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DTSTAMP:20251215T163232
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Terence Swafford Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition showcases a decade of artist Terry Swafford’s work in Detroit\, marking the culmination of years spent composing scenes from the untamed edges of urban communities. These paintings serve as a visual record of Detroit’s transformation\, capturing humanity’s impact on the environment alongside nature’s persistent efforts to reclaim these spaces. As the city continues to change\, many of these depicted scenes are vanishing\, no longer visible in the landscape today. The significance of this documentation goes beyond mere nostalgia\; it invites viewers to reflect on the dynamic interplay between urban development and ecological restoration\, prompting a deeper understanding of how cities evolve while retaining traces of their history.\n\nSwafford’s paintings are created on location and in one session. The natural conditions\, including light\, shadow\, and atmosphere\, change dramatically from hour to hour and day to day\, forcing the artist to respond quickly and decisively. This approach\, born of a direct engagement with the subject and the fleeting nature of the scene\, along with his wet-on-wet technique\, keeps the work fresh and immediate. By immersing himself in the environment\, Swafford captures the diverse textures and vibrant colors that characterize Detroit’s landscape\, imbuing his work with a sense of urgency and spontaneity. Each brushstroke conveys a commitment not only to visual accuracy but also to emotional resonance\, as he strives to encapsulate the spirit of a place that is both loved and contested.\n\nIn addition to these works\, the artist constantly sketches ideas both for paintings and for designing projects in his business. These sketches serve as visual language\, helping him clarify and refine his concepts before bringing them to life. They become a means to communicate ideas to clients and his crew and become an extension of his voice—an academic exercise rooted in artistic practice that fosters collaboration and innovation. The act of sketching also reflects his evolving relationship with the city\, as each drawing encapsulates fleeting moments of inspiration drawn directly from his surroundings. This duality of function—creating art for exhibition and conceptualizing designs for projects—demonstrates Swafford’s versatility and adaptability as an artist.\n\nSwafford received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design\, and while at RISD\, he was part of the European Honors Program. His education not only honed his technical skills but also broadened his artistic perspective through exposure to varied artistic traditions. He has shown his work in both solo and group exhibitions in Chicago\, Kansas City\, and New York State. Each exhibition serves as a testament to his commitment to his craft and his ability to engage diverse audiences\, offering them an opportunity to explore the complex narratives woven into each landscape.
UID:142768-21891354@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142768
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Art,ArtsEngine,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,North Campus
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20251212T085640
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T210000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Evolution of Campus\, 1838-1963: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's History
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. This exhibit highlights the U-M Ann Arbor campus\, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis\, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen\, the exhibit presents maps\, plans\, architectural drawings\, proposals\, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.  \n\nThis exhibit was originally part of a larger exhibit displayed from July 2017 to January 2018 to commemorate U-M's bicentennial.
