Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 18, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 44018-11853313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 12:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:17:23 -0400 2018-03-18T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T23:59:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education" (March 18, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 46881-10667223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 8:00am
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: U-M School of Dentistry

“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, through December 2019, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world.

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Exhibition Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:31:56 -0500 2018-03-18T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute U-M School of Dentistry Exhibition Sindecuse Banner
Exhibition in the RC Art Gallery (March 18, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50221 50221-11687497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Mr Yiu Keung Lee was born in Hong Kong and came to the United States in 1988 to pursue his BFA at Eastern Michigan University studied under several Professors including Susanne Stephenson. After graduated as an MFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1995. Among his teachers are John Stephenson, Georgette Zirbes and Jean-Pierre LaRocque. Mr. Lee continued to teach at various institutions in Michigan including University of Michigan’s Residential College in Ann Arbor, Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn and Schoolcraft College in Livonia. Mr. Lee is currently teaching as an Adjunct at the Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti and a visiting artist at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit during the Fall 2016 school year. He is also teaching at Clay Work Studio which he founded in the Summer of 2014. Recent exhibition including “Vitrified”, a four-artist exhibition at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit and solo exhibition at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:28:46 -0500 2018-03-18T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition GAL Announcement
The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet (March 18, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 45823-10310485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.

The 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:26:37 -0500 2018-03-18T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Ackermann's Repository
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 18, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-18T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50396 50396-11727493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Thesis exhibitions by Stamps second-year MFA in Art graduate students Stephanie Brown, Robert J. Fitzgerald,  Brynn Higgins-Stirrup, and Brenna K. Murphy are featured at the new Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor from Friday, March 9 - Sunday, April 1, 2018. A public open house and exhibition reception will take place on Friday, March 9 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition reception includes two performances:

Brenna K. Murphy, Crossing, 6 - 6:45 pm
Robert Fitzgerald, / offscreen / , 7:15 - 7:30 pm

Additional performances will take place on Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31, 2018:

Friday, March 30: Robert Fitzgerald, / offscreen / , 5 - 7 pm
Saturday, March 31: Brenna K. Murphy, Crossing, 11:30 am - 4:30 pm
Viewers are welcome to stay for the entire duration of this five hour performance or come and go as they please - attendance from start to finish is not required.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:15:30 -0400 2018-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/MFA_Thesis_Web_Banners_2018.jpg
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (March 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11464964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Paul Rand (March 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 46548-10547169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC, IBM, UPS, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus, or visual puzzle, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight,” “industriousness,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:23:47 -0500 2018-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Paul Rand
Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter (March 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 46549-10547290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by, or even created by, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA, "The Comforter" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture, though curious and unexplained, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.

Lead support for "Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:26:03 -0500 2018-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition The Comforter
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (March 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism (March 18, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 50081-11633606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of History

This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves, their children, and their communities.

On display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March).

The exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells, Mahal Stevens, Jewel Drigo, Kelly Kacan, and Alyssa Erebor.

Funding and support from the Department of History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University Library, Hatcher Gallery Team, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:00:43 -0500 2018-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of History Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 (March 18, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 44170-9889180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects, archival documents and images, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.

Curators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:25:09 -0500 2018-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Excavating Archaeology @ the University of Michigan
Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 19, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 44018-11853314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 12:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:17:23 -0400 2018-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T23:59:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education" (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 46881-10667224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: U-M School of Dentistry

“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, through December 2019, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world.

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Exhibition Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:31:56 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute U-M School of Dentistry Exhibition Sindecuse Banner
Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 50081-11633607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of History

This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves, their children, and their communities.

On display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March).

The exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells, Mahal Stevens, Jewel Drigo, Kelly Kacan, and Alyssa Erebor.

Funding and support from the Department of History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University Library, Hatcher Gallery Team, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:00:43 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of History Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Exhibition in the RC Art Gallery (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50221 50221-11687498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Mr Yiu Keung Lee was born in Hong Kong and came to the United States in 1988 to pursue his BFA at Eastern Michigan University studied under several Professors including Susanne Stephenson. After graduated as an MFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1995. Among his teachers are John Stephenson, Georgette Zirbes and Jean-Pierre LaRocque. Mr. Lee continued to teach at various institutions in Michigan including University of Michigan’s Residential College in Ann Arbor, Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn and Schoolcraft College in Livonia. Mr. Lee is currently teaching as an Adjunct at the Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti and a visiting artist at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit during the Fall 2016 school year. He is also teaching at Clay Work Studio which he founded in the Summer of 2014. Recent exhibition including “Vitrified”, a four-artist exhibition at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit and solo exhibition at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:28:46 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition GAL Announcement
Gifts of Art presents Beauty Meets My Mess: Mixed Media Collage (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50430 50430-11736760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Re Kielar was born in Chicago’s little Italy neighborhood with her grandparents upstairs and aunt and uncle across the courtyard. Her world was very Italian, and when she walked outside, she felt like she was leaving one country and entering another. Ever since she was a child, she has loved paint and texture and seen beauty in the most unlikely places. Her artwork expresses human emotion through drawing in ink with rough papers, old book pages, metal embellishments and natural objects. Each abstract collage is coupled with her poetry, so each piece is a walk into her soul. She hopes that by sharing that which is broken, we can find healing spaces that knit our hearts together.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:26:42 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Mixed Messages by Re Kielar, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Being There: Acrylic on Canvas (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50426 50426-11736508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Dempsey’s large scale paintings bring together different environments – factories, religious spaces, government facilities, public areas and landscapes – into single compositions. He visually chronicles and explores the complex combinations of environments that we collage together from memory everyday as we form impressions of the places we go. These paintings from the Glare Series present a variety of environments together, all at once, in order to visually chronicle and explore this complex circumstance of place. Dempsey’s studio is in Flint, and he currently is an Instructor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:15:10 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Memory Serves No. 2 (detail) by John Dempsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Ducks to Dresses: Paper Possibilities (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50429 50429-11736676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from New York, Aimee Lee works in Cleveland and is an artist, papermaker, Fulbright Scholar, author and the leading hanji (Korean paper) researcher and practitioner in the US. Fusing contemporary fashion ideas with traditional clothing, Lee connects past and present through everyday dress creations in paper. The hanji techniques she uses include natural dyeing and waxing, texturing for supple or stiff surfaces, slicing and spinning into thread, and tearing strips to cord. Her paper ducks are inspired by Korean wedding ducks – known for fertility and mating for life – and are built without an armature; the hollow bodies are woven like baskets.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:20:55 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ice Stages by Aimee Lee, photograph by Stefan Hagen. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Figures in Bronze (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50422 50422-11736256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Figures in Bronze showcases 30 years of Richard Light’s human and animal sculptures, from 1987 to 2017. Look for giraffes, birds, women of industry, and a portrait bust of a young Einstein, a commission made for the Albert Einstein Memorial at the Collège de France in Paris. Light, a fine art bronze sculptor and park designer, has garnered prizes in the US and Europe including the Prix de France from the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, the largest art show in France. His studio is located in the Park Trades Center in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:07:39 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Women of Industry V by Richard Light. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Group Ceramics Show (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50424 50424-11736424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show will feature the work of faculty, staff and students from the Washtenaw Community College (WCC) Ceramics Program. Artists range in ages from 17-87. Many different styles and approaches to ceramic art will be on display, including ceramic sculpture and functional ceramics. Curated by WCC Instructor I.B. Remsen, all of the pieces in this show are personal favorites of the participating artists.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:10:25 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Filigree Platter by I.B. Remsen photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request. http://www.med.umich.edu/goa/exhibits.htm#wcc
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents On Blue: Photographic Meditations (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50423 50423-11736340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Loosely based on the concept of the early 20th century group f64, the f8collective is composed of female contemporary Chicago photographers who all happen to have strong family ties to Michigan. The group of images on exhibit is from a project called On Blue: A Meditation. Blue is… tranquil pools of clear water; languid clouds drifting in azure skies; mood indigo; cobalt glass; cerulean blue eyes; sapphire cornflowers; poignant music, emotion and sentiment. Blue is a rare color in nature, yet found in the largest things such as sea, lake and sky, as well as some of the smallest: sapphires, forget-me-nots and delicate tropical butterflies.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:09:06 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Deep Blue, Riistina Finland by Susan Aurinko. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Timeless Instants: Still Life Photographs (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50411 50411-11736161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from Kansas City, Tina West discovered photography while studying sculpture. She sees her photographs more as paintings, and her still lifes have powerful cast shadows and frequent light play. Influenced by Gerhardt Richter and surrealism, West’s images communicate a sense of being, connecting not only the objects in the photographs, but also the viewer and the photograph. She draws inspiration from the objects in her vast collection of unique treasures, and she speaks to their unreserved timelessness with maturity and wonder. All of the images in this exhibit were created using instant film in a 4x5 view camera.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:05:34 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Bouncing Ball by Tina West. High resolution version available upon request.
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 45823-10310486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.

The 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:26:37 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Ackermann's Repository
Border Crossers (March 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49825 49825-11543784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Students across campus—from LSA, Engineering, Art and Design, and Information—will work with visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie during winter semester 2018 planning, building, and launching a 40-foot robotic sculpture that poetically explores the notion of borders and boundary conditions. The project, led by the Institute for the Humanities, symbolizes the humanities in action, and the empowerment that can be achieved through working together, overcoming obstacles and divides, and discovering creative solutions.

Macmurtrie is an award winning artist, renowned internationally for his large-scale robotic sculpture, whose work combines materiality and robotics, the visceral and conceptual. His artist residency and interdisciplinary project "Border Crossers" encourages investigation of borders as constructed entities, both embodying a simple curiosity to see what lies on the other side of a border (national, architectural, environmental, etc.) and expression of a utopian desire to live in a world without borders.

In February, MacMurtrie and the students will launch the robotic sculpture during two "performances" and MacMurtrie will give a special Penny W. Stamps Lecture. The gallery exhibition will include large-scale drawings which serve as plans and maps for MacMurtrie's visionary Border Crossers. Life-size robotic models will also be presented in the exhibition in conversation with the drawings. The models, built by the all-student team with MacMurtrie's guidance, are prototypes for the project, offering preliminary steps in the workshop and the process towards realizing the large scale robotic sculpture.

Chico MacMurtrie is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works, an interdisciplinary creative collective located in Brooklyn, NY. MacMurtrie/ARW have received numerous awards for their experimental new media artworks, including five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, VIDA Life 11.0, and Prix Ars Electronica. Chico MacMurtrie was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2016.

Visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie's residency and project is sponsored by the U-M Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with U-M Museum of Art, Michigan Robotics, Michigan Engineering, School of Information, Penny Stamps Speaker Series, Stamps School of Art and Design, and ArtsEngin.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:59:29 -0500 2018-03-19T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Border Crossers
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-19T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Interior Streets (March 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50277 50277-11698758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Join us March 9, 3pm, for a reception and Carl Wilson in conversation with our curator Amanda Krugliak.

The "Interior Streets" exhibition features the work of Detroit artist Carl Wilson, known for his stark black and white linocut prints. The self-taught artist sees himself as a documentarian of lives easily ignored in a world obsessed with materialism and celebrity. His work frequently highlights not only the strength found in conquering the everyday and mundane, but also the pain and defeat of those not able to rise to the occasion. His love of film noir and pulp fiction novels from the 1940s and '50s has led him to experiment with minimalist animation and comic book illustration. He embraces the whimsy hidden in the darkness.

Carl is the recipient of a 2013 Kresge Artist Fellowship and is an alumni of the historic Yaddo Artists’ Community. During his residency there he carved the prints for, and wrote the book, Her Purse Smelled like Juicyfruit, a recollection of his mother’s life. Carl was named 2014 guest curator of Detroit’s Carr Center. Also in 2014 Complex Online Magazine named him one of Twenty Detroit Artists You Should Know. He was featured in Essay'd, a monthly publication about Detroit artists. 2017 sees the release of a comic book, the first installment of his graphic novel, Dead and Lost in Detroit.

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:30:38 -0500 2018-03-19T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Asheville
Handwritten heritage: Arabic texts in manuscript (March 19, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50089 50089-11633639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features a selection of prominent Arabic writings from the classical and post-classical periods among the holdings of the Islamic Manuscripts Collection preserved in the University Library.

Carefully transcribed copies of classic literary works by al-Mutanabbī (d.965), Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī (d.1057), and al-Ḥarīrī (d.1122) appear alongside influential grammatical, scientific, and mystical writings - even a text on musical theory and performance.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) celebration of Arab Heritage Month: https://mesa.umich.edu/article/arab-heritage-month

Hours: Mon 8:30am-5pm, Tues 8:30am-8pm, Wed-Fri 8:30am-5pm

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:16:50 -0500 2018-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Opening of the eighth maqāmah (assembly) in Isl. Ms. 650, a late 13th or early 14th c manuscript copy of Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (March 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11464965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Paul Rand (March 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 46548-10547170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC, IBM, UPS, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus, or visual puzzle, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight,” “industriousness,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:23:47 -0500 2018-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Paul Rand
Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter (March 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 46549-10547291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by, or even created by, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA, "The Comforter" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture, though curious and unexplained, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.

Lead support for "Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:26:03 -0500 2018-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition The Comforter
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (March 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Call for Submissions rEVOLUTION: Making Art for Change (March 19, 2018 11:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49510 49510-11465111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 11:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

The Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center's Survivor Empowerment & Ally Support (SEAS) Volunteer Program is now accepting submissions for the 13th annual rEVOLUTION: Making Art for Change art show!

We welcome all UM affiliated artists to submit their artworks to be displayed in our art show in rEVOLUTION: Making Art for Change. Art of any medium is welcome, including, but not limited to: painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, spoken word, and poetry. The themes of our show are gender, sexism, sexual violence, empowerment, and healing. The topic of sexual violence can include sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual and gender-based harassment, and stalking.

Healing is a process that works in different ways for different people. Creating and displaying art can prove very helpful as a way to promote healing. Artistic expression provides a medium to bring up and process emotions and experiences in a way that can be difficult to discuss otherwise.

Our goal with this event is to create and engage in a supportive community space for survivors where UM student allies and survivors will build empathy and an understanding of sexual violence and healing through the unique creative expression of survivor experiences and perspectives.

Please e-mail submissions to artrevolution@umich.edu and fill out this form (https://goo.gl/forms/CeVUxF7iRs9fQbPy1) by Monday March 19th! If your work is accepted, it will be displayed at the opening night of the art show the evening of April 6th. Opening night will be held from 6-9 PM in the East and West Conference Rooms on the fourth floor of Rackham Graduate School.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:20:48 -0500 2018-03-19T23:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Exhibition Rev Call for Submissions
Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 20, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 44018-11853315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 12:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:17:23 -0400 2018-03-20T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T23:59:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education" (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 46881-10667225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: U-M School of Dentistry

“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, through December 2019, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world.

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Exhibition Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:31:56 -0500 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T18:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute U-M School of Dentistry Exhibition Sindecuse Banner
Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 50081-11633608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of History

This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves, their children, and their communities.

On display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March).

The exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells, Mahal Stevens, Jewel Drigo, Kelly Kacan, and Alyssa Erebor.

Funding and support from the Department of History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University Library, Hatcher Gallery Team, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:00:43 -0500 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of History Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Exhibition in the RC Art Gallery (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50221 50221-11687499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Mr Yiu Keung Lee was born in Hong Kong and came to the United States in 1988 to pursue his BFA at Eastern Michigan University studied under several Professors including Susanne Stephenson. After graduated as an MFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1995. Among his teachers are John Stephenson, Georgette Zirbes and Jean-Pierre LaRocque. Mr. Lee continued to teach at various institutions in Michigan including University of Michigan’s Residential College in Ann Arbor, Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn and Schoolcraft College in Livonia. Mr. Lee is currently teaching as an Adjunct at the Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti and a visiting artist at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit during the Fall 2016 school year. He is also teaching at Clay Work Studio which he founded in the Summer of 2014. Recent exhibition including “Vitrified”, a four-artist exhibition at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit and solo exhibition at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:28:46 -0500 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition GAL Announcement
Gifts of Art presents Beauty Meets My Mess: Mixed Media Collage (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50430 50430-11736761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Re Kielar was born in Chicago’s little Italy neighborhood with her grandparents upstairs and aunt and uncle across the courtyard. Her world was very Italian, and when she walked outside, she felt like she was leaving one country and entering another. Ever since she was a child, she has loved paint and texture and seen beauty in the most unlikely places. Her artwork expresses human emotion through drawing in ink with rough papers, old book pages, metal embellishments and natural objects. Each abstract collage is coupled with her poetry, so each piece is a walk into her soul. She hopes that by sharing that which is broken, we can find healing spaces that knit our hearts together.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:26:42 -0500 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Mixed Messages by Re Kielar, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Being There: Acrylic on Canvas (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50426 50426-11736509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Dempsey’s large scale paintings bring together different environments – factories, religious spaces, government facilities, public areas and landscapes – into single compositions. He visually chronicles and explores the complex combinations of environments that we collage together from memory everyday as we form impressions of the places we go. These paintings from the Glare Series present a variety of environments together, all at once, in order to visually chronicle and explore this complex circumstance of place. Dempsey’s studio is in Flint, and he currently is an Instructor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:15:10 -0500 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Memory Serves No. 2 (detail) by John Dempsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Ducks to Dresses: Paper Possibilities (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50429 50429-11736677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from New York, Aimee Lee works in Cleveland and is an artist, papermaker, Fulbright Scholar, author and the leading hanji (Korean paper) researcher and practitioner in the US. Fusing contemporary fashion ideas with traditional clothing, Lee connects past and present through everyday dress creations in paper. The hanji techniques she uses include natural dyeing and waxing, texturing for supple or stiff surfaces, slicing and spinning into thread, and tearing strips to cord. Her paper ducks are inspired by Korean wedding ducks – known for fertility and mating for life – and are built without an armature; the hollow bodies are woven like baskets.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:20:55 -0500 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ice Stages by Aimee Lee, photograph by Stefan Hagen. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Figures in Bronze (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50422 50422-11736257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Figures in Bronze showcases 30 years of Richard Light’s human and animal sculptures, from 1987 to 2017. Look for giraffes, birds, women of industry, and a portrait bust of a young Einstein, a commission made for the Albert Einstein Memorial at the Collège de France in Paris. Light, a fine art bronze sculptor and park designer, has garnered prizes in the US and Europe including the Prix de France from the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, the largest art show in France. His studio is located in the Park Trades Center in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:07:39 -0500 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Women of Industry V by Richard Light. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Group Ceramics Show (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50424 50424-11736425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show will feature the work of faculty, staff and students from the Washtenaw Community College (WCC) Ceramics Program. Artists range in ages from 17-87. Many different styles and approaches to ceramic art will be on display, including ceramic sculpture and functional ceramics. Curated by WCC Instructor I.B. Remsen, all of the pieces in this show are personal favorites of the participating artists.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:10:25 -0500 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Filigree Platter by I.B. Remsen photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request. http://www.med.umich.edu/goa/exhibits.htm#wcc
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents On Blue: Photographic Meditations (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50423 50423-11736341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Loosely based on the concept of the early 20th century group f64, the f8collective is composed of female contemporary Chicago photographers who all happen to have strong family ties to Michigan. The group of images on exhibit is from a project called On Blue: A Meditation. Blue is… tranquil pools of clear water; languid clouds drifting in azure skies; mood indigo; cobalt glass; cerulean blue eyes; sapphire cornflowers; poignant music, emotion and sentiment. Blue is a rare color in nature, yet found in the largest things such as sea, lake and sky, as well as some of the smallest: sapphires, forget-me-nots and delicate tropical butterflies.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:09:06 -0500 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Deep Blue, Riistina Finland by Susan Aurinko. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Timeless Instants: Still Life Photographs (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50411 50411-11736162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from Kansas City, Tina West discovered photography while studying sculpture. She sees her photographs more as paintings, and her still lifes have powerful cast shadows and frequent light play. Influenced by Gerhardt Richter and surrealism, West’s images communicate a sense of being, connecting not only the objects in the photographs, but also the viewer and the photograph. She draws inspiration from the objects in her vast collection of unique treasures, and she speaks to their unreserved timelessness with maturity and wonder. All of the images in this exhibit were created using instant film in a 4x5 view camera.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:05:34 -0500 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Bouncing Ball by Tina West. High resolution version available upon request.
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 45823-10310487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.

The 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:26:37 -0500 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T20:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Ackermann's Repository
Border Crossers (March 20, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49825 49825-11543785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Students across campus—from LSA, Engineering, Art and Design, and Information—will work with visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie during winter semester 2018 planning, building, and launching a 40-foot robotic sculpture that poetically explores the notion of borders and boundary conditions. The project, led by the Institute for the Humanities, symbolizes the humanities in action, and the empowerment that can be achieved through working together, overcoming obstacles and divides, and discovering creative solutions.

