Social / Informal Gathering:LSA@Play: Surprise Pop-Up
2023-10-02 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Detroit)
You just might be in the right place at the right time! During the week of October 2, LSA staff will pop-up with tacos! Subscribe to our text updates for an early notification: https://app2.simpletexting.com/join/joinWebForm?webFormId=62ea661e1046c84c80ed9f5c
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LSA@Play is a series of events to welcome and support LSA students. Gatherings and activities offer opportunities for students to prioritize self-care, inclusivity, and community. Plus, get free food and LSA swag!

Visit the LSA@Play webpage: lsa.umich.edu/play for more details, sign-up to receive text/email updates, and check for additional events being added soon!

If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at an event, please email lsaatplay@umich.edu. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to remove those barriers.

* While supplies last. One swag item per student, must be present with MCard to receive.

Meeting:Michigan in Washington Fall 2023 Application Deadline
2023-10-02 00:00 - 12:00
The Michigan in Washington program is accepting applications for Winter 2024 and early admission to Fall 2024. The deadline is October 2nd and applications are available on M-Compass. Info Session: September 12th and 19th at 6:00 PM
https://umich.zoom.us/j/99157149437

Other:OSU Duals
2023-10-02 00:00 - 19:00 | French Field House, Columbus, OH
Duels at OSU

Other:OSU Tournament
2023-10-02 00:00 - 13:00 | The Ohio State University
OSU OpenDates: Saturday, September 30th/Sunday, October 1stLocation: The Ohio State University, Outdoor Tennis Courts located adjacent to tOSU's Recreation and Physical Activity Center (RPAC)

Other:PITS (Regionals)
2023-10-02 00:00 - 18:00 | Decatur, IL
Regionals (A Team)

Other:Tri the Illini
2023-10-02 00:00 - 18:00 | Champagne,IL
Tri the Illini Triathlon

Other:Women's Atlantic Coast Championship Round 1A
2023-10-02 00:00 - 23:59 | Annapolis, Maryland
Women's Atlantic Coast Championship Round 1A

Exhibition:Harbingers of Dreams
2023-10-02 08:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery, #1010
Born in 1945, artist, educator, and mentor Teresa Tolliver has lived and worked in South Central L.A. for three decades. In 2022, she opened her first one-woman show at the prominent Sebastian Gladstone Gallery. Most recently, her work has been chosen for inclusion as part of L.A.’s Hammer Museum Biennial, which runs concurrently with her exhibition Harbingers of Dreams in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Tolliver refers to her process as “creative recycling”: forging found and thrifted materials, and repurposing them. These frenetic bundles of coils, adornments, wires, and loose ends express the artist’s feelings, perspectives, and everyday way of living.

Earlier works of the artist are on a smaller scale and doll-like. They are intimate, imaginative references to Tolliver’s own girlhood in a world lacking adequate or authentic representations of Black life.

Tolliver’s more recent figurative assemblages are life-size, larger-than-life, looming. They command space and celebrate it. There is an inherent connection between these sculptures and the long-established history of African American yard art, where plants, statuary, and artistic creations communicate themes of personal space, freedom of expression, and dreams of independence. Tolliver’s bold visual choices and material combinations are refusals of outside value judgments and hierarchies.

When visiting artist Teresa Tolliver's home studio, one expects the figures will spring to life, otherworldly. They seem to gather and congregate. There are no distractions from the outside, save the light coming through the window. Through subtle details like molding, furniture, and drawers inspired by Tolliver’s own domestic space, Harbingers of Dreams attempts to capture the resplendent and spiritual nature of such a visit, with the opportunity to sit among the artist’s creations.

Tolliver’s figurative sculptures appear as embodiments of the city of L.A. and its diverse communities and neighborhoods. They are assemblages of disparate influences, esthetics, and materials: prefab, handmade, urban, nostalgic, opulent, functional, garish, and celestial. A visual cacophony of colors, influences, designs, and forms, each figure beckons us towards futures in the making.

Teresa Tolliver is the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.
