Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (March 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15178990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (March 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (March 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (March 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (March 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (March 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (March 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (March 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (March 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (March 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Exhibition | Ancient Color (March 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues, these statues — as well as Roman homes, clothing, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world, how these colors were produced, where they were found, what the Romans thought about them, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.

Curators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts

View the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/

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Exhibition Wed, 08 May 2019 10:50:14 -0400 2019-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
24th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52905 52905-13140154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

March 20 - April 3, 2019
Sunday - Monday, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Duderstadt Center Gallery, University of Michigan North Campus, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI

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Exhibition Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:10:55 -0400 2019-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 24th Annual Exhibition of Art PCAP
Art Exhibit: Householdments (March 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61098 61098-15033995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

John was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. His family settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan after stays in both Japan and Iowa. After attending various universities around Michigan, John took an education hiatus to work in a cannery in Alaska. It was there that he found his calling in the pages of American Craft while scouring the tables of free magazines at the Anchorage Public Library. He received his BFA (Furniture Design) from Northern Michigan University in 1996 and his MFA (Furniture Design) from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. John teaches in the School of Art and Design at Eastern Michigan University. John has recently exhibited work at the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Midland Center for the Arts, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum. He lives in Ann Arbor and maintains a studio in his home.

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While I don’t literally remember my earliest childhood years in Japan where I was born, I have over my lifetime, stitched together memories based on home movies, family photos, and images from my imagination. I “remember” the aesthetics of the place - objects and environments carefully made in wood, stone, and steel. Without necessarily conscious of it at the time, I was dimly aware of Japanese visual composition. Things around me held an inherent logic and beauty, a perfection made possible by keen tools, quality materials, and proficient makers. This three-part integration was embedded early on and continues to affect my own ongoing pursuit in object making.

While finding my way as a young maker, I realized where I belonged mostly because of how various studios smelled. The ceramics studio was musty and dirty, the metals studio was acrid and smoky, but the wood studio had an earthy aroma. My kind of place. The tools immediately felt right as well. Chisels, planes, and knives when sharpened properly could manipulate the material in ways I never expected. While I was clearly not a natural talent, I quickly realized that a little bit of tenacity goes a long way. I also realized that I loved the logic for how wood parts can fit together. To build a wooden object or a piece of furniture each part depends on the fit of others. I deeply appreciate this fitting togetherness – how doors fit, how drawers fit, how joints fit, how hinges fit. It all makes sense, and this sensibility carries through to what I’m doing today.

Working in wood typically requires a high degree of planning before actual construction, and over time I realized I craved the ability to work with more spontaneity. The work in this show reflects my wish to keep the working process a bit more flexible and intuitive.

When starting with a sketch that I believe has potential, I now begin to build directly, without drawings or maquettes. I’ll constantly assess what has been built and allow myself to alter it, continue with it, or get rid of it and start over. I’m more interested in seeing where this process takes me than I am in finishing something precisely as planned. This results in some playfulness and whimsy that I hope is reflected in this work.

The word Householdments is an old and obscure term without modern usage that refers to furniture or things we keep in our houses. It strikes me as an odd word but well fitted to describe the objects in this exhibit. The pieces in this show are a collection of my personal householdments.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:50:15 -0500 2019-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition John DeHoog Stepper and Wrecker
What Are Little Books Made Of? (March 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60543 60543-14908142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Special Collections Research Center is excited to display a variety of nineteenth and twentieth century children's books made of cloth and related materials.

The market for children’s books expanded over the course of the nineteenth century, as childhood mortality rates dropped and literacy rates rose. British and American publishers sought to create “indestructible” books that would appeal to the parents and teachers of very young children. Linen and muslin proved to be practical and appealing materials for such books, which were usually printed with bright colors and comparatively little text.

Cloth books remained popular for almost a century before the cloth rationing of World War II shifted production towards heavy-duty paper substitutes, such as “linenette.”

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Exhibition Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:15:39 -0500 2019-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Children's book from 1913
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59589 59589-14754512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The MFA Thesis exhibition will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students: Masimba Hwati, Laura Magnusson, Bridget Quinn, Rowan Renee, and Mayela Rodriguez.

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:15:46 -0500 2019-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/mfa-thesis-2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (March 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (March 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58563 58563-14511416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXAMINING THE RADICAL IMPACT OF INTERNET CULTURE ON VISUAL ART

The internet has changed every aspect of contemporary life—from how we interact with each other to how we work and play. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. This exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the exhibition at UMMA will be accompanied by a wide range of U-M partnerships and public programming.

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Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:36 -0500 2019-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/KC_Rigged_C_HiRes.jpg
Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

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Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
YYYAAAOOO: Ann Arbor Film Festival Off the Screen (March 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59588 59588-14754497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to partner with the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival to present an Off the Screen exhibition by Israeli artist Hamutal Attar. Her video installation YYYAAAOOO explores the gap between the everyday pressures of society and the deeper, hidden desires within one’s soul. The work is composed of a two-channel video and a large-scale charcoal drawing. Together they create an immersive environment where the artist is portrayed trying to mediate between the two worlds.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:15:28 -0500 2019-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/YYYAAAOOO.jpg
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (March 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15178991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (March 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (March 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (March 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (March 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (March 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (March 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (March 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (March 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Exhibition | Ancient Color (March 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues, these statues — as well as Roman homes, clothing, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world, how these colors were produced, where they were found, what the Romans thought about them, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.

Curators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts

View the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/

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Exhibition Wed, 08 May 2019 10:50:14 -0400 2019-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (March 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
24th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52905 52905-13140156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

March 20 - April 3, 2019
Sunday - Monday, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Duderstadt Center Gallery, University of Michigan North Campus, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI

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Exhibition Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:10:55 -0400 2019-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 24th Annual Exhibition of Art PCAP
Art Exhibit: Householdments (March 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61098 61098-15033996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

John was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. His family settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan after stays in both Japan and Iowa. After attending various universities around Michigan, John took an education hiatus to work in a cannery in Alaska. It was there that he found his calling in the pages of American Craft while scouring the tables of free magazines at the Anchorage Public Library. He received his BFA (Furniture Design) from Northern Michigan University in 1996 and his MFA (Furniture Design) from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. John teaches in the School of Art and Design at Eastern Michigan University. John has recently exhibited work at the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Midland Center for the Arts, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum. He lives in Ann Arbor and maintains a studio in his home.

