BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261002T162107 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T150000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:East Quad (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:151018-21915258@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Game Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260327T101154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Martin Sexton DESCRIPTION:“The best live performer I’ve ever seen.” –John Mayer\n\nMartin Sexton tours in support of the 25th anniversary of Live Wide Open - the critically-acclaimed double vinyl live album. The show will include these fan-favorites as well as some new material and surprise covers. UID:147014-21900242@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147014 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261002T162125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T213000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:West Quad (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:151036-21915263@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151036 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:WQ Multipurpose Room (1005) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261002T162108 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T220000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Wolverine Village Building 2 (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:149908-21913862@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149908 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Building 2 1st Floor Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260930T181744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T222000 SUMMARY:Performance:Organ Encore! DESCRIPTION:*Organ Encore!* recitals feature the historic Frieze Memorial Organ in Hill Auditorium following select ensemble concerts. Organ faculty and students will offer 20-minute programs that elaborate upon the theme or concept of the preceding concert. \n\nOn October 8\, Professors Caroline Robinson and Nicole Keller will continue the Chamber Choir’s celebration of University of Michigan composers with a program featuring works of William Albright and William Bolcom\, who wrote for the instrument in Hill Auditorium. UID:153142-21915173@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261002T161912 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T235900 SUMMARY:Well-being:Cook Scholars Free Sips DESCRIPTION:One month in\, are you looking for direction in networking\, searching student orgs\, or finding your way around Ann Arbor\, talk to us. We can help. During Sober October\, we'll treat you to Free Sips of your favorite beverage. Please indicate you're a Cook Scholar\, when you use the registration intake form (links on right). UID:153052-21914994@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153052 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Cook Scholars,Free,Networking,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T181519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:\n\nAugust 24 - October 18\, 2026\nExhibition Reception: October 1\, 1-2:30 p.m.\n\nIn their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students \"develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.\" \n\nStamps Lecturer & Student Exhibitions Coordinator Sally Clegg notes\, \"Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now?\" At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \n\nInstalled throughout the Art & Architecture Building\, the Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases the art and design work created in this pivotal course by our rising third-year and transfer students\, and invites first-year students and other newcomers to explore both the building and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 50 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. The pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path: experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\n\nAs Course Coordinator\, Stamps Assistant Professor Pedram Baldari both teaches and works directly with all the faculty overseeing each section to collaboratively support the entire class. He offers this reflection on the diverse collection of work on view in this year’s exhibition.\n\nThese works engage a wide range of questions and concerns. Students investigate memory\, identity\, materiality\, ecology\, technology\, labor\, social relationships\, and the built environment through equally diverse formal approaches. While these subjects recur across the exhibition\, what stands out most is not a dominant thematic direction\, but a shared commitment to sustained inquiry.\n\nSYS is intentionally structured around a different learning model than project-based courses. Rather than responding to predetermined assignments\, students identify their own questions and spend an entire semester developing them through research\, experimentation\, critique\, and multiple iterations. The emphasis is not on arriving quickly at a resolved outcome\, but on cultivating the capacity to work independently\, remain responsive to new discoveries\, and allow the project itself to evolve through sustained engagement.\n\nAs a result\, the exhibition presents more than a collection of finished works. It documents different ways of investigating\, testing\, and refining ideas. Some students advance through material experimentation\, others through drawing\, installation\, performance\, digital media\, social engagement\, or speculative approaches. Each project reflects a distinct methodology that has developed through repeated cycles of making\, reflection\, critique\, and revision. In a sense\, the dialectical process generated by the nature of this course is the most significant thread connecting this year’s exhibition. It marks a point at which students begin moving beyond solving assignments toward constructing independent practices\, developing the habits of inquiry\, critical reflection\, and experimentation that will continue to shape their work well beyond SYS.\n\n\n\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n