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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:150015-21907838@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150015
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260807T081915
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T170000
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:149978-21907715@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149978
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:russia,Ukraine
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 547
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260814T155307
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Down in Ann Arbor Town: Pictorial Maps\, Campus Traditions\, and the Women Who Made Them
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the centennial of the iconic 1926 “Down in Ann Arbor Town” map by exploring the colorful history\, campus traditions\, and detailed artistry that made it possible. Created by Jessie Horton Koessler (Class of 1901) to help fund the Michigan League building for women\, this celebrated map provides a fascinating view into 1920s campus life and the women who shaped it. Through three distinct exhibit sections\, journey from the campus history that led to the map’s creation to a broader look at early 20th-century pictorial mapmaking.\n\nWhile enjoying the exhibit\, pick up a scavenger hunt at the Clark Library desk that will inspire you to notice whimsical details in the maps discussed. Return your scavenger hunt at the desk for a small prize\, while supplies last.\n\nJoin the curators — Ava Pustulka (’28) and Anna Rohl\, map curator at Clark Library — for a presentation on September 24 (https://myumi.ch/X8y3r)\, where they will share the research that went into creating the exhibit.
UID:150290-21908796@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150290
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260821T132708
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T235900
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Early Talent Competition: Epic Games
DESCRIPTION:Epic Games\, the creators of Fortnite\, are hosting an early talent competition using Unreal Engine to imagine the future of mobility. Students will explore ideas ranging from smarter vehicles and immersive customer experiences to accessible transportation and entirely new ways of moving through the world.\nThe competition kicks off live on September 18\, and students will have until September 22 to develop and submit their ideas. No prior Unreal Engine experience is required\, and the opportunity is open to students across disciplines\, including engineering\, computer science\, business\, design\, marketing\, and more. The winners will be announced October 2.\n\nYou should attend this workshop if you are:\nA UM undergraduate LSA student \nLooking to gain meaningful\, hands-on career experience \nInterested in adding a real-world project to your resume or portfolio\nCurious about technology\, innovation\, design\, transportation\, gaming\, or the future of mobility\nExcited to apply your academic knowledge to an industry challenge\nNew to Unreal Engine-no previous experience is required\nFrom any major and ready to contribute your unique perspective\n\nWhat you’ll gain by attending:\nA short-term\, hands-on experiential learning opportunity developed by Epic Games\nExperience tackling a real-world challenge and transforming an idea into a finished concept\nA concrete project and experience you can discuss on your resume and in interviews\nTransferable skills in creative problem-solving\, innovation\, collaboration\, design\, and storytelling\nExposure to Unreal Engine and how immersive technology is used beyond gaming\nCareer-building experience that fits into your schedule without the time commitment of a traditional internship\n\n\nRSVP for the Epic Games Early Talent Competition using the link in the sidebar.
UID:150721-21909997@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150721
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:All Majors Welcome,Arts\, Communication\, And Media,Career,Digital,Early Career Exploration,Employer Event,Games,Lsa Opportunity Hub
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260806T162236
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T170000
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:149975-21907479@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:20260827T162226
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T130000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:18th Annual Future of Automotive IT: Real AI Applications in the Automotive Industry
DESCRIPTION:This conference will be a hybrid conference with options to attend in person or to view via a YouTube livestream.\nOur 18th Annual Future of Automotive IT on September 18th at the University of Michigan is titled\, “Real AI Applications in the Auto Industry.” We’ll be discussing examples of how AI is actually being used within the auto industry\, inside companies and vehicles.\n\nWe've put on AI conferences in the past that focused on AI\, but the examples were always \"in the near future\" or how AI could be used. We think the technology has advanced enough within companies to talk about how it is really being used.\n\nConfirmed Speakers include:\n- Bruce Belzowski\, Managing Director\, Automotive Futures will moderate the conference and provide an overview of the current AI trends in the industry.\n- Jose Gala-Garza\, Enterprise Content Management and AI Project Manager at Cooper Standard Automotive will discuss how AI is entering the automotive industry through specific projects within functions\, including the challenges and opportunities the future will bring. \n- Riley Keehn\, Senior Consultant at SBD Automotive will present her latest research on AI inside the vehicle across all major global auto manufacturers. \n\nConference Registration Cost:\n- Automotive Futures Affiliates and Current UM Students\, Faculty\, and Staff\, GERPISA members\, and Media: FREE\n- For all others: $200 (Unchanged since our first conference in 2008)\n\nConference Sponsorship:\nCompanies or groups interested in sponsoring this conference\, please contact Bruce Belzowski at bbl@umich.edu or 734-936-2704. Sponsorship Amount (Minimum $1\,000)