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While I don’t literally remember my earliest childhood years in Japan where I was born, I have over my lifetime, stitched together memories based on home movies, family photos, and images from my imagination. I “remember” the aesthetics of the place - objects and environments carefully made in wood, stone, and steel. Without necessarily conscious of it at the time, I was dimly aware of Japanese visual composition. Things around me held an inherent logic and beauty, a perfection made possible by keen tools, quality materials, and proficient makers. This three-part integration was embedded early on and continues to affect my own ongoing pursuit in object making.

While finding my way as a young maker, I realized where I belonged mostly because of how various studios smelled. The ceramics studio was musty and dirty, the metals studio was acrid and smoky, but the wood studio had an earthy aroma. My kind of place. The tools immediately felt right as well. Chisels, planes, and knives when sharpened properly could manipulate the material in ways I never expected. While I was clearly not a natural talent, I quickly realized that a little bit of tenacity goes a long way. I also realized that I loved the logic for how wood parts can fit together. To build a wooden object or a piece of furniture each part depends on the fit of others. I deeply appreciate this fitting togetherness – how doors fit, how drawers fit, how joints fit, how hinges fit. It all makes sense, and this sensibility carries through to what I’m doing today.

Working in wood typically requires a high degree of planning before actual construction, and over time I realized I craved the ability to work with more spontaneity. The work in this show reflects my wish to keep the working process a bit more flexible and intuitive.

When starting with a sketch that I believe has potential, I now begin to build directly, without drawings or maquettes. I’ll constantly assess what has been built and allow myself to alter it, continue with it, or get rid of it and start over. I’m more interested in seeing where this process takes me than I am in finishing something precisely as planned. This results in some playfulness and whimsy that I hope is reflected in this work.

The word Householdments is an old and obscure term without modern usage that refers to furniture or things we keep in our houses. It strikes me as an odd word but well fitted to describe the objects in this exhibit. The pieces in this show are a collection of my personal householdments.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:50:15 -0500 2019-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition John DeHoog Stepper and Wrecker
What Are Little Books Made Of? (March 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60543 60543-14908143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Special Collections Research Center is excited to display a variety of nineteenth and twentieth century children's books made of cloth and related materials.

The market for children’s books expanded over the course of the nineteenth century, as childhood mortality rates dropped and literacy rates rose. British and American publishers sought to create “indestructible” books that would appeal to the parents and teachers of very young children. Linen and muslin proved to be practical and appealing materials for such books, which were usually printed with bright colors and comparatively little text.

Cloth books remained popular for almost a century before the cloth rationing of World War II shifted production towards heavy-duty paper substitutes, such as “linenette.”

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Exhibition Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:15:39 -0500 2019-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Children's book from 1913
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59589 59589-14754513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The MFA Thesis exhibition will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students: Masimba Hwati, Laura Magnusson, Bridget Quinn, Rowan Renee, and Mayela Rodriguez.

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:15:46 -0500 2019-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/mfa-thesis-2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (March 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (March 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58563 58563-14511417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXAMINING THE RADICAL IMPACT OF INTERNET CULTURE ON VISUAL ART

The internet has changed every aspect of contemporary life—from how we interact with each other to how we work and play. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. This exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the exhibition at UMMA will be accompanied by a wide range of U-M partnerships and public programming.

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Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:36 -0500 2019-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/KC_Rigged_C_HiRes.jpg
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (March 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58487 58487-14508647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour of the renovated Library to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation about our new space and include an opportunity to view the current exhibit, "Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the First World War.

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Exhibition Thu, 13 Dec 2018 11:13:03 -0500 2019-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition William L. Clements Library
Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

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Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
YYYAAAOOO: Ann Arbor Film Festival Off the Screen (March 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59588 59588-14754498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to partner with the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival to present an Off the Screen exhibition by Israeli artist Hamutal Attar. Her video installation YYYAAAOOO explores the gap between the everyday pressures of society and the deeper, hidden desires within one’s soul. The work is composed of a two-channel video and a large-scale charcoal drawing. Together they create an immersive environment where the artist is portrayed trying to mediate between the two worlds.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:15:28 -0500 2019-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/YYYAAAOOO.jpg
she was here, once (March 22, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-03-22T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (March 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15178992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (March 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (March 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (March 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (March 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (March 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (March 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (March 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
24th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52905 52905-13140158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

March 20 - April 3, 2019
Sunday - Monday, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Duderstadt Center Gallery, University of Michigan North Campus, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI

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Exhibition Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:10:55 -0400 2019-03-23T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 24th Annual Exhibition of Art PCAP
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59589 59589-14754514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The MFA Thesis exhibition will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students: Masimba Hwati, Laura Magnusson, Bridget Quinn, Rowan Renee, and Mayela Rodriguez.

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:15:46 -0500 2019-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/mfa-thesis-2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (March 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2019-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (March 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58563 58563-14511418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXAMINING THE RADICAL IMPACT OF INTERNET CULTURE ON VISUAL ART

The internet has changed every aspect of contemporary life—from how we interact with each other to how we work and play. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. This exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the exhibition at UMMA will be accompanied by a wide range of U-M partnerships and public programming.

#UMMAInternet

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:36 -0500 2019-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/KC_Rigged_C_HiRes.jpg
Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

#CosmogonicTattoos

Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
YYYAAAOOO: Ann Arbor Film Festival Off the Screen (March 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59588 59588-14754499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to partner with the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival to present an Off the Screen exhibition by Israeli artist Hamutal Attar. Her video installation YYYAAAOOO explores the gap between the everyday pressures of society and the deeper, hidden desires within one’s soul. The work is composed of a two-channel video and a large-scale charcoal drawing. Together they create an immersive environment where the artist is portrayed trying to mediate between the two worlds.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:15:28 -0500 2019-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/YYYAAAOOO.jpg
Exhibition | Ancient Color (March 23, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues, these statues — as well as Roman homes, clothing, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world, how these colors were produced, where they were found, what the Romans thought about them, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.

