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DTSTAMP:20250828T001529
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:From September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-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:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 3 \nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260712T042038
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Full-Time Staff Training 2026
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149274
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:WQ MPR
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DTSTAMP:20260617T114708
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SUMMARY:Meeting:Summer Scholar Uplift: Gathering of POS Scholars
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 15\, 2026\n11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET\nOnline via Zoom Meeting\n\nIn many work contexts\, we have learned to treat exhaustion as evidence of seriousness. In academic life\, depletion is often worn as proof of rigor. We are all familiar with late nights\, an unrelenting service load\, and an inbox that never empties. Yet what is coming to be known as the great exhaustion is structural\, not personal. Academic environments demand more and more\; the burden of grind culture is unequally distributed\, and technology accelerates the pressure on both deep work and deep rest. In response\, this summer\, we introduce a new tradition: an annual online Summer Scholar Uplift: Gathering of POS Scholars dedicated to a blend of learning and connection that promises to sustain us as a POS community. \n\nThis year\, we will explore the theme (Re)Ignite: Rigorous Rest as a Source of Resilience in Academic Life. Contrary to prevailing assumptions that rest is an unnecessary luxury or a private indulgence\, this gathering embraces rest as a form of personal and community restoration and resistance. Drawing on contributions from a distinguished panel of POS scholars\, we will ask how rest becomes a skilled practice and how it also serves as a relational and collective resource that sustains demanding work\, restores adaptability\, and alleviates distress in challenging environments. Following idea provocations from our panel\, we will engage in small group activities\, discussion\, and interactive learning sessions. Please join us to connect with other POS scholars and explore the provocative idea that rest may be one of our most underused resources for (re)igniting our own resilience and our community’s energy\, passion\, and capacity for change.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149000
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Center For Positive Organizations
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260609T181514
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Community Exhibition: Kaleidoscope
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by The Visual Arts Council of Neutral Zone\n\nStamps Gallery is pleased to partner with Neutral Zone’s Visual Arts Council to present Kaleidoscope\, an exhibition featuring artwork of local teens from Ann Arbor. The exhibition explores the interwoven relationship of color to human emotions. 
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148601
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260622T120258
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260715T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260715T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Lead Forward: High Performance Teamwork New!
DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149068
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Leadership,Teamwork
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DTSTAMP:20260608T121512
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260715T120000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Marianetta Porter: Breath\, Fragment\, Return
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Juana Williams\, this exhibition examines how Marianetta Porter uses everyday objects\, fragments\, and embodied memory to make absence an active\, living presence while challenging linear histories. Rooted in African American experience\, her practice treats what is discarded\, overlooked\, or missing not as loss\, but as a source of meaning that continues to act on the present. Through her process and materials\, Porter reveals how memory is carried in the body and embedded in ordinary things. Her work also resists forward-moving notions of time\, instead presenting a diasporic temporality in which past\, present\, and lived experience circulate together through repetition\, touch\, and recall. In doing so\, Porter proposes a vision of history as unfinished\, memory as active\, and absence as a force that sustains connection and shapes the present. \n\nMarianetta Porter is a visual artist and product designer whose research and creative practice are grounded in the study of African American history\, culture\, and representation. Through the language of visual art\, she draws connections between historic memory and contemporary African American life\, giving voice to the history of the African diaspora while acknowledging its central influence on the birth and flourishing of American culture.\n\nHer work has been exhibited nationally at institutions such as the Indianapolis Museum of Art\, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry\, the Spoleto Festival\, the Harriet Tubman Museum\, and the Hampton University Museum of Art.\n\nShe earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Hampton University and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan. The recipient of numerous awards\, Porter is Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art and Design.\n\nJuana Williams is a curator and writer whose work explores the intersections of cross-border intellectual history\, cultural memory\, and identity formation as expressed through modern and contemporary art from Africa and its diasporas.\n\nWilliams has held curatorial and academic appointments at organizations including the Detroit Institute of Arts\, Library Street Collective\, Wayne State University\, and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art. Her curatorial projects have been presented at institutions across the United States and France\, including the Grand Rapids Art Museum\, the Muskegon Museum of Art\, Palais de Tokyo (Paris)\, and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. In addition\, she has presented lectures at various museums and universities and contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs. Her work has been written about in publications such as Artsy\, Beaux Arts Magazine\, Condé Nast Traveller\, Michigan Chronicle\, and Observer. Williams holds a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Art History from Wayne State University.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147625
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