Macmurtrie is an award winning artist, renowned internationally for his large-scale robotic sculpture, whose work combines materiality and robotics, the visceral and conceptual. His artist residency and interdisciplinary project "Border Crossers" encourages investigation of borders as constructed entities, both embodying a simple curiosity to see what lies on the other side of a border (national, architectural, environmental, etc.) and expression of a utopian desire to live in a world without borders.

In February, MacMurtrie and the students will launch the robotic sculpture during two "performances" and MacMurtrie will give a special Penny W. Stamps Lecture. The gallery exhibition will include large-scale drawings which serve as plans and maps for MacMurtrie's visionary Border Crossers. Life-size robotic models will also be presented in the exhibition in conversation with the drawings. The models, built by the all-student team with MacMurtrie's guidance, are prototypes for the project, offering preliminary steps in the workshop and the process towards realizing the large scale robotic sculpture.

Chico MacMurtrie is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works, an interdisciplinary creative collective located in Brooklyn, NY. MacMurtrie/ARW have received numerous awards for their experimental new media artworks, including five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, VIDA Life 11.0, and Prix Ars Electronica. Chico MacMurtrie was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2016.

Visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie's residency and project is sponsored by the U-M Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with U-M Museum of Art, Michigan Robotics, Michigan Engineering, School of Information, Penny Stamps Speaker Series, Stamps School of Art and Design, and ArtsEngin.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:59:29 -0500 2018-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Border Crossers
Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 (March 20, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 44170-9889182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects, archival documents and images, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.

Curators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:25:09 -0500 2018-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Excavating Archaeology @ the University of Michigan
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 20, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Interior Streets (March 20, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50277 50277-11698759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Join us March 9, 3pm, for a reception and Carl Wilson in conversation with our curator Amanda Krugliak.

The "Interior Streets" exhibition features the work of Detroit artist Carl Wilson, known for his stark black and white linocut prints. The self-taught artist sees himself as a documentarian of lives easily ignored in a world obsessed with materialism and celebrity. His work frequently highlights not only the strength found in conquering the everyday and mundane, but also the pain and defeat of those not able to rise to the occasion. His love of film noir and pulp fiction novels from the 1940s and '50s has led him to experiment with minimalist animation and comic book illustration. He embraces the whimsy hidden in the darkness.

Carl is the recipient of a 2013 Kresge Artist Fellowship and is an alumni of the historic Yaddo Artists’ Community. During his residency there he carved the prints for, and wrote the book, Her Purse Smelled like Juicyfruit, a recollection of his mother’s life. Carl was named 2014 guest curator of Detroit’s Carr Center. Also in 2014 Complex Online Magazine named him one of Twenty Detroit Artists You Should Know. He was featured in Essay'd, a monthly publication about Detroit artists. 2017 sees the release of a comic book, the first installment of his graphic novel, Dead and Lost in Detroit.

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:30:38 -0500 2018-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Asheville
Handwritten heritage: Arabic texts in manuscript (March 20, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50089 50089-11633640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features a selection of prominent Arabic writings from the classical and post-classical periods among the holdings of the Islamic Manuscripts Collection preserved in the University Library.

Carefully transcribed copies of classic literary works by al-Mutanabbī (d.965), Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī (d.1057), and al-Ḥarīrī (d.1122) appear alongside influential grammatical, scientific, and mystical writings - even a text on musical theory and performance.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) celebration of Arab Heritage Month: https://mesa.umich.edu/article/arab-heritage-month

Hours: Mon 8:30am-5pm, Tues 8:30am-8pm, Wed-Fri 8:30am-5pm

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:16:50 -0500 2018-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Opening of the eighth maqāmah (assembly) in Isl. Ms. 650, a late 13th or early 14th c manuscript copy of Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50396 50396-11727494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Thesis exhibitions by Stamps second-year MFA in Art graduate students Stephanie Brown, Robert J. Fitzgerald,  Brynn Higgins-Stirrup, and Brenna K. Murphy are featured at the new Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor from Friday, March 9 - Sunday, April 1, 2018. A public open house and exhibition reception will take place on Friday, March 9 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition reception includes two performances:

Brenna K. Murphy, Crossing, 6 - 6:45 pm
Robert Fitzgerald, / offscreen / , 7:15 - 7:30 pm

Additional performances will take place on Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31, 2018:

Friday, March 30: Robert Fitzgerald, / offscreen / , 5 - 7 pm
Saturday, March 31: Brenna K. Murphy, Crossing, 11:30 am - 4:30 pm
Viewers are welcome to stay for the entire duration of this five hour performance or come and go as they please - attendance from start to finish is not required.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:15:30 -0400 2018-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/MFA_Thesis_Web_Banners_2018.jpg
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (March 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11464966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Paul Rand (March 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 46548-10547171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC, IBM, UPS, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus, or visual puzzle, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight,” “industriousness,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:23:47 -0500 2018-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Paul Rand
Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter (March 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 46549-10547292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by, or even created by, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA, "The Comforter" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture, though curious and unexplained, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.

Lead support for "Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:26:03 -0500 2018-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition The Comforter
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (March 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Past, Present, Future: A Digital Projection Series (March 20, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50376 50376-11724563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Three weeks of short digital projections showing on the outer window (202 S. Thayer) of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, sunset to sunrise, to coincide with the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Watch the video trailer at https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/digital-graffiti-exhibition.html

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:41:12 -0400 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T03:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition 202 S. Thayer
Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 21, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 44018-11853316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 12:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:17:23 -0400 2018-03-21T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T23:59:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education" (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 46881-10667226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: U-M School of Dentistry

“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, through December 2019, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world.

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Exhibition Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:31:56 -0500 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute U-M School of Dentistry Exhibition Sindecuse Banner
Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 50081-11633609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of History

This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves, their children, and their communities.

On display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March).

The exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells, Mahal Stevens, Jewel Drigo, Kelly Kacan, and Alyssa Erebor.

Funding and support from the Department of History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University Library, Hatcher Gallery Team, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:00:43 -0500 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of History Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Exhibition in the RC Art Gallery (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50221 50221-11687500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Mr Yiu Keung Lee was born in Hong Kong and came to the United States in 1988 to pursue his BFA at Eastern Michigan University studied under several Professors including Susanne Stephenson. After graduated as an MFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1995. Among his teachers are John Stephenson, Georgette Zirbes and Jean-Pierre LaRocque. Mr. Lee continued to teach at various institutions in Michigan including University of Michigan’s Residential College in Ann Arbor, Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn and Schoolcraft College in Livonia. Mr. Lee is currently teaching as an Adjunct at the Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti and a visiting artist at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit during the Fall 2016 school year. He is also teaching at Clay Work Studio which he founded in the Summer of 2014. Recent exhibition including “Vitrified”, a four-artist exhibition at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit and solo exhibition at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:28:46 -0500 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition GAL Announcement
Gifts of Art presents Beauty Meets My Mess: Mixed Media Collage (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50430 50430-11736762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Re Kielar was born in Chicago’s little Italy neighborhood with her grandparents upstairs and aunt and uncle across the courtyard. Her world was very Italian, and when she walked outside, she felt like she was leaving one country and entering another. Ever since she was a child, she has loved paint and texture and seen beauty in the most unlikely places. Her artwork expresses human emotion through drawing in ink with rough papers, old book pages, metal embellishments and natural objects. Each abstract collage is coupled with her poetry, so each piece is a walk into her soul. She hopes that by sharing that which is broken, we can find healing spaces that knit our hearts together.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:26:42 -0500 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Mixed Messages by Re Kielar, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Being There: Acrylic on Canvas (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50426 50426-11736510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Dempsey’s large scale paintings bring together different environments – factories, religious spaces, government facilities, public areas and landscapes – into single compositions. He visually chronicles and explores the complex combinations of environments that we collage together from memory everyday as we form impressions of the places we go. These paintings from the Glare Series present a variety of environments together, all at once, in order to visually chronicle and explore this complex circumstance of place. Dempsey’s studio is in Flint, and he currently is an Instructor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:15:10 -0500 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Memory Serves No. 2 (detail) by John Dempsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Ducks to Dresses: Paper Possibilities (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50429 50429-11736678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from New York, Aimee Lee works in Cleveland and is an artist, papermaker, Fulbright Scholar, author and the leading hanji (Korean paper) researcher and practitioner in the US. Fusing contemporary fashion ideas with traditional clothing, Lee connects past and present through everyday dress creations in paper. The hanji techniques she uses include natural dyeing and waxing, texturing for supple or stiff surfaces, slicing and spinning into thread, and tearing strips to cord. Her paper ducks are inspired by Korean wedding ducks – known for fertility and mating for life – and are built without an armature; the hollow bodies are woven like baskets.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:20:55 -0500 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ice Stages by Aimee Lee, photograph by Stefan Hagen. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Figures in Bronze (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50422 50422-11736258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Figures in Bronze showcases 30 years of Richard Light’s human and animal sculptures, from 1987 to 2017. Look for giraffes, birds, women of industry, and a portrait bust of a young Einstein, a commission made for the Albert Einstein Memorial at the Collège de France in Paris. Light, a fine art bronze sculptor and park designer, has garnered prizes in the US and Europe including the Prix de France from the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, the largest art show in France. His studio is located in the Park Trades Center in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:07:39 -0500 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Women of Industry V by Richard Light. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Group Ceramics Show (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50424 50424-11736426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show will feature the work of faculty, staff and students from the Washtenaw Community College (WCC) Ceramics Program. Artists range in ages from 17-87. Many different styles and approaches to ceramic art will be on display, including ceramic sculpture and functional ceramics. Curated by WCC Instructor I.B. Remsen, all of the pieces in this show are personal favorites of the participating artists.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:10:25 -0500 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Filigree Platter by I.B. Remsen photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request. http://www.med.umich.edu/goa/exhibits.htm#wcc
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents On Blue: Photographic Meditations (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50423 50423-11736342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Loosely based on the concept of the early 20th century group f64, the f8collective is composed of female contemporary Chicago photographers who all happen to have strong family ties to Michigan. The group of images on exhibit is from a project called On Blue: A Meditation. Blue is… tranquil pools of clear water; languid clouds drifting in azure skies; mood indigo; cobalt glass; cerulean blue eyes; sapphire cornflowers; poignant music, emotion and sentiment. Blue is a rare color in nature, yet found in the largest things such as sea, lake and sky, as well as some of the smallest: sapphires, forget-me-nots and delicate tropical butterflies.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:09:06 -0500 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Deep Blue, Riistina Finland by Susan Aurinko. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Timeless Instants: Still Life Photographs (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50411 50411-11736163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from Kansas City, Tina West discovered photography while studying sculpture. She sees her photographs more as paintings, and her still lifes have powerful cast shadows and frequent light play. Influenced by Gerhardt Richter and surrealism, West’s images communicate a sense of being, connecting not only the objects in the photographs, but also the viewer and the photograph. She draws inspiration from the objects in her vast collection of unique treasures, and she speaks to their unreserved timelessness with maturity and wonder. All of the images in this exhibit were created using instant film in a 4x5 view camera.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:05:34 -0500 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Bouncing Ball by Tina West. High resolution version available upon request.
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 45823-10310488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.

