Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. ARCHIGRAM EXHIBITION OPENING (January 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37563 37563-6629368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on View January 14 - February 19
This exhibition opening reception begins after Dennis Crompton's lecture in STAMPS Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center.
This exhibition celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of Archigram, the British architects whose dynamic and provocative vision of future life brought the pop spirit to the architecture avant garde in 1960s Britain.
Vibrant, playful, optimistic, and iconoclastic, the visionary architectural projects presented by Archigram in exhibitions, collages, drawings and film, played an important role in 1960s pop culture and have an enduring influence on architecture today. Archigram was founded in London in 1961 around a nucleus of young architects: Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb. Inspired by pop culture, advances in technology and the belief that architects had a responsibility to develop new ways of responding to social change, the group rebelled against the conservative architectural establishment by launching a magazine – entitled Archigram – to express its ideas.
Organized by Dennis Crompton for Archigram. Supported by the Johe Fund.
Join us also for an opening lecture delivered by Dennis Crompton, January 13 at 6:00pm in the Walgreen Drama Center's STAMPS Auditorium, followed by an opening reception for the exhibition at the Liberty Research Annex.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:26:33 -0500 2017-01-16T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Archigram
Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel (January 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 36561-5716507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Carlye Crisler, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities, people and lighting at a particular time of day, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes, Crisler also is a costumer, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:56:24 -0500 2017-01-16T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fleetwood, detail by Carlye Crisler, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request
Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads (January 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 36273-5552655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Suzanne L. Cross, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing, supporting, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:29:23 -0500 2017-01-16T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tribute Shawl Accessories by Suzanne L. Cross, photograph by Marcella Hadden, Niibing Giizis Photography. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation, Holidays & Beyond (January 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 36268-5552486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark, a former U-M physician, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:16:01 -0500 2017-01-16T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dr. Snowflake by Thomas L. Clark. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush (January 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 36560-5716423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs, also from unknown photographers, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:56:40 -0500 2017-01-16T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition 100 year-old basket by unknown Kuskokwim Athabascan artist, photograph by Virginia Simson Nelson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art (January 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 36559-5716339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Since the dawn of history, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick, heal wounds, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc., an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:47:30 -0500 2017-01-16T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Two Blind Mice & a Wild-Type by Shannon Conley, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture (January 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 36272-5552571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In the year 2000, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut, hammer, bend, grind and weld his sculptures to life, giving them movement and character.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:20:13 -0500 2017-01-16T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Steel Horse by Tim Shoemaker, photograph by Greg Durling. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage (January 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 36558-5716255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces, gum wrapper chain, American bricks, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art, they can be teaching tools, aids in focus or meditation, used to establish sacred space, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan, and he is an artist, designer and collector with a background in theater, fashion design, therapeutic bodywork, meditation, printmaking and assemblage.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:44:36 -0500 2017-01-16T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Mandala No. 3, photograph by Patrick Young. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (January 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-01-16T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan (January 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 35907-5372234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local, national, and global change, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times, students have debated among each other, sparred with faculty and administrators, negotiated with community members, and contended with politicians. In so doing, they have shaped the physical campus, the student body, the meaning of community, and the university’s mission as a public institution.

This exhibit showcases key moments of student expression, politics, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor, through the upheavals of world wars, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.

On display January 4-February 25, 2017, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:16:32 -0400 2017-01-16T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition The Leaders and the Rest image logo
It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 (January 16, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 32121-4499699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.

Audubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:04:57 -0400 2017-01-16T08:30:00-05:00 2017-01-16T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Original 1941 exhibit poster for Citizen Kane
Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (January 16, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 44929-10012379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public
Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
Chairs:       
Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR
Cathryn Dwyre, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
Chris Perry, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
David Salomon, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.
Keynotes:
Liam Young, urbanist, designer and futurist; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com); the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc
David Gissen, author, historian, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)
For a full list of speakers and bios, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. 
Ambiguous Territory Symposium Schedule
All events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted
Thursday October 5th
5:00pm
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition Reception
(Taubman College Gallery)
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: Liam Young
(Art + Architecture Auditorium)
 
Friday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)
9:00am
Coffee
9:30am
Welcome: Dean Jonathan Massey
Introductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün
Symposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov
10:00am
Atmospheric Mediations Panel
Introduction: Kathy Velikov
Speaker 1: Christopher Hight
Speaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti
Speaker 3: Sean Lally
Respondent: Meredith Miller
Roundtable Discussion
12:00pm
Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
1:00pm
Biologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: David Salomon
Speaker 1: Jennifer Peeples
Speaker 2: Linsdey french
Speaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos
Respondent: Ellie Abrons
Roundtable Discussion
3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm
Geologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry
Speaker 1: Alessandra Ponte
Speaker 2: Bradley Cantrell
Speaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
Respondent: Mark Lindquist
Roundtable Discussion
5:30pm
Break
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: David Gissen
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition 
September 27th – October 18th 2017
University of Michigan Taubman College Gallery
December 2018 – January 2019
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:07:12 -0400 2017-01-16T09:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun (January 16, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 33066-4655842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event "Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:01:44 -0400 2017-01-16T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Opening of Laylī va Majnūn in Niẓāmī’s Khamsah from Isl. Ms. 287 (copied 1824)
Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (January 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 34760-4987598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment, AISIN, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:47:29 -0400 2017-01-16T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Kabuki
Moving Image: Landscape (January 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-01-16T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection (January 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 35430-5224436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:33:27 -0400 2017-01-16T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Dramza Demchog Nyingpo, innter face, Upper book cover, Tebet, early 15th century, wood with paint and gilding. MacLean Collection
The Aesthetic Movement (January 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-01-16T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask (January 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 34761-4987699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created, used, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey, spanning a hundred years, three continents, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.
Traces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely, and in great detail, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:49:36 -0400 2017-01-16T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Chokwe Mask
Exhibition: Redefining Identity (January 16, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36752 36752-5819982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps in Color (SiC) is a student led organization dedicated to increasing the creative, social, and professional opportunities of peers, faculty, and staff of color at the Stamps School of Art & Design. SiC organizes an annual winter semester exhibition at the Duderstadt Gallery in partnership with the U-M MLK Symposium. The 2017 exhibition theme: ​​Redefining Identity.

​​Redefining Identity seeks to reject/reveal/debunk society’s definitions of identity and replace it with one’s own vision through a variety of mediums. Judges will look for artwork that best portrays an individual’s sense of self awareness, ability to challenge misconceptions of ethnic groups, and best expression of personal or group identities. ​​Redefining Identity features work by undergraduate and graduate students at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and across the U-M campus.

​​Redefining Identity
January 9 - 21, 2017
Duderstadt Gallery
​Reception: Monday, January 16, 2017 from 7 - 8 pm

Submit Your Work

All graduate and undergraduate students at U-M are invited and encouraged to submit up to two pieces to the show.  Deadline to submit work is 10:00 pm on Saturday, December 31, 2016. Accepted work will be announced via email on Sunday, January 1, 2017.

Submit your work to Retaining Identity →

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:15:54 -0500 2017-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2017-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/stamps-in-color2016.jpg
ARCHIGRAM EXHIBITION OPENING (January 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37563 37563-6629369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on View January 14 - February 19
This exhibition opening reception begins after Dennis Crompton's lecture in STAMPS Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center.
This exhibition celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of Archigram, the British architects whose dynamic and provocative vision of future life brought the pop spirit to the architecture avant garde in 1960s Britain.
Vibrant, playful, optimistic, and iconoclastic, the visionary architectural projects presented by Archigram in exhibitions, collages, drawings and film, played an important role in 1960s pop culture and have an enduring influence on architecture today. Archigram was founded in London in 1961 around a nucleus of young architects: Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb. Inspired by pop culture, advances in technology and the belief that architects had a responsibility to develop new ways of responding to social change, the group rebelled against the conservative architectural establishment by launching a magazine – entitled Archigram – to express its ideas.
Organized by Dennis Crompton for Archigram. Supported by the Johe Fund.
Join us also for an opening lecture delivered by Dennis Crompton, January 13 at 6:00pm in the Walgreen Drama Center's STAMPS Auditorium, followed by an opening reception for the exhibition at the Liberty Research Annex.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:26:33 -0500 2017-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Archigram
Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel (January 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 36561-5716508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Carlye Crisler, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities, people and lighting at a particular time of day, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes, Crisler also is a costumer, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:56:24 -0500 2017-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fleetwood, detail by Carlye Crisler, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request
Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads (January 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 36273-5552656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Suzanne L. Cross, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing, supporting, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:29:23 -0500 2017-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tribute Shawl Accessories by Suzanne L. Cross, photograph by Marcella Hadden, Niibing Giizis Photography. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation, Holidays & Beyond (January 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 36268-5552487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark, a former U-M physician, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:16:01 -0500 2017-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dr. Snowflake by Thomas L. Clark. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush (January 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 36560-5716424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs, also from unknown photographers, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:56:40 -0500 2017-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition 100 year-old basket by unknown Kuskokwim Athabascan artist, photograph by Virginia Simson Nelson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art (January 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 36559-5716340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Since the dawn of history, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick, heal wounds, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc., an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:47:30 -0500 2017-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Two Blind Mice & a Wild-Type by Shannon Conley, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture (January 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 36272-5552572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In the year 2000, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut, hammer, bend, grind and weld his sculptures to life, giving them movement and character.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:20:13 -0500 2017-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Steel Horse by Tim Shoemaker, photograph by Greg Durling. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage (January 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 36558-5716256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces, gum wrapper chain, American bricks, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art, they can be teaching tools, aids in focus or meditation, used to establish sacred space, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan, and he is an artist, designer and collector with a background in theater, fashion design, therapeutic bodywork, meditation, printmaking and assemblage.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:44:36 -0500 2017-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Mandala No. 3, photograph by Patrick Young. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (January 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan (January 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 35907-5372235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local, national, and global change, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times, students have debated among each other, sparred with faculty and administrators, negotiated with community members, and contended with politicians. In so doing, they have shaped the physical campus, the student body, the meaning of community, and the university’s mission as a public institution.