Curators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts

View the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/

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Exhibition Wed, 08 May 2019 10:50:14 -0400 2019-03-23T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (March 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15178993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (March 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (March 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (March 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (March 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (March 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (March 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (March 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59589 59589-14754515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The MFA Thesis exhibition will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students: Masimba Hwati, Laura Magnusson, Bridget Quinn, Rowan Renee, and Mayela Rodriguez.

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:15:46 -0500 2019-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/mfa-thesis-2019.jpg
YYYAAAOOO: Ann Arbor Film Festival Off the Screen (March 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59588 59588-14754500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to partner with the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival to present an Off the Screen exhibition by Israeli artist Hamutal Attar. Her video installation YYYAAAOOO explores the gap between the everyday pressures of society and the deeper, hidden desires within one’s soul. The work is composed of a two-channel video and a large-scale charcoal drawing. Together they create an immersive environment where the artist is portrayed trying to mediate between the two worlds.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:15:28 -0500 2019-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/YYYAAAOOO.jpg
24th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52905 52905-13140160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

March 20 - April 3, 2019
Sunday - Monday, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Duderstadt Center Gallery, University of Michigan North Campus, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI

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Exhibition Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:10:55 -0400 2019-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 24th Annual Exhibition of Art PCAP
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (March 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2019-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (March 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58563 58563-14511419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXAMINING THE RADICAL IMPACT OF INTERNET CULTURE ON VISUAL ART

The internet has changed every aspect of contemporary life—from how we interact with each other to how we work and play. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. This exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the exhibition at UMMA will be accompanied by a wide range of U-M partnerships and public programming.

#UMMAInternet

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:36 -0500 2019-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/KC_Rigged_C_HiRes.jpg
Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

#CosmogonicTattoos

Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
Exhibition | Ancient Color (March 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues, these statues — as well as Roman homes, clothing, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world, how these colors were produced, where they were found, what the Romans thought about them, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.

Curators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts

View the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/

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Exhibition Wed, 08 May 2019 10:50:14 -0400 2019-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (March 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15178994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (March 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (March 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (March 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (March 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (March 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (March 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (March 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (March 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (March 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-03-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Art Exhibit: Householdments (March 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61098 61098-15033999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

John was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. His family settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan after stays in both Japan and Iowa. After attending various universities around Michigan, John took an education hiatus to work in a cannery in Alaska. It was there that he found his calling in the pages of American Craft while scouring the tables of free magazines at the Anchorage Public Library. He received his BFA (Furniture Design) from Northern Michigan University in 1996 and his MFA (Furniture Design) from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. John teaches in the School of Art and Design at Eastern Michigan University. John has recently exhibited work at the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Midland Center for the Arts, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum. He lives in Ann Arbor and maintains a studio in his home.

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While I don’t literally remember my earliest childhood years in Japan where I was born, I have over my lifetime, stitched together memories based on home movies, family photos, and images from my imagination. I “remember” the aesthetics of the place - objects and environments carefully made in wood, stone, and steel. Without necessarily conscious of it at the time, I was dimly aware of Japanese visual composition. Things around me held an inherent logic and beauty, a perfection made possible by keen tools, quality materials, and proficient makers. This three-part integration was embedded early on and continues to affect my own ongoing pursuit in object making.

While finding my way as a young maker, I realized where I belonged mostly because of how various studios smelled. The ceramics studio was musty and dirty, the metals studio was acrid and smoky, but the wood studio had an earthy aroma. My kind of place. The tools immediately felt right as well. Chisels, planes, and knives when sharpened properly could manipulate the material in ways I never expected. While I was clearly not a natural talent, I quickly realized that a little bit of tenacity goes a long way. I also realized that I loved the logic for how wood parts can fit together. To build a wooden object or a piece of furniture each part depends on the fit of others. I deeply appreciate this fitting togetherness – how doors fit, how drawers fit, how joints fit, how hinges fit. It all makes sense, and this sensibility carries through to what I’m doing today.

Working in wood typically requires a high degree of planning before actual construction, and over time I realized I craved the ability to work with more spontaneity. The work in this show reflects my wish to keep the working process a bit more flexible and intuitive.

When starting with a sketch that I believe has potential, I now begin to build directly, without drawings or maquettes. I’ll constantly assess what has been built and allow myself to alter it, continue with it, or get rid of it and start over. I’m more interested in seeing where this process takes me than I am in finishing something precisely as planned. This results in some playfulness and whimsy that I hope is reflected in this work.

The word Householdments is an old and obscure term without modern usage that refers to furniture or things we keep in our houses. It strikes me as an odd word but well fitted to describe the objects in this exhibit. The pieces in this show are a collection of my personal householdments.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:50:15 -0500 2019-03-25T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition John DeHoog Stepper and Wrecker
24th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52905 52905-13140162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

March 20 - April 3, 2019
Sunday - Monday, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Duderstadt Center Gallery, University of Michigan North Campus, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI

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Exhibition Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:10:55 -0400 2019-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 24th Annual Exhibition of Art PCAP
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (March 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15178995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (March 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (March 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (March 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (March 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (March 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (March 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (March 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (March 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (March 26, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-03-26T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Exhibition | Ancient Color (March 26, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues, these statues — as well as Roman homes, clothing, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world, how these colors were produced, where they were found, what the Romans thought about them, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.

Curators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts

View the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/

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Exhibition Wed, 08 May 2019 10:50:14 -0400 2019-03-26T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
24th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52905 52905-13140164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

March 20 - April 3, 2019
Sunday - Monday, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Duderstadt Center Gallery, University of Michigan North Campus, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI

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Exhibition Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:10:55 -0400 2019-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 24th Annual Exhibition of Art PCAP
Art Exhibit: Householdments (March 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61098 61098-15034000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

John was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. His family settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan after stays in both Japan and Iowa. After attending various universities around Michigan, John took an education hiatus to work in a cannery in Alaska. It was there that he found his calling in the pages of American Craft while scouring the tables of free magazines at the Anchorage Public Library. He received his BFA (Furniture Design) from Northern Michigan University in 1996 and his MFA (Furniture Design) from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. John teaches in the School of Art and Design at Eastern Michigan University. John has recently exhibited work at the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Midland Center for the Arts, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum. He lives in Ann Arbor and maintains a studio in his home.

