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DTSTAMP:20260806T162236
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T080000
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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:149975-21907499@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:20260923T165051
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T180000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:7th Annual Creating Community Conference
DESCRIPTION:*Note: The Institute for the Humanities will cover the registration fee for any faculty\, staff or graduate students interested in attending a single day or all three days of the conference. Please contact the Institute staff at humin@umich.edu to coordinate the registration process.*\n\nHeld October 5-8\, 2026\, the Creating Community Conference brings together artists and professionals from progressive art studios* across the United States and beyond\, along with professionals active in disability arts\, rights\, and theory\, to discuss best practices\, advocacy\, and the evolving landscape of art and disability. This annual event\, a Creative Growth initiative launched in Oakland\, CA in 2019\, aims to foster dialogue and collaboration around the importance of inclusive creative spaces for artists with developmental disabilities and mental health differences.\n\nThis year's conference will be hosted in Detroit and Ann Arbor Michigan\, and is locally organized and led by the Progressive Art Studio Collective (PASC)\, with support from the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities\, and Library Street Collective. National administration and strategic support is being provided by Creative Growth\, in collaboration with the Progressive Art Studio Alliance (PASA).\n\nCCC7 invites both internal (studio staff and artists) and external (general public) audiences to engage with the art and practice of progressive art studios. The conference covers a range of topics from hands-on studio practice\, exhibiting\, collecting and representing artists with disabilities\, self-taught art\, outsider art\, disability studies\, mental-health\, radical pedagogy and more\, expanding the conversation on platforming the creative production of marginalized communities\, opening up the art world to disabled artists\, and the transformative power of art.\n\nThursday\, October\, 8\, 2026\nLocation: University of Michigan\, Palmer Commons\, Great Lakes Room\n\n+9:00AM:+ Bus Departs Hotel/Meeting Point to U of M \n+10:00-10:30AM:+ Artist Success Stories: Fashion Edition videos \n+10:30-11:15AM:+ Weaving Relations: Disability\, Care\, and the Art of Being-With. \n+11:15-11:30AM:+ break\n+11:30-12:30PM:+ Disability in Academia : U of M\, Legacy and The Future. \n+12:30-1:30PM:+ Lunch\n+1:30-2:30PM:+ U of M Institute for the Humanities Presentation \n+2:30-3:00PM:+ Groundwork: Guidelines for Partnering with Artists with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities \n+3:00-3:30PM:+ Curation is a Party! The Fountain House Gallery Artist-Curator role and its impact on our artists\n+3:30-4:15PM:+ Sexuality\, Queerness\, and Gender in Progressive Studios: stories and strategies for safely supporting artists. \n+4:15-4:30PM:+ Final statements and Gratitude\n+4:30-6:00PM:+ Exhibition and reception at Institute for the Humanities\n+At+ 5:00PM curators Amanda Krugliak and Paige Wery will lead a tour of the exhibition \n+6:00PM:+ Bus leaves Ann Arbor for Detroit\n\nView the full schedule and register at https://myumi.ch/qwVRX.
UID:149756-21907062@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149756
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Great Lakes Room
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DTSTAMP:20260924T095128
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T170000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Aerospace Engineering Career Chats
DESCRIPTION:Hey Aerospace Engineering Students - This is for YOU!\n\nAre you feeling overwhelmed by your full-time job or internship search? Not sure where to begin\, or just need a little guidance? Whether you're just starting out or already deep in the search process\, we're here to help!\n\nJoin us for a quick 15-minute virtual chat with an Engineering Career Advisor. Ask us anythingfrom where your peers are landing jobs\, to job search strategies\, to personalized resume feedback. Its a chance to get the advice you need\, fast!\n\nDont navigate your career path alone - we've got your back!\n\nNote: Only students within the AERO department are eligible for this event.