This exhibit showcases key moments of student expression, politics, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor, through the upheavals of world wars, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.

On display January 4-February 25, 2017, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:16:32 -0400 2017-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition The Leaders and the Rest image logo
It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 (January 17, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 32121-4499700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.

Audubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:04:57 -0400 2017-01-17T08:30:00-05:00 2017-01-17T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Original 1941 exhibit poster for Citizen Kane
Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (January 17, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 44929-10012380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public
Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
Chairs:       
Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR
Cathryn Dwyre, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
Chris Perry, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
David Salomon, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.
Keynotes:
Liam Young, urbanist, designer and futurist; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com); the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc
David Gissen, author, historian, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)
For a full list of speakers and bios, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. 
Ambiguous Territory Symposium Schedule
All events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted
Thursday October 5th
5:00pm
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition Reception
(Taubman College Gallery)
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: Liam Young
(Art + Architecture Auditorium)
 
Friday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)
9:00am
Coffee
9:30am
Welcome: Dean Jonathan Massey
Introductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün
Symposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov
10:00am
Atmospheric Mediations Panel
Introduction: Kathy Velikov
Speaker 1: Christopher Hight
Speaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti
Speaker 3: Sean Lally
Respondent: Meredith Miller
Roundtable Discussion
12:00pm
Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
1:00pm
Biologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: David Salomon
Speaker 1: Jennifer Peeples
Speaker 2: Linsdey french
Speaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos
Respondent: Ellie Abrons
Roundtable Discussion
3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm
Geologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry
Speaker 1: Alessandra Ponte
Speaker 2: Bradley Cantrell
Speaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
Respondent: Mark Lindquist
Roundtable Discussion
5:30pm
Break
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: David Gissen
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition 
September 27th – October 18th 2017
University of Michigan Taubman College Gallery
December 2018 – January 2019
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:07:12 -0400 2017-01-17T09:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun (January 17, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 33066-4655843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event "Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:01:44 -0400 2017-01-17T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Opening of Laylī va Majnūn in Niẓāmī’s Khamsah from Isl. Ms. 287 (copied 1824)
Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (January 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 34760-4987599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment, AISIN, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:47:29 -0400 2017-01-17T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Kabuki
Moving Image: Landscape (January 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-01-17T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection (January 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 35430-5224437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:33:27 -0400 2017-01-17T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Dramza Demchog Nyingpo, innter face, Upper book cover, Tebet, early 15th century, wood with paint and gilding. MacLean Collection
The Aesthetic Movement (January 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-01-17T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask (January 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 34761-4987700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created, used, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey, spanning a hundred years, three continents, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.
Traces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely, and in great detail, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:49:36 -0400 2017-01-17T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Chokwe Mask
Exhibition: Redefining Identity (January 17, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36752 36752-5819983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps in Color (SiC) is a student led organization dedicated to increasing the creative, social, and professional opportunities of peers, faculty, and staff of color at the Stamps School of Art & Design. SiC organizes an annual winter semester exhibition at the Duderstadt Gallery in partnership with the U-M MLK Symposium. The 2017 exhibition theme: ​​Redefining Identity.

​​Redefining Identity seeks to reject/reveal/debunk society’s definitions of identity and replace it with one’s own vision through a variety of mediums. Judges will look for artwork that best portrays an individual’s sense of self awareness, ability to challenge misconceptions of ethnic groups, and best expression of personal or group identities. ​​Redefining Identity features work by undergraduate and graduate students at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and across the U-M campus.

​​Redefining Identity
January 9 - 21, 2017
Duderstadt Gallery
​Reception: Monday, January 16, 2017 from 7 - 8 pm

Submit Your Work

All graduate and undergraduate students at U-M are invited and encouraged to submit up to two pieces to the show.  Deadline to submit work is 10:00 pm on Saturday, December 31, 2016. Accepted work will be announced via email on Sunday, January 1, 2017.

Submit your work to Retaining Identity →

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:15:54 -0500 2017-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/stamps-in-color2016.jpg
Submissions Final Deadline (January 17, 2017 11:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37873 37873-6763294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 11:45pm
Location: ONLINE: blueprintlm.com/submit
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Submissions for Blueprint Literary Magazine Issue 6 are due by January 17, 11:59pm Submit online at www.blueprintlm.comPaintings and SEM images, research haiku or short stories, mosaics & lego robots, natural landscapes and CFD flow fields - ART is EVERYWHERE!Spots in Blueprint Magazine and Art Show are awarded on a rolling basis, and we accept submissions from ANYONE in the U-M Community - faculty, staff, students!Be creative, be weird, be original! 

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Exhibition Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:01:03 -0500 2017-01-17T23:45:00-05:00 2017-01-17T23:59:00-05:00 ONLINE: blueprintlm.com/submit Maize Pages Student Organizations Exhibition
ARCHIGRAM EXHIBITION OPENING (January 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37563 37563-6629370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on View January 14 - February 19
This exhibition opening reception begins after Dennis Crompton's lecture in STAMPS Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center.
This exhibition celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of Archigram, the British architects whose dynamic and provocative vision of future life brought the pop spirit to the architecture avant garde in 1960s Britain.
Vibrant, playful, optimistic, and iconoclastic, the visionary architectural projects presented by Archigram in exhibitions, collages, drawings and film, played an important role in 1960s pop culture and have an enduring influence on architecture today. Archigram was founded in London in 1961 around a nucleus of young architects: Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb. Inspired by pop culture, advances in technology and the belief that architects had a responsibility to develop new ways of responding to social change, the group rebelled against the conservative architectural establishment by launching a magazine – entitled Archigram – to express its ideas.
Organized by Dennis Crompton for Archigram. Supported by the Johe Fund.
Join us also for an opening lecture delivered by Dennis Crompton, January 13 at 6:00pm in the Walgreen Drama Center's STAMPS Auditorium, followed by an opening reception for the exhibition at the Liberty Research Annex.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:26:33 -0500 2017-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Archigram
Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel (January 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 36561-5716509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Carlye Crisler, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities, people and lighting at a particular time of day, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes, Crisler also is a costumer, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:56:24 -0500 2017-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fleetwood, detail by Carlye Crisler, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request
Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads (January 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 36273-5552657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Suzanne L. Cross, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing, supporting, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:29:23 -0500 2017-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tribute Shawl Accessories by Suzanne L. Cross, photograph by Marcella Hadden, Niibing Giizis Photography. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation, Holidays & Beyond (January 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 36268-5552488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark, a former U-M physician, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:16:01 -0500 2017-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dr. Snowflake by Thomas L. Clark. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush (January 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 36560-5716425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs, also from unknown photographers, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:56:40 -0500 2017-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition 100 year-old basket by unknown Kuskokwim Athabascan artist, photograph by Virginia Simson Nelson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art (January 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 36559-5716341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Since the dawn of history, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick, heal wounds, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc., an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:47:30 -0500 2017-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Two Blind Mice & a Wild-Type by Shannon Conley, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture (January 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 36272-5552573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In the year 2000, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut, hammer, bend, grind and weld his sculptures to life, giving them movement and character.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:20:13 -0500 2017-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Steel Horse by Tim Shoemaker, photograph by Greg Durling. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage (January 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 36558-5716257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces, gum wrapper chain, American bricks, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art, they can be teaching tools, aids in focus or meditation, used to establish sacred space, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan, and he is an artist, designer and collector with a background in theater, fashion design, therapeutic bodywork, meditation, printmaking and assemblage.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:44:36 -0500 2017-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Mandala No. 3, photograph by Patrick Young. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (January 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan (January 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 35907-5372236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local, national, and global change, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times, students have debated among each other, sparred with faculty and administrators, negotiated with community members, and contended with politicians. In so doing, they have shaped the physical campus, the student body, the meaning of community, and the university’s mission as a public institution.

This exhibit showcases key moments of student expression, politics, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor, through the upheavals of world wars, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.

On display January 4-February 25, 2017, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:16:32 -0400 2017-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition The Leaders and the Rest image logo
It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 (January 18, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 32121-4499701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.

Audubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:04:57 -0400 2017-01-18T08:30:00-05:00 2017-01-18T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Original 1941 exhibit poster for Citizen Kane
Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (January 18, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 44929-10012381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public
Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
Chairs:       
Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR
Cathryn Dwyre, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
Chris Perry, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
David Salomon, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.
Keynotes:
Liam Young, urbanist, designer and futurist; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com); the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc
David Gissen, author, historian, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)
For a full list of speakers and bios, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. 
Ambiguous Territory Symposium Schedule
All events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted
Thursday October 5th
5:00pm
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition Reception
(Taubman College Gallery)
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: Liam Young
(Art + Architecture Auditorium)
 
Friday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)
9:00am
Coffee
9:30am
Welcome: Dean Jonathan Massey
Introductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün
Symposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov
10:00am
Atmospheric Mediations Panel
Introduction: Kathy Velikov
Speaker 1: Christopher Hight
Speaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti
Speaker 3: Sean Lally
Respondent: Meredith Miller
Roundtable Discussion
12:00pm
Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
1:00pm
Biologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: David Salomon
Speaker 1: Jennifer Peeples
Speaker 2: Linsdey french
Speaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos
Respondent: Ellie Abrons
Roundtable Discussion
3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm
Geologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry
Speaker 1: Alessandra Ponte
Speaker 2: Bradley Cantrell
Speaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
Respondent: Mark Lindquist
Roundtable Discussion
5:30pm
Break
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: David Gissen
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition 
September 27th – October 18th 2017
University of Michigan Taubman College Gallery
December 2018 – January 2019
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:07:12 -0400 2017-01-18T09:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun (January 18, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 33066-4655844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event "Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:01:44 -0400 2017-01-18T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Opening of Laylī va Majnūn in Niẓāmī’s Khamsah from Isl. Ms. 287 (copied 1824)
Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (January 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 34760-4987600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment, AISIN, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:47:29 -0400 2017-01-18T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Kabuki
Moving Image: Landscape (January 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-01-18T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection (January 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 35430-5224438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:33:27 -0400 2017-01-18T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Dramza Demchog Nyingpo, innter face, Upper book cover, Tebet, early 15th century, wood with paint and gilding. MacLean Collection
The Aesthetic Movement (January 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-01-18T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask (January 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 34761-4987701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created, used, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey, spanning a hundred years, three continents, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.
Traces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely, and in great detail, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:49:36 -0400 2017-01-18T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Chokwe Mask
Exhibition: Redefining Identity (January 18, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36752 36752-5819984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps in Color (SiC) is a student led organization dedicated to increasing the creative, social, and professional opportunities of peers, faculty, and staff of color at the Stamps School of Art & Design. SiC organizes an annual winter semester exhibition at the Duderstadt Gallery in partnership with the U-M MLK Symposium. The 2017 exhibition theme: ​​Redefining Identity.

​​Redefining Identity seeks to reject/reveal/debunk society’s definitions of identity and replace it with one’s own vision through a variety of mediums. Judges will look for artwork that best portrays an individual’s sense of self awareness, ability to challenge misconceptions of ethnic groups, and best expression of personal or group identities. ​​Redefining Identity features work by undergraduate and graduate students at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and across the U-M campus.

​​Redefining Identity
January 9 - 21, 2017
Duderstadt Gallery
​Reception: Monday, January 16, 2017 from 7 - 8 pm

Submit Your Work

All graduate and undergraduate students at U-M are invited and encouraged to submit up to two pieces to the show.  Deadline to submit work is 10:00 pm on Saturday, December 31, 2016. Accepted work will be announced via email on Sunday, January 1, 2017.

Submit your work to Retaining Identity →

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:15:54 -0500 2017-01-18T12:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/stamps-in-color2016.jpg
ARCHIGRAM EXHIBITION OPENING (January 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37563 37563-6629371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on View January 14 - February 19
This exhibition opening reception begins after Dennis Crompton's lecture in STAMPS Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center.
This exhibition celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of Archigram, the British architects whose dynamic and provocative vision of future life brought the pop spirit to the architecture avant garde in 1960s Britain.
Vibrant, playful, optimistic, and iconoclastic, the visionary architectural projects presented by Archigram in exhibitions, collages, drawings and film, played an important role in 1960s pop culture and have an enduring influence on architecture today. Archigram was founded in London in 1961 around a nucleus of young architects: Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb. Inspired by pop culture, advances in technology and the belief that architects had a responsibility to develop new ways of responding to social change, the group rebelled against the conservative architectural establishment by launching a magazine – entitled Archigram – to express its ideas.
Organized by Dennis Crompton for Archigram. Supported by the Johe Fund.
Join us also for an opening lecture delivered by Dennis Crompton, January 13 at 6:00pm in the Walgreen Drama Center's STAMPS Auditorium, followed by an opening reception for the exhibition at the Liberty Research Annex.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:26:33 -0500 2017-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Archigram
Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel (January 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 36561-5716510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Carlye Crisler, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities, people and lighting at a particular time of day, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes, Crisler also is a costumer, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:56:24 -0500 2017-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fleetwood, detail by Carlye Crisler, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request
Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads (January 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 36273-5552658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Suzanne L. Cross, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing, supporting, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:29:23 -0500 2017-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tribute Shawl Accessories by Suzanne L. Cross, photograph by Marcella Hadden, Niibing Giizis Photography. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation, Holidays & Beyond (January 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 36268-5552489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark, a former U-M physician, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:16:01 -0500 2017-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dr. Snowflake by Thomas L. Clark. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush (January 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 36560-5716426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs, also from unknown photographers, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:56:40 -0500 2017-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition 100 year-old basket by unknown Kuskokwim Athabascan artist, photograph by Virginia Simson Nelson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art (January 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 36559-5716342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Since the dawn of history, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick, heal wounds, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc., an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:47:30 -0500 2017-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Two Blind Mice & a Wild-Type by Shannon Conley, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture (January 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 36272-5552574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In the year 2000, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut, hammer, bend, grind and weld his sculptures to life, giving them movement and character.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:20:13 -0500 2017-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Steel Horse by Tim Shoemaker, photograph by Greg Durling. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage (January 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 36558-5716258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces, gum wrapper chain, American bricks, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art, they can be teaching tools, aids in focus or meditation, used to establish sacred space, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan, and he is an artist, designer and collector with a background in theater, fashion design, therapeutic bodywork, meditation, printmaking and assemblage.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:44:36 -0500 2017-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Mandala No. 3, photograph by Patrick Young. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (January 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan (January 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 35907-5372237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local, national, and global change, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times, students have debated among each other, sparred with faculty and administrators, negotiated with community members, and contended with politicians. In so doing, they have shaped the physical campus, the student body, the meaning of community, and the university’s mission as a public institution.

This exhibit showcases key moments of student expression, politics, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor, through the upheavals of world wars, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.

On display January 4-February 25, 2017, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:16:32 -0400 2017-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition The Leaders and the Rest image logo
The Student Experience: Flappers, Mappers, and the Fight for Equality on Campus (January 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37210 37210-6457541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join flappers as they stroll through 1926 Ann Arbor with a beautiful pictorial map and experience the busy student life of the 1920s, celebrate two University of Michigan alumna who have greatly influenced the field of cartography, and explore the rise of diversity and the fight for equality on campus through protest posters from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection of the U-M Library’s Special Collections.

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Exhibition Wed, 04 Jan 2017 17:27:27 -0500 2017-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T23:59:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster detail
It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 (January 19, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 32121-4499702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.

Audubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:04:57 -0400 2017-01-19T08:30:00-05:00 2017-01-19T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Original 1941 exhibit poster for Citizen Kane
Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (January 19, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 44929-10012382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public
Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
Chairs:       
Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR
Cathryn Dwyre, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
Chris Perry, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
David Salomon, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.
Keynotes:
Liam Young, urbanist, designer and futurist; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com); the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc
David Gissen, author, historian, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)
For a full list of speakers and bios, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. 
Ambiguous Territory Symposium Schedule
All events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted
Thursday October 5th
5:00pm
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition Reception
(Taubman College Gallery)
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: Liam Young
(Art + Architecture Auditorium)
 
Friday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)
9:00am
Coffee
9:30am
Welcome: Dean Jonathan Massey
Introductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün
Symposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov
10:00am
Atmospheric Mediations Panel
Introduction: Kathy Velikov
Speaker 1: Christopher Hight
Speaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti
Speaker 3: Sean Lally
Respondent: Meredith Miller
Roundtable Discussion
12:00pm
Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
1:00pm
Biologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: David Salomon
Speaker 1: Jennifer Peeples
Speaker 2: Linsdey french
Speaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos
Respondent: Ellie Abrons
Roundtable Discussion
3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm
Geologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry
Speaker 1: Alessandra Ponte
Speaker 2: Bradley Cantrell
Speaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
Respondent: Mark Lindquist
Roundtable Discussion
5:30pm
Break
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: David Gissen
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition 
September 27th – October 18th 2017
University of Michigan Taubman College Gallery
December 2018 – January 2019
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:07:12 -0400 2017-01-19T09:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun (January 19, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 33066-4655845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event "Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:01:44 -0400 2017-01-19T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Opening of Laylī va Majnūn in Niẓāmī’s Khamsah from Isl. Ms. 287 (copied 1824)
Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (January 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 34760-4987601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment, AISIN, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:47:29 -0400 2017-01-19T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Kabuki
Moving Image: Landscape (January 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-01-19T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection (January 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 35430-5224439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:33:27 -0400 2017-01-19T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Dramza Demchog Nyingpo, innter face, Upper book cover, Tebet, early 15th century, wood with paint and gilding. MacLean Collection
The Aesthetic Movement (January 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-01-19T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask (January 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 34761-4987702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created, used, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey, spanning a hundred years, three continents, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.
Traces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely, and in great detail, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:49:36 -0400 2017-01-19T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Chokwe Mask
Exhibition: Redefining Identity (January 19, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36752 36752-5819985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps in Color (SiC) is a student led organization dedicated to increasing the creative, social, and professional opportunities of peers, faculty, and staff of color at the Stamps School of Art & Design. SiC organizes an annual winter semester exhibition at the Duderstadt Gallery in partnership with the U-M MLK Symposium. The 2017 exhibition theme: ​​Redefining Identity.

