoned building with an uncertain future. From cornerstone to keystone\, from the first director to the people who saved it from destruction\, explore the life of a historic observatory 170 years in the making.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is being developed by student docents at the Detroit Observatory. They are currently collaborating with a museum design firm on the final version of the exhibit\, which will debut in fall 2025. We invite you to check out what they've done so far.\n\nPresented by the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory\, part of the Bentley Historical Library.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is now on display at the Detroit Observatory (1398 Ann Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109). View the exhibit during the Observatory's open hours: \nThursdays\, 12-5 pm\nFridays\, 12-5 pm
UID:135958-21877565@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135958
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy,bentley historical library,bentley library,Education,educational,Exhibition,free,history,Museum,museums,Science,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history
LOCATION:Detroit Observatory
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250908T080307
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Watcher of the Sky: Making and Remaking the Detroit Observatory
DESCRIPTION:The Detroit Observatory was once a hub of astronomical discovery that put the University of Michigan on the map as a world-class research institution. A century later\, it was an abandoned building with an uncertain future. From cornerstone to keystone\, from the first director to the people who saved it from destruction\, explore the life of a historic observatory 170 years in the making.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is being developed by student docents at the Detroit Observatory. They are currently collaborating with a museum design firm on the final version of the exhibit\, which will debut in fall 2025. We invite you to check out what they've done so far.\n\nPresented by the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory\, part of the Bentley Historical Library.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is now on display at the Detroit Observatory (1398 Ann Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109). View the exhibit during the Observatory's open hours: \nThursdays\, 12-5 pm\nFridays\, 12-5 pm
UID:135958-21877654@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135958
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy,bentley historical library,bentley library,Education,educational,Exhibition,free,history,Museum,museums,Science,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history
LOCATION:Detroit Observatory
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260112T132416
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Digital Accessibility Office Hours
DESCRIPTION:Got questions about digital accessibility\, Title II compliance\, or how to make digital content accessible? \n\n-Come to virtual drop-in office hours!\n-Every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month\n-1:30 - 3:00pm \n-Zoom Meeting ID 935 9909 5960\n-Digital accessibility experts available to help you\n\nOpen to everyone from all U-M campuses (Ann Arbor\, Dearborn\, Flint\, Michigan Medicine).\n\nCan’t make it to Office Hours but have a question? Contact us (https://accessibility.umich.edu/contact-services)!\n\nIf you need accommodations to participate in office hours\, let us know by emailing ADAcoordinator@umich.edu.
UID:132601-21871410@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132601
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Communication,Digital Accessibility,Disability,Faculty,Graduate Students,Office Hours,Staff,Undergraduate Students,Virtual
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250711T132019
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T144500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MHealthy - Designing Your Physical Activity Routine
DESCRIPTION:Already know the benefits of physical activity\, but don’t know how to make it a routine? We can help with ideas and recommendations.
UID:135215-21876489@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135215
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Zoom
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260413T104336
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T143000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:T.REX
DESCRIPTION:With stunning CGI visuals and the latest research from leading paleontologists\, the film offers audiences a fresh perspective on the GOAT (Greatest Of All Tyrants): Tyrannosaurus rex. Anchored by the true story of the young fossil hunters who made the discovery of a lifetime when they spotted a large fossilized leg bone on a walk on public lands in North Dakota\, T. REX intercuts the remarkable fossil dig\, with cutting edge computer graphics that bring the iconic T. rex to life—from hatchling to hulking adult. Narrated by Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill\, T. REX explores the newest science that has helped reinvent our understanding of the iconic predator.
UID:136347-21878550@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136347
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Planetarium
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250530T113835
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T150000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Undergraduate Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to learn more about the LEAPS and Undergraduate Teacher Education program and how Marsal Education can help you reach your educational goals!\n\nDuring this information session\, our staff will provide an overview of what makes us a top ranked education program! The session will cover details about the application process\, academic program schedule\, courses\, funding\, and will conclude with time for questions.\n\nRegister here: https://umforms.tfaforms.net/219170
UID:135911-21877502@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135911
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Education,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Teacher,Teacher Education,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250630T121619
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Center Stage Strings: Finale Concert
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage Strings (CSS) – one of SMTD’s MPulse performing arts summer programs for youth – welcomes the public to a series of free live concerts.\n\nCSS was founded by renowned violinist and SMTD Professor Danielle Belen to develop the talents of serious young classical music students in the areas of solo and chamber music performance. Learn more at centerstagestrings.net.
UID:135864-21877339@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135864
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250625T121613
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Student Quartets Recital: MPulse Tuba & Euphonium Institute
DESCRIPTION:Participants of the MPulse Tuba & Euphonium Institute perform for the public as part of their program requirements.\n\nDirected by SMTD Professor David Zerkel\, the MPulse Tuba & Euphonium Institute is a one-week program focusing on a wide range of educational topics catered to serious high school low brass players. The program includes private instruction\, chamber music\, classes on tone and technical development\, and intensive work on developing musicality.
UID:135937-21877528@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135937
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250529T160721
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Chatham Rabbits
DESCRIPTION:New Music!\n\nThere is something warm and instantly familiar about the beloved roots duo Chatham Rabbits. Partners in music and life\, Chatham Rabbits’ Austin and Sarah McCombie blend their personal histories through deft songwriting and a history that comes from building a life together. Leaning into each other's strengths\, their songs present a congenial\, collaborative spirit that has captured the pure adoration of fans along the way and earned them praise from Garden & Gun Magazine\, American Songwriter\, and No Depression.\nTheir artistry hinges on a fervent desire to connect with others through the music that first brought the pair together. Steeped in the regional traditions of their North Carolina home\, Chatham Rabbits’ musical pursuits represent a new age of roots music.\n\nThe duo recorded and released their beloved debut album\, \"All I Want From You in 2019\,\" and this set the standard for their sophomore release\, \"The Yoke is Easy\, The Burden is Full\,\" the centerpiece song from which\, “Oxen\,” was named “Top Folk Song of 2020” by Paste Magazine.\n\nNurtured by central North Carolina’s fertile\, influential music scene\, Chatham Rabbits’ sound continued to evolve on their expansive third album\, \"If You See Me Riding By\" (2022)\, which was simultaneously released with a television series\, \"On the Road with Chatham Rabbits\,\" on PBS-NC. The McCombies' ingenuity during the Covid-19 crisis led to the creation of their mobile concert experience\, \"The Stay at Home Tour\,\" which took the duo to 194 neighborhoods in 2020-21. The pair comes to The Ark with their latest album\, “Be Real With Me.”
UID:134627-21874634@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134627
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix
LOCATION:ARK Reserved
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250908T080337
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T213000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250711T230000
SUMMARY:Tours:Observing Night
DESCRIPTION:Explore the historic Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory\, view its history and astronomy exhibits\, and observe the night sky with the 1857 Fitz telescope! \n\nLocated on Central Campus next to Alice Lloyd Hall and Couzens Hall. Free admission\; no registration required.\n\nThis event will take place even if the weather does not permit telescope observing. We strive to always have interesting things for you to do!\n\nLast visitors admitted 30 minutes prior to closing.
UID:136023-21877699@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136023
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy,Education,educational,free,Museum,museums,observing,Science,Telescope Observation,telescope viewing,Telescopes
LOCATION:Detroit Observatory
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250708T194743
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T220000
SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Michigan League: AADL Summer Game
DESCRIPTION:Another location for the AADL Summer Game is the Michigan League\, home to cool study spaces\, Maizie's Kitchen & Market\, water-bottle refill stations\, Campus Information Desk (Main Floor)\, and historic displays (see Floor 3). It's also the primary office space for the Resource Navigator team\, a group of students who help undergrads & grads find the spaces\, places\, and people they need on the Ann Arbor campus.\n\n*Stop by and find the code for the Ann Arbor District Library Summer Game\; (1) first location by the Main Floor Lobby\, on the bulletin board near the Info Desk\; (2) second location right inside the South Entrance doors near the accessibility door panel! (This is the entrance for the Mendelssohn Theater. nearest Rackham.)* Participants enrolled in the Summer Game can redeem those codes for points\, badges\, and prizes awarded by the AADL. For Summer Game information and registration\, visit play.aadl.org.\n\nKnow before you go\, especially over holiday weekends and during Art Fair! Check the League's building hours at uunions.umich.edu/league/ or use the Related Links on this page.
UID:136138-21877921@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136138
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Games,Outdoors
LOCATION:Michigan League
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250408T135629
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color
DESCRIPTION:We have many significant books from the history of our understanding of rainbows and color theory\, from the writings of scholar Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham to Isaac Newton’s 1704 Opticks. Rainbows appear across the spectrum of our collections\, and this exhibit includes a handwritten illuminated manuscript\, practical color manuals of the industrial age\, contemporary artists’ and children’s books\, and more from our vast holdings. \n\nRainbows have captivated people for all of recorded history. It’s hard not to think of them as physical objects\, but they are really just distorted images of the sun\, positioned around the viewer’s head. They require someone to perceive them to exist\, and thus have much in common with colors and color theory in general. And\, like colors\, they are about relationships: of one color next to another\, and of colors and the people who see them. The rainbow has had many different cultural interpretations over the years\, and most recently has become synonymous with gay pride\, appearing all over each June.\n\nHatcher Gallery Exhibit Room Hours:\nSunday\, 2-8pm\nMonday-Thursday\, 9am-8pm\nFriday\, 9am-4pm\nSaturday\, 11am-5pm
UID:134798-21875202@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134798
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor)
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250529T110505
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T170000
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:135894-21877423@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:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250630T121620
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T113000
SUMMARY:Performance:Final Performance: MPulse Jazz Institute
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the final performance by MPulse Jazz Institute participants.\n\nDirected by SMTD Professor Dennis Wilson\, the MPulse Jazz Institute is an all-encompassing\, week-long program for the high school jazz musician. Classes are led by University of Michigan Jazz Faculty\, SMTD applied faculty and professional jazz artists.
UID:135973-21877592@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135973
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250708T181554
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T113000
SUMMARY:Performance:Final Performance: MPulse Tuba & Euphonium Institute
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the final performance by MPulse Tuba & Euphonium Institute participants.\n\nThe MPulse Tuba & Euphonium Institute is a one-week program focusing on a wide range of educational topics catered to serious high school low brass players\, led by SMTD Professor David Zerkel and assisted by Dr. Alex Avila\, Lecturer in Music at Columbus State University. The program includes private instruction\, chamber music\, classes on tone and technical development\, and intensive work on developing musicality.
UID:135938-21877529@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135938
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250530T181620
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T123000
SUMMARY:Performance:Final Performance: MPulse Percussion Institute 
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the final performance by MPulse Percussion Institute participants.\n\nThe MPulse Percussion Institute is one of U-M's summer performing arts programs for high school aged students\, led by SMTD Professor Ian Antonio and assisted by Dr. Jean Carlo Ureña Gonzalez\, Assistant Professor of Music at Lawrence University. Students have lessons\, classes\, and projects centered around marimba\, snare drum\, timpani\, drum set\, and percussion ensemble\, and explore non-Western musical traditions\, improvisation\, musical technology\, and how to prepare for college auditions.
UID:135939-21877530@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135939
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250709T122805
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T233000
SUMMARY:Tours:Guided Tour of the Clements Library
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn more about the history of the Clements Library\, its programs\, and collections. Highlights include Benjamin West's iconic painting \"Death of General Wolfe\,\" a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Thomas Gage's papers\, and the current exhibit.\n\nArrive at our North Entrance to check in for your tour. This entrance is accessible\, and an elevator is available to move between floors. \n\nWe want to ensure full participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote that\, please let us know.
UID:136401-21878619@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136401
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american history,Ann Arbor,Exhibit,Exhibition,Free,history,In Person,Tour
LOCATION:William Clements Library
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250714T181505
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2025
DESCRIPTION:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative showcases the depth of artistic excellence and merit of contemporary art practices in Michigan and recognizes the creativity\, rigor and innovation of artists and collaboratives working in the region\, inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.\nIn the of fall of 2024\, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork\, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply. \nA shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Juana Williams\, art curator and writer based in Detroit\, Michigan\; Melinda Zacher Ronayne\, former director of visual arts at the Interlochen Center for the Arts\; and Parisa Ghaderi\, assistant professor of graphic design at Shoreline Community College and winner of the 2023 Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award. \nMeet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2025:\nConor Fagan obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in the spring of 2014. Among his many numerous awards and grants\, he has been one of twelve international artists selected to participate in The 31st annual International Symposium of Contemporary Art in Baie – Saint Paul\, Quebec\; a year-long artist in Residence at the Roswell artist-in-Residency in Roswell\, New Mexico\; and a featured artist at the 2020 Spring Break Art Show\, in New York\, New York. He has had solo shows with My Pet Ram and Gitler &amp\; in NYC\, and most recently has been featured and won an award at The 2025 Regional Show at the Dennos Museum and Cultural Center. He has works in numerous public collections including the Waterton - Global corporate collection\, the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art\, and the Museum of Modern Art in Baei St Paul. His work has been collected privately both nationally and internationally. Currently\, he teaches and lives outside of Traverse City at Interlochen Arts Academy\, nestled among the trees\, rivers\, and lakes of northern Michigan.Katie Mongoven/上秋莲 is a Chinese American fiber artist from Washington\, DC\, based in Detroit\, MI. Her work investigates and fortifies the space between cultural dichotomies through multiple fiber processes. She received her BFA from the University of Michigan and MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art\, with the Surface Design Association’s Outstanding Student Award. She was a Roman J. Witt Visiting Artist at the University of Michigan\, a Windgate University Fellow at Arrowmont School of Arts &amp\; Crafts\, and the 2024 Barstow Artist-in-Residence at Central Michigan University. Other residencies attended include the California Institute of the Arts\, the University of Michigan\, Vermont Studio Center\, and forthcoming Stove Works (TN) in 2025. Solo and group exhibitions include Central Michigan University (MI)\, Playground Detroit (MI)\, Riffe Gallery (OH)\, and ROY G BIV Gallery (OH). She has public and corporate commissions at the Cranbrook Art Museum\, PayTile\, and Cross River Bank. Her work is held in public collections at Central Michigan University\, Summa Health\, and MetroHealth\, and in numerous private collections throughout the United States.Sara Nickleson is an artist\, curator\, and gallery director based in Detroit\, Michigan. She held the position of Senior Director at Library Street Collective gallery from 2016 to 2022. Prior to moving to Detroit\, Nickleson was the Head Curator and Director of Collections at the Design Exchange (DX) in Toronto\, Canada\, where she curated a number of internationally acclaimed exhibitions\, including This is Not a Toy\, The Politics of Fashion\, and 3DXL. Nickleson has written for a number of arts publications\, including exhibition catalogs (José Parlá: Polarities\; This is Not a Toy\; Coping Mechanisms\, Sam Durant: Iconoclasm) and artist monographs (Sam Friedman\, Tyrrell Winston). She has been a visiting curator and critic\, and was invited by the British Council to take part in their Design Connections symposium as part of London Design Week in 2015. Exhibitions of her artwork include a solo show at Louis Buhl &amp\; Co. (Detroit) as well as a number of group presentations. Nickleson received her BFA from the University of Windsor (Windsor\, Canada)\; a BID from the College for Creative Studies (Detroit\, MI)\; and an MFA in Painting from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, Michigan.\nFrom June 26 through August 2\, 2025\, Fagan\, Mongoven\, and Nickleson will present their work in a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery\, with logistical and curatorial support from the Gallery's professional staff.\n2025 Envision Awardee Named\nAt the exhibition's opening reception on June 26\, the jury reconvened to select the Envision 2025 Award recipient\, awarding Sara Nickleson a $5\,000 prize.\nIn a statement about Nickleson's work\, the jury noted: “Sara Nickleson’s ambitious paintings boldly invite us to explore our relationship with the unknown. At a time when the world is deeply divided\, when diverse perspectives and experiences are being weaponized by fear\, Nickleson’s paintings meticulously build another world - one mark\, one brush stroke at a time. Layering colors and mark-making that draw on prehistoric forms and symbols\, Nickleson seeks a new futurity that acknowledges the losses\, and co-existence that build on our differences and commonalities. Sara has been consistently building her visual vocabulary and we are excited to see where she will go next.” \nEnvision: The 2025 Michigan Artist Initiative is curated by Srimoyee Mitra with the assistance of Joe Rohrer.
UID:129134-21862265@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129134
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250605T121507
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T170000
SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Stamps Gallery: AADL Summer Game
DESCRIPTION:Stop by Stamps Gallery to enjoy the Envision: The 2025 Michigan Artist Initiative exhibition and find the code for the Ann Arbor District Library Summer Game! Participants enrolled in the Summer Game can redeem those codes for points\, badges\, and prizes awarded by the AADL. For Summer Game information and registration\, visit play.aadl.org.\nPlease note: Stamps Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday\, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.\, and until 7 p.m. on Thursdays. Our exhibition is open June 26 through August 2\, 2025.
UID:136016-21877681@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136016
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20240130T121551
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
DESCRIPTION:Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison)\, this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art\, 1650-1850.\n \nIn recent times\, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections\, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries\, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works\, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.\n \nPieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet\, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden\, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  \n \nIn this online exhibition\, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery\, which will open in early 2021\, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. \n \nBy challenging our own practice\, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display\, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles\, and fails to settle for\, simple narratives. \n \n“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed\, so ornate\, so planned\, they call attention to themselves\; arrest us with intentionality and purpose\, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” \n \n— Toni Morrison\n\nLead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.\n 
UID:84303-21621645@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,European,Exhibition,History,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art
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END:VCALENDAR