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While I don’t literally remember my earliest childhood years in Japan where I was born, I have over my lifetime, stitched together memories based on home movies, family photos, and images from my imagination. I “remember” the aesthetics of the place - objects and environments carefully made in wood, stone, and steel. Without necessarily conscious of it at the time, I was dimly aware of Japanese visual composition. Things around me held an inherent logic and beauty, a perfection made possible by keen tools, quality materials, and proficient makers. This three-part integration was embedded early on and continues to affect my own ongoing pursuit in object making.

While finding my way as a young maker, I realized where I belonged mostly because of how various studios smelled. The ceramics studio was musty and dirty, the metals studio was acrid and smoky, but the wood studio had an earthy aroma. My kind of place. The tools immediately felt right as well. Chisels, planes, and knives when sharpened properly could manipulate the material in ways I never expected. While I was clearly not a natural talent, I quickly realized that a little bit of tenacity goes a long way. I also realized that I loved the logic for how wood parts can fit together. To build a wooden object or a piece of furniture each part depends on the fit of others. I deeply appreciate this fitting togetherness – how doors fit, how drawers fit, how joints fit, how hinges fit. It all makes sense, and this sensibility carries through to what I’m doing today.

Working in wood typically requires a high degree of planning before actual construction, and over time I realized I craved the ability to work with more spontaneity. The work in this show reflects my wish to keep the working process a bit more flexible and intuitive.

When starting with a sketch that I believe has potential, I now begin to build directly, without drawings or maquettes. I’ll constantly assess what has been built and allow myself to alter it, continue with it, or get rid of it and start over. I’m more interested in seeing where this process takes me than I am in finishing something precisely as planned. This results in some playfulness and whimsy that I hope is reflected in this work.

The word Householdments is an old and obscure term without modern usage that refers to furniture or things we keep in our houses. It strikes me as an odd word but well fitted to describe the objects in this exhibit. The pieces in this show are a collection of my personal householdments.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:50:15 -0500 2019-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition John DeHoog Stepper and Wrecker
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59589 59589-14754516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The MFA Thesis exhibition will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students: Masimba Hwati, Laura Magnusson, Bridget Quinn, Rowan Renee, and Mayela Rodriguez.

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:15:46 -0500 2019-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/mfa-thesis-2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (March 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2019-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (March 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58563 58563-14511420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXAMINING THE RADICAL IMPACT OF INTERNET CULTURE ON VISUAL ART

The internet has changed every aspect of contemporary life—from how we interact with each other to how we work and play. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. This exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the exhibition at UMMA will be accompanied by a wide range of U-M partnerships and public programming.

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Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:36 -0500 2019-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/KC_Rigged_C_HiRes.jpg
Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

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Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
YYYAAAOOO: Ann Arbor Film Festival Off the Screen (March 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59588 59588-14754501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to partner with the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival to present an Off the Screen exhibition by Israeli artist Hamutal Attar. Her video installation YYYAAAOOO explores the gap between the everyday pressures of society and the deeper, hidden desires within one’s soul. The work is composed of a two-channel video and a large-scale charcoal drawing. Together they create an immersive environment where the artist is portrayed trying to mediate between the two worlds.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:15:28 -0500 2019-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/YYYAAAOOO.jpg
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (March 26, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-03-26T21:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (March 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15178996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (March 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (March 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (March 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (March 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (March 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (March 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (March 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
LACS Event. Hostile Terrain: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019 (March 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62027 62027-15276103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Hostile Terrain is a Pop-UP Exhibition about America's Humanitarian Crisis at the Southern Border. This participatory political art project is organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by associate professor of anthropology Jason De León.

Construction of Hostile Terrain Pop-UP Exhibition
MARCH 27-28, 8 AM-4 PM, 2ND FLOOR, MASON HALL, OUTSIDE ROOM 2436

In shifts on March 27-28, 2019, several hundred student volunteers will construct a border wall map on a blank wall space on the second floor of Mason Hall. The map will show the death locations of 3000 migrants. Toe tags will be hand-filled out and plotted on a giant grid, representing recovered bodies from the Arizona desert. Please contact jpdeleon@umich.edu if you are interested in being involved with the installation. The exhibit will remain in Mason Hall through the first week of April 2019.
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Screen preview followed by a panel Q&A: A documentary on the work of Jason De León
MARCH 28, 4 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM A

Join us for a test screening of a documentary about the work of Jason De León and the Undocumented Migration Project. This film focus on clandestine migration from Central America and the North American Migrant Trail.

Panelists: RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA (Director, Producer, Cinematographer); JASON DE LEÓN (Producer, Advisor); JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE (Field Producer, Advisor and Sound)
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Round-table: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019
MARCH 29, 12-2 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM B

We will discuss the realities currently experienced by migrants along the US/Mexico border and the history of America’s border security paradigm known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.” Given the heightened discussion in recent months about the supposed dangers posed by migrants and the potential role that a border wall would play in securing America’s southern geopolitical boundary, this roundtable seeks to facilitate an open and frank discussion about what migration currently looks like, who is migrating, and why. In addition to facilitating a conversation about the lives of migrants, our panelists will also discuss the important roles of history, storytelling, art, and film in the telling and (re) presentation of nuanced information about America’s current border crisis. Of particular interest is how the panelists seek to tell new and impactful stories about about a social process that has a deep history and often overdetermined by simplistic tropes such as the “noble migrant” and “foreign invader.”

Moderator: DANIEL NEMSER, Romance Languages and Literatures

Panelists: JASON DE LEÓN, Anthropology, Director of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; LUCY CAHILL, Curator of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA, Filmmaker, Director of Border South film; JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE, Anthropology and Social Work
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This event series is sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the International Institute with generous support from a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education. Special thanks to our co-sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of American Culture, Donia Human Rights Center, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Latina/o Studies Program, Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Migration and Displacement

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:00:09 -0400 2019-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition image
she was here, once (March 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (March 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-03-27T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Exhibition | Ancient Color (March 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues, these statues — as well as Roman homes, clothing, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world, how these colors were produced, where they were found, what the Romans thought about them, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.