​​Redefining Identity seeks to reject/reveal/debunk society’s definitions of identity and replace it with one’s own vision through a variety of mediums. Judges will look for artwork that best portrays an individual’s sense of self awareness, ability to challenge misconceptions of ethnic groups, and best expression of personal or group identities. ​​Redefining Identity features work by undergraduate and graduate students at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and across the U-M campus.

​​Redefining Identity
January 9 - 21, 2017
Duderstadt Gallery
​Reception: Monday, January 16, 2017 from 7 - 8 pm

Submit Your Work

All graduate and undergraduate students at U-M are invited and encouraged to submit up to two pieces to the show.  Deadline to submit work is 10:00 pm on Saturday, December 31, 2016. Accepted work will be announced via email on Sunday, January 1, 2017.

Submit your work to Retaining Identity →

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:15:54 -0500 2017-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/stamps-in-color2016.jpg
ARCHIGRAM EXHIBITION OPENING (January 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37563 37563-6629372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on View January 14 - February 19
This exhibition opening reception begins after Dennis Crompton's lecture in STAMPS Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center.
This exhibition celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of Archigram, the British architects whose dynamic and provocative vision of future life brought the pop spirit to the architecture avant garde in 1960s Britain.
Vibrant, playful, optimistic, and iconoclastic, the visionary architectural projects presented by Archigram in exhibitions, collages, drawings and film, played an important role in 1960s pop culture and have an enduring influence on architecture today. Archigram was founded in London in 1961 around a nucleus of young architects: Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb. Inspired by pop culture, advances in technology and the belief that architects had a responsibility to develop new ways of responding to social change, the group rebelled against the conservative architectural establishment by launching a magazine – entitled Archigram – to express its ideas.
Organized by Dennis Crompton for Archigram. Supported by the Johe Fund.
Join us also for an opening lecture delivered by Dennis Crompton, January 13 at 6:00pm in the Walgreen Drama Center's STAMPS Auditorium, followed by an opening reception for the exhibition at the Liberty Research Annex.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:26:33 -0500 2017-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Archigram
Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel (January 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 36561-5716511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Carlye Crisler, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities, people and lighting at a particular time of day, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes, Crisler also is a costumer, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:56:24 -0500 2017-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fleetwood, detail by Carlye Crisler, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request
Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads (January 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 36273-5552659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Suzanne L. Cross, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing, supporting, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:29:23 -0500 2017-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tribute Shawl Accessories by Suzanne L. Cross, photograph by Marcella Hadden, Niibing Giizis Photography. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation, Holidays & Beyond (January 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 36268-5552490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark, a former U-M physician, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:16:01 -0500 2017-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dr. Snowflake by Thomas L. Clark. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush (January 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 36560-5716427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs, also from unknown photographers, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:56:40 -0500 2017-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition 100 year-old basket by unknown Kuskokwim Athabascan artist, photograph by Virginia Simson Nelson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art (January 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 36559-5716343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Since the dawn of history, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick, heal wounds, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc., an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:47:30 -0500 2017-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Two Blind Mice & a Wild-Type by Shannon Conley, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture (January 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 36272-5552575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In the year 2000, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut, hammer, bend, grind and weld his sculptures to life, giving them movement and character.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:20:13 -0500 2017-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Steel Horse by Tim Shoemaker, photograph by Greg Durling. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage (January 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 36558-5716259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces, gum wrapper chain, American bricks, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art, they can be teaching tools, aids in focus or meditation, used to establish sacred space, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan, and he is an artist, designer and collector with a background in theater, fashion design, therapeutic bodywork, meditation, printmaking and assemblage.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:44:36 -0500 2017-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Mandala No. 3, photograph by Patrick Young. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (January 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan (January 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 35907-5372238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local, national, and global change, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times, students have debated among each other, sparred with faculty and administrators, negotiated with community members, and contended with politicians. In so doing, they have shaped the physical campus, the student body, the meaning of community, and the university’s mission as a public institution.

This exhibit showcases key moments of student expression, politics, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor, through the upheavals of world wars, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.

On display January 4-February 25, 2017, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:16:32 -0400 2017-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition The Leaders and the Rest image logo
The Student Experience: Flappers, Mappers, and the Fight for Equality on Campus (January 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37210 37210-6457542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join flappers as they stroll through 1926 Ann Arbor with a beautiful pictorial map and experience the busy student life of the 1920s, celebrate two University of Michigan alumna who have greatly influenced the field of cartography, and explore the rise of diversity and the fight for equality on campus through protest posters from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection of the U-M Library’s Special Collections.

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Exhibition Wed, 04 Jan 2017 17:27:27 -0500 2017-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster detail
It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 (January 20, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 32121-4499703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.

Audubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:04:57 -0400 2017-01-20T08:30:00-05:00 2017-01-20T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Original 1941 exhibit poster for Citizen Kane
Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (January 20, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 44929-10012383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public
Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
Chairs:       
Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR
Cathryn Dwyre, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
Chris Perry, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
David Salomon, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.
Keynotes:
Liam Young, urbanist, designer and futurist; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com); the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc
David Gissen, author, historian, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)
For a full list of speakers and bios, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. 
Ambiguous Territory Symposium Schedule
All events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted
Thursday October 5th
5:00pm
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition Reception
(Taubman College Gallery)
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: Liam Young
(Art + Architecture Auditorium)
 
Friday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)
9:00am
Coffee
9:30am
Welcome: Dean Jonathan Massey
Introductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün
Symposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov
10:00am
Atmospheric Mediations Panel
Introduction: Kathy Velikov
Speaker 1: Christopher Hight
Speaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti
Speaker 3: Sean Lally
Respondent: Meredith Miller
Roundtable Discussion
12:00pm
Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
1:00pm
Biologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: David Salomon
Speaker 1: Jennifer Peeples
Speaker 2: Linsdey french
Speaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos
Respondent: Ellie Abrons
Roundtable Discussion
3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm
Geologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry
Speaker 1: Alessandra Ponte
Speaker 2: Bradley Cantrell
Speaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
Respondent: Mark Lindquist
Roundtable Discussion
5:30pm
Break
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: David Gissen
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition 
September 27th – October 18th 2017
University of Michigan Taubman College Gallery
December 2018 – January 2019
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:07:12 -0400 2017-01-20T09:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Clements Library: A Century of Collecting, 1903 - 2016 (January 20, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/30796 30796-5313810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The William L Clements Library is one of the world’s finest early American history collections. The books, maps, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and other original treasures in the Library’s holdings form a remarkable collection of primary sources on America from Columbus through the nineteenth century.

Visit the newly renovated William L Clements Library to see the unique treasures that reflect the broad range of our collections. This exhibit highlights the collecting philosophy and practices of Mr. Clements and the Library’s four Directors.

For more information about the Library and using it for research, please visit our website at clements.umich.edu.

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Exhibition Thu, 02 Feb 2017 09:18:36 -0500 2017-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition William L Clements Library
II Photo Contest Award Ceremony (January 20, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36785 36785-5890723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 10:00am
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: International Institute

View the 2016 II Photo Contest exhibit, showcasing students who traveled abroad this summer for research, study, or an internship. The award ceremony is Jan 20, 2017. The exhibit will be on display through March 8, 2017. Public is invited, light refreshments will be served.

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Exhibition Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:38:12 -0500 2017-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T11:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building International Institute Exhibition photo
Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun (January 20, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 33066-4655846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event "Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:01:44 -0400 2017-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Opening of Laylī va Majnūn in Niẓāmī’s Khamsah from Isl. Ms. 287 (copied 1824)
Out of the Ordinary (January 20, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35740 35740-5313778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Library has been in collecting mode almost non-stop since it opened in 1923, and many unusual or extraordinary objects have found a home within its walls. The four Clements Library curators have each contributed to this exhibit a selection of interesting, remarkable, or peculiar items. As we celebrate the return of the Clements collection to 909 South University Avenue, we invite you to peruse a few of the oddball items that have turned up in a great library.