The 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:26:37 -0500 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Ackermann's Repository
Border Crossers (March 21, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49825 49825-11543786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Students across campus—from LSA, Engineering, Art and Design, and Information—will work with visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie during winter semester 2018 planning, building, and launching a 40-foot robotic sculpture that poetically explores the notion of borders and boundary conditions. The project, led by the Institute for the Humanities, symbolizes the humanities in action, and the empowerment that can be achieved through working together, overcoming obstacles and divides, and discovering creative solutions.

Macmurtrie is an award winning artist, renowned internationally for his large-scale robotic sculpture, whose work combines materiality and robotics, the visceral and conceptual. His artist residency and interdisciplinary project "Border Crossers" encourages investigation of borders as constructed entities, both embodying a simple curiosity to see what lies on the other side of a border (national, architectural, environmental, etc.) and expression of a utopian desire to live in a world without borders.

In February, MacMurtrie and the students will launch the robotic sculpture during two "performances" and MacMurtrie will give a special Penny W. Stamps Lecture. The gallery exhibition will include large-scale drawings which serve as plans and maps for MacMurtrie's visionary Border Crossers. Life-size robotic models will also be presented in the exhibition in conversation with the drawings. The models, built by the all-student team with MacMurtrie's guidance, are prototypes for the project, offering preliminary steps in the workshop and the process towards realizing the large scale robotic sculpture.

Chico MacMurtrie is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works, an interdisciplinary creative collective located in Brooklyn, NY. MacMurtrie/ARW have received numerous awards for their experimental new media artworks, including five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, VIDA Life 11.0, and Prix Ars Electronica. Chico MacMurtrie was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2016.

Visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie's residency and project is sponsored by the U-M Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with U-M Museum of Art, Michigan Robotics, Michigan Engineering, School of Information, Penny Stamps Speaker Series, Stamps School of Art and Design, and ArtsEngin.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:59:29 -0500 2018-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Border Crossers
Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 (March 21, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 44170-9889183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects, archival documents and images, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.

Curators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:25:09 -0500 2018-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Excavating Archaeology @ the University of Michigan
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 21, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Interior Streets (March 21, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50277 50277-11698760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Join us March 9, 3pm, for a reception and Carl Wilson in conversation with our curator Amanda Krugliak.

The "Interior Streets" exhibition features the work of Detroit artist Carl Wilson, known for his stark black and white linocut prints. The self-taught artist sees himself as a documentarian of lives easily ignored in a world obsessed with materialism and celebrity. His work frequently highlights not only the strength found in conquering the everyday and mundane, but also the pain and defeat of those not able to rise to the occasion. His love of film noir and pulp fiction novels from the 1940s and '50s has led him to experiment with minimalist animation and comic book illustration. He embraces the whimsy hidden in the darkness.

Carl is the recipient of a 2013 Kresge Artist Fellowship and is an alumni of the historic Yaddo Artists’ Community. During his residency there he carved the prints for, and wrote the book, Her Purse Smelled like Juicyfruit, a recollection of his mother’s life. Carl was named 2014 guest curator of Detroit’s Carr Center. Also in 2014 Complex Online Magazine named him one of Twenty Detroit Artists You Should Know. He was featured in Essay'd, a monthly publication about Detroit artists. 2017 sees the release of a comic book, the first installment of his graphic novel, Dead and Lost in Detroit.

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:30:38 -0500 2018-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Asheville
Handwritten heritage: Arabic texts in manuscript (March 21, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50089 50089-11633641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features a selection of prominent Arabic writings from the classical and post-classical periods among the holdings of the Islamic Manuscripts Collection preserved in the University Library.

Carefully transcribed copies of classic literary works by al-Mutanabbī (d.965), Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī (d.1057), and al-Ḥarīrī (d.1122) appear alongside influential grammatical, scientific, and mystical writings - even a text on musical theory and performance.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) celebration of Arab Heritage Month: https://mesa.umich.edu/article/arab-heritage-month

Hours: Mon 8:30am-5pm, Tues 8:30am-8pm, Wed-Fri 8:30am-5pm

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:16:50 -0500 2018-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Opening of the eighth maqāmah (assembly) in Isl. Ms. 650, a late 13th or early 14th c manuscript copy of Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī
PCAP Exhibition (March 21, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46981 46981-10714039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners.

The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around making art inside prisons. The 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

The event is free and open to the public.

Photo Credit: Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017

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Exhibition Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:38:48 -0500 2018-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50396 50396-11727495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Thesis exhibitions by Stamps second-year MFA in Art graduate students Stephanie Brown, Robert J. Fitzgerald,  Brynn Higgins-Stirrup, and Brenna K. Murphy are featured at the new Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor from Friday, March 9 - Sunday, April 1, 2018. A public open house and exhibition reception will take place on Friday, March 9 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition reception includes two performances:

Brenna K. Murphy, Crossing, 6 - 6:45 pm
Robert Fitzgerald, / offscreen / , 7:15 - 7:30 pm

Additional performances will take place on Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31, 2018:

Friday, March 30: Robert Fitzgerald, / offscreen / , 5 - 7 pm
Saturday, March 31: Brenna K. Murphy, Crossing, 11:30 am - 4:30 pm
Viewers are welcome to stay for the entire duration of this five hour performance or come and go as they please - attendance from start to finish is not required.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:15:30 -0400 2018-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/MFA_Thesis_Web_Banners_2018.jpg
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (March 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11464967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Paul Rand (March 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 46548-10547172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC, IBM, UPS, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus, or visual puzzle, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight,” “industriousness,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:23:47 -0500 2018-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Paul Rand
Newnan Advising Center 2018 Major/Minor Expo (March 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51089 51089-11961989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

The Major/Minor Expo is an ideal chance for you to explore the world of academic opportunities at LSA and throughout the University. It brings together representatives from nearly every discipline so you can gather information that will help you decide which areas of study you’d most like to pursue. Come and explore all that LSA has to offer.

Attendees will have the opportunity to win an iPad just for sharing your feedback.

Come visit Sweetland's table at location 'W2' and learn more about the Minor in Writing and Peer Writing Consultant programs!

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:23:23 -0400 2018-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T15:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Sweetland Center for Writing Exhibition Michigan Union
Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter (March 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 46549-10547293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by, or even created by, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA, "The Comforter" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture, though curious and unexplained, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.

Lead support for "Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:26:03 -0500 2018-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition The Comforter
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (March 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Past, Present, Future: A Digital Projection Series (March 21, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50376 50376-11724564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Three weeks of short digital projections showing on the outer window (202 S. Thayer) of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, sunset to sunrise, to coincide with the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Watch the video trailer at https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/digital-graffiti-exhibition.html

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:41:12 -0400 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T03:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition 202 S. Thayer
PCAP Exhibition: Opening Event (March 21, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51152 51152-12007283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around making art inside prisons. The 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

Celebrate the opening day of the 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. Gallery opens at 10:00 AM. Sales begin at 6:00 PM. Opening Reception begins at 7:00 PM, with guest speakers from the University of Michigan and the Michigan Department of Corrections as well as artists from previous
exhibitions.

The event is free and open to the public.

Photo Credit: Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:21:44 -0400 2018-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017-01
Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 22, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 44018-11853317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 12:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:17:23 -0400 2018-03-22T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T23:59:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education" (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 46881-10667227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: U-M School of Dentistry

“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, through December 2019, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world.

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Exhibition Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:31:56 -0500 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute U-M School of Dentistry Exhibition Sindecuse Banner
Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 50081-11633610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of History

This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves, their children, and their communities.

On display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March).

The exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells, Mahal Stevens, Jewel Drigo, Kelly Kacan, and Alyssa Erebor.

