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DTSTAMP:20260120T163718
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T080000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Making Armenian Americans - Project Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project
DESCRIPTION:Making Armenian Americans  \nCurators: Michael Pifer (U-M| MES) and Kathryn Babayan (U-M|History)\nProject Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project\n\nMaking Armenian Americans invites viewers into a moment of possibility in the early 20th century\, when Armenians fleeing violence at the end of the Ottoman Empire came to reinvent themselves in the promise of America. Drawn from the archives of Project Save\, these photographs capture different valences of American life\, as experienced\, performed\, and imagined by Armenian immigrants. From naturalization classes to festivals of nations\, from breaking new ground for churches to mundane tableaus of Thanksgiving and Christmas\, this range of photographs offers a glimpse of a community in the making\, one that sought to preserve a memory of its Ottoman past even while anticipating an American future.
UID:143388-21893029@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143388
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Exhibition,history
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DTSTAMP:20260306T115746
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Հմայարան / Hmayaran by Levon Kafafian (Detroit-based Artist)
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit Opening: March 12\, 2026\nExhibit Dates: March 12-30\, 2026\, International Institute Gallery\, 547 Weiser Hall\n\nSet within Kafafian's speculative future world Azadistan—a place of magic and spirits beyond a digital collapse\, Հմայարան / Hmayaran is an immersive shrine housing a series of soft-sculptural artifacts reimagining objects Armenians have traditionally crafted for spiritual power and protection.\n \n     Kafafian's focus in this exhibition is on the marks Armenians carve into stone\, clay and wood to imbue meaning\, memory and magic into their lived environments\, particularly as part of folk traditions outside of the realms of church and state.\n   \n     Channeled from the collective Armenian diasporic imaginary\, Kafafian's Portal Fire series depicts a narrative story that emerges from the materials as they are brought into relationship through weaving\, dyeing\, embellishment and thread. In this story world hybrid cultural practices and alternative spiritual modes develop from embodied traditions in response to the changing physical and cultural landscape of Southwest Asia in a future where technological catastrophe has severed global communications and erased digital archives. The multi-ethnic society of Azadistan takes shape through installations\, objects\, texts and performances manifesting the multiplicity of Aremenian-ness through the dimensions of a complicated past and its potential for a vibrant\, evolving futurity.\n\nCosponsor: Institute for the Humanities
UID:143403-21893086@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143403
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Armenian Studies,Area Studies,Exhibition,Art
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - International Institute Gallery, Room 547
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DTSTAMP:20260321T060141
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T235959
SUMMARY:Sporting Event:MIVA League Championships
DESCRIPTION:A and B final tournament before Nationals.
UID:146373-21898967@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146373
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Hammond Sportsplex
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DTSTAMP:20260321T060134
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T210000
SUMMARY:Other:Sparty Showdown 
DESCRIPTION:Club Tennis will travel to East Lansing\, MI to compete in the Sparty Showdown
UID:146302-21898853@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146302
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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LOCATION:East Lansing, MI 
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DTSTAMP:20260321T082045
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Art in the Arb
DESCRIPTION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum invites you to explore your connection to nature and creativity. Join us for \"Art in the Arb\"\, a special workshop series designed to welcome U-M students\, staff\, and faculty to Nichols Arboretum through a shared arts experience.  Through these events\, you'll be inspired by the beauty of nature and invited to explore your creativity\, all while connecting with others.No prior art experience is required\; all levels are welcome.  All materials are provided. Bring your curiosity and love for the outdoors!
