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DTSTAMP:20251010T181537
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T110000
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SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Women's Tennis vs Wolverine Invitational
DESCRIPTION:Women's Tennis vs Wolverine Invitational
UID:140423-21887067@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140423
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Women's Tennis
LOCATION:Varsity Tennis Bldg
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DTSTAMP:20251015T121513
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T110100
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\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:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &amp\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &amp\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram
UID:138031-21881238@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20251008T135059
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T122000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EHour: Samantha Snabes
DESCRIPTION:Samantha Snabes is a boundary-breaker who sits at the intersection of space\, society\, and innovation. As co-founder of Catalyst at re:3D Inc\, she’s democratizing 3D printing worldwide\, empowering communities to turn waste into opportunity. Her organization’s Gigabot printers\, now in 50+ countries\, are redefining how we build\, create\, and lead positive change.\n\nWhether she's spearheading open innovation\, advocating for sustainability\, or proving that entrepreneurial action can start anywhere\, Samantha challenges us all to dream (and do) big.\n\nFriday\, October 10\n11:30 AM\nStamps Auditorium\, North Campus\n\nAll students\, all majors\, all experience levels welcome. Come get inspired and imagine new possibilities for tech\, sustainability\, and entrepreneurship!
UID:138919-21884242@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Business,Career,Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Entrepreneur,Entrepreneurship,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Professional Student Life,Graduate School,Graduate Students,In Person,Lecture,Michigan Engineering,Networking,North campus,Talk,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20251002T142353
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T180000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:By Means of a Pencil
DESCRIPTION:October 9 – November 5\, 2025\nOpening Reception October 9\, 5:00-8:00 pm\nClosing Reception: November 2\, 2:00-5:00 pm\n\nThe U-M Duderstadt Center Gallery presents By Means of a Pencil a solo exhibition by artist and Stamps School of Art & Design LEO Lecturer I Nathan Byrne.\n\nBy Means of a Pencil brings together a body of work centered around the quirky and enigmatic Swiss author Robert Walser. In this exhibition poetic gestures and nods to Walser are able to flourish as visual forms and objects. The work comprises spontaneous and excessively durational works of drawing\, collage\, and sculpture.\n\nFor years\, I have been intrigued by the author Robert Walser’s  mark making which he referred to as his “pencil method” where he would sketch out stories in a radically miniaturized script on diminutive paper fragments. Walser’s pencil method began when he was experiencing severe writer’s cramp and: “hideously and frightfully hated his pen.” He goes on in a letter written in 1927 describing the freeing nature of this process: “I suffered a real breakdown in my hand on account of the pen\, a sort of cramp from whose clutches I slowly\, laboriously freed myself by means of the pencil.”\n\nJust as it was with Walser “by means of a pencil” I was able  to make peace with drawing by radically altering the process by which I approached the act itself. Eventually\, this became processes like my transcription drawings\, in which I write out an entire novel as a form of mark making.\n\nWhile this exhibition mines the Walser archive and the spirit of this author\, this work is just as much about me and my immersion in this “world of Walser.” It is about my own engagement with relationships between language and mark making\, language and sculpture\, language and longing.\n\nThis project was made possible by the generous support of Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.\n\nPoster design by Sky Christoph.\n\nHours: 12 – 6 pm\, Tues. – Fri. & Sun.\n\nLocation: 2281 Bonisteel Blvd\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109
UID:140228-21886759@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140228
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Arts Initiative,Exhibition,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Gallery 1019
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DTSTAMP:20251010T112056
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Complexity in the Social World:  The Challenging Case of Structural Racism
DESCRIPTION:The challenge: With the growth of both big data availability and computing power\, there has been a rapid increase in new methods to understanding complexity in the social world. However\, there may not have been a concurrent growth in the foundations of scientific inquiry\, including complex thinking\, broad causal thinking\, and an integration of theories and frameworks across disciplines to guide empirical tests. Further\, evidence suggests that the academic research model\, with its resource-segregated networks\, narrow scientific training\, and focus on measures of short-term productivity\, contributes to a fragmented and even misleading understanding of the social world.The rapid growth in racial inequities research through the concept of ‘structural racism’ is a case study in the challenges that arise without a thorough integration of theories drawn from source humanities and humanities-informed social science but with an academic model built on segregated resources that prioritizes short-term products. What has resulted is a literature that\, at times\, sidesteps difficult questions on how to understand the interconnected systems and processes that link racial patterns in social\, economic\, and political life over place and time. Symposium purpose: This meeting is intended to address the challenges to the social science literature on race. We will convene discussions about social scientific inquiry\, the limitations of the academic research model\, and innovative approaches to the study of racial patterns and inequities while working to desegregate research networks. This symposium will take place at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research\, located at 426 Thompson Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109. 
UID:136544-21878812@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136544
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Institute for Social Research, Room 1430 and atrium
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DTSTAMP:20251001T103434
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Detroit’s Rapid Rehousing Program Designed by Youth\, For Youth: A Panel on Meaningful Youth Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Detroit’s Rapid Rehousing Program Designed by Youth\, For Youth: A Panel on Meaningful Youth Engagement\nCourtney Smith\, Founder and CEO of Detroit Phoenix Center\nCaylene Rudd & Bobbi Simmons\, Detroit Phoenix Center Youth Action Board members\nFriday\, October 10\, noon ET\nSSW ECC 1840\n\nThe Detroit Phoenix Center provides critical resources\, wraparound support\, and a safe\, nurturing environment to youth. They partner with young people to break the generational cycle of homelessness and poverty.\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person and virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.\n\nThis series is free and open to the public as well as being a one-credit course for U-M students (SWK 503\, Course #25751). In-person talks include coffee\, cookies\, and the chance to ask the speakers questions or watch the livestream on YouTube.
UID:138513-21883153@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138513
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Advocacy,Community Engagement,Community Organizing,Community Service,Detroit,Discussion,Food,ford school,ford school of public policy,Free,gerald r. ford school of public policy,Homelessness,Human Centered Design,Humanities,In Person,Lecture,Poverty,poverty and inequality,Poverty Solutions,Public Health,Public Policy,Social Impact,Social Justice,Social Science,Social Sciences,Social Work,Sociology
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - ECC 1840
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DTSTAMP:20251015T141939
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:For All Ages Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:In the 19th century\, new ideas about childhood and education\, along with advances in printing like chromolithography\, made it possible to mass-produce games and toys. These were not only fun to play with but also taught practical skills and moral lessons. Learn about familiar and unique toys and board games throughout American history in the William L. Clements Library’s new exhibit\, “For All Ages” on view weekdays from 12-4 pm between October 3-January 5.\n\nEven though the objects are behind glass\, the co-curators have created an interactive way to explore the display. Visit the exhibit to participate in a scavenger hunt and win a prize!
UID:138977-21884396@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138977
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american history,Exhibit,Free,Fun,Games,In Person,libraries,Library
LOCATION:William Clements Library
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DTSTAMP:20250925T113017
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T160000
SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Fresh Check Day
DESCRIPTION:University Health & Counseling's CAPS\, along with Wolverine Wellness and the Jordan Porco Foundation\, is hosting Fresh Check Day. An initiative through our JED foundation\, Fresh Check Day is an interactive\, outdoor event that includes booths focused on mental health education\, wellness\, and suicide prevention resources—available on campus\, in the community\, and nationally. Stop by to learn more and enjoy refreshments and entertainment.
UID:139471-21885585@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139471
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mental Health,Well-being
LOCATION:Diag - Central Campus
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