Curators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts

View the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/

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Exhibition Wed, 08 May 2019 10:50:14 -0400 2019-03-27T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
24th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 27, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52905 52905-13140152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

March 20 - April 3, 2019
Sunday - Monday, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Duderstadt Center Gallery, University of Michigan North Campus, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI

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Exhibition Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:10:55 -0400 2019-03-27T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 24th Annual Exhibition of Art PCAP
Art Exhibit: Householdments (March 27, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61098 61098-15034001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

John was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. His family settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan after stays in both Japan and Iowa. After attending various universities around Michigan, John took an education hiatus to work in a cannery in Alaska. It was there that he found his calling in the pages of American Craft while scouring the tables of free magazines at the Anchorage Public Library. He received his BFA (Furniture Design) from Northern Michigan University in 1996 and his MFA (Furniture Design) from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. John teaches in the School of Art and Design at Eastern Michigan University. John has recently exhibited work at the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Midland Center for the Arts, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum. He lives in Ann Arbor and maintains a studio in his home.

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While I don’t literally remember my earliest childhood years in Japan where I was born, I have over my lifetime, stitched together memories based on home movies, family photos, and images from my imagination. I “remember” the aesthetics of the place - objects and environments carefully made in wood, stone, and steel. Without necessarily conscious of it at the time, I was dimly aware of Japanese visual composition. Things around me held an inherent logic and beauty, a perfection made possible by keen tools, quality materials, and proficient makers. This three-part integration was embedded early on and continues to affect my own ongoing pursuit in object making.

While finding my way as a young maker, I realized where I belonged mostly because of how various studios smelled. The ceramics studio was musty and dirty, the metals studio was acrid and smoky, but the wood studio had an earthy aroma. My kind of place. The tools immediately felt right as well. Chisels, planes, and knives when sharpened properly could manipulate the material in ways I never expected. While I was clearly not a natural talent, I quickly realized that a little bit of tenacity goes a long way. I also realized that I loved the logic for how wood parts can fit together. To build a wooden object or a piece of furniture each part depends on the fit of others. I deeply appreciate this fitting togetherness – how doors fit, how drawers fit, how joints fit, how hinges fit. It all makes sense, and this sensibility carries through to what I’m doing today.

Working in wood typically requires a high degree of planning before actual construction, and over time I realized I craved the ability to work with more spontaneity. The work in this show reflects my wish to keep the working process a bit more flexible and intuitive.

When starting with a sketch that I believe has potential, I now begin to build directly, without drawings or maquettes. I’ll constantly assess what has been built and allow myself to alter it, continue with it, or get rid of it and start over. I’m more interested in seeing where this process takes me than I am in finishing something precisely as planned. This results in some playfulness and whimsy that I hope is reflected in this work.

The word Householdments is an old and obscure term without modern usage that refers to furniture or things we keep in our houses. It strikes me as an odd word but well fitted to describe the objects in this exhibit. The pieces in this show are a collection of my personal householdments.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:50:15 -0500 2019-03-27T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition John DeHoog Stepper and Wrecker
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59589 59589-14754517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The MFA Thesis exhibition will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students: Masimba Hwati, Laura Magnusson, Bridget Quinn, Rowan Renee, and Mayela Rodriguez.

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:15:46 -0500 2019-03-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/mfa-thesis-2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (March 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-03-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (March 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58563 58563-14511421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXAMINING THE RADICAL IMPACT OF INTERNET CULTURE ON VISUAL ART

The internet has changed every aspect of contemporary life—from how we interact with each other to how we work and play. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. This exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the exhibition at UMMA will be accompanied by a wide range of U-M partnerships and public programming.

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Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:36 -0500 2019-03-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/KC_Rigged_C_HiRes.jpg
Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

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Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-03-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
YYYAAAOOO: Ann Arbor Film Festival Off the Screen (March 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59588 59588-14754502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to partner with the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival to present an Off the Screen exhibition by Israeli artist Hamutal Attar. Her video installation YYYAAAOOO explores the gap between the everyday pressures of society and the deeper, hidden desires within one’s soul. The work is composed of a two-channel video and a large-scale charcoal drawing. Together they create an immersive environment where the artist is portrayed trying to mediate between the two worlds.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:15:28 -0500 2019-03-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/YYYAAAOOO.jpg
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (March 27, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-03-27T21:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (March 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15178997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (March 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (March 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (March 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (March 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (March 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (March 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (March 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
LACS Event. Hostile Terrain: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019 (March 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62027 62027-15276104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Hostile Terrain is a Pop-UP Exhibition about America's Humanitarian Crisis at the Southern Border. This participatory political art project is organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by associate professor of anthropology Jason De León.

Construction of Hostile Terrain Pop-UP Exhibition
MARCH 27-28, 8 AM-4 PM, 2ND FLOOR, MASON HALL, OUTSIDE ROOM 2436

In shifts on March 27-28, 2019, several hundred student volunteers will construct a border wall map on a blank wall space on the second floor of Mason Hall. The map will show the death locations of 3000 migrants. Toe tags will be hand-filled out and plotted on a giant grid, representing recovered bodies from the Arizona desert. Please contact jpdeleon@umich.edu if you are interested in being involved with the installation. The exhibit will remain in Mason Hall through the first week of April 2019.
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Screen preview followed by a panel Q&A: A documentary on the work of Jason De León
MARCH 28, 4 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM A

Join us for a test screening of a documentary about the work of Jason De León and the Undocumented Migration Project. This film focus on clandestine migration from Central America and the North American Migrant Trail.

Panelists: RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA (Director, Producer, Cinematographer); JASON DE LEÓN (Producer, Advisor); JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE (Field Producer, Advisor and Sound)
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Round-table: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019
MARCH 29, 12-2 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM B

We will discuss the realities currently experienced by migrants along the US/Mexico border and the history of America’s border security paradigm known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.” Given the heightened discussion in recent months about the supposed dangers posed by migrants and the potential role that a border wall would play in securing America’s southern geopolitical boundary, this roundtable seeks to facilitate an open and frank discussion about what migration currently looks like, who is migrating, and why. In addition to facilitating a conversation about the lives of migrants, our panelists will also discuss the important roles of history, storytelling, art, and film in the telling and (re) presentation of nuanced information about America’s current border crisis. Of particular interest is how the panelists seek to tell new and impactful stories about about a social process that has a deep history and often overdetermined by simplistic tropes such as the “noble migrant” and “foreign invader.”