UID:152801-21914535@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152801
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260915T161734
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibit: Hands on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Jim Cogswell: Hands on Fire\n\n**August 31 to October 9\, 2026**\n**Public Reception: Friday\, September 18\, 4:30 to 6:30 pm**\n\nJim Cogswell’s Hands on Fire is a solo exhibition of mixed media drawings at the Residential College Gallery at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The exhibition features sixty works on paper completed between 2024 and 2026.\n\nThis body of work responds to Greek Cypriot filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis’ cinematic adaptations of three tragedies by Euripides dealing with the Trojan War and its aftermath: Electra (1962)\, The Trojan Women (1971)\, and Iphigenia (1977). The work is in close conversation with Vinyl Euripides (2022)\, Cogswell’s adhesive vinyl installation on three floors of the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens\, Greece\, which also responded to the cinematic trilogy. By following Cacoyannis’ adaptations\, Cogswell builds on a cross-cultural history of restaging these tragedies to examine the human suffering caused by war\, imperial overreach\, and abuse of power\; and the dehumanizing consequences of revenge as a course of justice.\n\nWithin each drawing multiple scenes from the three narratives are overlaid within single frames\, suggesting the unseen entanglements that bind these ancient stories into such a persistent vision of our human position.\n\nThe grid of paintings encircling the gallery proposes a linear narrative but delivers instead a sequence that loops and turns on itself\, a stuck frame that stutters until bursting in flames. The grid also evokes the net that is a central feature of the series--the web of fate and circumstance that governs each of our lives\, that determines who we are and what is possible for us at any given moment in history.\n\nThe drawings are also characterized by a repeated motif of hands as consuming flames. Hands have unlimited expressive and narrative potential. They testify to the centrality of making in the development of human cognition. They are reminders of the constructed world and the laborers responsible for bringing it into being. We use hands as a form of communication to shape and express our inner states. Hands teach us to feel and to reason\, to count and to indicate. They give us agency\, as creators but also as destroyers. They give form to our willingness to act in the world\, in greed or compassion.\n\n---\n\n**This exhibition is made possible with funding from the Stamps School of Art & Design and the University of Michigan Office of Research.**\n\nFrom the Artist\n\nI am grateful to the Modern Greek Program in the Department of Classical Studies\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts at the University of Michigan\, for their ongoing support for my research and the dissemination of this project.
UID:152223-21913396@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152223
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:art,art and design,Art History,artists,artists and curators,arts,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Classical Studies,Exhibition,free,History,Visual Arts
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20261001T160941
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Birth Joy
DESCRIPTION:Black Birth Joy by Tiana Lashae documents birth as a deeply personal story of connection\, courage\, tenderness\, and joy. The photographs and stories in the exhibit challenge mainstream narratives that reduce Black birth to statistics and only amplify Black pregnant women's anxiety and hesitancy about navigating the maternal health care system. Instead\, the exhibit offers evidence of joy\, reminders of possibility\, and a visual legacy for generations to come. \n \nBlack Birth Joy was born from Lashae's belief that more positive birth stories of BIPOC families need to be seen and heard\, and her photographs invite viewers to witness the people behind them: the mothers\, babies\, partners\, families\, and birthworkers. They create space for BIPOC families to see themselves represented with dignity and to witness the full range of birth experiences. Lashae's photographs also create a tangible record that can support conversations around quality of medical care\, respectful treatment\, and patient rights. The exhibit empowers women to prioritize and advocate for their birth experiences while also encouraging perinatal health professionals and birthworkers to center the humanity\, dignity\, and individual experiences of patients and families. \n\nThe exhibit comprises over 30 photographs as well as stories of mothers whose births were documented by Lashae\, a doula and birth/newborn photographer whose work has been published in Everyday Birth Magazine\, an international publication. The physical exhibit is accompanied by a virtual component that encourages audiences to engage with each mother's birth story.\n\nThe Lane Hall Exhibit Space is sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) at the University of Michigan. \n\nBlack Birth Joy\nThursday\, October 1\, 2026 – Friday\, January 15\, 2027\nLane Hall Exhibit Space\, 204 S State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\nOpen M–F\, 9AM–5PM
UID:153178-21915283@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153178
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:advocacy,african and african american studies,american culture,anthropology,Art,artists and curators,photography
LOCATION:Lane Hall
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DTSTAMP:20260915T123553
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Breakfast\, Luncheon\, and Dinner: Dining Out in the 1910s\, 1920s\, and 1930s
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a buffet selection of early twentieth century menus from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. Visit the Special Collections Research Center on the 6th floor of the Hatcher Library\, Monday-Friday\, 9:00am-4:30pm.
UID:152203-21913255@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152203
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th floor
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DTSTAMP:20260928T151759
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fashion/Forward
DESCRIPTION:Fashion/Forward is an invitational group exhibition celebrating the innovative work by artists with developmental disabilities and/or mental health differences from progressive art studios around the country. Both including fashion and about fashion\, the exhibition features drawings\, paintings\, sculptures\, textiles\, wearable clothing\, accessories\, and other fabulous fashion-inspired works and is organized in conjunction with the 2026 Creating Community Conference. Learn more about the conference at https://myumi.ch/qwVRX.\n\n *Image: \"Untitled\,\" Jade Saren\, Creative Growth Art Center*
UID:149758-21907064@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149758
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022
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