Exhibit open: November 4, 2016 - April 28, 2017
Exhibit hours are Fridays 10:00am - 4:00pm

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Jan 2017 14:35:03 -0500 2017-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Shut Your Mouth Book
Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (January 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 34760-4987602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment, AISIN, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:47:29 -0400 2017-01-20T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Kabuki
Moving Image: Landscape (January 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-01-20T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection (January 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 35430-5224440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:33:27 -0400 2017-01-20T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Dramza Demchog Nyingpo, innter face, Upper book cover, Tebet, early 15th century, wood with paint and gilding. MacLean Collection
The Aesthetic Movement (January 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-01-20T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask (January 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 34761-4987703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created, used, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey, spanning a hundred years, three continents, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.
Traces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely, and in great detail, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:49:36 -0400 2017-01-20T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Chokwe Mask
Exhibition: Redefining Identity (January 20, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36752 36752-5819986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps in Color (SiC) is a student led organization dedicated to increasing the creative, social, and professional opportunities of peers, faculty, and staff of color at the Stamps School of Art & Design. SiC organizes an annual winter semester exhibition at the Duderstadt Gallery in partnership with the U-M MLK Symposium. The 2017 exhibition theme: ​​Redefining Identity.

​​Redefining Identity seeks to reject/reveal/debunk society’s definitions of identity and replace it with one’s own vision through a variety of mediums. Judges will look for artwork that best portrays an individual’s sense of self awareness, ability to challenge misconceptions of ethnic groups, and best expression of personal or group identities. ​​Redefining Identity features work by undergraduate and graduate students at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and across the U-M campus.

​​Redefining Identity
January 9 - 21, 2017
Duderstadt Gallery
​Reception: Monday, January 16, 2017 from 7 - 8 pm

Submit Your Work

All graduate and undergraduate students at U-M are invited and encouraged to submit up to two pieces to the show.  Deadline to submit work is 10:00 pm on Saturday, December 31, 2016. Accepted work will be announced via email on Sunday, January 1, 2017.

Submit your work to Retaining Identity →

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:15:54 -0500 2017-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/stamps-in-color2016.jpg
ARCHIGRAM EXHIBITION OPENING (January 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37563 37563-6629373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on View January 14 - February 19
This exhibition opening reception begins after Dennis Crompton's lecture in STAMPS Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center.
This exhibition celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of Archigram, the British architects whose dynamic and provocative vision of future life brought the pop spirit to the architecture avant garde in 1960s Britain.
Vibrant, playful, optimistic, and iconoclastic, the visionary architectural projects presented by Archigram in exhibitions, collages, drawings and film, played an important role in 1960s pop culture and have an enduring influence on architecture today. Archigram was founded in London in 1961 around a nucleus of young architects: Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb. Inspired by pop culture, advances in technology and the belief that architects had a responsibility to develop new ways of responding to social change, the group rebelled against the conservative architectural establishment by launching a magazine – entitled Archigram – to express its ideas.
Organized by Dennis Crompton for Archigram. Supported by the Johe Fund.
Join us also for an opening lecture delivered by Dennis Crompton, January 13 at 6:00pm in the Walgreen Drama Center's STAMPS Auditorium, followed by an opening reception for the exhibition at the Liberty Research Annex.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:26:33 -0500 2017-01-21T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Archigram
Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel (January 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 36561-5716512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Carlye Crisler, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities, people and lighting at a particular time of day, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes, Crisler also is a costumer, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:56:24 -0500 2017-01-21T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fleetwood, detail by Carlye Crisler, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request
Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads (January 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 36273-5552660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Suzanne L. Cross, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing, supporting, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:29:23 -0500 2017-01-21T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tribute Shawl Accessories by Suzanne L. Cross, photograph by Marcella Hadden, Niibing Giizis Photography. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation, Holidays & Beyond (January 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 36268-5552491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark, a former U-M physician, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:16:01 -0500 2017-01-21T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dr. Snowflake by Thomas L. Clark. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush (January 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 36560-5716428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs, also from unknown photographers, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:56:40 -0500 2017-01-21T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition 100 year-old basket by unknown Kuskokwim Athabascan artist, photograph by Virginia Simson Nelson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art (January 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 36559-5716344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Since the dawn of history, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick, heal wounds, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc., an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:47:30 -0500 2017-01-21T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Two Blind Mice & a Wild-Type by Shannon Conley, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture (January 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 36272-5552576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In the year 2000, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut, hammer, bend, grind and weld his sculptures to life, giving them movement and character.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:20:13 -0500 2017-01-21T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Steel Horse by Tim Shoemaker, photograph by Greg Durling. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage (January 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 36558-5716260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces, gum wrapper chain, American bricks, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art, they can be teaching tools, aids in focus or meditation, used to establish sacred space, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan, and he is an artist, designer and collector with a background in theater, fashion design, therapeutic bodywork, meditation, printmaking and assemblage.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:44:36 -0500 2017-01-21T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Mandala No. 3, photograph by Patrick Young. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (January 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-01-21T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 (January 21, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 32121-4499704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.

Audubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:04:57 -0400 2017-01-21T08:30:00-05:00 2017-01-21T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Original 1941 exhibit poster for Citizen Kane
Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (January 21, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 44929-10012384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public
Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
Chairs:       
Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR
Cathryn Dwyre, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
Chris Perry, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
David Salomon, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.
Keynotes:
Liam Young, urbanist, designer and futurist; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com); the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc
David Gissen, author, historian, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)
For a full list of speakers and bios, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. 
Ambiguous Territory Symposium Schedule
All events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted
Thursday October 5th
5:00pm
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition Reception
(Taubman College Gallery)
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: Liam Young
(Art + Architecture Auditorium)
 
Friday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)
9:00am
Coffee
9:30am
Welcome: Dean Jonathan Massey
Introductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün
Symposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov
10:00am
Atmospheric Mediations Panel
Introduction: Kathy Velikov
Speaker 1: Christopher Hight
Speaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti
Speaker 3: Sean Lally
Respondent: Meredith Miller
Roundtable Discussion
12:00pm
Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
1:00pm
Biologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: David Salomon
Speaker 1: Jennifer Peeples
Speaker 2: Linsdey french
Speaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos
Respondent: Ellie Abrons
Roundtable Discussion
3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm
Geologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry
Speaker 1: Alessandra Ponte
Speaker 2: Bradley Cantrell
Speaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
Respondent: Mark Lindquist
Roundtable Discussion
5:30pm
Break
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: David Gissen
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition 
September 27th – October 18th 2017
University of Michigan Taubman College Gallery
December 2018 – January 2019
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:07:12 -0400 2017-01-21T09:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan (January 21, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 35907-5372239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local, national, and global change, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times, students have debated among each other, sparred with faculty and administrators, negotiated with community members, and contended with politicians. In so doing, they have shaped the physical campus, the student body, the meaning of community, and the university’s mission as a public institution.

This exhibit showcases key moments of student expression, politics, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor, through the upheavals of world wars, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.

On display January 4-February 25, 2017, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:16:32 -0400 2017-01-21T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition The Leaders and the Rest image logo
The Student Experience: Flappers, Mappers, and the Fight for Equality on Campus (January 21, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37210 37210-6457543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join flappers as they stroll through 1926 Ann Arbor with a beautiful pictorial map and experience the busy student life of the 1920s, celebrate two University of Michigan alumna who have greatly influenced the field of cartography, and explore the rise of diversity and the fight for equality on campus through protest posters from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection of the U-M Library’s Special Collections.

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Exhibition Wed, 04 Jan 2017 17:27:27 -0500 2017-01-21T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster detail
Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (January 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 34760-4987603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment, AISIN, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:47:29 -0400 2017-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Kabuki
Moving Image: Landscape (January 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection (January 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 35430-5224441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:33:27 -0400 2017-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Dramza Demchog Nyingpo, innter face, Upper book cover, Tebet, early 15th century, wood with paint and gilding. MacLean Collection
The Aesthetic Movement (January 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask (January 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 34761-4987704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created, used, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey, spanning a hundred years, three continents, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.
Traces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely, and in great detail, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:49:36 -0400 2017-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Chokwe Mask
Exhibition: Redefining Identity (January 21, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36752 36752-5819987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps in Color (SiC) is a student led organization dedicated to increasing the creative, social, and professional opportunities of peers, faculty, and staff of color at the Stamps School of Art & Design. SiC organizes an annual winter semester exhibition at the Duderstadt Gallery in partnership with the U-M MLK Symposium. The 2017 exhibition theme: ​​Redefining Identity.

​​Redefining Identity seeks to reject/reveal/debunk society’s definitions of identity and replace it with one’s own vision through a variety of mediums. Judges will look for artwork that best portrays an individual’s sense of self awareness, ability to challenge misconceptions of ethnic groups, and best expression of personal or group identities. ​​Redefining Identity features work by undergraduate and graduate students at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and across the U-M campus.

