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DTSTAMP:20260311T181512
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Metamorphosis: Clay in Flux
DESCRIPTION:\n\nMetamorphosis: Clay in Flux is an exhibition celebrating the creative potential of student ceramics\, designed to correspond with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Detroit\, and the surrounding ceramics events in Southeast Michigan.\n\nThis exhibition is organized and juried by members of the Stamps Student-led Exhibition Committee (SEC) and will be on display in the Art & Architecture Building’s Street Gallery from March 11- 25\, 2026. The exhibition will open with a reception on Wednesday\, March 11 from 4:30-6 p.m. \n\nSEC Jurors\n\nElan Povirk (project lead)\nAlexis Albert\nRachel Deveyra\n\nExhibiting Artists\n\nZoe Dvorin\nLilly Fredericks\nMaría E. García-Murguía\nMikayla Holcomb\nVirginia Holland\nMagdalyn Hubbard\nMira Hughes\nAudrey Jarrett\nEry Millican\nIsabella Possin\nMo Pofahl\nNatalie Radabaugh\nNik Roy\nMihika Shukla\nAbigail Watters
UID:146483-21899174@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146483
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20251215T163232
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000
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:142768-21891389@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:20260312T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T210000
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:138431-21890649@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:20250926T162032
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Giving and Receiving Feedback: Learning in Action Lab
DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website.
UID:139956-21886413@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139956
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Communication,Intergroup Dialogue
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260206T110245
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T115000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Estimation in linear models with clustered data (joint work with Mikkel Solvsten and Baiyun Jing)
DESCRIPTION:We study linear regression models with clustered data\, high-dimensional controls\, and a complicated structure of exclusion restrictions. We propose a correctly centered internal IV estimator that accommodates a variety of exclusion restrictions and permits within-cluster dependence. The estimator has a simple leave-out interpretation and remains computationally tractable. We derive a central limit theorem for its quadratic form and propose a robust variance estimator. We also develop inference methods that remain valid under weak identification. Our framework extends classical dynamic panel methods to more general clustered settings. An empirical application of a large-scale fiscal intervention in rural Kenya with spatial interference illustrates the approach.
UID:143681-21893640@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143681
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Economics,Econometrics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
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DTSTAMP:20260305T143317
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T130000
SUMMARY:Other:Critical Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Aida Levy-Hussen\, Chair\nParticipants: Noor Al-Samarrai\, Alyse Campbell\, Maya Day\, Emma Erlbacher\, Jennifer Nessel\, Asa Zhang\n\nRSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeW2XrzbB2peOPVyFXtzm7A58xDctlwC6BwFCphZipjqKRjjQ/viewform\n\n“Baghdad: Dwellings\, Poetry and Oral History”\nNoor Al-Samarrai is the author of EL CERRITO (Inside the Castle\, 2018)2. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at U-M\, where she is currently a postgraduate Zell Fellow in poetry\, researching and writing her second collection of documentary poetry tracing the emotional cartography of mid-20th century Baghdad.\n\n“Narratives of Collaboration: Exploring Community-Driven Approaches to First-Year Writing Course Design”\nAlyse Campbell is a PhD Candidate in the Joint Program in English and Education whose current research focuses on community-engaged writing classrooms and first-year writing pedagogy: specifically on the collaborative processes between instructors and community partners. She is a former high school English teacher and received her M.A. in Teaching as well as her B.A. in English and Communication.\n\n“Reading Through Mitákuye Oyásʼiŋ: Agonistic Relations in the circulation of Layli Long Soldier’s Quilts”\nMaya Day is a 6th year English PhD Candidate and the James A. Winn Graduate Fellow at the Institute of the Humanities. Her project\, \"Leaking Poems\" studies poets who escape the pressures of mainstream recognition and instead form counterpublics through unconventional circulation practices of their poems.\n\nTitle Forthcoming\nEmma Erlbacher is a poet from Iowa. Her poetry centers the erotic\, queerness\, family\, the natural world\, and mental health.\n\n\"The Cage: A Novel\" \nJennifer Nessel is a fiction writer at the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers Program. Their writing has been supported by GrubStreet and has appeared in The Southern Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. \n\n“Translation Un/Bound: Transnational Ideologies and Orientalist Forms in Modernist Poetry\, 1895-1955”\nAsa Zhang is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in English and a Rackham Predoctoral Fellow. Her work traces the shifting relations between form\, ideology\, and aesthetic practice in English poetry from the late Victorian era through late modernism\, particularly under transnational and global conditions of production and reception. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Modern Language Quarterly\, English Language Notes\, Feminist Review\, and other venues.
