Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (May 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Special Exhibit | Staging Theater: Chinese Operatic Practice and Performance (May 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63084 63084-15553761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This exhibition will be open every day, April 12-June 30, during Hatcher Library open hours.

Featuring the vibrant paintings of Peking opera face patterns, performance props, and rare books, this exhibition is a tribute to the University of Michigan's commitment to the presentation of Chinese operatic arts and culture. In the Winter Semester of 2019, a Peking opera performer specializing in the jing 淨 role engaged in a Chinese New Year artist-residency; the renown Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province, China, stages a production of The Lute (Pipa ji 琵琶記); and an international conference examines the critical role of media in the making and remaking of Ming-Qing literature and performance.

All of these endeavors offer the U-M faculty, staff, and students and Michiganers a chance to experience and embrace Chinese operatic arts and literary culture at the highest level and to introduce to the audience traditional Chinese aesthetic and moral values and their challenges and meanings in traditional and contemporary contexts.

Please visit https://ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-events/events/videos-of-past-events.html to access the online recording of Peking opera performer, Li Yang, in vocal recitation and in the practice of hand painting his own operatic face pattern. Introductions are provided by Professor David Rolston and LRCCS Postdoctoral Fellow Anne Rebull with Professor Joseph Lam being painted at the end of the program as the character Cao Cao

This exhibition is co-organized by Carol Stepanchuk and Liangyu Fu, and is sponsored by the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. Special thanks to Professor Joseph Lam, Professor David Rolston, and the Confucius Institute.

Photo caption:
Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province, China

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:24:02 -0400 2019-05-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Exhibition Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province, China
True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity (May 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 63404-15669570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters, typically women, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.

Savoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director, producer, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking, and includes notes, notebooks, photos, and script drafts.

See the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca

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Exhibition Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:08:27 -0400 2019-05-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Filmmaker Nancy Savoca visits U-M as a guest instructor, 2019. Photo by Alan Piñon, U-M Library.
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (May 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-15710584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 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 2019-05-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Exhibition | Ancient Color (May 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 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 2019-05-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (May 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 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 2019-05-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 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
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (May 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-05-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (May 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 18:15:34 -0400 2019-05-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (May 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 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 2019-05-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (May 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-05-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
The Six Senses of Buddhism (May 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58565 58565-14511600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Art museums generally give primacy to the sense of sight. Religious and ritual objects, on the other hand, stimulate an array of multi-sensory experiences. Focusing on works from UMMA’s collection associated with different types of Japanese Buddhism, we engage all of the six senses in this exhibition.

Six senses are integral to Buddhist devotion: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and mind (or the activity of thinking, including what is perceived via the other senses). The “Six Senses” gallery experience extends beyond vision to include: the sound of chanting and ritual implements; the fragrance of incense; the feel of bronze, ceramic, and silk; and the creation of mental images. Our goal for visitors is to gain a deeper understanding of the nature and histories of objects used in Buddhist practice.

Lead support for The Six Senses of Buddhism is provided by the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 May 2019 12:15:33 -0400 2019-05-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2002_1_169_representation_12473_original.jpg
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (May 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 59263-14721813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS, DISASTERS, CONSUMPTION, LOSS, AND JUSTICE

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues, the exhibition presents photography, video, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials, disasters, consumption, loss, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists, including Sammy Baloji, Liu Bolin, Dana Levy, Mary Mattingly, Pedro Neves Marques, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, and Thomas Struth, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness, wonder, and curiosity about the world to come.

Read the exhibition press release here.

 

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 
 

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-05-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Harn-sixpetritsch_spatialintervention.jpeg
Things I Like Most About the Clements Library (May 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63371 63371-15661300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. During a 23-year career with the Clements, Brian Dunnigan has served as curator of maps, head of research and publications, associate director, and acting director. Daily contact with the collections has inspired reflections on some of the things that the Clements does very well, driving his exhibit themes around active collecting, conservation, solving mysteries, and more.

Dunnigan’s selections include poignant manuscripts, striking visual imagery and cartography, and some of his favorite materials from the collections, drawing especially from his expertise in the mapping of the Great Lakes. This valedictory exhibit in the Clements’s soaring Avenir Foundation Reading Room dwells on seven areas of commitment and illustrates the concepts with some of the Library's most evocative and handsome holdings.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jun 2019 09:21:05 -0400 2019-05-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Niagara River ca.1807
Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing (May 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58564 58564-14511510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

AN EXHIBITION ABOUT THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE ACTION IN TWO CITIES

In The Bloodstained Shirt (2018), Chinese artist Wang Qingsong restages in Highland Park, Michigan, an iconic 1959 drawing by Wang Shikuo of peasants rising up against a cruel landlord and triumphantly reclaiming their right to the land. Wang’s projects are usually located in China, but while visiting southeast Michigan he was struck by the similarities between the effects of inequitable real estate development on local communities in Detroit, Highland Park, and his native Beijing. His large-scale photograph, set in an abandoned factory building in Highland Park and featuring more than seventy volunteers, collapses two moments in history to present a vivid reminder of the human consequences of the ruthless pursuit of profit and the power of collective action. The exhibition includes works created in collaboration with area residents that give voice to their concerns and their hopes for transformation and renewal.

This project, which bridges between Detroit, Michigan, and Beijing, China, resonates with UMMA's mission to engage in conversation about local and global issues. UMMA is pleased to present this art project in which the participation of UM faculty members, students, and Detroit's community members has been critical.

Watch the Chinese Contemporary Art: Curation, Collection, and Connection Symposium here.

Lead support for Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing is provided by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, and the Herbert W. and  Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 May 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-05-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Blood-stained%2520Shirt%252C%2520smaller%2520for%2520web.jpg
she was here, once (May 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 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 2019-05-24T13:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T14:00:00-04:00 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 (May 24, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 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 2019-05-24T21:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 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 (May 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 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 2019-05-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 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 2019-05-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 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 2019-05-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 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 2019-05-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 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 2019-05-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 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 2019-05-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 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 2019-05-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 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 2019-05-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity (May 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 63404-15669571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters, typically women, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.

Savoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director, producer, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking, and includes notes, notebooks, photos, and script drafts.

See the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca

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Exhibition Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:08:27 -0400 2019-05-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Filmmaker Nancy Savoca visits U-M as a guest instructor, 2019. Photo by Alan Piñon, U-M Library.
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (May 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 25, 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 2019-05-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T17:00:00-04:00 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
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (May 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 25, 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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-05-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (May 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 18:15:34 -0400 2019-05-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (May 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 25, 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 2019-05-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (May 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-05-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
The Six Senses of Buddhism (May 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58565 58565-14511601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Art museums generally give primacy to the sense of sight. Religious and ritual objects, on the other hand, stimulate an array of multi-sensory experiences. Focusing on works from UMMA’s collection associated with different types of Japanese Buddhism, we engage all of the six senses in this exhibition.

Six senses are integral to Buddhist devotion: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and mind (or the activity of thinking, including what is perceived via the other senses). The “Six Senses” gallery experience extends beyond vision to include: the sound of chanting and ritual implements; the fragrance of incense; the feel of bronze, ceramic, and silk; and the creation of mental images. Our goal for visitors is to gain a deeper understanding of the nature and histories of objects used in Buddhist practice.

Lead support for The Six Senses of Buddhism is provided by the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 May 2019 12:15:33 -0400 2019-05-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2002_1_169_representation_12473_original.jpg
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (May 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 59263-14721814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS, DISASTERS, CONSUMPTION, LOSS, AND JUSTICE

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues, the exhibition presents photography, video, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials, disasters, consumption, loss, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists, including Sammy Baloji, Liu Bolin, Dana Levy, Mary Mattingly, Pedro Neves Marques, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, and Thomas Struth, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness, wonder, and curiosity about the world to come.

Read the exhibition press release here.

 

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 
 

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-05-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Harn-sixpetritsch_spatialintervention.jpeg
Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing (May 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58564 58564-14511511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

AN EXHIBITION ABOUT THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE ACTION IN TWO CITIES

In The Bloodstained Shirt (2018), Chinese artist Wang Qingsong restages in Highland Park, Michigan, an iconic 1959 drawing by Wang Shikuo of peasants rising up against a cruel landlord and triumphantly reclaiming their right to the land. Wang’s projects are usually located in China, but while visiting southeast Michigan he was struck by the similarities between the effects of inequitable real estate development on local communities in Detroit, Highland Park, and his native Beijing. His large-scale photograph, set in an abandoned factory building in Highland Park and featuring more than seventy volunteers, collapses two moments in history to present a vivid reminder of the human consequences of the ruthless pursuit of profit and the power of collective action. The exhibition includes works created in collaboration with area residents that give voice to their concerns and their hopes for transformation and renewal.

This project, which bridges between Detroit, Michigan, and Beijing, China, resonates with UMMA's mission to engage in conversation about local and global issues. UMMA is pleased to present this art project in which the participation of UM faculty members, students, and Detroit's community members has been critical.

Watch the Chinese Contemporary Art: Curation, Collection, and Connection Symposium here.

Lead support for Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing is provided by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, and the Herbert W. and  Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 May 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-05-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Blood-stained%2520Shirt%252C%2520smaller%2520for%2520web.jpg
Exhibition | Ancient Color (May 25, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 25, 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 2019-05-25T13:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (May 25, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 25, 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 2019-05-25T21:00:00-04:00 2019-05-25T17:00:00-04:00 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 (May 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 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 2019-05-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 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 2019-05-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 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 2019-05-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 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 2019-05-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 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 2019-05-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 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 2019-05-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 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 2019-05-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 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 2019-05-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity (May 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 63404-15669572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters, typically women, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.

Savoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director, producer, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking, and includes notes, notebooks, photos, and script drafts.

See the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca

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Exhibition Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:08:27 -0400 2019-05-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Filmmaker Nancy Savoca visits U-M as a guest instructor, 2019. Photo by Alan Piñon, U-M Library.
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (May 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 26, 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 2019-05-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 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
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (May 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 26, 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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-05-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (May 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 18:15:34 -0400 2019-05-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (May 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 26, 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 2019-05-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (May 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-05-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
The Six Senses of Buddhism (May 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58565 58565-14511602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Art museums generally give primacy to the sense of sight. Religious and ritual objects, on the other hand, stimulate an array of multi-sensory experiences. Focusing on works from UMMA’s collection associated with different types of Japanese Buddhism, we engage all of the six senses in this exhibition.

Six senses are integral to Buddhist devotion: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and mind (or the activity of thinking, including what is perceived via the other senses). The “Six Senses” gallery experience extends beyond vision to include: the sound of chanting and ritual implements; the fragrance of incense; the feel of bronze, ceramic, and silk; and the creation of mental images. Our goal for visitors is to gain a deeper understanding of the nature and histories of objects used in Buddhist practice.

Lead support for The Six Senses of Buddhism is provided by the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 May 2019 12:15:33 -0400 2019-05-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2002_1_169_representation_12473_original.jpg
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (May 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 59263-14721815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS, DISASTERS, CONSUMPTION, LOSS, AND JUSTICE

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues, the exhibition presents photography, video, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials, disasters, consumption, loss, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists, including Sammy Baloji, Liu Bolin, Dana Levy, Mary Mattingly, Pedro Neves Marques, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, and Thomas Struth, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness, wonder, and curiosity about the world to come.

Read the exhibition press release here.

 

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 
 

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-05-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Harn-sixpetritsch_spatialintervention.jpeg
Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing (May 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58564 58564-14511512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

AN EXHIBITION ABOUT THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE ACTION IN TWO CITIES

In The Bloodstained Shirt (2018), Chinese artist Wang Qingsong restages in Highland Park, Michigan, an iconic 1959 drawing by Wang Shikuo of peasants rising up against a cruel landlord and triumphantly reclaiming their right to the land. Wang’s projects are usually located in China, but while visiting southeast Michigan he was struck by the similarities between the effects of inequitable real estate development on local communities in Detroit, Highland Park, and his native Beijing. His large-scale photograph, set in an abandoned factory building in Highland Park and featuring more than seventy volunteers, collapses two moments in history to present a vivid reminder of the human consequences of the ruthless pursuit of profit and the power of collective action. The exhibition includes works created in collaboration with area residents that give voice to their concerns and their hopes for transformation and renewal.

This project, which bridges between Detroit, Michigan, and Beijing, China, resonates with UMMA's mission to engage in conversation about local and global issues. UMMA is pleased to present this art project in which the participation of UM faculty members, students, and Detroit's community members has been critical.

Watch the Chinese Contemporary Art: Curation, Collection, and Connection Symposium here.

Lead support for Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing is provided by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, and the Herbert W. and  Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 May 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-05-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Blood-stained%2520Shirt%252C%2520smaller%2520for%2520web.jpg
Exhibition | Ancient Color (May 26, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-14728386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 26, 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 2019-05-26T13:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (May 26, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-15126008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 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 2019-05-26T21:00:00-04:00 2019-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (May 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 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 2019-05-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-27T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 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 2019-05-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-27T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 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 2019-05-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-27T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 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 2019-05-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-27T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 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 2019-05-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-27T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 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 2019-05-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-27T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 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 2019-05-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-27T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 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 2019-05-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity (May 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 63404-15669573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters, typically women, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.

Savoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director, producer, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking, and includes notes, notebooks, photos, and script drafts.

See the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca

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Exhibition Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:08:27 -0400 2019-05-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-27T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Filmmaker Nancy Savoca visits U-M as a guest instructor, 2019. Photo by Alan Piñon, U-M Library.
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (May 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 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 2019-05-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 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 2019-05-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 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 2019-05-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 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 2019-05-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 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 2019-05-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 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 2019-05-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 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 2019-05-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 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 2019-05-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (May 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 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 2019-05-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity (May 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 63404-15669574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters, typically women, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.

Savoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director, producer, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking, and includes notes, notebooks, photos, and script drafts.

See the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca

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Exhibition Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:08:27 -0400 2019-05-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Filmmaker Nancy Savoca visits U-M as a guest instructor, 2019. Photo by Alan Piñon, U-M Library.
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (May 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-15710588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 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 2019-05-28T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Exhibition | Ancient Color (May 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-15765580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 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 2019-05-28T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (May 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 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 10:39:06 -0400 2019-05-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T17:00:00-04:00 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. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (May 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-05-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (May 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 18:15:34 -0400 2019-05-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (May 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 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.

#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 2019-05-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (May 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-05-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
The Six Senses of Buddhism (May 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58565 58565-14511603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Art museums generally give primacy to the sense of sight. Religious and ritual objects, on the other hand, stimulate an array of multi-sensory experiences. Focusing on works from UMMA’s collection associated with different types of Japanese Buddhism, we engage all of the six senses in this exhibition.

Six senses are integral to Buddhist devotion: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and mind (or the activity of thinking, including what is perceived via the other senses). The “Six Senses” gallery experience extends beyond vision to include: the sound of chanting and ritual implements; the fragrance of incense; the feel of bronze, ceramic, and silk; and the creation of mental images. Our goal for visitors is to gain a deeper understanding of the nature and histories of objects used in Buddhist practice.

Lead support for The Six Senses of Buddhism is provided by the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 May 2019 12:15:33 -0400 2019-05-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2002_1_169_representation_12473_original.jpg
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (May 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 59263-14721816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS, DISASTERS, CONSUMPTION, LOSS, AND JUSTICE

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues, the exhibition presents photography, video, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials, disasters, consumption, loss, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists, including Sammy Baloji, Liu Bolin, Dana Levy, Mary Mattingly, Pedro Neves Marques, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, and Thomas Struth, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness, wonder, and curiosity about the world to come.

Read the exhibition press release here.

 

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 
 

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-05-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Harn-sixpetritsch_spatialintervention.jpeg
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (May 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 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 2019-05-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 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 2019-05-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 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 2019-05-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 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 2019-05-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 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 2019-05-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 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 2019-05-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 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 2019-05-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 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 2019-05-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (May 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 29, 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 2019-05-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity (May 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 63404-15669575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters, typically women, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.

Savoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director, producer, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking, and includes notes, notebooks, photos, and script drafts.

See the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca

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Exhibition Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:08:27 -0400 2019-05-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Filmmaker Nancy Savoca visits U-M as a guest instructor, 2019. Photo by Alan Piñon, U-M Library.
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (May 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-15710589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 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 2019-05-29T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Exhibition | Ancient Color (May 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-15765581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 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 2019-05-29T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (May 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 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 2019-05-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T17:00:00-04:00 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
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (May 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-05-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (May 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 18:15:34 -0400 2019-05-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (May 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 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.

#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 2019-05-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (May 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-05-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
The Six Senses of Buddhism (May 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58565 58565-14511604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Art museums generally give primacy to the sense of sight. Religious and ritual objects, on the other hand, stimulate an array of multi-sensory experiences. Focusing on works from UMMA’s collection associated with different types of Japanese Buddhism, we engage all of the six senses in this exhibition.

Six senses are integral to Buddhist devotion: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and mind (or the activity of thinking, including what is perceived via the other senses). The “Six Senses” gallery experience extends beyond vision to include: the sound of chanting and ritual implements; the fragrance of incense; the feel of bronze, ceramic, and silk; and the creation of mental images. Our goal for visitors is to gain a deeper understanding of the nature and histories of objects used in Buddhist practice.

Lead support for The Six Senses of Buddhism is provided by the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 May 2019 12:15:33 -0400 2019-05-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2002_1_169_representation_12473_original.jpg
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (May 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 59263-14721817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS, DISASTERS, CONSUMPTION, LOSS, AND JUSTICE

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues, the exhibition presents photography, video, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials, disasters, consumption, loss, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists, including Sammy Baloji, Liu Bolin, Dana Levy, Mary Mattingly, Pedro Neves Marques, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, and Thomas Struth, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness, wonder, and curiosity about the world to come.

Read the exhibition press release here.

 

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 
 

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-05-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Harn-sixpetritsch_spatialintervention.jpeg
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (May 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 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 2019-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 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 2019-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 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 2019-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 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 2019-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 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 2019-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 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 2019-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 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 2019-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 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 2019-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (May 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 30, 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 2019-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity (May 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 63404-15669576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters, typically women, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.

Savoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director, producer, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking, and includes notes, notebooks, photos, and script drafts.

See the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca

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Exhibition Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:08:27 -0400 2019-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Filmmaker Nancy Savoca visits U-M as a guest instructor, 2019. Photo by Alan Piñon, U-M Library.
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (May 30, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-15710590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 30, 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 2019-05-30T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Exhibition | Ancient Color (May 30, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-15765582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 30, 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 2019-05-30T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (May 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 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 10:40:44 -0400 2019-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 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
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (May 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (May 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 18:15:34 -0400 2019-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (May 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 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.

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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 2019-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (May 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
The Six Senses of Buddhism (May 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58565 58565-14511605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Art museums generally give primacy to the sense of sight. Religious and ritual objects, on the other hand, stimulate an array of multi-sensory experiences. Focusing on works from UMMA’s collection associated with different types of Japanese Buddhism, we engage all of the six senses in this exhibition.

Six senses are integral to Buddhist devotion: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and mind (or the activity of thinking, including what is perceived via the other senses). The “Six Senses” gallery experience extends beyond vision to include: the sound of chanting and ritual implements; the fragrance of incense; the feel of bronze, ceramic, and silk; and the creation of mental images. Our goal for visitors is to gain a deeper understanding of the nature and histories of objects used in Buddhist practice.

Lead support for The Six Senses of Buddhism is provided by the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 May 2019 12:15:33 -0400 2019-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2002_1_169_representation_12473_original.jpg
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (May 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 59263-14721818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS, DISASTERS, CONSUMPTION, LOSS, AND JUSTICE

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues, the exhibition presents photography, video, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials, disasters, consumption, loss, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists, including Sammy Baloji, Liu Bolin, Dana Levy, Mary Mattingly, Pedro Neves Marques, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, and Thomas Struth, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness, wonder, and curiosity about the world to come.

Read the exhibition press release here.

 

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 
 

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Harn-sixpetritsch_spatialintervention.jpeg
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (May 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 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 (May 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 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 2019-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (May 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 31, 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 2019-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Special Exhibit | Staging Theater: Chinese Operatic Practice and Performance (May 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63084 63084-15553762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This exhibition will be open every day, April 12-June 30, during Hatcher Library open hours.

Featuring the vibrant paintings of Peking opera face patterns, performance props, and rare books, this exhibition is a tribute to the University of Michigan's commitment to the presentation of Chinese operatic arts and culture. In the Winter Semester of 2019, a Peking opera performer specializing in the jing 淨 role engaged in a Chinese New Year artist-residency; the renown Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province, China, stages a production of The Lute (Pipa ji 琵琶記); and an international conference examines the critical role of media in the making and remaking of Ming-Qing literature and performance.

All of these endeavors offer the U-M faculty, staff, and students and Michiganers a chance to experience and embrace Chinese operatic arts and literary culture at the highest level and to introduce to the audience traditional Chinese aesthetic and moral values and their challenges and meanings in traditional and contemporary contexts.

Please visit https://ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-events/events/videos-of-past-events.html to access the online recording of Peking opera performer, Li Yang, in vocal recitation and in the practice of hand painting his own operatic face pattern. Introductions are provided by Professor David Rolston and LRCCS Postdoctoral Fellow Anne Rebull with Professor Joseph Lam being painted at the end of the program as the character Cao Cao

This exhibition is co-organized by Carol Stepanchuk and Liangyu Fu, and is sponsored by the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. Special thanks to Professor Joseph Lam, Professor David Rolston, and the Confucius Institute.

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Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province, China

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:24:02 -0400 2019-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Exhibition Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province, China
True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity (May 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 63404-15669577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters, typically women, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.

Savoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director, producer, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking, and includes notes, notebooks, photos, and script drafts.

See the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca

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Exhibition Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:08:27 -0400 2019-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Filmmaker Nancy Savoca visits U-M as a guest instructor, 2019. Photo by Alan Piñon, U-M Library.
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (May 31, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-15710591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 31, 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 2019-05-31T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Exhibition | Ancient Color (May 31, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-15765583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 31, 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 2019-05-31T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
Things I Like Most About the Clements Library (May 31, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63371 63371-15661301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 31, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. During a 23-year career with the Clements, Brian Dunnigan has served as curator of maps, head of research and publications, associate director, and acting director. Daily contact with the collections has inspired reflections on some of the things that the Clements does very well, driving his exhibit themes around active collecting, conservation, solving mysteries, and more.

Dunnigan’s selections include poignant manuscripts, striking visual imagery and cartography, and some of his favorite materials from the collections, drawing especially from his expertise in the mapping of the Great Lakes. This valedictory exhibit in the Clements’s soaring Avenir Foundation Reading Room dwells on seven areas of commitment and illustrates the concepts with some of the Library's most evocative and handsome holdings.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jun 2019 09:21:05 -0400 2019-05-31T10:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Niagara River ca.1807
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (May 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 31, 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 2019-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 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
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (May 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 31, 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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (May 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 18:15:34 -0400 2019-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (May 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 31, 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 2019-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (May 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
The Six Senses of Buddhism (May 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58565 58565-14511606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Art museums generally give primacy to the sense of sight. Religious and ritual objects, on the other hand, stimulate an array of multi-sensory experiences. Focusing on works from UMMA’s collection associated with different types of Japanese Buddhism, we engage all of the six senses in this exhibition.

Six senses are integral to Buddhist devotion: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and mind (or the activity of thinking, including what is perceived via the other senses). The “Six Senses” gallery experience extends beyond vision to include: the sound of chanting and ritual implements; the fragrance of incense; the feel of bronze, ceramic, and silk; and the creation of mental images. Our goal for visitors is to gain a deeper understanding of the nature and histories of objects used in Buddhist practice.

Lead support for The Six Senses of Buddhism is provided by the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 May 2019 12:15:33 -0400 2019-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2002_1_169_representation_12473_original.jpg
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (May 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 59263-14721819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS, DISASTERS, CONSUMPTION, LOSS, AND JUSTICE

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues, the exhibition presents photography, video, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials, disasters, consumption, loss, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists, including Sammy Baloji, Liu Bolin, Dana Levy, Mary Mattingly, Pedro Neves Marques, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, and Thomas Struth, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness, wonder, and curiosity about the world to come.

Read the exhibition press release here.

 

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 
 

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Harn-sixpetritsch_spatialintervention.jpeg
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (June 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 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 2019-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 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 2019-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 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 2019-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 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 2019-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 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 2019-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 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 2019-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 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 2019-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 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 2019-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity (June 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 63404-15669578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters, typically women, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.

Savoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director, producer, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking, and includes notes, notebooks, photos, and script drafts.

See the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca

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Exhibition Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:08:27 -0400 2019-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Filmmaker Nancy Savoca visits U-M as a guest instructor, 2019. Photo by Alan Piñon, U-M Library.
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (June 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 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 2019-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 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
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (June 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (June 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 18:15:34 -0400 2019-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 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 2019-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (June 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
The Six Senses of Buddhism (June 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58565 58565-14511607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Art museums generally give primacy to the sense of sight. Religious and ritual objects, on the other hand, stimulate an array of multi-sensory experiences. Focusing on works from UMMA’s collection associated with different types of Japanese Buddhism, we engage all of the six senses in this exhibition.

Six senses are integral to Buddhist devotion: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and mind (or the activity of thinking, including what is perceived via the other senses). The “Six Senses” gallery experience extends beyond vision to include: the sound of chanting and ritual implements; the fragrance of incense; the feel of bronze, ceramic, and silk; and the creation of mental images. Our goal for visitors is to gain a deeper understanding of the nature and histories of objects used in Buddhist practice.

Lead support for The Six Senses of Buddhism is provided by the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 May 2019 12:15:33 -0400 2019-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2002_1_169_representation_12473_original.jpg
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (June 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 59263-14721820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS, DISASTERS, CONSUMPTION, LOSS, AND JUSTICE

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues, the exhibition presents photography, video, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials, disasters, consumption, loss, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists, including Sammy Baloji, Liu Bolin, Dana Levy, Mary Mattingly, Pedro Neves Marques, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, and Thomas Struth, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness, wonder, and curiosity about the world to come.

Read the exhibition press release here.

 

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 
 

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Harn-sixpetritsch_spatialintervention.jpeg
Exhibition | Ancient Color (June 1, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-15765584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 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 2019-06-01T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-01T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (June 2, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 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 2019-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 2, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 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 2019-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 2, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 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 2019-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 2, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 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 2019-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 2, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 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 2019-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 2, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 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 2019-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 2, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 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 2019-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 2, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 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 2019-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity (June 2, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 63404-15669579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters, typically women, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.

Savoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director, producer, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking, and includes notes, notebooks, photos, and script drafts.

See the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca

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Exhibition Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:08:27 -0400 2019-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Filmmaker Nancy Savoca visits U-M as a guest instructor, 2019. Photo by Alan Piñon, U-M Library.
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (June 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 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 2019-06-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 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
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (June 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-06-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (June 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 18:15:34 -0400 2019-06-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 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 2019-06-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (June 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-06-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
The Six Senses of Buddhism (June 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58565 58565-14511608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Art museums generally give primacy to the sense of sight. Religious and ritual objects, on the other hand, stimulate an array of multi-sensory experiences. Focusing on works from UMMA’s collection associated with different types of Japanese Buddhism, we engage all of the six senses in this exhibition.

Six senses are integral to Buddhist devotion: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and mind (or the activity of thinking, including what is perceived via the other senses). The “Six Senses” gallery experience extends beyond vision to include: the sound of chanting and ritual implements; the fragrance of incense; the feel of bronze, ceramic, and silk; and the creation of mental images. Our goal for visitors is to gain a deeper understanding of the nature and histories of objects used in Buddhist practice.

Lead support for The Six Senses of Buddhism is provided by the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 May 2019 12:15:33 -0400 2019-06-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2002_1_169_representation_12473_original.jpg
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (June 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 59263-14721821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS, DISASTERS, CONSUMPTION, LOSS, AND JUSTICE

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues, the exhibition presents photography, video, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials, disasters, consumption, loss, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists, including Sammy Baloji, Liu Bolin, Dana Levy, Mary Mattingly, Pedro Neves Marques, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, and Thomas Struth, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness, wonder, and curiosity about the world to come.

Read the exhibition press release here.

 

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 
 

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-06-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Harn-sixpetritsch_spatialintervention.jpeg
Exhibition | Ancient Color (June 2, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 59301-15765585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 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 2019-06-02T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition color burst
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (June 3, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 3, 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 2019-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 3, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 3, 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 2019-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 3, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 3, 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 2019-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 3, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 3, 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 2019-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 3, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 3, 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 2019-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 3, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 3, 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 2019-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 3, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 3, 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 2019-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 3, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 3, 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 2019-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 3, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 3, 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 2019-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-03T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity (June 3, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 63404-15669580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 3, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters, typically women, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.

Savoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director, producer, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking, and includes notes, notebooks, photos, and script drafts.

See the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca

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Exhibition Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:08:27 -0400 2019-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-03T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Filmmaker Nancy Savoca visits U-M as a guest instructor, 2019. Photo by Alan Piñon, U-M Library.
A Revolution Worth Having: Emma Goldman at 150 (June 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63490 63490-15751190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Joseph A. Labadie Collection in the U-M Library is one of the world's most complete collections of anarchist thought and contains more original Emma Goldman material than any other U.S. library. In commemoration of her 150th birthday, we will display a selection of these artifacts, including her Russian passport and original writings. The exhibit will showcase materials related to her travels in Ann Arbor and Detroit, life in Russia, relationships with other well-known anarchists, and representation in popular culture today.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 May 2019 17:23:35 -0400 2019-06-03T10:00:00-04:00 2019-06-03T16:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photo of Emma Goldman, held in the Joseph A. Labadie Collection, U-M Library
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (June 4, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 4, 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 2019-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 4, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 4, 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 2019-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 4, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 4, 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 2019-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 4, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 4, 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 2019-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 4, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 4, 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 2019-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 4, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 4, 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 2019-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 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 (June 4, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 4, 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 2019-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2019-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.