​​Redefining Identity
January 9 - 21, 2017
Duderstadt Gallery
​Reception: Monday, January 16, 2017 from 7 - 8 pm

Submit Your Work

All graduate and undergraduate students at U-M are invited and encouraged to submit up to two pieces to the show.  Deadline to submit work is 10:00 pm on Saturday, December 31, 2016. Accepted work will be announced via email on Sunday, January 1, 2017.

Submit your work to Retaining Identity →

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:15:54 -0500 2017-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 2017-01-21T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/stamps-in-color2016.jpg
ARCHIGRAM EXHIBITION OPENING (January 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37563 37563-6629374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on View January 14 - February 19
This exhibition opening reception begins after Dennis Crompton's lecture in STAMPS Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center.
This exhibition celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of Archigram, the British architects whose dynamic and provocative vision of future life brought the pop spirit to the architecture avant garde in 1960s Britain.
Vibrant, playful, optimistic, and iconoclastic, the visionary architectural projects presented by Archigram in exhibitions, collages, drawings and film, played an important role in 1960s pop culture and have an enduring influence on architecture today. Archigram was founded in London in 1961 around a nucleus of young architects: Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb. Inspired by pop culture, advances in technology and the belief that architects had a responsibility to develop new ways of responding to social change, the group rebelled against the conservative architectural establishment by launching a magazine – entitled Archigram – to express its ideas.
Organized by Dennis Crompton for Archigram. Supported by the Johe Fund.
Join us also for an opening lecture delivered by Dennis Crompton, January 13 at 6:00pm in the Walgreen Drama Center's STAMPS Auditorium, followed by an opening reception for the exhibition at the Liberty Research Annex.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:26:33 -0500 2017-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Archigram
Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel (January 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 36561-5716513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Carlye Crisler, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities, people and lighting at a particular time of day, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes, Crisler also is a costumer, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:56:24 -0500 2017-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fleetwood, detail by Carlye Crisler, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request
Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads (January 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 36273-5552661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Suzanne L. Cross, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing, supporting, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:29:23 -0500 2017-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tribute Shawl Accessories by Suzanne L. Cross, photograph by Marcella Hadden, Niibing Giizis Photography. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation, Holidays & Beyond (January 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 36268-5552492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark, a former U-M physician, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:16:01 -0500 2017-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dr. Snowflake by Thomas L. Clark. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush (January 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 36560-5716429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs, also from unknown photographers, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:56:40 -0500 2017-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition 100 year-old basket by unknown Kuskokwim Athabascan artist, photograph by Virginia Simson Nelson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art (January 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 36559-5716345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Since the dawn of history, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick, heal wounds, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc., an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:47:30 -0500 2017-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Two Blind Mice & a Wild-Type by Shannon Conley, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture (January 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 36272-5552577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In the year 2000, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut, hammer, bend, grind and weld his sculptures to life, giving them movement and character.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:20:13 -0500 2017-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Steel Horse by Tim Shoemaker, photograph by Greg Durling. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage (January 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 36558-5716261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces, gum wrapper chain, American bricks, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art, they can be teaching tools, aids in focus or meditation, used to establish sacred space, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan, and he is an artist, designer and collector with a background in theater, fashion design, therapeutic bodywork, meditation, printmaking and assemblage.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:44:36 -0500 2017-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Mandala No. 3, photograph by Patrick Young. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (January 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 (January 22, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 32121-4499705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.

Audubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:04:57 -0400 2017-01-22T08:30:00-05:00 2017-01-22T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Original 1941 exhibit poster for Citizen Kane
Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (January 22, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 44929-10012385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public
Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
Chairs:       
Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR
Cathryn Dwyre, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
Chris Perry, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
David Salomon, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.
Keynotes:
Liam Young, urbanist, designer and futurist; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com); the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc
David Gissen, author, historian, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)
For a full list of speakers and bios, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. 
Ambiguous Territory Symposium Schedule
All events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted
Thursday October 5th
5:00pm
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition Reception
(Taubman College Gallery)
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: Liam Young
(Art + Architecture Auditorium)
 
Friday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)
9:00am
Coffee
9:30am
Welcome: Dean Jonathan Massey
Introductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün
Symposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov
10:00am
Atmospheric Mediations Panel
Introduction: Kathy Velikov
Speaker 1: Christopher Hight
Speaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti
Speaker 3: Sean Lally
Respondent: Meredith Miller
Roundtable Discussion
12:00pm
Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
1:00pm
Biologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: David Salomon
Speaker 1: Jennifer Peeples
Speaker 2: Linsdey french
Speaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos
Respondent: Ellie Abrons
Roundtable Discussion
3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm
Geologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry
Speaker 1: Alessandra Ponte
Speaker 2: Bradley Cantrell
Speaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
Respondent: Mark Lindquist
Roundtable Discussion
5:30pm
Break
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: David Gissen
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition 
September 27th – October 18th 2017
University of Michigan Taubman College Gallery
December 2018 – January 2019
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:07:12 -0400 2017-01-22T09:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (January 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 34760-4987604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment, AISIN, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:47:29 -0400 2017-01-22T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Kabuki
Moving Image: Landscape (January 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-01-22T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection (January 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 35430-5224442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:33:27 -0400 2017-01-22T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Dramza Demchog Nyingpo, innter face, Upper book cover, Tebet, early 15th century, wood with paint and gilding. MacLean Collection
The Aesthetic Movement (January 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-01-22T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask (January 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 34761-4987705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created, used, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey, spanning a hundred years, three continents, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.
Traces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely, and in great detail, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:49:36 -0400 2017-01-22T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Chokwe Mask
The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan (January 22, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 35907-5372240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local, national, and global change, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times, students have debated among each other, sparred with faculty and administrators, negotiated with community members, and contended with politicians. In so doing, they have shaped the physical campus, the student body, the meaning of community, and the university’s mission as a public institution.

This exhibit showcases key moments of student expression, politics, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor, through the upheavals of world wars, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.

On display January 4-February 25, 2017, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:16:32 -0400 2017-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition The Leaders and the Rest image logo
The Student Experience: Flappers, Mappers, and the Fight for Equality on Campus (January 22, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37210 37210-6457544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join flappers as they stroll through 1926 Ann Arbor with a beautiful pictorial map and experience the busy student life of the 1920s, celebrate two University of Michigan alumna who have greatly influenced the field of cartography, and explore the rise of diversity and the fight for equality on campus through protest posters from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection of the U-M Library’s Special Collections.

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Exhibition Wed, 04 Jan 2017 17:27:27 -0500 2017-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T23:59:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster detail
ARCHIGRAM EXHIBITION OPENING (January 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37563 37563-6629375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on View January 14 - February 19
This exhibition opening reception begins after Dennis Crompton's lecture in STAMPS Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center.
This exhibition celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of Archigram, the British architects whose dynamic and provocative vision of future life brought the pop spirit to the architecture avant garde in 1960s Britain.
Vibrant, playful, optimistic, and iconoclastic, the visionary architectural projects presented by Archigram in exhibitions, collages, drawings and film, played an important role in 1960s pop culture and have an enduring influence on architecture today. Archigram was founded in London in 1961 around a nucleus of young architects: Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb. Inspired by pop culture, advances in technology and the belief that architects had a responsibility to develop new ways of responding to social change, the group rebelled against the conservative architectural establishment by launching a magazine – entitled Archigram – to express its ideas.
Organized by Dennis Crompton for Archigram. Supported by the Johe Fund.
Join us also for an opening lecture delivered by Dennis Crompton, January 13 at 6:00pm in the Walgreen Drama Center's STAMPS Auditorium, followed by an opening reception for the exhibition at the Liberty Research Annex.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:26:33 -0500 2017-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Archigram
Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel (January 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 36561-5716514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Carlye Crisler, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities, people and lighting at a particular time of day, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes, Crisler also is a costumer, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:56:24 -0500 2017-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fleetwood, detail by Carlye Crisler, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request
Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads (January 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 36273-5552662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Suzanne L. Cross, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing, supporting, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:29:23 -0500 2017-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tribute Shawl Accessories by Suzanne L. Cross, photograph by Marcella Hadden, Niibing Giizis Photography. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation, Holidays & Beyond (January 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 36268-5552493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark, a former U-M physician, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:16:01 -0500 2017-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dr. Snowflake by Thomas L. Clark. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush (January 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 36560-5716430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs, also from unknown photographers, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:56:40 -0500 2017-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition 100 year-old basket by unknown Kuskokwim Athabascan artist, photograph by Virginia Simson Nelson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art (January 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 36559-5716346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Since the dawn of history, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick, heal wounds, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc., an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:47:30 -0500 2017-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Two Blind Mice & a Wild-Type by Shannon Conley, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture (January 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 36272-5552578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In the year 2000, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut, hammer, bend, grind and weld his sculptures to life, giving them movement and character.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:20:13 -0500 2017-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Steel Horse by Tim Shoemaker, photograph by Greg Durling. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage (January 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 36558-5716262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces, gum wrapper chain, American bricks, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art, they can be teaching tools, aids in focus or meditation, used to establish sacred space, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan, and he is an artist, designer and collector with a background in theater, fashion design, therapeutic bodywork, meditation, printmaking and assemblage.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:44:36 -0500 2017-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Mandala No. 3, photograph by Patrick Young. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (January 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan (January 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 35907-5372241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local, national, and global change, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times, students have debated among each other, sparred with faculty and administrators, negotiated with community members, and contended with politicians. In so doing, they have shaped the physical campus, the student body, the meaning of community, and the university’s mission as a public institution.