UID:143751-21893739@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143751
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,English Language And Literature,Dissertation
LOCATION:Michigan League
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DTSTAMP:20251216T092634
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T123000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Filing Taxes for Graduate Students
DESCRIPTION:As part of our Financial Education Series\, this virtual event is designed to help demystify tax filing for graduate students—an area that isn’t always as straightforward as we might hope.\n\nEd Jennings\, tax director at the University of Michigan\, will walk participants through how to prepare for the upcoming tax season. This session is geared toward domestic students.\n\nAttendees will have the opportunity to ask questions throughout the presentation.\n\nThose who register will receive a copy of the slides and access to the recording. Please note that the recording may take a few weeks to process.
UID:142788-21891533@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142788
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Sessions,Rgs-events
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
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DTSTAMP:20260115T181512
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 2): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-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 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 2 Curatorial Statement\n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Sally Clegg (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Kim Karlsrud (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtists Sally Clegg and Kim Karlsrud wrap the Division Street pillars in highly site-specific ornament unearthed from the overlooked margins of Ann Arbor. On the Courtyard pillar\, Karlsrud scales up photographs of objects found in liminal spaces surrounding campus buildings on Green Road\, which the artist has encrusted in road salt. On the entryway pillar\, Clegg zooms in on tiny fragments of found material from UMich’s famous “rock” to celebrate nearly seven decades of student art and activism. Both artists uplift aggregate of local human activity to reveal tiny worlds of found form. \n\nSally Clegg: Sentimentary Rock\nSentimentary Rock is a composition of paint slag collected from the UMich rock monument at the corner of Washtenaw Avenue and Hill Street. This colorful composite material has been accumulating at the base of the iconic limestone boulder since the mid 1950’s\, when students began a tradition of painting it in acts of protest\, creativity\, and ritual\, sometimes multiple times per week. Akin to byproducts of industry such as “Fordite” (collectable chunks of automotive overspray sometimes called ‘Detroit agate’)\, Sentimentary Rock includes thousands of layers\, each dripped from a palimpsestic public proclamation. When processed\, sculpted\, sealed\, assembled\, and macro-photographed\, the result is this enlarged array of tiny gems\, intended to celebrate the indissoluble student voice. \n\nKim Karlsrud: What Amasses\nWhat Amasses is an assemblage of everyday found objects collected within the Miller Creek watershed\, an urbanized drainage system that encompasses much of the city of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan campus. Selected objects were immersed in a road salt solution\, allowing delicate crystalline formations to emerge. Road salt is a common material input into these hydrological networks during the winter months and exists in multiple states of refinement\, expression\, coherence\, and fragmentation. Each object was then arranged\, photographed\, and enlarged to recontextualize these materials in ways that invite deeper reflections on how infrastructure and human agency blur notions of the natural and the artificial. \nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nSally Clegg \nSally Clegg is an artist and educator from Pelham\, Massachusetts. Her studio practice is rooted in sculpture and expanded printmaking\, stemming from a fascination with human efforts to make meaning from our relationships to objects. Clegg integrates history\, popular culture\, literature and philosophy as material for artmaking\, leveraging personal anecdote and humor to reveal the complexity\, absurdity\, and theoretical richness at play in our connections to things and to ourselves. \n\nClegg holds an MFA in Art from The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design\, and a BA in Art & English from Goucher College. She has exhibited nationally and internationally\, and her work can be found in permanent collections at Yale University\, The New York Public Library\, and elsewhere. Her artwork and writing has appeared in ASAP/Journal\, BOMB Magazine\, Sculpture Magazine\, and Hyperallergic. She is a lecturer in Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\n\nKim Karlsrud \nKim Karlsrud is the co-founder of Commonstudio\, a collaborative creative practice that develops socio-ecological and spatial interventions\, installations\, and initiatives working with and within urban landscapes. Her work explores the space between art and design\, and is grounded in the concept of the “commons\,” that which is shared\, as well as that which is ordinary\, banal\, and commonplace.\n\nKarlsrud completed her undergraduate degree in Product Design from Otis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan. She is currently an Assistant Visiting Professor in the College of Design at the University of Oregon\, teaching across Art and Landscape Architecture departments. She jointly received the 2014-15 Prince Charitable Trust Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture\, was a 2017 resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and is the 2025-26 Fuller Fieldscape Fellow. Website / Instagram
UID:138032-21881308@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138032
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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