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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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2014whether photographic or collage-based\u2014are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I\u2019ve 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\u2014a place of sawdust, chop saws, and improvisation\u2014instilled 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 & Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art & 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. 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This career fair is exclusive to BIG10 graduate students (MS\/PhD) and postdocs like you\u2014no undergraduates will be in attendance! We invite you to join us and connect with top employers and organizations seeking bright minds like yours.All individuals, from first-year graduatestudents to MS\/PhD\/Postdocs and alumni, are welcome to participate in the BIG10 GSPIRE. Whether you are considering a career in academia or industry, this event will provide valuable networking opportunities and the chance to explore and secure professional employment in industry.Benefits of Attending:1. \u00a0 \u00a0\nExplore your career options in industry and government.2. \u00a0 \u00a0\nChat with industry recruiters and build your network throughout\nyour program.3. \u00a0 \u00a0\nFind an internship or full-time career!Graduating Soon?Individuals who are due to graduate in Dec 2025 or May\/August\/Dec\n2026 are strongly encouraged to submit a resume (not a C.V.) using the provided\nlink in the registration confirmation email. It's possible to submit a resume\neven if you are unable to attend the career fairs, as all industry partners\nwill receive all resumes submitted. For those not on Handshake, please reach out to your graduate coordinator or career service office for a link to submit your resume.NOTE: You are not required to submit a resume to participate in this career\nfair. If you do submit your resume, it is NOT equal to registering for the\nevent\u2014don\u2019t forget to register on Handshake!The deadline for resume submissions for the virtual BIG10\nGSPIRE is Monday, October 13th at 11:59 pm Eastern Time. It is advised\nto submit resumes early to account for any potential technical difficulties.\nAdding a resume on Handshake is also recommended, as it is a useful platform\nfor job searching and applications at your level.Companies participating in this event will exclusively offer\ninternships and professional positions for Postdocs, PhDs, and Master's level\nstudents\/staff. The list of attending companies may expand closer to the event\ndate, so it's important to check back frequently for updates.Please note that if you require any accommodations such as live\ncaptioning or interpretation to fully participate in this event, please contact\nyour career services office. Requests made two\nweeks before the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but\nthe university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet ready to take your future to the next level! We look forward\nto seeing you there.NOTE: For\u00a0Purdue, Penn State & UMB, we have attached specific instructions from Handshake to the career fair for you to utilize a \"workaround\" since your universities are not on Handshake at all. This work around\u00a0DOES NOT\u00a0work for other invited institutions who do not support Handshake accounts for postdocs and\/or graduate students. Sorry. If you don't have a Handshake account, then you can still participate by submitting your resume via a Qualtrics survey. You shouldreceive a link in email promotions.If you know you want an internship or full-time position in the next 18 months, then we highly recommend you submit a resume no matter where you are in your current program, as some organizations will track your progress over the next several years. You can submit your resume by utilizing the link provided in the \"You are registered\" email that Handshake sends once you are registered for the fair or viapromotional emails from your home institution. 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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.\r\n\r\nFor years, I have been intrigued by the author Robert Walser\u2019s mark making which he referred to as his \u201cpencil method\u201d where he would sketch out stories in a radically miniaturized script on diminutive paper fragments. Walser\u2019s pencil method began when he was experiencing severe writer\u2019s cramp and: \u201chideously and frightfully hated his pen.\u201d He goes on in a letter written in 1927 describing the freeing nature of this process: \u201cI 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.\u201d\r\n\r\nJust as it was with Walser \u201cby means of a pencil\u201d 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.\r\n\r\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 \u201cworld of Walser.\u201d It is about my own engagement with relationships between language and mark making, language and sculpture, language and longing.\r\n\r\nThis project was made possible by the generous support of Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.\r\n\r\nPoster design by Sky Christoph.\r\n\r\nHours: 12 \u2013 6 pm, Tues. \u2013 Fri. & Sun.\r\n\r\nLocation: 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109", "occurrence_notes":null, "guid":"140228-21886772@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/140228", "building_id":"1000396", "building_name":"Duderstadt Center", "campus_maps_id":"181", "room":"Gallery 1019", "location_name":"Duderstadt Center", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["Visual Arts","Exhibition","Arts Initiative","Art"], "website":"", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"Duderstadt Center", "group_id":"4245", "website":"http:\/\/dc.umich.edu" }, { "group_name":"Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design", "group_id":"3157", "website":"http:\/\/stamps.umich.edu\/" } ], "image_url":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "event_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "event_large_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_2x\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "event_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "group_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "group_thumb_square":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_thumb_square\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "group_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_large\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "group_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "event_large_crop":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_crop\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "event_list":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_list\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "event_list_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_list_2x\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "event_grid":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_grid\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "event_grid_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_grid_2x\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "event_feature_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_feature_large\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png", "event_feature_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_feature_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2025\/10\/event_140228_original-1.png" }, "occurrence_count":20, "first_occurrence":21886758 } , "138516-21883158": { "datetime_modified":"20251017T152506", "datetime_start":"20251023T120000", "datetime_end":"20251023T140000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2025-10-23", "date_end":"2025-10-23", "time_start":"12:00:00", "time_end":"14:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"Critical Conversations: Novels", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"Critical Conversations: Novels: Flash talks from faculty members and graduate students about their current work as related to a rotating theme", "event_subtitle":"Flash talks from faculty members and graduate students about their current work as related to a rotating theme", "event_type":"Lecture \/ Discussion", "event_type_id":"13", "description":"Andrea Zemgulys (Chair)\r\n\r\n\u201cThe African Novel\u201d\r\nGaurav Desai is Frederick G. 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