Funding and support from the Department of History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University Library, Hatcher Gallery Team, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:00:43 -0500 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of History Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Exhibition in the RC Art Gallery (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50221 50221-11687501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Mr Yiu Keung Lee was born in Hong Kong and came to the United States in 1988 to pursue his BFA at Eastern Michigan University studied under several Professors including Susanne Stephenson. After graduated as an MFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1995. Among his teachers are John Stephenson, Georgette Zirbes and Jean-Pierre LaRocque. Mr. Lee continued to teach at various institutions in Michigan including University of Michigan’s Residential College in Ann Arbor, Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn and Schoolcraft College in Livonia. Mr. Lee is currently teaching as an Adjunct at the Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti and a visiting artist at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit during the Fall 2016 school year. He is also teaching at Clay Work Studio which he founded in the Summer of 2014. Recent exhibition including “Vitrified”, a four-artist exhibition at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit and solo exhibition at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:28:46 -0500 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition GAL Announcement
Gifts of Art presents Beauty Meets My Mess: Mixed Media Collage (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50430 50430-11736763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Re Kielar was born in Chicago’s little Italy neighborhood with her grandparents upstairs and aunt and uncle across the courtyard. Her world was very Italian, and when she walked outside, she felt like she was leaving one country and entering another. Ever since she was a child, she has loved paint and texture and seen beauty in the most unlikely places. Her artwork expresses human emotion through drawing in ink with rough papers, old book pages, metal embellishments and natural objects. Each abstract collage is coupled with her poetry, so each piece is a walk into her soul. She hopes that by sharing that which is broken, we can find healing spaces that knit our hearts together.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:26:42 -0500 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Mixed Messages by Re Kielar, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Being There: Acrylic on Canvas (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50426 50426-11736511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Dempsey’s large scale paintings bring together different environments – factories, religious spaces, government facilities, public areas and landscapes – into single compositions. He visually chronicles and explores the complex combinations of environments that we collage together from memory everyday as we form impressions of the places we go. These paintings from the Glare Series present a variety of environments together, all at once, in order to visually chronicle and explore this complex circumstance of place. Dempsey’s studio is in Flint, and he currently is an Instructor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:15:10 -0500 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Memory Serves No. 2 (detail) by John Dempsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Ducks to Dresses: Paper Possibilities (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50429 50429-11736679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from New York, Aimee Lee works in Cleveland and is an artist, papermaker, Fulbright Scholar, author and the leading hanji (Korean paper) researcher and practitioner in the US. Fusing contemporary fashion ideas with traditional clothing, Lee connects past and present through everyday dress creations in paper. The hanji techniques she uses include natural dyeing and waxing, texturing for supple or stiff surfaces, slicing and spinning into thread, and tearing strips to cord. Her paper ducks are inspired by Korean wedding ducks – known for fertility and mating for life – and are built without an armature; the hollow bodies are woven like baskets.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:20:55 -0500 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ice Stages by Aimee Lee, photograph by Stefan Hagen. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Figures in Bronze (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50422 50422-11736259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Figures in Bronze showcases 30 years of Richard Light’s human and animal sculptures, from 1987 to 2017. Look for giraffes, birds, women of industry, and a portrait bust of a young Einstein, a commission made for the Albert Einstein Memorial at the Collège de France in Paris. Light, a fine art bronze sculptor and park designer, has garnered prizes in the US and Europe including the Prix de France from the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, the largest art show in France. His studio is located in the Park Trades Center in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:07:39 -0500 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Women of Industry V by Richard Light. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Group Ceramics Show (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50424 50424-11736427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show will feature the work of faculty, staff and students from the Washtenaw Community College (WCC) Ceramics Program. Artists range in ages from 17-87. Many different styles and approaches to ceramic art will be on display, including ceramic sculpture and functional ceramics. Curated by WCC Instructor I.B. Remsen, all of the pieces in this show are personal favorites of the participating artists.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:10:25 -0500 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Filigree Platter by I.B. Remsen photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request. http://www.med.umich.edu/goa/exhibits.htm#wcc
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents On Blue: Photographic Meditations (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50423 50423-11736343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Loosely based on the concept of the early 20th century group f64, the f8collective is composed of female contemporary Chicago photographers who all happen to have strong family ties to Michigan. The group of images on exhibit is from a project called On Blue: A Meditation. Blue is… tranquil pools of clear water; languid clouds drifting in azure skies; mood indigo; cobalt glass; cerulean blue eyes; sapphire cornflowers; poignant music, emotion and sentiment. Blue is a rare color in nature, yet found in the largest things such as sea, lake and sky, as well as some of the smallest: sapphires, forget-me-nots and delicate tropical butterflies.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:09:06 -0500 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Deep Blue, Riistina Finland by Susan Aurinko. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Timeless Instants: Still Life Photographs (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50411 50411-11736164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from Kansas City, Tina West discovered photography while studying sculpture. She sees her photographs more as paintings, and her still lifes have powerful cast shadows and frequent light play. Influenced by Gerhardt Richter and surrealism, West’s images communicate a sense of being, connecting not only the objects in the photographs, but also the viewer and the photograph. She draws inspiration from the objects in her vast collection of unique treasures, and she speaks to their unreserved timelessness with maturity and wonder. All of the images in this exhibit were created using instant film in a 4x5 view camera.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:05:34 -0500 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Bouncing Ball by Tina West. High resolution version available upon request.
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 45823-10310489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.

The 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:26:37 -0500 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Ackermann's Repository
Border Crossers (March 22, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49825 49825-11543787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Students across campus—from LSA, Engineering, Art and Design, and Information—will work with visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie during winter semester 2018 planning, building, and launching a 40-foot robotic sculpture that poetically explores the notion of borders and boundary conditions. The project, led by the Institute for the Humanities, symbolizes the humanities in action, and the empowerment that can be achieved through working together, overcoming obstacles and divides, and discovering creative solutions.

Macmurtrie is an award winning artist, renowned internationally for his large-scale robotic sculpture, whose work combines materiality and robotics, the visceral and conceptual. His artist residency and interdisciplinary project "Border Crossers" encourages investigation of borders as constructed entities, both embodying a simple curiosity to see what lies on the other side of a border (national, architectural, environmental, etc.) and expression of a utopian desire to live in a world without borders.

In February, MacMurtrie and the students will launch the robotic sculpture during two "performances" and MacMurtrie will give a special Penny W. Stamps Lecture. The gallery exhibition will include large-scale drawings which serve as plans and maps for MacMurtrie's visionary Border Crossers. Life-size robotic models will also be presented in the exhibition in conversation with the drawings. The models, built by the all-student team with MacMurtrie's guidance, are prototypes for the project, offering preliminary steps in the workshop and the process towards realizing the large scale robotic sculpture.

Chico MacMurtrie is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works, an interdisciplinary creative collective located in Brooklyn, NY. MacMurtrie/ARW have received numerous awards for their experimental new media artworks, including five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, VIDA Life 11.0, and Prix Ars Electronica. Chico MacMurtrie was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2016.

Visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie's residency and project is sponsored by the U-M Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with U-M Museum of Art, Michigan Robotics, Michigan Engineering, School of Information, Penny Stamps Speaker Series, Stamps School of Art and Design, and ArtsEngin.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:59:29 -0500 2018-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Border Crossers
Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 (March 22, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 44170-9889184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects, archival documents and images, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.

Curators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:25:09 -0500 2018-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Excavating Archaeology @ the University of Michigan
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 22, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Interior Streets (March 22, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50277 50277-11698761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Join us March 9, 3pm, for a reception and Carl Wilson in conversation with our curator Amanda Krugliak.

The "Interior Streets" exhibition features the work of Detroit artist Carl Wilson, known for his stark black and white linocut prints. The self-taught artist sees himself as a documentarian of lives easily ignored in a world obsessed with materialism and celebrity. His work frequently highlights not only the strength found in conquering the everyday and mundane, but also the pain and defeat of those not able to rise to the occasion. His love of film noir and pulp fiction novels from the 1940s and '50s has led him to experiment with minimalist animation and comic book illustration. He embraces the whimsy hidden in the darkness.

Carl is the recipient of a 2013 Kresge Artist Fellowship and is an alumni of the historic Yaddo Artists’ Community. During his residency there he carved the prints for, and wrote the book, Her Purse Smelled like Juicyfruit, a recollection of his mother’s life. Carl was named 2014 guest curator of Detroit’s Carr Center. Also in 2014 Complex Online Magazine named him one of Twenty Detroit Artists You Should Know. He was featured in Essay'd, a monthly publication about Detroit artists. 2017 sees the release of a comic book, the first installment of his graphic novel, Dead and Lost in Detroit.

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:30:38 -0500 2018-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Asheville
Handwritten heritage: Arabic texts in manuscript (March 22, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50089 50089-11633642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features a selection of prominent Arabic writings from the classical and post-classical periods among the holdings of the Islamic Manuscripts Collection preserved in the University Library.

Carefully transcribed copies of classic literary works by al-Mutanabbī (d.965), Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī (d.1057), and al-Ḥarīrī (d.1122) appear alongside influential grammatical, scientific, and mystical writings - even a text on musical theory and performance.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) celebration of Arab Heritage Month: https://mesa.umich.edu/article/arab-heritage-month

Hours: Mon 8:30am-5pm, Tues 8:30am-8pm, Wed-Fri 8:30am-5pm

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:16:50 -0500 2018-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Opening of the eighth maqāmah (assembly) in Isl. Ms. 650, a late 13th or early 14th c manuscript copy of Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī
PCAP Exhibition (March 22, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46981 46981-10714044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners.

The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around making art inside prisons. The 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

The event is free and open to the public.

Photo Credit: Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017

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Exhibition Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:38:48 -0500 2018-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50396 50396-11727496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Thesis exhibitions by Stamps second-year MFA in Art graduate students Stephanie Brown, Robert J. Fitzgerald,  Brynn Higgins-Stirrup, and Brenna K. Murphy are featured at the new Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor from Friday, March 9 - Sunday, April 1, 2018. A public open house and exhibition reception will take place on Friday, March 9 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition reception includes two performances:

Brenna K. Murphy, Crossing, 6 - 6:45 pm
Robert Fitzgerald, / offscreen / , 7:15 - 7:30 pm

Additional performances will take place on Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31, 2018:

Friday, March 30: Robert Fitzgerald, / offscreen / , 5 - 7 pm
Saturday, March 31: Brenna K. Murphy, Crossing, 11:30 am - 4:30 pm
Viewers are welcome to stay for the entire duration of this five hour performance or come and go as they please - attendance from start to finish is not required.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:15:30 -0400 2018-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/MFA_Thesis_Web_Banners_2018.jpg
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (March 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11464968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Paul Rand (March 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 46548-10547173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC, IBM, UPS, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus, or visual puzzle, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight,” “industriousness,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:23:47 -0500 2018-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Paul Rand
Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter (March 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 46549-10547294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by, or even created by, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA, "The Comforter" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture, though curious and unexplained, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.

Lead support for "Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:26:03 -0500 2018-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition The Comforter
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (March 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Past, Present, Future: A Digital Projection Series (March 22, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50376 50376-11724565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Three weeks of short digital projections showing on the outer window (202 S. Thayer) of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, sunset to sunrise, to coincide with the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Watch the video trailer at https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/digital-graffiti-exhibition.html

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:41:12 -0400 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T03:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition 202 S. Thayer
Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 23, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 44018-11853318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 12:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:17:23 -0400 2018-03-23T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T23:59:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education" (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 46881-10667228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: U-M School of Dentistry

“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, through December 2019, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world.

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Exhibition Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:31:56 -0500 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute U-M School of Dentistry Exhibition Sindecuse Banner
"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education" (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 46881-10667303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: U-M School of Dentistry

“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, through December 2019, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world.

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Exhibition Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:31:56 -0500 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute U-M School of Dentistry Exhibition Sindecuse Banner
Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 50081-11633611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of History

This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves, their children, and their communities.

On display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March).

The exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells, Mahal Stevens, Jewel Drigo, Kelly Kacan, and Alyssa Erebor.

Funding and support from the Department of History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University Library, Hatcher Gallery Team, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:00:43 -0500 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of History Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Exhibition in the RC Art Gallery (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50221 50221-11687502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Mr Yiu Keung Lee was born in Hong Kong and came to the United States in 1988 to pursue his BFA at Eastern Michigan University studied under several Professors including Susanne Stephenson. After graduated as an MFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1995. Among his teachers are John Stephenson, Georgette Zirbes and Jean-Pierre LaRocque. Mr. Lee continued to teach at various institutions in Michigan including University of Michigan’s Residential College in Ann Arbor, Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn and Schoolcraft College in Livonia. Mr. Lee is currently teaching as an Adjunct at the Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti and a visiting artist at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit during the Fall 2016 school year. He is also teaching at Clay Work Studio which he founded in the Summer of 2014. Recent exhibition including “Vitrified”, a four-artist exhibition at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit and solo exhibition at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:28:46 -0500 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition GAL Announcement
Gifts of Art presents Beauty Meets My Mess: Mixed Media Collage (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50430 50430-11736764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Re Kielar was born in Chicago’s little Italy neighborhood with her grandparents upstairs and aunt and uncle across the courtyard. Her world was very Italian, and when she walked outside, she felt like she was leaving one country and entering another. Ever since she was a child, she has loved paint and texture and seen beauty in the most unlikely places. Her artwork expresses human emotion through drawing in ink with rough papers, old book pages, metal embellishments and natural objects. Each abstract collage is coupled with her poetry, so each piece is a walk into her soul. She hopes that by sharing that which is broken, we can find healing spaces that knit our hearts together.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:26:42 -0500 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Mixed Messages by Re Kielar, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Being There: Acrylic on Canvas (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50426 50426-11736512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Dempsey’s large scale paintings bring together different environments – factories, religious spaces, government facilities, public areas and landscapes – into single compositions. He visually chronicles and explores the complex combinations of environments that we collage together from memory everyday as we form impressions of the places we go. These paintings from the Glare Series present a variety of environments together, all at once, in order to visually chronicle and explore this complex circumstance of place. Dempsey’s studio is in Flint, and he currently is an Instructor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:15:10 -0500 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Memory Serves No. 2 (detail) by John Dempsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Ducks to Dresses: Paper Possibilities (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50429 50429-11736680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from New York, Aimee Lee works in Cleveland and is an artist, papermaker, Fulbright Scholar, author and the leading hanji (Korean paper) researcher and practitioner in the US. Fusing contemporary fashion ideas with traditional clothing, Lee connects past and present through everyday dress creations in paper. The hanji techniques she uses include natural dyeing and waxing, texturing for supple or stiff surfaces, slicing and spinning into thread, and tearing strips to cord. Her paper ducks are inspired by Korean wedding ducks – known for fertility and mating for life – and are built without an armature; the hollow bodies are woven like baskets.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:20:55 -0500 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ice Stages by Aimee Lee, photograph by Stefan Hagen. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Figures in Bronze (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50422 50422-11736260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Figures in Bronze showcases 30 years of Richard Light’s human and animal sculptures, from 1987 to 2017. Look for giraffes, birds, women of industry, and a portrait bust of a young Einstein, a commission made for the Albert Einstein Memorial at the Collège de France in Paris. Light, a fine art bronze sculptor and park designer, has garnered prizes in the US and Europe including the Prix de France from the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, the largest art show in France. His studio is located in the Park Trades Center in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:07:39 -0500 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Women of Industry V by Richard Light. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Group Ceramics Show (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50424 50424-11736428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show will feature the work of faculty, staff and students from the Washtenaw Community College (WCC) Ceramics Program. Artists range in ages from 17-87. Many different styles and approaches to ceramic art will be on display, including ceramic sculpture and functional ceramics. Curated by WCC Instructor I.B. Remsen, all of the pieces in this show are personal favorites of the participating artists.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:10:25 -0500 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Filigree Platter by I.B. Remsen photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request. http://www.med.umich.edu/goa/exhibits.htm#wcc
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents On Blue: Photographic Meditations (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50423 50423-11736344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Loosely based on the concept of the early 20th century group f64, the f8collective is composed of female contemporary Chicago photographers who all happen to have strong family ties to Michigan. The group of images on exhibit is from a project called On Blue: A Meditation. Blue is… tranquil pools of clear water; languid clouds drifting in azure skies; mood indigo; cobalt glass; cerulean blue eyes; sapphire cornflowers; poignant music, emotion and sentiment. Blue is a rare color in nature, yet found in the largest things such as sea, lake and sky, as well as some of the smallest: sapphires, forget-me-nots and delicate tropical butterflies.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:09:06 -0500 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Deep Blue, Riistina Finland by Susan Aurinko. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Timeless Instants: Still Life Photographs (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50411 50411-11736165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from Kansas City, Tina West discovered photography while studying sculpture. She sees her photographs more as paintings, and her still lifes have powerful cast shadows and frequent light play. Influenced by Gerhardt Richter and surrealism, West’s images communicate a sense of being, connecting not only the objects in the photographs, but also the viewer and the photograph. She draws inspiration from the objects in her vast collection of unique treasures, and she speaks to their unreserved timelessness with maturity and wonder. All of the images in this exhibit were created using instant film in a 4x5 view camera.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:05:34 -0500 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Bouncing Ball by Tina West. High resolution version available upon request.
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 45823-10310490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.

The 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:26:37 -0500 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Ackermann's Repository
Border Crossers (March 23, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49825 49825-11543788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Students across campus—from LSA, Engineering, Art and Design, and Information—will work with visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie during winter semester 2018 planning, building, and launching a 40-foot robotic sculpture that poetically explores the notion of borders and boundary conditions. The project, led by the Institute for the Humanities, symbolizes the humanities in action, and the empowerment that can be achieved through working together, overcoming obstacles and divides, and discovering creative solutions.

Macmurtrie is an award winning artist, renowned internationally for his large-scale robotic sculpture, whose work combines materiality and robotics, the visceral and conceptual. His artist residency and interdisciplinary project "Border Crossers" encourages investigation of borders as constructed entities, both embodying a simple curiosity to see what lies on the other side of a border (national, architectural, environmental, etc.) and expression of a utopian desire to live in a world without borders.

In February, MacMurtrie and the students will launch the robotic sculpture during two "performances" and MacMurtrie will give a special Penny W. Stamps Lecture. The gallery exhibition will include large-scale drawings which serve as plans and maps for MacMurtrie's visionary Border Crossers. Life-size robotic models will also be presented in the exhibition in conversation with the drawings. The models, built by the all-student team with MacMurtrie's guidance, are prototypes for the project, offering preliminary steps in the workshop and the process towards realizing the large scale robotic sculpture.

Chico MacMurtrie is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works, an interdisciplinary creative collective located in Brooklyn, NY. MacMurtrie/ARW have received numerous awards for their experimental new media artworks, including five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, VIDA Life 11.0, and Prix Ars Electronica. Chico MacMurtrie was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2016.

Visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie's residency and project is sponsored by the U-M Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with U-M Museum of Art, Michigan Robotics, Michigan Engineering, School of Information, Penny Stamps Speaker Series, Stamps School of Art and Design, and ArtsEngin.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:59:29 -0500 2018-03-23T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Border Crossers
Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 (March 23, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 44170-9889185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects, archival documents and images, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.

Curators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:25:09 -0500 2018-03-23T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Excavating Archaeology @ the University of Michigan
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 23, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-23T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Interior Streets (March 23, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50277 50277-11698762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Join us March 9, 3pm, for a reception and Carl Wilson in conversation with our curator Amanda Krugliak.

The "Interior Streets" exhibition features the work of Detroit artist Carl Wilson, known for his stark black and white linocut prints. The self-taught artist sees himself as a documentarian of lives easily ignored in a world obsessed with materialism and celebrity. His work frequently highlights not only the strength found in conquering the everyday and mundane, but also the pain and defeat of those not able to rise to the occasion. His love of film noir and pulp fiction novels from the 1940s and '50s has led him to experiment with minimalist animation and comic book illustration. He embraces the whimsy hidden in the darkness.

Carl is the recipient of a 2013 Kresge Artist Fellowship and is an alumni of the historic Yaddo Artists’ Community. During his residency there he carved the prints for, and wrote the book, Her Purse Smelled like Juicyfruit, a recollection of his mother’s life. Carl was named 2014 guest curator of Detroit’s Carr Center. Also in 2014 Complex Online Magazine named him one of Twenty Detroit Artists You Should Know. He was featured in Essay'd, a monthly publication about Detroit artists. 2017 sees the release of a comic book, the first installment of his graphic novel, Dead and Lost in Detroit.

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:30:38 -0500 2018-03-23T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Asheville
Handwritten heritage: Arabic texts in manuscript (March 23, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50089 50089-11633643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features a selection of prominent Arabic writings from the classical and post-classical periods among the holdings of the Islamic Manuscripts Collection preserved in the University Library.

Carefully transcribed copies of classic literary works by al-Mutanabbī (d.965), Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī (d.1057), and al-Ḥarīrī (d.1122) appear alongside influential grammatical, scientific, and mystical writings - even a text on musical theory and performance.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) celebration of Arab Heritage Month: https://mesa.umich.edu/article/arab-heritage-month

Hours: Mon 8:30am-5pm, Tues 8:30am-8pm, Wed-Fri 8:30am-5pm

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:16:50 -0500 2018-03-23T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Opening of the eighth maqāmah (assembly) in Isl. Ms. 650, a late 13th or early 14th c manuscript copy of Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī
PCAP Exhibition (March 23, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46981 46981-10714046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners.

The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around making art inside prisons. The 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

The event is free and open to the public.

Photo Credit: Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017

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Exhibition Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:38:48 -0500 2018-03-23T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (March 23, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-03-23T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50396 50396-11727497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Thesis exhibitions by Stamps second-year MFA in Art graduate students Stephanie Brown, Robert J. Fitzgerald,  Brynn Higgins-Stirrup, and Brenna K. Murphy are featured at the new Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor from Friday, March 9 - Sunday, April 1, 2018. A public open house and exhibition reception will take place on Friday, March 9 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition reception includes two performances:

Brenna K. Murphy, Crossing, 6 - 6:45 pm
Robert Fitzgerald, / offscreen / , 7:15 - 7:30 pm

Additional performances will take place on Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31, 2018:

Friday, March 30: Robert Fitzgerald, / offscreen / , 5 - 7 pm
Saturday, March 31: Brenna K. Murphy, Crossing, 11:30 am - 4:30 pm
Viewers are welcome to stay for the entire duration of this five hour performance or come and go as they please - attendance from start to finish is not required.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:15:30 -0400 2018-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/MFA_Thesis_Web_Banners_2018.jpg
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (March 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11464969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Paul Rand (March 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 46548-10547174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC, IBM, UPS, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus, or visual puzzle, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight,” “industriousness,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:23:47 -0500 2018-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Paul Rand
Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter (March 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 46549-10547295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by, or even created by, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA, "The Comforter" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture, though curious and unexplained, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.

Lead support for "Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:26:03 -0500 2018-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition The Comforter
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (March 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Past, Present, Future: A Digital Projection Series (March 23, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50376 50376-11724566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Three weeks of short digital projections showing on the outer window (202 S. Thayer) of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, sunset to sunrise, to coincide with the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Watch the video trailer at https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/digital-graffiti-exhibition.html

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:41:12 -0400 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T03:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition 202 S. Thayer
Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 24, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 44018-11853319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 12:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:17:23 -0400 2018-03-24T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T23:59:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education" (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 46881-10667229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: U-M School of Dentistry

“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, through December 2019, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world.

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Exhibition Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:31:56 -0500 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute U-M School of Dentistry Exhibition Sindecuse Banner
Exhibition in the RC Art Gallery (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50221 50221-11687503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Mr Yiu Keung Lee was born in Hong Kong and came to the United States in 1988 to pursue his BFA at Eastern Michigan University studied under several Professors including Susanne Stephenson. After graduated as an MFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1995. Among his teachers are John Stephenson, Georgette Zirbes and Jean-Pierre LaRocque. Mr. Lee continued to teach at various institutions in Michigan including University of Michigan’s Residential College in Ann Arbor, Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn and Schoolcraft College in Livonia. Mr. Lee is currently teaching as an Adjunct at the Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti and a visiting artist at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit during the Fall 2016 school year. He is also teaching at Clay Work Studio which he founded in the Summer of 2014. Recent exhibition including “Vitrified”, a four-artist exhibition at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit and solo exhibition at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:28:46 -0500 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition GAL Announcement
Gifts of Art presents Being There: Acrylic on Canvas (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50426 50426-11736513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Dempsey’s large scale paintings bring together different environments – factories, religious spaces, government facilities, public areas and landscapes – into single compositions. He visually chronicles and explores the complex combinations of environments that we collage together from memory everyday as we form impressions of the places we go. These paintings from the Glare Series present a variety of environments together, all at once, in order to visually chronicle and explore this complex circumstance of place. Dempsey’s studio is in Flint, and he currently is an Instructor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:15:10 -0500 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Memory Serves No. 2 (detail) by John Dempsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Ducks to Dresses: Paper Possibilities (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50429 50429-11736681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from New York, Aimee Lee works in Cleveland and is an artist, papermaker, Fulbright Scholar, author and the leading hanji (Korean paper) researcher and practitioner in the US. Fusing contemporary fashion ideas with traditional clothing, Lee connects past and present through everyday dress creations in paper. The hanji techniques she uses include natural dyeing and waxing, texturing for supple or stiff surfaces, slicing and spinning into thread, and tearing strips to cord. Her paper ducks are inspired by Korean wedding ducks – known for fertility and mating for life – and are built without an armature; the hollow bodies are woven like baskets.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:20:55 -0500 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ice Stages by Aimee Lee, photograph by Stefan Hagen. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Figures in Bronze (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50422 50422-11736261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Figures in Bronze showcases 30 years of Richard Light’s human and animal sculptures, from 1987 to 2017. Look for giraffes, birds, women of industry, and a portrait bust of a young Einstein, a commission made for the Albert Einstein Memorial at the Collège de France in Paris. Light, a fine art bronze sculptor and park designer, has garnered prizes in the US and Europe including the Prix de France from the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, the largest art show in France. His studio is located in the Park Trades Center in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:07:39 -0500 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Women of Industry V by Richard Light. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Group Ceramics Show (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50424 50424-11736429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show will feature the work of faculty, staff and students from the Washtenaw Community College (WCC) Ceramics Program. Artists range in ages from 17-87. Many different styles and approaches to ceramic art will be on display, including ceramic sculpture and functional ceramics. Curated by WCC Instructor I.B. Remsen, all of the pieces in this show are personal favorites of the participating artists.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:10:25 -0500 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Filigree Platter by I.B. Remsen photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request. http://www.med.umich.edu/goa/exhibits.htm#wcc
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents On Blue: Photographic Meditations (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50423 50423-11736345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Loosely based on the concept of the early 20th century group f64, the f8collective is composed of female contemporary Chicago photographers who all happen to have strong family ties to Michigan. The group of images on exhibit is from a project called On Blue: A Meditation. Blue is… tranquil pools of clear water; languid clouds drifting in azure skies; mood indigo; cobalt glass; cerulean blue eyes; sapphire cornflowers; poignant music, emotion and sentiment. Blue is a rare color in nature, yet found in the largest things such as sea, lake and sky, as well as some of the smallest: sapphires, forget-me-nots and delicate tropical butterflies.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:09:06 -0500 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Deep Blue, Riistina Finland by Susan Aurinko. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Timeless Instants: Still Life Photographs (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50411 50411-11736166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from Kansas City, Tina West discovered photography while studying sculpture. She sees her photographs more as paintings, and her still lifes have powerful cast shadows and frequent light play. Influenced by Gerhardt Richter and surrealism, West’s images communicate a sense of being, connecting not only the objects in the photographs, but also the viewer and the photograph. She draws inspiration from the objects in her vast collection of unique treasures, and she speaks to their unreserved timelessness with maturity and wonder. All of the images in this exhibit were created using instant film in a 4x5 view camera.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:05:34 -0500 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Bouncing Ball by Tina West. High resolution version available upon request.
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
MIVA Championship D2 (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51240 51240-12078136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Ohio State University
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Conference tournament for D2 teams

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Exhibition Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:00:12 -0400 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T23:59:59-04:00 Ohio State University Maize Pages Student Organizations Exhibition
MIVA Championships (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51241 51241-12078139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan State University
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Conference Championship Tournament at Michigan State

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Exhibition Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:00:12 -0400 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T23:59:59-04:00 Michigan State University Maize Pages Student Organizations Exhibition
The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 45823-10310491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.

The 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:26:37 -0500 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Ackermann's Repository
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 24, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-24T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
African Violets, Gesneriads, Fairy Garden and Terrarium Plants (March 24, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46623 46623-10566974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

A display and sale of these popular plants. Program includes a free growing skills class at 11 am on learning how to propagate African violets.
Presenter: Michigan State African Violet Society

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:24:20 -0500 2018-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition
Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism (March 24, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 50081-11633612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of History

This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves, their children, and their communities.

On display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March).

The exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells, Mahal Stevens, Jewel Drigo, Kelly Kacan, and Alyssa Erebor.

Funding and support from the Department of History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University Library, Hatcher Gallery Team, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:00:43 -0500 2018-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of History Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
PCAP Exhibition (March 24, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46981 46981-10714048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners.

The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around making art inside prisons. The 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

The event is free and open to the public.

Photo Credit: Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017

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Exhibition Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:38:48 -0500 2018-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50396 50396-11727498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Thesis exhibitions by Stamps second-year MFA in Art graduate students Stephanie Brown, Robert J. Fitzgerald,  Brynn Higgins-Stirrup, and Brenna K. Murphy are featured at the new Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor from Friday, March 9 - Sunday, April 1, 2018. A public open house and exhibition reception will take place on Friday, March 9 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition reception includes two performances:

Brenna K. Murphy, Crossing, 6 - 6:45 pm
Robert Fitzgerald, / offscreen / , 7:15 - 7:30 pm

Additional performances will take place on Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31, 2018:

Friday, March 30: Robert Fitzgerald, / offscreen / , 5 - 7 pm
Saturday, March 31: Brenna K. Murphy, Crossing, 11:30 am - 4:30 pm
Viewers are welcome to stay for the entire duration of this five hour performance or come and go as they please - attendance from start to finish is not required.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:15:30 -0400 2018-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/MFA_Thesis_Web_Banners_2018.jpg
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (March 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11464970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Paul Rand (March 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 46548-10547175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC, IBM, UPS, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus, or visual puzzle, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight,” “industriousness,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:23:47 -0500 2018-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Paul Rand
Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter (March 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 46549-10547296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by, or even created by, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA, "The Comforter" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture, though curious and unexplained, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.

Lead support for "Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:26:03 -0500 2018-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition The Comforter
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (March 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 (March 24, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 44170-9889186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects, archival documents and images, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.

Curators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:25:09 -0500 2018-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Excavating Archaeology @ the University of Michigan
Past, Present, Future: A Digital Projection Series (March 24, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50376 50376-11724567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Three weeks of short digital projections showing on the outer window (202 S. Thayer) of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, sunset to sunrise, to coincide with the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Watch the video trailer at https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/digital-graffiti-exhibition.html

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:41:12 -0400 2018-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T03:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition 202 S. Thayer
MIVA Championship D2 (March 25, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51240 51240-12078137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 12:00am
Location: Ohio State University
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Conference tournament for D2 teams

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Exhibition Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:00:12 -0400 2018-03-25T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T23:59:59-04:00 Ohio State University Maize Pages Student Organizations Exhibition
MIVA Championships (March 25, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51241 51241-12078140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 12:00am
Location: Michigan State University
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Conference Championship Tournament at Michigan State

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Exhibition Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:00:12 -0400 2018-03-25T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T23:59:59-04:00 Michigan State University Maize Pages Student Organizations Exhibition
Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 25, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 44018-11853320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 12:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:17:23 -0400 2018-03-25T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T23:59:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education" (March 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 46881-10667230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: U-M School of Dentistry

“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, through December 2019, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world.

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Exhibition Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:31:56 -0500 2018-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute U-M School of Dentistry Exhibition Sindecuse Banner
Exhibition in the RC Art Gallery (March 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50221 50221-11687504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Mr Yiu Keung Lee was born in Hong Kong and came to the United States in 1988 to pursue his BFA at Eastern Michigan University studied under several Professors including Susanne Stephenson. After graduated as an MFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1995. Among his teachers are John Stephenson, Georgette Zirbes and Jean-Pierre LaRocque. Mr. Lee continued to teach at various institutions in Michigan including University of Michigan’s Residential College in Ann Arbor, Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn and Schoolcraft College in Livonia. Mr. Lee is currently teaching as an Adjunct at the Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti and a visiting artist at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit during the Fall 2016 school year. He is also teaching at Clay Work Studio which he founded in the Summer of 2014. Recent exhibition including “Vitrified”, a four-artist exhibition at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit and solo exhibition at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:28:46 -0500 2018-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition GAL Announcement
Gifts of Art presents Being There: Acrylic on Canvas (March 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50426 50426-11736514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Dempsey’s large scale paintings bring together different environments – factories, religious spaces, government facilities, public areas and landscapes – into single compositions. He visually chronicles and explores the complex combinations of environments that we collage together from memory everyday as we form impressions of the places we go. These paintings from the Glare Series present a variety of environments together, all at once, in order to visually chronicle and explore this complex circumstance of place. Dempsey’s studio is in Flint, and he currently is an Instructor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:15:10 -0500 2018-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Memory Serves No. 2 (detail) by John Dempsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Ducks to Dresses: Paper Possibilities (March 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50429 50429-11736682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from New York, Aimee Lee works in Cleveland and is an artist, papermaker, Fulbright Scholar, author and the leading hanji (Korean paper) researcher and practitioner in the US. Fusing contemporary fashion ideas with traditional clothing, Lee connects past and present through everyday dress creations in paper. The hanji techniques she uses include natural dyeing and waxing, texturing for supple or stiff surfaces, slicing and spinning into thread, and tearing strips to cord. Her paper ducks are inspired by Korean wedding ducks – known for fertility and mating for life – and are built without an armature; the hollow bodies are woven like baskets.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:20:55 -0500 2018-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ice Stages by Aimee Lee, photograph by Stefan Hagen. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Figures in Bronze (March 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50422 50422-11736262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Figures in Bronze showcases 30 years of Richard Light’s human and animal sculptures, from 1987 to 2017. Look for giraffes, birds, women of industry, and a portrait bust of a young Einstein, a commission made for the Albert Einstein Memorial at the Collège de France in Paris. Light, a fine art bronze sculptor and park designer, has garnered prizes in the US and Europe including the Prix de France from the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, the largest art show in France. His studio is located in the Park Trades Center in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:07:39 -0500 2018-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Women of Industry V by Richard Light. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Group Ceramics Show (March 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50424 50424-11736430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show will feature the work of faculty, staff and students from the Washtenaw Community College (WCC) Ceramics Program. Artists range in ages from 17-87. Many different styles and approaches to ceramic art will be on display, including ceramic sculpture and functional ceramics. Curated by WCC Instructor I.B. Remsen, all of the pieces in this show are personal favorites of the participating artists.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:10:25 -0500 2018-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Filigree Platter by I.B. Remsen photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request. http://www.med.umich.edu/goa/exhibits.htm#wcc
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents On Blue: Photographic Meditations (March 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50423 50423-11736346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Loosely based on the concept of the early 20th century group f64, the f8collective is composed of female contemporary Chicago photographers who all happen to have strong family ties to Michigan. The group of images on exhibit is from a project called On Blue: A Meditation. Blue is… tranquil pools of clear water; languid clouds drifting in azure skies; mood indigo; cobalt glass; cerulean blue eyes; sapphire cornflowers; poignant music, emotion and sentiment. Blue is a rare color in nature, yet found in the largest things such as sea, lake and sky, as well as some of the smallest: sapphires, forget-me-nots and delicate tropical butterflies.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:09:06 -0500 2018-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Deep Blue, Riistina Finland by Susan Aurinko. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Timeless Instants: Still Life Photographs (March 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50411 50411-11736167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from Kansas City, Tina West discovered photography while studying sculpture. She sees her photographs more as paintings, and her still lifes have powerful cast shadows and frequent light play. Influenced by Gerhardt Richter and surrealism, West’s images communicate a sense of being, connecting not only the objects in the photographs, but also the viewer and the photograph. She draws inspiration from the objects in her vast collection of unique treasures, and she speaks to their unreserved timelessness with maturity and wonder. All of the images in this exhibit were created using instant film in a 4x5 view camera.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:05:34 -0500 2018-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Bouncing Ball by Tina West. High resolution version available upon request.
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet (March 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 45823-10310492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.

The 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:26:37 -0500 2018-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Ackermann's Repository
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 25, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-25T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50396 50396-11727499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Thesis exhibitions by Stamps second-year MFA in Art graduate students Stephanie Brown, Robert J. Fitzgerald,  Brynn Higgins-Stirrup, and Brenna K. Murphy are featured at the new Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor from Friday, March 9 - Sunday, April 1, 2018. A public open house and exhibition reception will take place on Friday, March 9 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition reception includes two performances:

Brenna K. Murphy, Crossing, 6 - 6:45 pm
Robert Fitzgerald, / offscreen / , 7:15 - 7:30 pm

Additional performances will take place on Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31, 2018:

Friday, March 30: Robert Fitzgerald, / offscreen / , 5 - 7 pm
Saturday, March 31: Brenna K. Murphy, Crossing, 11:30 am - 4:30 pm
Viewers are welcome to stay for the entire duration of this five hour performance or come and go as they please - attendance from start to finish is not required.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:15:30 -0400 2018-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/MFA_Thesis_Web_Banners_2018.jpg
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (March 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11464971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Paul Rand (March 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 46548-10547176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC, IBM, UPS, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus, or visual puzzle, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight,” “industriousness,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:23:47 -0500 2018-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Paul Rand
Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter (March 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 46549-10547297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by, or even created by, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA, "The Comforter" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture, though curious and unexplained, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.

Lead support for "Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:26:03 -0500 2018-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition The Comforter
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (March 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
PCAP Exhibition (March 25, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46981 46981-10714050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners.

The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around making art inside prisons. The 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

The event is free and open to the public.

Photo Credit: Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017

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Exhibition Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:38:48 -0500 2018-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017
Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism (March 25, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 50081-11633613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of History

This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves, their children, and their communities.

On display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March).

The exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells, Mahal Stevens, Jewel Drigo, Kelly Kacan, and Alyssa Erebor.

Funding and support from the Department of History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University Library, Hatcher Gallery Team, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:00:43 -0500 2018-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of History Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 (March 25, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 44170-9889187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects, archival documents and images, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.

Curators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:25:09 -0500 2018-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Excavating Archaeology @ the University of Michigan
Past, Present, Future: A Digital Projection Series (March 25, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50376 50376-11724568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Three weeks of short digital projections showing on the outer window (202 S. Thayer) of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, sunset to sunrise, to coincide with the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Watch the video trailer at https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/digital-graffiti-exhibition.html

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:41:12 -0400 2018-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T03:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition 202 S. Thayer
Thai Night 2018 (March 25, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50626 50626-11833496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 6:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Hi everyone! We are happy to announce that the long-awaited THAI NIGHT IS BACK!!!

Craving for Thai food that actually tastes authentic? Thai Night is THE event you don’t want to miss.

We will bring Thailand to Michigan on Sunday March 25th at East Hall, Psych Atrium. We’ll present you with
a buffet line full of delicious Thai cuisine (with vegetarian option available), Thai culture exhibitions, and various traditional Thai performances.====================================How to buy tickets? You can conveniently buy online tickets at our Eventbrite link (tsaum.info/thainight18) or via our Facebook event (https://www.facebook.com/events/160913718037805/)
Prices:
$15 - Early bird (March 11)
$20 - Regular

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Exhibition Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:00:23 -0400 2018-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T21:00:00-04:00 East Hall Maize Pages Student Organizations Exhibition East Hall
MIVA Championship D2 (March 26, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51240 51240-12078138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 12:00am
Location: Ohio State University
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Conference tournament for D2 teams

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Exhibition Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:00:12 -0400 2018-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 Ohio State University Maize Pages Student Organizations Exhibition
MIVA Championships (March 26, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51241 51241-12078141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 12:00am
Location: Michigan State University
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Conference Championship Tournament at Michigan State

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Exhibition Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:00:12 -0400 2018-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan State University Maize Pages Student Organizations Exhibition
Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 26, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 44018-11853321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 12:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:17:23 -0400 2018-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T23:59:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education" (March 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 46881-10667231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: U-M School of Dentistry

“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, through December 2019, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world.

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Exhibition Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:31:56 -0500 2018-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute U-M School of Dentistry Exhibition Sindecuse Banner
Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism (March 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 50081-11633614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of History

This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves, their children, and their communities.

On display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March).

The exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells, Mahal Stevens, Jewel Drigo, Kelly Kacan, and Alyssa Erebor.

Funding and support from the Department of History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University Library, Hatcher Gallery Team, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:00:43 -0500 2018-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of History Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Exhibition in the RC Art Gallery (March 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50221 50221-11687505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Mr Yiu Keung Lee was born in Hong Kong and came to the United States in 1988 to pursue his BFA at Eastern Michigan University studied under several Professors including Susanne Stephenson. After graduated as an MFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1995. Among his teachers are John Stephenson, Georgette Zirbes and Jean-Pierre LaRocque. Mr. Lee continued to teach at various institutions in Michigan including University of Michigan’s Residential College in Ann Arbor, Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn and Schoolcraft College in Livonia. Mr. Lee is currently teaching as an Adjunct at the Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti and a visiting artist at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit during the Fall 2016 school year. He is also teaching at Clay Work Studio which he founded in the Summer of 2014. Recent exhibition including “Vitrified”, a four-artist exhibition at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit and solo exhibition at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:28:46 -0500 2018-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition GAL Announcement
Gifts of Art presents Beauty Meets My Mess: Mixed Media Collage (March 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50430 50430-11736767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Re Kielar was born in Chicago’s little Italy neighborhood with her grandparents upstairs and aunt and uncle across the courtyard. Her world was very Italian, and when she walked outside, she felt like she was leaving one country and entering another. Ever since she was a child, she has loved paint and texture and seen beauty in the most unlikely places. Her artwork expresses human emotion through drawing in ink with rough papers, old book pages, metal embellishments and natural objects. Each abstract collage is coupled with her poetry, so each piece is a walk into her soul. She hopes that by sharing that which is broken, we can find healing spaces that knit our hearts together.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:26:42 -0500 2018-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Mixed Messages by Re Kielar, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Being There: Acrylic on Canvas (March 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50426 50426-11736515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Dempsey’s large scale paintings bring together different environments – factories, religious spaces, government facilities, public areas and landscapes – into single compositions. He visually chronicles and explores the complex combinations of environments that we collage together from memory everyday as we form impressions of the places we go. These paintings from the Glare Series present a variety of environments together, all at once, in order to visually chronicle and explore this complex circumstance of place. Dempsey’s studio is in Flint, and he currently is an Instructor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:15:10 -0500 2018-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Memory Serves No. 2 (detail) by John Dempsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.