This exhibit showcases key moments of student expression, politics, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor, through the upheavals of world wars, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.

On display January 4-February 25, 2017, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:16:32 -0400 2017-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition The Leaders and the Rest image logo
The Student Experience: Flappers, Mappers, and the Fight for Equality on Campus (January 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37210 37210-6457545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join flappers as they stroll through 1926 Ann Arbor with a beautiful pictorial map and experience the busy student life of the 1920s, celebrate two University of Michigan alumna who have greatly influenced the field of cartography, and explore the rise of diversity and the fight for equality on campus through protest posters from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection of the U-M Library’s Special Collections.

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Exhibition Wed, 04 Jan 2017 17:27:27 -0500 2017-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T23:59:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster detail
It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 (January 23, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 32121-4499706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.

Audubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:04:57 -0400 2017-01-23T08:30:00-05:00 2017-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Original 1941 exhibit poster for Citizen Kane
Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (January 23, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 44929-10012386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public
Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
Chairs:       
Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR
Cathryn Dwyre, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
Chris Perry, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
David Salomon, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.
Keynotes:
Liam Young, urbanist, designer and futurist; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com); the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc
David Gissen, author, historian, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)
For a full list of speakers and bios, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. 
Ambiguous Territory Symposium Schedule
All events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted
Thursday October 5th
5:00pm
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition Reception
(Taubman College Gallery)
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: Liam Young
(Art + Architecture Auditorium)
 
Friday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)
9:00am
Coffee
9:30am
Welcome: Dean Jonathan Massey
Introductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün
Symposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov
10:00am
Atmospheric Mediations Panel
Introduction: Kathy Velikov
Speaker 1: Christopher Hight
Speaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti
Speaker 3: Sean Lally
Respondent: Meredith Miller
Roundtable Discussion
12:00pm
Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
1:00pm
Biologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: David Salomon
Speaker 1: Jennifer Peeples
Speaker 2: Linsdey french
Speaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos
Respondent: Ellie Abrons
Roundtable Discussion
3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm
Geologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry
Speaker 1: Alessandra Ponte
Speaker 2: Bradley Cantrell
Speaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
Respondent: Mark Lindquist
Roundtable Discussion
5:30pm
Break
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: David Gissen
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition 
September 27th – October 18th 2017
University of Michigan Taubman College Gallery
December 2018 – January 2019
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:07:12 -0400 2017-01-23T09:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun (January 23, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 33066-4655849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event "Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:01:44 -0400 2017-01-23T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Opening of Laylī va Majnūn in Niẓāmī’s Khamsah from Isl. Ms. 287 (copied 1824)
Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (January 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 34760-4987605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment, AISIN, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:47:29 -0400 2017-01-23T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Kabuki
Moving Image: Landscape (January 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-01-23T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection (January 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 35430-5224443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:33:27 -0400 2017-01-23T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Dramza Demchog Nyingpo, innter face, Upper book cover, Tebet, early 15th century, wood with paint and gilding. MacLean Collection
The Aesthetic Movement (January 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-01-23T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Marked Landscapes: From Civil War to Civil Rights (January 24, 2017 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38173 38173-6987120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 7:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Art Gallery hours are 7am-5pm Monday-Friday.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:05:29 -0500 2017-01-24T07:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Michel Mergen
ARCHIGRAM EXHIBITION OPENING (January 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37563 37563-6629376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on View January 14 - February 19
This exhibition opening reception begins after Dennis Crompton's lecture in STAMPS Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center.
This exhibition celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of Archigram, the British architects whose dynamic and provocative vision of future life brought the pop spirit to the architecture avant garde in 1960s Britain.
Vibrant, playful, optimistic, and iconoclastic, the visionary architectural projects presented by Archigram in exhibitions, collages, drawings and film, played an important role in 1960s pop culture and have an enduring influence on architecture today. Archigram was founded in London in 1961 around a nucleus of young architects: Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb. Inspired by pop culture, advances in technology and the belief that architects had a responsibility to develop new ways of responding to social change, the group rebelled against the conservative architectural establishment by launching a magazine – entitled Archigram – to express its ideas.
Organized by Dennis Crompton for Archigram. Supported by the Johe Fund.
Join us also for an opening lecture delivered by Dennis Crompton, January 13 at 6:00pm in the Walgreen Drama Center's STAMPS Auditorium, followed by an opening reception for the exhibition at the Liberty Research Annex.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:26:33 -0500 2017-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Archigram
Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel (January 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 36561-5716515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Carlye Crisler, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities, people and lighting at a particular time of day, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes, Crisler also is a costumer, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:56:24 -0500 2017-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fleetwood, detail by Carlye Crisler, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request
Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads (January 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 36273-5552663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Suzanne L. Cross, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing, supporting, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:29:23 -0500 2017-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tribute Shawl Accessories by Suzanne L. Cross, photograph by Marcella Hadden, Niibing Giizis Photography. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation, Holidays & Beyond (January 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 36268-5552494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark, a former U-M physician, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:16:01 -0500 2017-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dr. Snowflake by Thomas L. Clark. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush (January 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 36560-5716431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs, also from unknown photographers, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:56:40 -0500 2017-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition 100 year-old basket by unknown Kuskokwim Athabascan artist, photograph by Virginia Simson Nelson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art (January 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 36559-5716347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Since the dawn of history, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick, heal wounds, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc., an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:47:30 -0500 2017-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Two Blind Mice & a Wild-Type by Shannon Conley, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture (January 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 36272-5552579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In the year 2000, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut, hammer, bend, grind and weld his sculptures to life, giving them movement and character.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:20:13 -0500 2017-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Steel Horse by Tim Shoemaker, photograph by Greg Durling. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage (January 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 36558-5716263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces, gum wrapper chain, American bricks, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art, they can be teaching tools, aids in focus or meditation, used to establish sacred space, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan, and he is an artist, designer and collector with a background in theater, fashion design, therapeutic bodywork, meditation, printmaking and assemblage.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:44:36 -0500 2017-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Mandala No. 3, photograph by Patrick Young. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (January 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan (January 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 35907-5372242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local, national, and global change, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times, students have debated among each other, sparred with faculty and administrators, negotiated with community members, and contended with politicians. In so doing, they have shaped the physical campus, the student body, the meaning of community, and the university’s mission as a public institution.

This exhibit showcases key moments of student expression, politics, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor, through the upheavals of world wars, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.

On display January 4-February 25, 2017, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:16:32 -0400 2017-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition The Leaders and the Rest image logo
The Student Experience: Flappers, Mappers, and the Fight for Equality on Campus (January 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37210 37210-6457546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join flappers as they stroll through 1926 Ann Arbor with a beautiful pictorial map and experience the busy student life of the 1920s, celebrate two University of Michigan alumna who have greatly influenced the field of cartography, and explore the rise of diversity and the fight for equality on campus through protest posters from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection of the U-M Library’s Special Collections.

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Exhibition Wed, 04 Jan 2017 17:27:27 -0500 2017-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T23:59:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster detail
It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 (January 24, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 32121-4499707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.

Audubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:04:57 -0400 2017-01-24T08:30:00-05:00 2017-01-24T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Original 1941 exhibit poster for Citizen Kane
Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (January 24, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 44929-10012387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public
Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
Chairs:       
Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR
Cathryn Dwyre, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
Chris Perry, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
David Salomon, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.
Keynotes:
Liam Young, urbanist, designer and futurist; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com); the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc
David Gissen, author, historian, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)
For a full list of speakers and bios, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. 
Ambiguous Territory Symposium Schedule
All events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted
Thursday October 5th
5:00pm
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition Reception
(Taubman College Gallery)
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: Liam Young
(Art + Architecture Auditorium)
 
