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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Theaster Gates
DESCRIPTION:Artist and social innovator Theaster Gates lives and works in Chicago. Trained in urban planning and ceramics\, his artistic practice translates the intricacies of Blackness through space theory and land development\, sculpture\, and performance. Through the expansiveness of his approach as a thinker\, maker\, and builder\, he extends the role of the artist as an agent of change. His performance practice and visual work find roots in Black knowledge\, objects\, history\, and archives. His work focuses on the possibility of the “life within things” and redeems spaces that have been left behind. He is the founder of the Rebuild Foundation\, an artist-led\, community-based platform for art\, cultural development\, and neighborhood transformation whose mission is to demonstrate the impact of innovative\, ambitious and entrepreneurial cultural initiatives enriched by three core values: Black people matter\, Black spaces matter\, and Black objects matter.\nGates will be speaking as part of the Arts &amp\; Resistance Theme Semester\, which features the exhibition Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield\, South Carolina\, currently on view at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). This landmark exhibition includes more than 60 objects representing the work of African American potters in the decades surrounding the Civil War as well as several contemporary works from leading Black artists\, including Gates\, whose work connects the past to the present. The exhibition is a reckoning with the central role that enslaved and free Black potters played in the long-standing stoneware traditions of Edgefield\, South Carolina. It is also an important story about the unrelenting power of artistic expression and creativity\, even while under the brutal conditions of slavery. Hear Me Now highlights the joy\, struggle\, creative ambition\, and lived experience of African Americans in the 19th-century American South.\nGates’ presentation also serves as the kick off to a day-long convening on the issues raised by the exhibition. Organized in partnership with exhibition co-curator and U-M Professor of History\, Jason Young\, the convening will take place on Friday\, December 1\, at UMMA: find complete details at umma.umich.edu.\nGates has exhibited and performed at Biennale Architettura 2023\, Venice\, Italy (2023)\; Fondazione Prada\, Venice\, Italy (2023)\; The New Museum\, New York\, (2022)\; The Aichi Triennial\, Tokoname (2022)\; The Serpentine Pavilion\, London (2022)\; The Victoria and Albert Museum\, London\, UK (2021)\; Whitechapel Gallery\, London\, UK (2013 and 2021)\; Tate Liverpool\, UK (2020)\; Haus der Kunst\, Munich (2020)\; Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis (2019)\; Palais de Tokyo\, Paris\, France\; Sprengel Museum Hannover\, Germany (2018)\; Kunstmuseum Basel\, Switzerland (2018)\; National Gallery of Art\, Washington D.C.\, USA (2017)\; Art Gallery of Ontario\, Canada (2016)\; Fondazione Prada\, Milan\, Italy (2016)\; Whitechapel Gallery\, London\, UK (2013)\; Punta della Dogana\, Venice\, Italy (2013) and dOCUMENTA (13)\, Kassel\, Germany (2012). He was awarded the Nasher Prize for Sculpture 2018\, as well as the Urban Land Institute\, J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development.
UID:110002-21823569@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/110002
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20231130T172030
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Bangladeshis in Michigan Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Bangladeshis in Michigan is a fiber art exhibition featuring hand-embroidered portraits by writer\, educator\, and fiber artist Fatema Haque. Sourced from photos submitted by Bangladeshi Michiganders\, these intricate portraits capture the immigration and settlement journeys of multiple generations of Bangladeshi Americans. The art is further contextualized through oral history interviews conducted by Haque\, and documents the growth and evolution of this vibrant community.The exhibit is free and open to the public at the Shapiro Library Gallery Clark Commons (3rd Floor) from November 30th - December 20th\, 2023. An opening reception with food\, conversation\, and community will be held on November 30th from 6-8pm. \nAbout the ArtistFatema Haque (she/her) is a Bangladeshi American writer\, educator\, and fiber artist based in Michigan. A self-taught fiber artist\, Haque’s art celebrates the legacies of the Bangladeshi diaspora: those who immigrate\, those who don’t\, and the memories they carry with them wherever they go. Each intricate portrait requires anywhere from 30-100 hours of work\, is done entirely by hand\, typically on fabric she naturally dyed with plants and food scraps. She is inspired by the artistic legacies and resourcefulness of her aunts and grandmothers\, who created hand-embroidered goods that were never formally recognized as art. Through her art\, she aims to document the memories of her people. \n\n\n
UID:113227-21830581@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/113227
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Shapiro Library Gallery, Clark Commons (3rd Floor), 919 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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DTSTAMP:20231114T150613
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Carnegie Mellon Master's of Science in Computational Finance
DESCRIPTION:Learn about Carnegie Mellon's highly-ranked Master's of Science in Computational Finance. Hear from the director of admissions about the program and general graduate school admissions tips. This program is great for those interested in quantitative finance from an academic and professional standpoint.
UID:115235-21834227@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/115235
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Electrical Engineering And Computer Science,Graduate School,Mathematics
LOCATION:West Hall - 335
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