UID:143083-21897701@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143083
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:1610 Washington Heights, Nichols Arboretum
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DTSTAMP:20260223T150420
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Art in the Arb: Embodied Ecologies
DESCRIPTION:Embodied Ecologies: Restoration through Movement Workshop\n\nJoin Student Life Sustainability Cultural Organizers for a unique Art in the Arb event focused on restoring the natural environment and community relationships. Leaning into movement as healing and empowering\, this workshop opens up new pathways for understanding environmental challenges.  Led by Kaitlyn Wilson\, a UM student studying environmental science and dance\, this workshop will give participants the opportunity to engage in ecological restoration efforts and then\, based on their experience\, create movement in a group setting. \n\nArtist Bio: Kaitlyn Wilson is a senior at the University of Michigan earning a Dance BFA and Environmental Studies BA with a specialization in Environmental Behavior and Communication. Using her background in ecological research and her deep understanding of environmental systems\, she aims to create meaningful experiences and performances that investigate how humans can adapt to our changing world.\n\nRegistration required: https://myumi.ch/R3zN5
UID:144415-21895325@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144415
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Community Service,Sustainability,Outdoors,Ecological Restoration,Dance,Art
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
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DTSTAMP:20260317T171335
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Wayward Images
DESCRIPTION:March 9-April 3\, 2026\n--\nThe public is cordially invited to an artist's reception on Wednesday\, March 27th at 4:30 pm in the RC Art Gallery.\n--\n\nPublic Workshop: On March 19th from 1 to 3pm\, join exhibiting artist Stamps School of Art & Design Assistant Professor Angela Chen for a collaborative bookmaking workshop! Drawing on the themes from her latest book and exhibition After School 課後\, participants are invited to critique educational systems by cutting up old textbooks and creating new photocopy collages. All materials will be provided\, but participants are welcome to bring their own texts to deconstruct!\n\n--\nAngela Chen - Artist Statement: Angela Chen’s After School brings together collage\, sculpture\, and new and historical photographs to unpack the culture of after school tutoring centers in California. Known as 補習班 (buxiban) in Chinese\, after schools are referred to colloquially as “cram schools” and by scholars as “shadow education.” Operating simultaneously as spaces of community\, care\, and control\, these schools can be demanding and factory-like\; but they also deliver essential childcare services to busy parents\, many of whom are new immigrants. As a child and young adult\, Chen attended and worked at Futurelink School\, a buxiban and her parents’ business. Located in the San Gabriel Valley\, CA\, Futurelink served hundreds of primarily East Asian students\, providing them with homework help and supplemental English and math lessons. Inspired by Futurelink’s vast archive of photographs\, workbooks\, objects\, and advertisements\, After School explores the role of education in Asian American enclaves and challenges stereotypes about Asian American students. Assemblages combine Futurelink photographs with photographs of California Chinese schools during the Chinese Exclusion era to reflect on the ongoing legacies of racism\, segregation\, and US immigration policy within the Asian American experience.\n\nAaron Turner - Artist Statement: Aaron Turner’s Black Alchemy (2014 - Present) speaks to the broad spectrum of identity and speculative aesthetics\, drawing from lived experience\, archives\, American history\, and art history. He uses the light in combination with the Darkroom\, alternative and 19th-century printing processes\, the view camera (4x5 & 8x10)\, geometric abstraction\, assemblage\, and monochromatic pictorial experimentation to respond to internal questions about representation\, the discursive enterprise\, and the artists' role in the studio space.\nBlack Alchemy provides a lens through which he sees the world while simultaneously considering the past\, present\, and future\, translating knowledge and perspective outside the intellectual studio space.\n\nRicky Weaver - Artist Statement: Ricky Weaver’s work co-conspires with the poetics and temporality of Black feminist metaphysics embeded in the Black Quotidian. These images locate a code that can be traced back to the Middle Passage—one that disrupts the paradigmatic ways of archiving Blackness and outsmarts surveillance technologies as such. Her application of scripture\, hymn\, and colloquial passages come together in acts of dark sousveillance to recall language that implies worlds that don’t require an escape. She addresses the sonic\, linguistic\, and visual as a way to posture the body as a central apparatus for storing\, downloading\, and transferring archives.
UID:146709-21899526@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146709
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:art,art and design,artists,Art Workshop,arts at michigan,arts,artists and curators
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20251212T105136
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260321T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in the Greco-Roman World
DESCRIPTION:View a diverse array of artifacts which were created to communicate with and call upon various unseen\, supernatural forces for aid and protection. While the objects on display are disparate at first glance\, ranging from lead tablets and amulets to papyrus and parchment leaves\, they all share a common thread: they have long been labeled as \"magical\" in traditional Western scholarship.\n\nHowever\, each of these artifacts is better understood on a broad spectrum of ancient ritual\, from subversive and transgressive acts to highly social and visible ones. The exhibit highlights the objects’ oft-overlooked material dimensions\, asking us to consider how qualities like color\, texture\, and weight shaped an object’s perceived efficacy and meaning. \n\nThis exhibit was a collaboration\, and displays items from several University of Michigan units: the library’s Special Collections Research Center and Papyrology Collection\, the Museum of Natural History\, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. It was curated by Abigail Staub\, PhD Candidate\, Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology.\n\nAnna Bonnell Freidin\, U-M associate professor of history\, will talk about \"Healing the Womb: Uterine Amulets in the Roman World\" (https://events.umich.edu/event/142418) on January 16.
UID:142417-21890893@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142417
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Library,Free,Archaeology
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
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