Friday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)
9:00am
Coffee
9:30am
Welcome: Dean Jonathan Massey
Introductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün
Symposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov
10:00am
Atmospheric Mediations Panel
Introduction: Kathy Velikov
Speaker 1: Christopher Hight
Speaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti
Speaker 3: Sean Lally
Respondent: Meredith Miller
Roundtable Discussion
12:00pm
Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
1:00pm
Biologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: David Salomon
Speaker 1: Jennifer Peeples
Speaker 2: Linsdey french
Speaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos
Respondent: Ellie Abrons
Roundtable Discussion
3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm
Geologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry
Speaker 1: Alessandra Ponte
Speaker 2: Bradley Cantrell
Speaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
Respondent: Mark Lindquist
Roundtable Discussion
5:30pm
Break
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: David Gissen
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition 
September 27th – October 18th 2017
University of Michigan Taubman College Gallery
December 2018 – January 2019
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:07:12 -0400 2017-01-24T09:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun (January 24, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 33066-4655850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event "Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:01:44 -0400 2017-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Opening of Laylī va Majnūn in Niẓāmī’s Khamsah from Isl. Ms. 287 (copied 1824)
Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (January 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 34760-4987606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment, AISIN, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:47:29 -0400 2017-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Kabuki
Moving Image: Landscape (January 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection (January 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 35430-5224444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:33:27 -0400 2017-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Dramza Demchog Nyingpo, innter face, Upper book cover, Tebet, early 15th century, wood with paint and gilding. MacLean Collection
The Aesthetic Movement (January 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Marked Landscapes: From Civil War to Civil Rights (January 25, 2017 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38173 38173-6987086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 7:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Art Gallery hours are 7am-5pm Monday-Friday.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:05:29 -0500 2017-01-25T07:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Michel Mergen
ARCHIGRAM EXHIBITION OPENING (January 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37563 37563-6629377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on View January 14 - February 19
This exhibition opening reception begins after Dennis Crompton's lecture in STAMPS Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center.
This exhibition celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of Archigram, the British architects whose dynamic and provocative vision of future life brought the pop spirit to the architecture avant garde in 1960s Britain.
Vibrant, playful, optimistic, and iconoclastic, the visionary architectural projects presented by Archigram in exhibitions, collages, drawings and film, played an important role in 1960s pop culture and have an enduring influence on architecture today. Archigram was founded in London in 1961 around a nucleus of young architects: Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb. Inspired by pop culture, advances in technology and the belief that architects had a responsibility to develop new ways of responding to social change, the group rebelled against the conservative architectural establishment by launching a magazine – entitled Archigram – to express its ideas.
Organized by Dennis Crompton for Archigram. Supported by the Johe Fund.
Join us also for an opening lecture delivered by Dennis Crompton, January 13 at 6:00pm in the Walgreen Drama Center's STAMPS Auditorium, followed by an opening reception for the exhibition at the Liberty Research Annex.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:26:33 -0500 2017-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Archigram
Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel (January 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 36561-5716516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Carlye Crisler, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities, people and lighting at a particular time of day, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes, Crisler also is a costumer, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:56:24 -0500 2017-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fleetwood, detail by Carlye Crisler, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request
Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads (January 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 36273-5552664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Suzanne L. Cross, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing, supporting, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:29:23 -0500 2017-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tribute Shawl Accessories by Suzanne L. Cross, photograph by Marcella Hadden, Niibing Giizis Photography. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation, Holidays & Beyond (January 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 36268-5552495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark, a former U-M physician, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:16:01 -0500 2017-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dr. Snowflake by Thomas L. Clark. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush (January 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 36560-5716432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs, also from unknown photographers, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:56:40 -0500 2017-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition 100 year-old basket by unknown Kuskokwim Athabascan artist, photograph by Virginia Simson Nelson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art (January 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 36559-5716348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Since the dawn of history, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick, heal wounds, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc., an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:47:30 -0500 2017-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Two Blind Mice & a Wild-Type by Shannon Conley, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture (January 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 36272-5552580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In the year 2000, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut, hammer, bend, grind and weld his sculptures to life, giving them movement and character.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:20:13 -0500 2017-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Steel Horse by Tim Shoemaker, photograph by Greg Durling. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage (January 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 36558-5716264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces, gum wrapper chain, American bricks, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art, they can be teaching tools, aids in focus or meditation, used to establish sacred space, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan, and he is an artist, designer and collector with a background in theater, fashion design, therapeutic bodywork, meditation, printmaking and assemblage.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:44:36 -0500 2017-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Mandala No. 3, photograph by Patrick Young. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (January 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan (January 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 35907-5372243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local, national, and global change, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times, students have debated among each other, sparred with faculty and administrators, negotiated with community members, and contended with politicians. In so doing, they have shaped the physical campus, the student body, the meaning of community, and the university’s mission as a public institution.

This exhibit showcases key moments of student expression, politics, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor, through the upheavals of world wars, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.

On display January 4-February 25, 2017, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:16:32 -0400 2017-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition The Leaders and the Rest image logo
The Student Experience: Flappers, Mappers, and the Fight for Equality on Campus (January 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37210 37210-6457547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join flappers as they stroll through 1926 Ann Arbor with a beautiful pictorial map and experience the busy student life of the 1920s, celebrate two University of Michigan alumna who have greatly influenced the field of cartography, and explore the rise of diversity and the fight for equality on campus through protest posters from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection of the U-M Library’s Special Collections.

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Exhibition Wed, 04 Jan 2017 17:27:27 -0500 2017-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T23:59:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster detail
It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 (January 25, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 32121-4499708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.

Audubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:04:57 -0400 2017-01-25T08:30:00-05:00 2017-01-25T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Original 1941 exhibit poster for Citizen Kane
Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (January 25, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 44929-10012388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public
Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
Chairs:       
Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR
Cathryn Dwyre, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
Chris Perry, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
David Salomon, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.
Keynotes:
Liam Young, urbanist, designer and futurist; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com); the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc
David Gissen, author, historian, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)
For a full list of speakers and bios, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. 
Ambiguous Territory Symposium Schedule
All events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted
Thursday October 5th
5:00pm
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition Reception
(Taubman College Gallery)
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: Liam Young
(Art + Architecture Auditorium)
 
Friday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)
9:00am
Coffee
9:30am
Welcome: Dean Jonathan Massey
Introductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün
Symposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov
10:00am
Atmospheric Mediations Panel
Introduction: Kathy Velikov
Speaker 1: Christopher Hight
Speaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti
Speaker 3: Sean Lally
Respondent: Meredith Miller
Roundtable Discussion
12:00pm
Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
1:00pm
Biologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: David Salomon
Speaker 1: Jennifer Peeples
Speaker 2: Linsdey french
Speaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos
Respondent: Ellie Abrons
Roundtable Discussion
3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm
Geologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry
Speaker 1: Alessandra Ponte
Speaker 2: Bradley Cantrell
Speaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
Respondent: Mark Lindquist
Roundtable Discussion
5:30pm
Break
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: David Gissen
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition 
September 27th – October 18th 2017
University of Michigan Taubman College Gallery
December 2018 – January 2019
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:07:12 -0400 2017-01-25T09:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun (January 25, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 33066-4655851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event "Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:01:44 -0400 2017-01-25T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Opening of Laylī va Majnūn in Niẓāmī’s Khamsah from Isl. Ms. 287 (copied 1824)
Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (January 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 34760-4987607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment, AISIN, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:47:29 -0400 2017-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Kabuki
Moving Image: Landscape (January 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection (January 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 35430-5224445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:33:27 -0400 2017-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Dramza Demchog Nyingpo, innter face, Upper book cover, Tebet, early 15th century, wood with paint and gilding. MacLean Collection
The Aesthetic Movement (January 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Marked Landscapes: From Civil War to Civil Rights (January 26, 2017 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38173 38173-6987087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2017 7:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Art Gallery hours are 7am-5pm Monday-Friday.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:05:29 -0500 2017-01-26T07:00:00-05:00 2017-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Michel Mergen
ARCHIGRAM EXHIBITION OPENING (January 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37563 37563-6629378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on View January 14 - February 19
This exhibition opening reception begins after Dennis Crompton's lecture in STAMPS Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center.
This exhibition celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of Archigram, the British architects whose dynamic and provocative vision of future life brought the pop spirit to the architecture avant garde in 1960s Britain.
Vibrant, playful, optimistic, and iconoclastic, the visionary architectural projects presented by Archigram in exhibitions, collages, drawings and film, played an important role in 1960s pop culture and have an enduring influence on architecture today. Archigram was founded in London in 1961 around a nucleus of young architects: Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb. Inspired by pop culture, advances in technology and the belief that architects had a responsibility to develop new ways of responding to social change, the group rebelled against the conservative architectural establishment by launching a magazine – entitled Archigram – to express its ideas.
Organized by Dennis Crompton for Archigram. Supported by the Johe Fund.
Join us also for an opening lecture delivered by Dennis Crompton, January 13 at 6:00pm in the Walgreen Drama Center's STAMPS Auditorium, followed by an opening reception for the exhibition at the Liberty Research Annex.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:26:33 -0500 2017-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-26T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Archigram
Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel (January 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 36561-5716517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Carlye Crisler, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities, people and lighting at a particular time of day, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes, Crisler also is a costumer, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:56:24 -0500 2017-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Fleetwood, detail by Carlye Crisler, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request
Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads (January 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 36273-5552665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Suzanne L. Cross, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing, supporting, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:29:23 -0500 2017-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-26T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tribute Shawl Accessories by Suzanne L. Cross, photograph by Marcella Hadden, Niibing Giizis Photography. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation, Holidays & Beyond (January 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 36268-5552496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark, a former U-M physician, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:16:01 -0500 2017-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-26T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dr. Snowflake by Thomas L. Clark. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush (January 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 36560-5716433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs, also from unknown photographers, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:56:40 -0500 2017-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2017-01-26T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition 100 year-old basket by unknown Kuskokwim Athabascan artist, photograph by Virginia Simson Nelson. High resolution version available upon request.