UID:151038-21910797@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151038
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ai,Automotive Research,conference,Faculty,Food,North Campus,Research,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260827T142116
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T170000
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:150287-21908781@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
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260821T093522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T150000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Hub Donuts
DESCRIPTION:Do a thing\, get a donut! \n\nStop by the LSA Opportunity Hub for 5 Sweet Ways to Get Career-Ready\n\nReady to take the next step in your career journey but not sure where to start? Stop by the Navigation Desk in the LSA Building on Mondays\, Thursdays\, or Fridays for a free donut (while supplies last) and an easy win for your future! The LSA Opportunity Hub is here to help you move forward\, one sweet step at a time.\n\n \n\nHere’s how it works:\n\n \n\nComplete one or more quick career action items and earn a donut!\n\n \n\nPick your action item:\n\n✅ Create or update your LSA Connect profile\n\n✅ Add our career course to your Canvas dashboard\n\n✅ Register for a Hub event OR coaching appointment\n\n✅ Snap a professional headshot for your LinkedIn profile\n\n✅ Nominate an LSA Faculty or Staff member as a Career Success Advocate\n\n \n\nEach action helps you build momentum in your career exploration journey. Whether you’re just getting started or already on your way\, we’ll help you take a meaningful (and delicious) next step.
UID:149492-21907454@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149492
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Information Session,Lsa Opportunity Hub
LOCATION:LSA Building - Nav Desk in the Lobby
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260901T052148
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T113000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:OGPS Leadership Development - Fall 2026
DESCRIPTION:This series will guide participants through a process of leadership growth and self-discovery: identifying their strengths\, examining their unique leadership behaviors\, and creating plans for continued growth. You will gain valuable insights into how you thrive\, how your strengths appear in your life\, and how you lead. By blending guidance\, self-assessments\, intentional reflection\, and practical frameworks\, this series supports you in taking ownership of your leadership development. All are welcome: you do not need to hold a formal leadership role to attend!\nLearning Objectives\nBy the end of this two-part series\, you will be able to:Identify and articulate your unique strengths and talents through the CliftonStrengths assessment\, and recognize how they appear in your personal and professional lifeDescribe the Michigan Model of Leadership and use its self-assessment to identify your existing leadership strengths and areas for growthCreate strategic plans for your ongoing development through setting intentional goals\nPlease note: we encourage participants to attend both sessions to gain the most out of the learning objectives\, but doing so is not required for registration.
UID:150374-21909137@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150374
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:THSL 2955
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260508T155502
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T200000
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:147925-21902544@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)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260701T110918
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T113000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Bookworm #95 - Author Conversation with Jessica M. Lepler\, \"Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions\"
DESCRIPTION:Historian and author of \"Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions\,\" Jessica M. Lepler walks us through the failed idea to build the world’s first interoceanic canal.\n\nIn the 1820s\, there was a little-known dream to unite the world by building a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. As Spanish American nations declared independence and new canals intensified US expansion and British industrialization\, many imagined the construction of an interoceanic canal as predestined.\n\nAlthough the idea of literally changing the world by connecting the oceans proved too revolutionary for the Age of Revolution\, the quest itself changed history. Canal dreams prompted political transformations\, financial crisis\, recognition of new countries\, concern about climate change\, and more. Full of adventure\, corruption\, far-reaching consequences\, and present-day parallels\, Lepler’s absorbing narrative cuts through two centuries\, revealing that dreams do not need to come true to make history.\n\nThis episode is sponsored by an anonymous Bookworm patron.\n\nThe Clements Bookworm is a free monthly webinar series featuring guests discussing topics in American history.
UID:149188-21905946@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149188
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,book discussion,Book Talk,Clements Bookworm,Discussion,Event,history,libraries,Library,Literature,Virtual,William L Clements
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260821T105645
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T110000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:La Tertulia: Spanish Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:Hola! ¿Cómo estás?\n\n-Practice your Spanish-speaking skills with peers & instructors in a relaxed environment. All language levels and students are welcome to join the conversation.\n\n-Come & go as you please\; stay as little or as long as you would like!\n\n-Free coffee\, tea\, light snacks\, & baked goods.