UID:138431-21890614@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138431
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library (2nd floor)
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DTSTAMP:20251216T100358
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tukilile Vaa
DESCRIPTION:Kaloki Nyamai is a multidisciplinary artist based in Nairobi. His practice explores Kenya's histories and collective memory\, blending Kamba traditions with contemporary narratives. Using acrylic paint\, rope\, photo transfers\, and stitched yarn\, his free-hanging immersive works blur the boundaries between painting\, sculpture\, and installation. For his U-M project\, Nyamai will present one large unstretched piece and two framed paintings at the Institute for the Humanities\, as well as a second free-hanging work at the U-M Museum of Art.\n\nThe physicality of his complex constructions inspire wonder in the viewer. The works are vast in scale\, embedded with stories\, where past and future merge both poetically and conceptually. In each composition\, the artist proposes a powerful alternative to the flatness of singular narratives of Kenyan history and identity presented as the definitive postcolonial account. He likens the formal act of stitching to symbolically unifying a wounded or fractured community.\n\nNyamai founded the Kamene Cultural & Research Center in Nairobi\, a creative and collaborative hub dedicated to the preservation\, promotion\, and innovation of African cultural practices.\n\nAbout the artist:\nKaloki Nyamai (*1985 in Kitui\, Kenya) is a multidisciplinary artist working with installation\, painting\, and sculpture based in Nairobi. From an early age\, his mother introduced him to painting and taught him to draw\, fostering an ever-lasting interest in art throughout his life. He often finds inspiration in his grandmother’s stories of the Kamba people\, a Bantu ethnic group of eastern Kenya. Using materials like acrylic paint\, sisal rope\, photo transfers\, and stitched yarn\, Nyamai’s free-hanging pieces evoke the healing of historical wounds and a collective yearning for renewal. His works blur the boundaries between painting\, sculpture\, and installation\, creating cohesive\, immersive experiences where past\, present\, and future converge poetically.\n\nNyamai studied Interior Design at the Buruburu Institute Of Fine Arts (BIFA) and then pursued painting after working in other creative fields. His large-scale paintings and mixed-media installations intricately explore historical narratives\, examining their resonance in the present. Nyamai has shown his work across the globe in solo exhibitions at the Norval Foundation\, Cape Town (2024)\; James Cohan Gallery\, New York (2024)\; Galerie Barbara Thumm\, Berlin (2023 and 2022)\; SEPTIEME Gallery\, Paris (2019)\, and other venues. In 2023\, he featured part of his series Dining in Chaos in the “Unlimited” section at Art Basel in Basel. He has participated in group exhibitions and biennials\, most recently at the Sharjah Biennial 16\, Sharjah (2025)\; The Völklinger Hütte\, Völklingen (2024)\; the Kenyan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale\, Venice (2022)\; and the Dakar Biennale (2022). His works are part of numerous private and institutional collections around the world\, such as the Dallas Art Museum\, the Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art\, and the Arthur Primas Museum.
UID:142791-21891560@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142791
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Visual Arts,Humanities,Art
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20260127T110004
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:CAS Workshop. Photographic Genres\, in and Beyond Archives
DESCRIPTION:This workshop explores the multiple deployments of photography in the early twentieth-century global Middle East. The goal is to understand how visual practices intersect with power\, communication\, and documentation. Collectively\, participants ask how photography became a tool for denaturalization and the persecution of undesirable and marginalized subjects in imperial settings\, such as minorities\, revolutionaries\, and convicts in the Ottoman and Qajar empires. How did state This workshop explores the multiple deployments of photography in the early twentieth-century global Middle East. We will discuss how visual practices intersect with power\, communication\, and documentation. Collectively\, participants ask how photography became a tool for denaturalization and the persecution of undesirable and marginalized subjects\, whether minorities\, revolutionaries\, and convicts in the Ottoman and Qajar empires. How did state surveillance of mobility produce knowledge about imperial subjects?\n\nParticipants will examine a diverse range of photographic genres\, from family records to convict photographs\, and studio portraits to complicate photography’s role in regulating class and gender dynamics as well as criminality across the region.\n\nQuestions of ownership and the ethical status of imperial archives that preserve photographs of marginalized or indigenous communities are critical to our discussions of power. How can we responsibly reconstruct the pasts of marginalized\, displaced\, and persecuted individuals by the Ottoman or Qajar state using photographs taken by the very same state? In what ways did photographs serve as instruments of state bureaucracy and as a form of resistance to it? In other words\, how do blurred boundaries between photographic genres offer subjects opportunities to assert their identity and recreate personal or collective memories?\n\nWorkshop Program\n\n9:30 - 9:45 am: Morning Refreshments\n\n9:45-10 am: Welcome & Opening Remarks\nKathryn Babayan\, Director of the Center for Armenian Studies\, University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\nHazal Özdemir\, Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow of Armenian History\, University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\n\n10:00 – 11:15 am: Keynote Lecture\n“From Euphoria to Rigor: Challenges in the History of Photography in the Ottoman Empire”\nEdhem Eldem\, Columbia University\n\n11:15 - 11:30 am: Coffee Break\n\n11:30 am - 1:00 pm: Panel 1: Chasing Unusual Photographic Ventures\n“In Living Color: Hand-painted Photographs\, Ottoman Costumes\, and Gendered Labor”\n- Erin Hyde Nolan\, Harvard University\n\n“Migration Photography as an In-between Genre and Disobedient Photographers”\n- Hazal Özdemir\, University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\n\nRespondent: Joseph Ho\, University of Michigan\n\n1:00 - 2:00 pm: Lunch\n\n2:00 – 3:30 pm: Panel 2: Documenting Atrocity and Survival\nThe ‘Soulless Machine’ and Its Image Output: Photographs of Terror and the End of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution\n- Mira Xenia Schwerda\, Duke University\n\n“Unidentified as a Genre: The Archival Afterlives of Photographs at the Bibliothèque Nubar”\n- İdil Çetin\, University of Oslo\n\nRespondent: Kathryn Babayan\, University of Michigan\n\n3:30 – 4:00 pm: Coffee Break\n\n4:00 – 5:00 pm: Roundtable Discussion\n- Arto Vaun\, Project Save Photograph Archive\n\nCosponsor:\nNational Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)\n   \nOnline Access:\n   Webinar ID: 932 5370 8805\n   https://umich.zoom.us/j/93253708805\n\n*Accommodation: 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. Email: -- armenianstudies@umich.edu
UID:143401-21893076@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143401
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Armenian Studies,Area Studies,Symposium,Lecture,armenians,Discussion,History
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 1010
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DTSTAMP:20250926T161457
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T113000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to Payroll
DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website.
UID:139953-21886408@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139953
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Leadership,Human Resources
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260205T102055
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T123000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2025-2026 New Chairs and Directors Orientations
DESCRIPTION:The graduate school offers a series of meetings designed to orient faculty members who have recently taken on the role of chairing a department/program or directing the graduate program in their department/program. These sessions\, hosted by Rackham associate deans\, focus on various aspects of your role. We provide opportunities to discuss and learn how you can partner with Rackham and what Rackham resources you can rely on while carrying out the work of your role.
UID:135804-21877287@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135804
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School, East Conference Room, 4th floor
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DTSTAMP:20260120T121513
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from January 30-February 21\, 2026. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\n\n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\n\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\n\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nJurors\n\nCarlos Diaz is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow and a Professor Emeritus and former chairman of the Photography Department (1995-2000) at the College for Creative Studies\, Detroit\, MI where he taught for 37 years. Diaz received a BFA from College for Creative Studies in 1980 and an MFA from the University of Michigan in 1983.\n\nPatricia Villalobos Echeverría (Nicaragua/USA)\, Professor of Art at Western Michigan University\, engages a transdisciplinary practice encompassing printmaking\, photography\, video\, installation\, and participatory frameworks to interrogate migration\, displacement\, and transformation. Exhibited internationally\, she holds a Doctor of Arts (Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art & Design)\, MFA\, and BFA\, with residencies including MacDowell and Ox-Bow.\n\n\n\nJessica Levy is the Co-Founder of Hourglass Advisory\, a New York-based art advisory firm specializing in curated collections for contemporary spaces. She holds an MFA from NYU and a BFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, and serves on the Stamps School’s Dean’s Advisory Council. Levy’s background spans media including ceramics\, fibers\, and industrial design. \nTimeline\n\n\n\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: January 30\, 6-8pm\n\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: January 31\, 2-4pm\n\nExhibition Dates: January 30-February 21\, 2026\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:139627-21885811@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139627
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260211T102201
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T120000
SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000)
DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu.
UID:144249-21894999@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Social Justice,Personal Development,pharmacy,Pre Med,Pre-Health,Pre-Law,Professional Development,Public Policy,Social Impact,Nursing,Social Sciences,Sociology,Staff,Storytelling,Sustainability,Teaching,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Health Professions,Community Engagement,Detroit,Faculty,Free,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Civic Engagement,History,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Leadership,Lifelong Learning,Literature,Medicine,Networking
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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