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DTSTAMP:20260824T192124
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T100000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Disability Awareness & Inclusion\, Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Disability is an integral part of maintaining a positive organizational culture. It is important to be part of a culture that supports and embraces disability inclusion. This session will cover:\n\n-Background about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)\n-Ways to raise disability awareness and inclusion\n-Best practices for creating and maintaining inclusive working and learning environments\n-Content to dispel ableist myths and misconceptions about disability\n-We will engage in discussions about increasing accessibility and disability inclusion. Discussions will include how to do this at the university\, starting in our own units and departments.\n\nPart 2 of this program will take place on November 12\, from 2:00 - 4:00pm. Register at https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UKHhFDxkTUCOgcPa1TR8Lg\n\nAmerican Sign Language (ASL) interpreting services and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) captioning services will be provided. If you need additional accommodations to participate in this webinar\, please email the ADA Coordinator at ADAcoordinator@umich.edu.
UID:150520-21909542@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150520
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Workshop,Virtual,Ndeam,Inclusion,Discussion,Disability,Digital Accessibility,Culture,Accommodations
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260917T151354
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T110000
SUMMARY:Other:Grants office hours: Get support applying for one of SSC's Sustainability Grants!
DESCRIPTION:Drop in to our weekly open office hours to learn and get support applying to our Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund (PBSIF) or Social and Environmental Sustainability Grant (SES).
UID:138848-21913633@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138848
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sustainability,Student Org,Social Impact,Environment
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/3131159012
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DTSTAMP:20261103T143213
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T100000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Nodagwzëwêk gi gdankobthëgnenanêk (our ancestors are heard):
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Matthaei Botanical Gardens for an art exhibit by Justin Johnson Nodagwzëwêk gi gdankobthëgnenanêk (our ancestors are heard): Contemporary Visions in Native American Art.  September 29 - November 15\, 2026.\n\nArtist Bio\n\n“Bozho\, Justin Johnson nde zhnëkas\, Eau Claire ndë wtthbya. Mshiké ndodem minė Bodéwadmi ndaw.” (“Hello\, my name is Justin Johnson\, I come from Eau Claire. My clan is turtle and I am Potawatomi”). \n\nMy name is Justin Johnson\, Native name Thitthishkewé. I’m a visual artist whose work is deeply shaped by my Potawatomi heritage. Raised in Coloma\, Michigan\, my artistic path began in childhood and continued through grade school and high school\, eventually leading to me studying at Kendall College of Art & Design for four years. My art is a reflection of both personal expression and cultural tradition\, honoring the interconnectedness of people\, animals\, land\, and spirit. Guided by intuition\, ancestral knowledge\, and the natural world. I’m always seeking new ways to tell stories through my work. My drawings are inspiration from tribal stories\, culture\, and values that have been passed down through generations. I have collaborated with the Pokagon Band on numerous projects\, including traditional storybooks and illustrations. Aswell as permanent collections at the Pokagon Band Administration Building and the Pokagon Health Services building\, and artwork featured in the Four Winds Casino gift shop. Some other projects and exhibtions that I’ve participated in would be the Native American exhibition at the Krasl Art Center and a featured as the cover artist with a six-page article in PAN-O-PLY magazine. My murals can be found at the Grand Rapids Public Museum\, the Edwardsburg (Cass County District) Library\, and the Buchanan District Library. Currently\, I’m collaborating with Northwestern University on a new mural for their football stadium. Through diverse body of work\, my work continues to share the stories\, values\, and traditions of his heritage with a wide audience.\n\nArtist Statement\n\nMy work is deeply rooted in my culture\, which shapes both my perspective and my creative process. We see ourselves as part of the Earth\, not separate from it—every act\, every gesture\, is an exchange. When we take\, we give. This relationship is woven into the art I make\, which follows the tradition known as Woodlands Style\, or Legendary Style. It’s not the invention of any one person. It has been handed down\, shaped by countless hands and stories over generations. This style is often described as “x-ray” painting. With vivid colors and layered lines\, I try to reveal the inner spirit of animals\, plants\, and people—sometimes physical\, sometimes spiritual. There’s a rhythm to it that still echoes the Great Lakes region: bold\, luminous\, and full of life. Each piece is a story that’s been told and retold\, woven across time\, just like the spirits that guide us. As an artist\, I try to reflect these values in everything I do. Even when we drift from the old ways\, our spirit keeps us connected. My work is a reminder—a visual invitation to reconnect\, to live more intentionally\, and to honor the balance and respect that our traditions teach.
