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SUMMARY:Performance:Bill Edwards Album Release and Birthday Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Bill Edwards is an award-winning singer/songwriter from Ann Arbor\, MI. He’s known for his thoughtful\, moving and sometimes hilarious songs\, supported by his fine voice and excellent guitar playing. You’d probably call his style “rootsy”\, ranging from classic country to acoustic rock\, with an emphasis on well-crafted lyrics.
UID:145914-21898092@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145914
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix
LOCATION:ARK Reserved
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260825T111537
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260915T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260915T223000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:Democracy on the Diag Film Series: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the Diag for democracy centered film features this week!\n\nDiscover the true power of the dark side in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Years after the onset of the Clone Wars\, the noble Jedi Order leads a massive clone army into a galaxy-wide war against the Separatists. When the sinister Sith unveils a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy\, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes arises the evil Galactic Empire. Anakin Skywalker is seduced by the dark side of the Force to become the Emperor’s new apprentice.\n\nPopcorn and refreshments provided! Bring a blanket or lawn chair!
UID:150401-21909170@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150401
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Democracy,Democracy And Civic Engagement,Democracy Week,Democratic Engagement,Film,Food,Free
LOCATION:Diag - Central Campus
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DTSTAMP:20260901T060234
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260915T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260915T213000
SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:FREE Intro to Pole Class and Mass Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Sign up for a FREE Pole Dance Class & Mass Meeting! Learn about our unique club & the pole dance progressive series. Our proven instructor will guide you through a mini class\, giving you a taste of what you could accomplish this semester.  Pre-registration required. Arrive early for check-in. Please limit your attendance to 1 Free Class so we can accommodate everyone interested in joining.\nREGISTER  HERE!\nQuestions? Send inquiry to polarityfitnessinfo@gmail.com \nFollow for updates @michiganpoledancesociety
UID:151055-21910813@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151055
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Polarity Fitness
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260901T060407
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T235959
SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:ISBA September Step Challenge!
DESCRIPTION:To kick off the school year\, we’re launching the ISBA September Step Challenge. Starting SEPTEMBER 1! \nTake full advantage of the beautiful Ann Arbor summer while it lasts (trust me\, it is very short) and get your steps in! Stay active\, explore AA on foot\, and start the semester feeling good.\nHow to join:\n1. Download the Step Up app\n2. Join the ISBA September Challenge using the link here: https://join.thestepupapp.com/mq7jPU\n3. Start walking!\n\nWinners will be announced every Tuesday and will receive a FREE ISBA T-shirt! See you on the leaderboard!\n\n
UID:151277-21911288@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151277
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Ann Arbor
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DTSTAMP:20260813T153859
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T230000
SUMMARY:Other:Ross Leaders Academy (RLA) Application Window
DESCRIPTION:The Sanger Leadership Center invites you to apply for the Ross Leaders Academy (RLA)\, a devoted group of students who want to develop the mindset and skills needed to be influential at U-M and beyond. As an RLA fellow\, you will learn from diverse peers\, receive 1:1 and group coaching\, and engage with 50+ years of robust research advanced by the University of Michigan’s innovative faculty. You’ll emerge from RLA more confident\, insightful\, and with a vision to fuel your emerging career.\n\nRLA kicks off in the fall with an exciting event and wraps up in the spring with a closing celebration. The program is open to all University of Michigan graduate students and undergraduate juniors and seniors.\n\nThis program is generously sponsored by the Deloitte Foundation.\n\n2026-2027 APPLICATION WINDOW: 9/2-9/16\n\nInterested in learning more about RLA? Attend the Sanger Info Session on 9/9 in Blau Colloquium from 4:30–5:30 PM.