Moderator: DANIEL NEMSER, Romance Languages and Literatures

Panelists: JASON DE LEÓN, Anthropology, Director of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; LUCY CAHILL, Curator of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA, Filmmaker, Director of Border South film; JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE, Anthropology and Social Work
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This event series is sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the International Institute with generous support from a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education. Special thanks to our co-sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of American Culture, Donia Human Rights Center, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Latina/o Studies Program, Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Migration and Displacement

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:00:09 -0400 2019-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition image
she was here, once (March 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (March 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-03-28T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Exhibition | Ancient Color (March 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues, these statues — as well as Roman homes, clothing, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world, how these colors were produced, where they were found, what the Romans thought about them, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.

Curators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts

View the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/

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Exhibition Wed, 08 May 2019 10:50:14 -0400 2019-03-28T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
24th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 28, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52905 52905-13140155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

March 20 - April 3, 2019
Sunday - Monday, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Duderstadt Center Gallery, University of Michigan North Campus, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI

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Exhibition Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:10:55 -0400 2019-03-28T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 24th Annual Exhibition of Art PCAP
Art Exhibit: Householdments (March 28, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61098 61098-15034002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

John was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. His family settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan after stays in both Japan and Iowa. After attending various universities around Michigan, John took an education hiatus to work in a cannery in Alaska. It was there that he found his calling in the pages of American Craft while scouring the tables of free magazines at the Anchorage Public Library. He received his BFA (Furniture Design) from Northern Michigan University in 1996 and his MFA (Furniture Design) from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. John teaches in the School of Art and Design at Eastern Michigan University. John has recently exhibited work at the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Midland Center for the Arts, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum. He lives in Ann Arbor and maintains a studio in his home.

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While I don’t literally remember my earliest childhood years in Japan where I was born, I have over my lifetime, stitched together memories based on home movies, family photos, and images from my imagination. I “remember” the aesthetics of the place - objects and environments carefully made in wood, stone, and steel. Without necessarily conscious of it at the time, I was dimly aware of Japanese visual composition. Things around me held an inherent logic and beauty, a perfection made possible by keen tools, quality materials, and proficient makers. This three-part integration was embedded early on and continues to affect my own ongoing pursuit in object making.

While finding my way as a young maker, I realized where I belonged mostly because of how various studios smelled. The ceramics studio was musty and dirty, the metals studio was acrid and smoky, but the wood studio had an earthy aroma. My kind of place. The tools immediately felt right as well. Chisels, planes, and knives when sharpened properly could manipulate the material in ways I never expected. While I was clearly not a natural talent, I quickly realized that a little bit of tenacity goes a long way. I also realized that I loved the logic for how wood parts can fit together. To build a wooden object or a piece of furniture each part depends on the fit of others. I deeply appreciate this fitting togetherness – how doors fit, how drawers fit, how joints fit, how hinges fit. It all makes sense, and this sensibility carries through to what I’m doing today.

Working in wood typically requires a high degree of planning before actual construction, and over time I realized I craved the ability to work with more spontaneity. The work in this show reflects my wish to keep the working process a bit more flexible and intuitive.

When starting with a sketch that I believe has potential, I now begin to build directly, without drawings or maquettes. I’ll constantly assess what has been built and allow myself to alter it, continue with it, or get rid of it and start over. I’m more interested in seeing where this process takes me than I am in finishing something precisely as planned. This results in some playfulness and whimsy that I hope is reflected in this work.

The word Householdments is an old and obscure term without modern usage that refers to furniture or things we keep in our houses. It strikes me as an odd word but well fitted to describe the objects in this exhibit. The pieces in this show are a collection of my personal householdments.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:50:15 -0500 2019-03-28T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition John DeHoog Stepper and Wrecker
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59589 59589-14754518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The MFA Thesis exhibition will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students: Masimba Hwati, Laura Magnusson, Bridget Quinn, Rowan Renee, and Mayela Rodriguez.

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:15:46 -0500 2019-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/mfa-thesis-2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (March 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (March 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58563 58563-14511422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXAMINING THE RADICAL IMPACT OF INTERNET CULTURE ON VISUAL ART

The internet has changed every aspect of contemporary life—from how we interact with each other to how we work and play. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. This exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the exhibition at UMMA will be accompanied by a wide range of U-M partnerships and public programming.

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Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:36 -0500 2019-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/KC_Rigged_C_HiRes.jpg
Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

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Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
YYYAAAOOO: Ann Arbor Film Festival Off the Screen (March 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59588 59588-14754503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to partner with the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival to present an Off the Screen exhibition by Israeli artist Hamutal Attar. Her video installation YYYAAAOOO explores the gap between the everyday pressures of society and the deeper, hidden desires within one’s soul. The work is composed of a two-channel video and a large-scale charcoal drawing. Together they create an immersive environment where the artist is portrayed trying to mediate between the two worlds.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:15:28 -0500 2019-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/YYYAAAOOO.jpg
LACS Event. Hostile Terrain: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019 (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62027 62027-15276105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Hostile Terrain is a Pop-UP Exhibition about America's Humanitarian Crisis at the Southern Border. This participatory political art project is organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by associate professor of anthropology Jason De León.

Construction of Hostile Terrain Pop-UP Exhibition
MARCH 27-28, 8 AM-4 PM, 2ND FLOOR, MASON HALL, OUTSIDE ROOM 2436

In shifts on March 27-28, 2019, several hundred student volunteers will construct a border wall map on a blank wall space on the second floor of Mason Hall. The map will show the death locations of 3000 migrants. Toe tags will be hand-filled out and plotted on a giant grid, representing recovered bodies from the Arizona desert. Please contact jpdeleon@umich.edu if you are interested in being involved with the installation. The exhibit will remain in Mason Hall through the first week of April 2019.
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Screen preview followed by a panel Q&A: A documentary on the work of Jason De León
MARCH 28, 4 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM A

Join us for a test screening of a documentary about the work of Jason De León and the Undocumented Migration Project. This film focus on clandestine migration from Central America and the North American Migrant Trail.

