Exhibition:Cathy Barry Art Exhibition
2025-09-22 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Detroit) | North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connection Gallery lower level
Cathy Barry has a profound connection to the natural world, which has shaped her artistic journey. She focuses on expressing gratitude, compassion, and a sense of responsibility towards environmental protection. After years of working with traditional media such as oil, acrylic, and watercolor, her art is transitioning to more sustainable materials. The pigments she uses in her collages are sourced entirely from plants, all collected and processed by Cathy herself from various locations throughout Michigan. This natural paint has become a vital part of her expressive palette, driving her to approach her work with a renewed sense of integrity and awareness of our interconnected ecosystem.

In her collages, Cathy skillfully combines paper painted with her homemade botanical pigments and intricately punched shapes, creating a distinctive micro-scale vocabulary. These miniature worlds are thoughtfully assembled within larger contexts, challenging our perceptions of the universe and our place within it.

Recently, Cathy has embarked on a new adventure: creating art directly from plant materials. By collecting, drying, and weaving leaves, she has developed an exciting rhythm in her process. Through simple weaving, twining, and basketry techniques, she has deepened her enthusiasm for and connection to the plants surrounding her in her yard and neighborhood. This integration of materials with form and subject in her work evokes a serene wholeness that reflects nature's inherent wisdom. Additionally, her journey has sparked a curiosity to explore the historical uses and roles of plants throughout history.

Cathy Barry is an artist and instructor living and working in Ann Arbor, Mi. She is a Lecturer in the University of Michigan (UM) Stamps School of Art and Design, the UM Program in the Environment and the UM Biological Station.

Exercise / Fitness:Chair Aerobics/Stretch, Strength & Balance/Zumba
2025-09-22 09:00 - 10:00 | Off Campus Location
Lifetime Fitness classes are offered at Briarwood Mall in the JCPenney wing every Monday-Friday from 9-10am. No experience necessary. Classes are specifically designed for older adults, however, everyone is welcome. LTF classes are free, but please consider making a $2/person per class donation as our classes are supported strictly through donations. No registration is necessary, simply attend when it fits your schedule.

Exhibition:Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
2025-09-22 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition* Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire* delves into the dramas unfolding in America’s western forests. With imagery and materials gathered during her extensive fieldwork in the Rocky Mountains, she reveals the fragile interplay among trees, insects, and wildfire. Chalmers’s visual language is both beautiful and unsettling – a meditation on the forces reshaping alpine ecosystems. More details and related events at https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/current-exhibitions/catherine-chalmers.html.

*Catherine Chalmers is the Jean Yokes Woodhead Visiting Artist at the Institute for the Humanities. *

Careers / Jobs:Hub Donuts
2025-09-22 09:00 - 15:00 | LSA Building - Lobby Navigation Services Desk
🍩 Donut Miss Your Career Journey 🍩
Free Donuts + 6 Sweet Ways to Get Career-Ready
Ready to take the next step in your career journey—but not sure where to start? Stop by the Navigation Desk in the LSA Building on Mondays, Thursdays, or Fridays for a free donut (while supplies last) and an easy win for your future! The LSA Opportunity Hub is here to help you move forward, one sweet step at a time.

Here’s how it works:

Complete one or more quick career tasks and earn a donut (yes, for real).

Pick your steps:
✅ Create or update your LSA Engage profile
✅ Create or update your LSA Connect profile
✅ Follow us on Instagram and tag an LSA friend
✅ Add our career course to your Canvas dashboard
✅ Register for a Hub event OR coaching appointment
✅ Snap a professional headshot for your LinkedIn profile

Each action helps you build momentum and explore your options. Whether you’re just getting started or already career curious, we’ll help you take a meaningful (and delicious) next step.

Exhibition:ICE in the Heartland: Community Impacts of Worksite Immigration Raids
2025-09-22 09:00 - 17:00 | Lane Hall - Lane Hall Exhibit Space--First Floor
ICE in the Heartland showcases a multifaceted project that gathers and disseminates the stories of communities impacted by immigration worksite raids with the aim of bringing underrepresented narratives to news media, classroom, and public discourse. This project comprises qualitative public health research conducted in impacted communities and visual arts generated from the research outcomes. Research teams of graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Michigan, led by Professor William Lopez, and the University of Iowa, led by Professor Nicole Novak, collaborated with a range of community members and organizers at sites of six large-scale immigration worksite raids that occurred in 2018 in Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas. The researchers visited these sites, spoke to advocates, detainees, their families, and other community members. In conversation with the seventy-seven interviews, artists Dalia Harris and Carolina Jones Ortiz generated ten images that comprise ICE in the Heartland. On display with the artworks are community member testimonies, analysis on the public health detriments to immigration worksite raids and deportation, insights to the artists’ methods, and the curricular materials used in public outreach programs.

Hosted and sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, U-M.

Community Service:Pre-Climate Week UM Branded Clothing Drive
2025-09-22 09:00 - 16:00 | Dana Natural Resources Building - 1520 Dana Bldg
Come to 1520 Dana Bldg (SEAS + PitE Student Center) and drop off your unwanted/gently used UM branded clothing that you no longer need. Drop offs will take place the week of Sept 22nd - 26th! There will be a large bin for you to drop your gently used clothing in for our upcoming Climate Week Clothing Swap - details on that to come shortly.

Exhibition:Suave Mechanicals: A Celebration of Nine Volumes on the Art and History of Bookbinding (2013–2025)
2025-09-22 09:00 - 20:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor)
Explore the art of judging books by their covers! This exhibit highlights a selection of rare books from the University of Michigan's collections, each of them representing binding topics featured in "Suave Mechanicals," the acclaimed nine-volume series dedicated to the study of the art and history of bookbinding.

Spanning from 2013 to 2025, "Suave Mechanicals" contains 85 essays, 27 of which examine the same type of binding as the artifacts on display. Edited by Julia Miller and published by Cathleen A. Baker of The Legacy Press, the series was conceived as a platform for fresh, in-depth scholarship on bookbinding, from its earliest origins to contemporary practice.

Contributors include first-time authors and established experts — bookbinders, conservators, librarians, curators, catalogers, book artists, collectors, and historians — offering a vibrant array of voices and insights into the craftsmanship, culture, and enduring fascination of bookbinding.

Join us for Coffee with the Curator on October 1, 10am-12pm.

Exhibition:The Evolution of Campus, 1838-1963: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's History
2025-09-22 09:00 - 21:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
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.

This exhibit was originally part of a larger exhibit displayed from July 2017 to January 2018 to commemorate U-M's bicentennial.