UID:150691-21909918@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150691
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Central America,Coffee,Community,Community Engagement,Culture,Engaged Learning,Europe,European,Food,Free,Games,International,Language,Latin America,Networking,Romance Languages And Literatures,Social,Spain,Spanish,Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 4314 MLB
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260807T113218
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T120000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Comparative Literature PhD Admissions Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual information session to learn more about our PhD program\, degree requirements\, and the admissions process.\n\nVirtual via Zoom (link provided upon Registration)\n\nTo learn more about the program\, visit our department website or reach out to our Student Services Coordinator at complit.student.services@umich.edu.\n\nCan't make it? This session will be recorded and posted directly to our department website after the event. No registration will be required to view the recording.
UID:149990-21907790@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149990
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Admissions,Comparative Literature,Graduate School,Prospective Graduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260901T052148
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:UM Comparative Literature PhD Admissions Information Session (2026)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual information session to learn more about our PhD program and the application process.  \n\nFind more about the program and our admissions process on our website or contact our Student Services Coordinator (complit.student.services@umich.edu).  Note: this session will be recorded and posted to the department's website following the event. 
UID:149968-21907453@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149968
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260820T181520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T170000
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:138033-21881331@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:20260901T000334
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T123000
SUMMARY:Other:Michigan Marketing: Education Session #2
DESCRIPTION:Coffee Chat Round Robin and Odysseys: Join the MMC for Ed Session 2\, where we'll practice coffee chats and introduce odysseys and elevator intros.
UID:151184-21911043@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151184
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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LOCATION:R2210
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DTSTAMP:20260828T151218
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T113000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Ginsberg Reads Book Club
DESCRIPTION:This is the 2nd installation of Ginsberg Reads Book Club with Jess Letaw\, our Community Leader in Residence. Open to all\, with special focus on U-M staff\, to reflect\, imagine and dream together in an expansive conversation about what it takes to cultivate creativity in a culture of busyness and scarcity.\n\nBring your own lunch: light snacks & drinks will be provided.\n\nadrienne maree brown\, Holding Change 2021 (practices that align with nature\, pleasure\, the practices of our future) - also maybe Pleasure Activism\n\nYour Art Will Save Your Life\, Beth Pickens\n\nPiece of fiction: Dirty Computer\, Memory Librarian\; Octavia’s Brood\n\nOlly Costello art pieces (this could be the December one). Could also include poems!\n\nDates: September 18\, October 9\, November 6\, December 4 from 11:30a-1p
UID:151134-21910910@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151134
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Free,In Person,Staff
LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
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DTSTAMP:20260901T000017
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T120000
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SUMMARY:Other:15's Match vs. Bowling Green State University
DESCRIPTION:University of Michigan Men's Rugby take on BGSU at home
UID:148060-21902896@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148060
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Mitchell Field
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260824T181519
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T120000
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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:149541-21906599@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:20260827T101710
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T180000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Democracy Week | Beacon of Democratic Resilience: Visual Truths and the Legacy of Korea's 5·18 Democratization Movement - A Photographic Archive of the May 1980 People’s Uprising in Korea
DESCRIPTION:This photo exhibition features 90 curated images from the UNESCO-inscribed May 18 Archives. Documenting the May 18–27\, 1980 democratization uprising in Gwangju\, South Korea\, the collection captures the shift from peaceful student protests to military violence and unified citizen resistance\, carried out under a complete blackout as civilians and photojournalists risked their lives to photograph atrocities and smuggle film past cordons. Beyond serving as historical artifacts\, these preserved visual truths offer a living blueprint for popular resilience against authoritarianism\, transforming local trauma into a universal defense of human rights. Displaying these records at Michigan bridges 1980 Gwangju with our present moment\, inviting viewers to engage past resistance in the ongoing effort to defend democracy today.\n\nContent Warning: This exhibition contains historical photographs documenting the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement\, including graphic depictions of violence\, state military suppression\, injuries\, and grief. Viewer discretion is advised.\n\nThis exhibit is co-sponsored by the May 18 Archives\, Center for Democracy & Civic Empowerment\, Department of Political Science\, Center for Emerging Democracies\, Donia Human Rights Center\, Asia Library\, and Duderstadt Center.\n\n*If 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:150763-21910123@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150763
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Asia,Asian Languages And Cultures,Exhibition,History,Korea,Korean Studies
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center
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