Panelists: RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA (Director, Producer, Cinematographer); JASON DE LEÓN (Producer, Advisor); JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE (Field Producer, Advisor and Sound)
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Round-table: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019
MARCH 29, 12-2 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM B

We will discuss the realities currently experienced by migrants along the US/Mexico border and the history of America’s border security paradigm known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.” Given the heightened discussion in recent months about the supposed dangers posed by migrants and the potential role that a border wall would play in securing America’s southern geopolitical boundary, this roundtable seeks to facilitate an open and frank discussion about what migration currently looks like, who is migrating, and why. In addition to facilitating a conversation about the lives of migrants, our panelists will also discuss the important roles of history, storytelling, art, and film in the telling and (re) presentation of nuanced information about America’s current border crisis. Of particular interest is how the panelists seek to tell new and impactful stories about about a social process that has a deep history and often overdetermined by simplistic tropes such as the “noble migrant” and “foreign invader.”

Moderator: DANIEL NEMSER, Romance Languages and Literatures

Panelists: JASON DE LEÓN, Anthropology, Director of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; LUCY CAHILL, Curator of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA, Filmmaker, Director of Border South film; JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE, Anthropology and Social Work
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This event series is sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the International Institute with generous support from a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education. Special thanks to our co-sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of American Culture, Donia Human Rights Center, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Latina/o Studies Program, Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Migration and Displacement

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Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (March 28, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-03-28T21:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (March 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15178998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (March 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (March 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (March 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (March 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (March 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (March 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (March 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (March 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-03-29T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Exhibition | Ancient Color (March 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues, these statues — as well as Roman homes, clothing, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world, how these colors were produced, where they were found, what the Romans thought about them, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.

Curators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts

View the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/

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Exhibition Wed, 08 May 2019 10:50:14 -0400 2019-03-29T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (March 29, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-03-29T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
24th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 29, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52905 52905-13140157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

March 20 - April 3, 2019
Sunday - Monday, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Duderstadt Center Gallery, University of Michigan North Campus, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI

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Exhibition Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:10:55 -0400 2019-03-29T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 24th Annual Exhibition of Art PCAP
Art Exhibit: Householdments (March 29, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61098 61098-15034003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

John was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. His family settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan after stays in both Japan and Iowa. After attending various universities around Michigan, John took an education hiatus to work in a cannery in Alaska. It was there that he found his calling in the pages of American Craft while scouring the tables of free magazines at the Anchorage Public Library. He received his BFA (Furniture Design) from Northern Michigan University in 1996 and his MFA (Furniture Design) from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. John teaches in the School of Art and Design at Eastern Michigan University. John has recently exhibited work at the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Midland Center for the Arts, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum. He lives in Ann Arbor and maintains a studio in his home.

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While I don’t literally remember my earliest childhood years in Japan where I was born, I have over my lifetime, stitched together memories based on home movies, family photos, and images from my imagination. I “remember” the aesthetics of the place - objects and environments carefully made in wood, stone, and steel. Without necessarily conscious of it at the time, I was dimly aware of Japanese visual composition. Things around me held an inherent logic and beauty, a perfection made possible by keen tools, quality materials, and proficient makers. This three-part integration was embedded early on and continues to affect my own ongoing pursuit in object making.

While finding my way as a young maker, I realized where I belonged mostly because of how various studios smelled. The ceramics studio was musty and dirty, the metals studio was acrid and smoky, but the wood studio had an earthy aroma. My kind of place. The tools immediately felt right as well. Chisels, planes, and knives when sharpened properly could manipulate the material in ways I never expected. While I was clearly not a natural talent, I quickly realized that a little bit of tenacity goes a long way. I also realized that I loved the logic for how wood parts can fit together. To build a wooden object or a piece of furniture each part depends on the fit of others. I deeply appreciate this fitting togetherness – how doors fit, how drawers fit, how joints fit, how hinges fit. It all makes sense, and this sensibility carries through to what I’m doing today.

Working in wood typically requires a high degree of planning before actual construction, and over time I realized I craved the ability to work with more spontaneity. The work in this show reflects my wish to keep the working process a bit more flexible and intuitive.

When starting with a sketch that I believe has potential, I now begin to build directly, without drawings or maquettes. I’ll constantly assess what has been built and allow myself to alter it, continue with it, or get rid of it and start over. I’m more interested in seeing where this process takes me than I am in finishing something precisely as planned. This results in some playfulness and whimsy that I hope is reflected in this work.

The word Householdments is an old and obscure term without modern usage that refers to furniture or things we keep in our houses. It strikes me as an odd word but well fitted to describe the objects in this exhibit. The pieces in this show are a collection of my personal householdments.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:50:15 -0500 2019-03-29T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition John DeHoog Stepper and Wrecker
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59589 59589-14754519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The MFA Thesis exhibition will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students: Masimba Hwati, Laura Magnusson, Bridget Quinn, Rowan Renee, and Mayela Rodriguez.

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:15:46 -0500 2019-03-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/mfa-thesis-2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (March 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-03-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (March 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58563 58563-14511423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXAMINING THE RADICAL IMPACT OF INTERNET CULTURE ON VISUAL ART

The internet has changed every aspect of contemporary life—from how we interact with each other to how we work and play. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. This exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the exhibition at UMMA will be accompanied by a wide range of U-M partnerships and public programming.

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Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:36 -0500 2019-03-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/KC_Rigged_C_HiRes.jpg
Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

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Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-03-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
YYYAAAOOO: Ann Arbor Film Festival Off the Screen (March 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59588 59588-14754504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to partner with the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival to present an Off the Screen exhibition by Israeli artist Hamutal Attar. Her video installation YYYAAAOOO explores the gap between the everyday pressures of society and the deeper, hidden desires within one’s soul. The work is composed of a two-channel video and a large-scale charcoal drawing. Together they create an immersive environment where the artist is portrayed trying to mediate between the two worlds.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:15:28 -0500 2019-03-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/YYYAAAOOO.jpg
LACS Event. Hostile Terrain: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019 (March 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62027 62027-15276106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Hostile Terrain is a Pop-UP Exhibition about America's Humanitarian Crisis at the Southern Border. This participatory political art project is organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by associate professor of anthropology Jason De León.