UID:154500-21917858@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154500
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Art
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20261019T155949
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Special Exhibition | Ancient Abstractions: Roman Visual Trends Beyond Naturalism
DESCRIPTION:The lifelike naturalistic bodies of Greek and Roman sculpture have been a source of wonder since the Renaissance. Indeed\, the Italian Renaissance artist Vasari identified the ancient world as the time “when sculpture rose to its greatest height.” But close likenesses of the natural world are not the only visual products of the ancient past. This exhibition traces alternative visual trends in the ancient Roman world that today would be considered examples of abstraction. It focuses on monuments and motifs long pushed to the margins of our accounts of ancient art. Oversize arrangements of interlocking shapes pulsate in bold block colors from tombs\, temples\, and homes\; stylized animals flicker into view\, only to collapse once more into bright geometric arrangements\; and artists adopt experimental shorthands for the depiction of space across media. Anticipating recent interests in color and form\, the visual trends of antiquity emerge as far more varied than has long been told.\n\n*Ancient Abstractions is on view from November 5\, 2026\, through February 28\, 2027\, during regular museum hours (Tuesday–Friday\, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM\, and Saturday–Sunday\, 11:00 AM–4:00 PM\; closed Mondays and university holidays.*
UID:153842-21916437@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153842
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ancient Rome,Art History,art,archaeology,collections,cultural heritage,Exhibition,Faculty,Free,history,Mediterranean,museum,Research,roman empire,visual arts
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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DTSTAMP:20261104T132115
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T113000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Intro to Gems
DESCRIPTION:A one-hour workshop for LSA staff to learn how to create and use Gemini Gems.
UID:153854-21916565@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153854
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:LSA 1168
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DTSTAMP:20261022T121932
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T110000
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SUMMARY:Well-being:Channeling Concern into Change — Learn\, Reflect\, Create\, Heal
DESCRIPTION:A choose-your-own-path\, station-based event inspired by recent events and broader conversations about sexual and gender-based misconduct. Through interactive stations\, participants can engage with the education\, support and prevention efforts already underway at U-M and also discover ways to contribute to a safer\, more supportive campus community.\n\nFree Food & Refreshments will be served!\n\nParticipants can:\n--Increase knowledge of sexual and gender-based misconduct on college campuses\n--Expand their awareness about the many different ways misconduct is addressed on campus\n--Engage in self-care activities\n--Participate in active creation of an educational tool\n--Come to a space if you're feeling angry or helpless or you’re asking\, “What can I do?”
UID:153695-21916194@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153695
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sexual Assault Awareness,Activism,Sessions,Well-being
LOCATION:Michigan Union, Anderson Rooms ABCD
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DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T170000
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:138033-21881358@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:20260908T110934
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Pronouns 101
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Spectrum Center\, this is a 2-hour workshop on the basics of pronouns and their usage. Participants will have the chance to practice using different sets of pronouns and work on bystander intervention skills. If you would like to learn more about pronouns ahead of the session you may visit: https://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/education-resources/about-pronouns\n\nDIALOGUE MICHIGAN\nThis event is part of Dialogue Michigan's 2026-2027 faculty and staff workshops. Learn more at https://myumi.ch/dialogue.
UID:151037-21910792@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151037
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Sessions,Staff,dialogue
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