UID:150242-21908456@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150242
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Business,Career,Culture,Discussion,Food,Free,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Inclusion,Leadership,Networking,Personal Development,Professional Development,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260807T181508
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T220000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 Second Year Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nAugust 24 - October 18\, 2026\nExhibition Reception: October 1\, 1-2:30 p.m.\n\nIn 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. At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review and receive direct feedback from a panel of Stamps faculty members. \n\nInstalled throughout the Art & Architecture Building\, the Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases the art and design work created in this pivotal course by our rising third-year and transfer students\, and invites first-year students and other newcomers to explore both the building and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 50 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \n\nThe works in this year’s exhibition engage a wide range of questions and concerns. Students investigate memory\, identity\, materiality\, ecology\, technology\, labor\, social relationships\, and the built environment through equally diverse formal approaches. While these subjects recur across the exhibition\, what stands out most is not a dominant thematic direction\, but a shared commitment to sustained inquiry.\n\n–Sally Clegg\, Lecturer & Student Exhibitions Coordinator & Pedram Baldari\, Assistant Professor\n\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n<ul class=\"twocol\">\n\nNailah Aguilar\n\nAkylah Archer\n\nZachary Berenbaum\n\nSamantha Blaine\n\nLauren Boyce\n\nKas Brajkovic\n\nAnna Browne\n\nLilah Chow\n\nIsabella Cortes\n\nMagdalena Dimovski\n\nLeah Elliott\n\nAya Fadlelzebair\n\nM. Faurote\n\nClaire Fuller\n\nNoelle Gall\n\nLacy Galligan\n\nAbigail Garcia\n\nElise Goldberg\n\nAva Grace\n\nElla Graeb\n\nDeja Green\n\nGrace Hardy\n\nKore Hernández\n\nMikayla Holcomb\n\nReese Johnson\n\nOonagh Kossman\n\nKade Kuba\n\nAvelina Kusiak\n\nOliver Levans\n\nAlef Liu\n\nFiona Maier\n\nCaitlyn McConville\n\nTyler Meerschaert\n\nEve Mellis\n\nErica Meunier\n\nAlexis Minor\n\nCatherine Mitzel\n\nCharlotte Mullin\n\nAnupama Narayan\n\nMia Noel\n\nAva Paananen\n\nDominique Robinson\n\nSophie Scott\n\nVictoria Selektor\n\nSamridhi Sharma\n\nJanet Shasha\n\nSadie Smith\n\nGabriella Spagnuolo\n\nAva Sproull\n\nJesse Strohauer\n\nDavid Wang\n\nZimu Wang\n\nLily Whitcomb\n\nLexi Wu\n\nMelaniya Zazovskaya\n\n
UID:150015-21907836@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150015
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260826T080509
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T080000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Great Lakes Regional Nursing Innovation Conference
DESCRIPTION:This nursing innovation conference will provide an overview of a broad range of topics from nationally known speakers on the topics of most relevance to nursing and healthcare innovation today.  Presentations on intellectual property\, elevating the front-line voice in innovation\, building cultures of nursing innovation\, rural health innovations\, what investors look for in innovation pitches\, business skills and concepts\, and a guide to market\, among others\, will be addressed.  This conference is for clinical nurses\, nurse educators\, nurse scientists/researchers\, nursing students\, and anyone interested in healthcare innovation. The conference also features a Nurse Innovator Showcase\, shining the spotlight on some of our own UMSN Nurse Innovators and their inventions.
UID:150924-21910448@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150924
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Healthcare,Innovation,Nursing
LOCATION:
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DTSTAMP:20260807T081915
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:CCPS Photo Exhibition. This is the Place
DESCRIPTION:There are nearly one million refugees currently living in Poland. While the vast majority arrived from Ukraine\, Poland has also welcomed forcibly displaced people from Central Asia\, Latin America\, Africa\, and the Middle East. While refugees may be different\, they all search for a place that reminds them of home.\nIn *This Is The Place*\, a project supported by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)\, Anna Liminowicz asked refugees to show what\, in Poland\, reminds them of their home. These portraits and the personalized confessions her subjects handwrote in their native languages tell poignant stories about safety and hope.\nAnna Liminowicz is an award-winning photographer and reportage journalist based in Warsaw\, Poland. A frequent contributor to the *The New York Times*\, *The Guardian*\, *The Wall Street Journal*\, *The Washington Post*\, *El Pais*\, *Der Spiegel* and UNHCR\, Liminowicz divides her time  between assignments and long-term personal projects\, mainly focusing on social issues like identity and loss\, and what uplifts her subjects. She has covered the war in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees in Poland since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion\, and received the 2022 Grand Press Photo Award for her project “Too Precious to Leave Behind”.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:149978-21907713@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149978
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:russia,Ukraine
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 547
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DTSTAMP:20260806T162236
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T080000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. The Art of Memory\, Paintings by Felix Lembersky
DESCRIPTION:Felix Lembersky (1913-1970) was a painter\, theater stage designer\, teacher\, and leader of artistic groups. He began his career within the Soviet Avant-Garde in Ukraine before studying realist painting in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). Throughout his life he worked across realist and modernist styles that fell outside of Soviet-mandated Socialist Realism. His Execution: Babyn Yar series (ca. 1944-52) is the earliest known artistic representation of Babyn Yar\, a Holocaust massacre site in Kyiv. For political reasons\, these paintings\, along with his later nonconformist work\, were barred from exhibition in the Soviet Union.\n\nHaving witnessed two world wars\, the 1917 revolution\, and political terror\, Lembersky reflected on these experiences with candor while imbuing his work with hope and optimism. He was drawn to vulnerable\, neglected\, and marginalized people: children\, the elderly\, ethnic minorities\, and industrial workers subjected to harsh labor and dangerous conditions. Regardless of their circumstances\, Lembersky  portrayed his subjects with empathy\, dignity\, and admiration.  \n\n“For my father\, honesty and integrity meant more than anything else. Art was an expression of freedom\, individuality\, and personalized creativity\, without which it ceased to be art.”\n— Galina Lembersky\, daughter\n\nExhibit curated by Yelena Lembersky\, granddaughter of Felix Lembersky\, and Geneviève Zubrzycki\, WCEE Director.\n\nWorks on loan from the private collection of Yelena Lembersky.\n\nContact weisercenter@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:149975-21907477@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149975
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,russia,ukraine
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010
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DTSTAMP:20260827T142116
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ballad for Rodney
DESCRIPTION:The Institute for the Humanities’ presentation of Cosmo Whyte’s* Ballad for Rodney* (2024) is organized as part of Whyte’s upcoming solo exhibition at the Stamps Gallery entitled *Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye*.\n\nThis “curtain painting” operates simultaneously as painting and sculpture\, inviting the viewer to physically engage with the surface\, passing through to another layer underneath. \n\nAbout the artist\nCosmo Whyte (b. 1982\, St. Andrew\, Jamaica) is an interdisciplinary artist who employs drawing\, installation\, and sculpture to create conceptual work exploring interstitial subjectivity through an engagement with both intimate and public archives\, as well as Black spatiality and forms of resistance. He received his MFA from the University of Michigan. In 2022\, he joined the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture as an assistant professor.\n\n\nWhyte’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally\, including at MOCA Georgia\, Atlanta\, GA\; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, IL\; The High Museum of Art\, Atlanta\, GA\; The Drawing Center\, New York\, NY\; Atlanta Contemporary\, Atlanta\, GA\; Centre Georges Pompidou\, Paris\, France\; and the National Gallery of Jamaica\, Kingston\, Jamaica\, among others. His work is in public museum collections including the High Museum\, Atlanta\, GA\; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, IL\; International African American Museum\, Charlotte\, NC\; MOCA Georgia\, Atlanta\, GA\; National Gallery of Jamaica\; Pérez Art Museum Miami\, among others. Whyte lives and works between Montego Bay\, Jamaica and Los Angeles\, CA.
UID:150287-21908779@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150287
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Humanities,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022
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DTSTAMP:20260819T143255
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T150000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:ChE Industry Day
DESCRIPTION:Industry Day will bring together companies\, researchers\, and emerging engineering talent for a focused day of relationship-building\, research engagement\, and professional development. The event is designed to be more than a recruiting opportunity: it is a forum for companies to learn about the breadth of innovation taking place in Michigan Chemical Engineering\, while helping students better understand the technical challenges\, career paths\, and opportunities shaping industry today.\n\nMichigan Chemical Engineering Industry Day is designed to:\n\n- Build stronger connections between industry partners\, faculty\, and graduate students  \n- Showcase faculty research\, facilities\, and collaboration opportunities  \n- Provide graduate students with meaningful exposure to industry priorities and career pathways  \n- Create opportunities for companies to engage directly with top graduate talent  \n- Support long-term partnerships in research\, recruiting\, and talent development  \n- Highlight the breadth of innovation across Michigan Chemical Engineering  \n\nThe event will feature faculty lightning talks\, lab tours\, demonstrations\, small-group student engagement sessions\, networking opportunities\, and faculty one-on-one meetings.\n\nThis program is registration is for industry connections only. If you are interested in attending or would like to discuss ways for your company to be involved\, please sign up.
UID:150552-21909591@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150552
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,chemical engineering,Conference
LOCATION:
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DTSTAMP:20260508T155502
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The People’s Bicentennial
DESCRIPTION:This selection of original artifacts documents the work of the Peoples Bicentennial Commission (PBC)\, which challenged the official\, corporate-sponsored commemoration of the 1976 bicentennial. This year we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.\n\nItems on display are from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection\, which documents social protest movements and radical history.\n\nHOURS\nSunday 2-8pm\nMonday-Thursday 9am-8pm\nFriday 9am-4pm\nSaturday 11am-5pm
UID:147925-21902542@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147925
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor)
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DTSTAMP:20260901T052113
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Fall 2026 - Empowering Your Teaching: Tech\, Accessibility\, and AI in the Classroom
DESCRIPTION:Ready to enhance your courses and simplify your teaching workflow? This comprehensive workshop series equips U-M faculty with the practical tech skills needed for the modern semester. Across this track\, you will dive into interactive classroom tools (Poll Everywhere\, Ed Discussions)\, advanced grading and lab platforms (PrairieLearn\, Vocareum)\, and critical digital accessibility strategies (Grackle\, Siteimprove).Additionally\, a dedicated GenAI pathway will guide you from AI basics to advanced prompt engineering using U-M’s custom tools\, including U-M GPT\, Maizey\, and NotebookLM. Join us for individual sessions or the entire series to build a more engaging\, inclusive\, and tech-forward classroom.
UID:149156-21905844@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149156
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260901T003228
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T110000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab
DESCRIPTION:*RSVP required to attend. Click \"Join Event\" here:https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1988572Are you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas\, but you’re not sure where to get started? Let's talk about search strategy!! Get real-time\, personalized support by checking out Internship Lab. You’ll be guided by one of our Career Coaches who has designed thisexperience to provide you strategies\, tools\, and motivation to get on the right track with searching for internships. Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake\, the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn about other tools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy. **If you're not sure what you're interested in\, consider making an \"Career Exploration and Planning\" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting. Recent Grads: If you are an alumni\, you will not be able to access the link due the University’s policy of discontinuing alumni Zoom accounts 30 days after graduation. Please contact careercenter@umich.edu with the subject line “Recent Grad Help” to be set up with a 1:1. Include the name of the workshop/event in your email.We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements via the link below\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program to ensure sufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Jocelyn Gaydos at jmgaydos@umich.edu. Accessibility accommodation form: https://forms.gle/FmFn35ZLxJ8kvPfSA  #UCC
UID:150035-21907888@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150035
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, University Career Center office, 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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DTSTAMP:20260901T052123
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:OGPS Academic Careers Series - Fall 2026
DESCRIPTION:This workshop series supports graduate students and postdoctoral fellows preparing for academic careers. Through interactive sessions\, you will gain insights and strategies for navigating the academic job market\, securing a postdoctoral position\, and preparing application materials that highlight your research expertise and career potential. Each session combines presentations\, discussion\, and hands-on activities to equip you with practical tools for a successful transition into academia.Learning ObjectivesBy the end of this series\, participants will be able to:Understand the structure of the academic job market and how to prepare for each stage of the search.Identify strategies for exploring opportunities and applying for postdoctoral positions.Prepare strong academic CVs and cover letters that effectively communicate expertise and fit.Write a compelling research statement that highlights motivation\, significance\, and future directions.
UID:150244-21908460@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150244
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
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DTSTAMP:20260820T181520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-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 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881329@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260901T052123
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Wolverine Village Residence Hall Community Tours
DESCRIPTION:Michigan Housing is excited to welcome members of the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor community for an opportunity to tour Wolverine Village.This year marks the most students to live on-campus within Michigan Housing in U-M history with the grand opening of Wolverine Village\, the university’s newest 2\,300 bed and 800+ seat dining hall residential community. Formerly known as the Central Campus Residential Development\, Wolverine Village is a new five-building residential community on U-M’s Central Campus and adjacent to the athletic campus.Daily tours will highlight Wolverine Village and its residence halls\, gathering spaces\, and community art.Wolverine Village tours are open to the public and registration is required. Tour capacity is limited while Wolverine Village residence halls are occupied by the U-M student community. Additional tour dates may be added if demand allows for it.\nFor tour questions\, please reach out to the Michigan Housing team at wolverinevillagetours@umich.edu.
UID:150340-21909041@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150340
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Wolverine Village
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DTSTAMP:20260824T181519
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906597@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260828T093523
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Brown Bag Seminar |
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UID:151078-21910840@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151078
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:brown bag,Brown Bag Seminar,Lecture,Physics,Science
LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481
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DTSTAMP:20260821T150308
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T130000
SUMMARY:Meeting:International Research Hub Lunch
DESCRIPTION:The International Research Hub invites Institute for Social Research (ISR) researchers engaged in international work for an informal discussion on key topics: 1) updating each other on current NIH-funded international projects\; 2) updates about NIH funding mechanisms for international research\; and 3) open discussion of alternative funding sources for international research. \n\nThe Hub will provide lunch on September 16 from 12:00-1:00 pm on the 6th floor at ISR (426 Thompson St.). Please RSVP before September 11\, 2026. (If you’re unable to attend and are interested in future participation\, please let us know through the RSVP form.)
UID:150737-21910019@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150737
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:International,Research,Social Sciences
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 6050
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