Construction of Hostile Terrain Pop-UP Exhibition
MARCH 27-28, 8 AM-4 PM, 2ND FLOOR, MASON HALL, OUTSIDE ROOM 2436

In shifts on March 27-28, 2019, several hundred student volunteers will construct a border wall map on a blank wall space on the second floor of Mason Hall. The map will show the death locations of 3000 migrants. Toe tags will be hand-filled out and plotted on a giant grid, representing recovered bodies from the Arizona desert. Please contact jpdeleon@umich.edu if you are interested in being involved with the installation. The exhibit will remain in Mason Hall through the first week of April 2019.
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Screen preview followed by a panel Q&A: A documentary on the work of Jason De León
MARCH 28, 4 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM A

Join us for a test screening of a documentary about the work of Jason De León and the Undocumented Migration Project. This film focus on clandestine migration from Central America and the North American Migrant Trail.

Panelists: RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA (Director, Producer, Cinematographer); JASON DE LEÓN (Producer, Advisor); JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE (Field Producer, Advisor and Sound)
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Round-table: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019
MARCH 29, 12-2 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM B

We will discuss the realities currently experienced by migrants along the US/Mexico border and the history of America’s border security paradigm known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.” Given the heightened discussion in recent months about the supposed dangers posed by migrants and the potential role that a border wall would play in securing America’s southern geopolitical boundary, this roundtable seeks to facilitate an open and frank discussion about what migration currently looks like, who is migrating, and why. In addition to facilitating a conversation about the lives of migrants, our panelists will also discuss the important roles of history, storytelling, art, and film in the telling and (re) presentation of nuanced information about America’s current border crisis. Of particular interest is how the panelists seek to tell new and impactful stories about about a social process that has a deep history and often overdetermined by simplistic tropes such as the “noble migrant” and “foreign invader.”

Moderator: DANIEL NEMSER, Romance Languages and Literatures

Panelists: JASON DE LEÓN, Anthropology, Director of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; LUCY CAHILL, Curator of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA, Filmmaker, Director of Border South film; JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE, Anthropology and Social Work
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This event series is sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the International Institute with generous support from a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education. Special thanks to our co-sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of American Culture, Donia Human Rights Center, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Latina/o Studies Program, Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Migration and Displacement

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:00:09 -0400 2019-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition image
she was here, once (March 29, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (March 29, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-03-29T21:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (March 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15178999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (March 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (March 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (March 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (March 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (March 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (March 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (March 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
24th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 30, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52905 52905-13140159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

March 20 - April 3, 2019
Sunday - Monday, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Duderstadt Center Gallery, University of Michigan North Campus, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI

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Exhibition Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:10:55 -0400 2019-03-30T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 24th Annual Exhibition of Art PCAP
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59589 59589-14754520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The MFA Thesis exhibition will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students: Masimba Hwati, Laura Magnusson, Bridget Quinn, Rowan Renee, and Mayela Rodriguez.

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:15:46 -0500 2019-03-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/mfa-thesis-2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (March 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2019-03-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (March 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58563 58563-14511424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXAMINING THE RADICAL IMPACT OF INTERNET CULTURE ON VISUAL ART

The internet has changed every aspect of contemporary life—from how we interact with each other to how we work and play. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. This exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the exhibition at UMMA will be accompanied by a wide range of U-M partnerships and public programming.

#UMMAInternet

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:36 -0500 2019-03-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/KC_Rigged_C_HiRes.jpg
Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

#CosmogonicTattoos

Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-03-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
YYYAAAOOO: Ann Arbor Film Festival Off the Screen (March 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59588 59588-14754505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to partner with the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival to present an Off the Screen exhibition by Israeli artist Hamutal Attar. Her video installation YYYAAAOOO explores the gap between the everyday pressures of society and the deeper, hidden desires within one’s soul. The work is composed of a two-channel video and a large-scale charcoal drawing. Together they create an immersive environment where the artist is portrayed trying to mediate between the two worlds.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:15:28 -0500 2019-03-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/YYYAAAOOO.jpg
Exhibition | Ancient Color (March 30, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues, these statues — as well as Roman homes, clothing, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world, how these colors were produced, where they were found, what the Romans thought about them, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.

Curators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts

View the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/

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Exhibition Wed, 08 May 2019 10:50:14 -0400 2019-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (March 30, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-03-30T21:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (March 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (March 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (March 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (March 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (March 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (March 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (March 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (March 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59589 59589-14754521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The MFA Thesis exhibition will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students: Masimba Hwati, Laura Magnusson, Bridget Quinn, Rowan Renee, and Mayela Rodriguez.

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:15:46 -0500 2019-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/mfa-thesis-2019.jpg
YYYAAAOOO: Ann Arbor Film Festival Off the Screen (March 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59588 59588-14754506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to partner with the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival to present an Off the Screen exhibition by Israeli artist Hamutal Attar. Her video installation YYYAAAOOO explores the gap between the everyday pressures of society and the deeper, hidden desires within one’s soul. The work is composed of a two-channel video and a large-scale charcoal drawing. Together they create an immersive environment where the artist is portrayed trying to mediate between the two worlds.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:15:28 -0500 2019-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/YYYAAAOOO.jpg
24th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52905 52905-13140161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

March 20 - April 3, 2019
Sunday - Monday, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Duderstadt Center Gallery, University of Michigan North Campus, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI

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Exhibition Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:10:55 -0400 2019-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 24th Annual Exhibition of Art PCAP
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (March 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2019-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (March 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58563 58563-14511425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXAMINING THE RADICAL IMPACT OF INTERNET CULTURE ON VISUAL ART

The internet has changed every aspect of contemporary life—from how we interact with each other to how we work and play. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. This exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the exhibition at UMMA will be accompanied by a wide range of U-M partnerships and public programming.

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Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:36 -0500 2019-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/KC_Rigged_C_HiRes.jpg
Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

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Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg