Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (August 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-08-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Gifts of Art presents Cacti, Pine Trees & Tumblers: How Nature Influences Design (August 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63817 63817-15896638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Glass Academy is a private, modern-day studio in Dearborn. Co-creators and founders Michelle Plucinsky and Chris Nordin share the love of glass art and traditional glass blowing methods with the community thru various art projects, installations and seasonal events. Formally trained at College for Creative Studies, Alfred University, Pilchuck, Penland and Haystack, Nordin and Plucinsky have over 60 years of combined glass experience. During the day, the hot shop team manufactures glass items designed by the founding artists to sell in the studio’s 4,000 sq. ft. gallery. In the special project area, the founding artists can be found working on large scale, site specific sculptures commissioned for hospitals, hotels and public corporations across the U.S.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:44:50 -0400 2019-08-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tumbler by the Glass Academy, photograph by Michelle Plucinsky.
Gifts of Art presents Clover Springs Crochet Dolls (August 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63815 63815-15896474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Kate Lebowsky enjoys creating fun and playful art that provokes smiles and laughter. As a native to Ann Arbor, she has spent over 30 years drawing inspiration from life experiences with the diversity in cultures offered in the area and beyond. Her crocheted dolls come to life through the inspiration of children’s daydreams, books, movies and music. She lets the creativity form itself with fiber. Creating plush toys allows her to share her compassion and smiles with others through huggable art.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:33:45 -0400 2019-08-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Ember by Kate Lebowsky, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Evidence of Urban Fairies: Multi Media (August 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63821 63821-15896967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Two U-M alums, Jonathan B. Wright, a life-long Ann Arborite, and his wife Kathleen Wright, have been finding evidence of fairies in their home since 1993. In 2005, fairy doors began to appear in downtown Ann Arbor and Jonathan began documenting them in earnest as a certified fairyologist. He studied graphic design, architecture and illustration, while Kathleen is a teacher of young children, a writer and professional storyteller. Together they discover the stories behind the fairy doors. Though Jonathan’s multi-media works require no shortage of labor, he says, "imagination is the key to the fairy doors."

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:01:07 -0400 2019-08-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Faux-Pumpkin-Head by Jonathan B. Wright, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Hide & Seek: Fiber Wall Quilts (August 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63819 63819-15896720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jeanne Bieri’s art practice begins with the simple act of hand sewing. This allows contemplation of the art making process and careful organization of the parts. As she assembles it piece by piece, the work grows in a way that closely relates to painting. Bieri received a grant from the State of Michigan in 2000 to study quilts and their patterns. She discovered that they often touch people on a personal level and encourage memories. Whether an army blanket or quilt, she delights to find a treasure that has a personal history that goes well beyond her and extends to the observer. Hide & Seek, Bieri’s current series of art quilts incorporating fabrics with history, encourages viewer interaction and reminiscence. She received a Kresge Fellowship for her fiber pieces in 2017.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:50:21 -0400 2019-08-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Thought Cloud – Mended Shirt Quilt by Jeanne Bieri, photograph by Eric Law.
Gifts of Art presents Honor & Comfort: Handmade Paper & Mixed Media (August 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63799 63799-15881940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each of Laurie LeBreton’s paper tapestries are a kind of meditation or prayer. Some works she created to reach out to a greater power, while others honor a particular person or joyful time. Her sculptural paper tapestries can be installed in a number of different ways, reflecting the impermanence of this world. LeBreton lives and works in Chicago and has been working with handmade paper for ten years. She enjoys its surprising properties: it is light and appears fragile, yet it is also pliable, absorbs color beautifully, and is very strong. LeBreton particularly loves papermaking because of the calm that comes from the repeating forms in the process, and she appreciates working with water for its beauty, sensuality and healing qualities.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 15:24:00 -0400 2019-08-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Homage to the Goddess by Stephen Desantis
Gifts of Art presents The Art of Leaves: Soft Pastel & Pencil (August 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63820 63820-15896803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born in Houston, Texas, one of the most colorful cities in the U.S., J. Howard recognizes that color is important in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, our homes, our cars, and even our pets. She points out that “there is a great deal more to color than what meets the eye.” Howard utilizes hyper-realism and enhanced depth of field to create highly detailed soft pastel drawings on canvas that are often mistaken for photographs. She uses the beauty and intense color of organic soft pastels to elicit emotional responses from viewers, recognizing and working with the inherent qualities of color. Also a practicing art therapist, Howard’s award-winning work has been recognized both nationally and internationally.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:55:42 -0400 2019-08-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Leaving an Impression by J. Howard, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents The Bold & the Beautiful: Acrylic Paintings (August 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63816 63816-15896556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ronaldo Byrd was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and now resides in Burlington, New Jersey with his mother and three younger siblings. Byrd's main medium is acrylic on foamboard, and his process involves observation of the world and the people in it. His paintings depict his ideal world and how its inhabitants should treat each other. Byrd is known as the Artist of Happiness and the overall theme of his paintings is love and acceptance. Byrd and his artwork represent a different way of seeing, and his hope is that the world can see beauty and acceptance through his eyes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:40:15 -0400 2019-08-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Urban Life 2 by Ronaldo Byrd, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Through My Lens: Photography of National Parks (August 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63822 63822-15897049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Raymond Gaynor, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been practicing art photography for over 25 years. This exhibition of photographic works from 12 U.S. National Parks captures both iconic and unique landscape scenes. Gaynor chooses subjects that have a sense of solace and rejuvenation. One of his goals is to give the viewer an opportunity to imagine what it would be like to be the one looking through the camera lens while composing and capturing an image. He hopes to evoke emotions, memories, and a desire to witness firsthand the beauty of the National Parks. Recently he has been invited to participate in numerous juried art exhibitions, expanding his passion to pursue exhibiting throughout the Midwest.
Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:05:32 -0400 2019-08-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition First Impressions – Yosemite N.P. by Raymond Gaynor.
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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 2019-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (August 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (August 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 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 2019-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Ceal Floyer: Things (August 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Visitors entering Floyer’s installation Things (2009) in the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery encounter a collection of identical plinths that would ordinarily be used to display art objects in the Museum, but these platforms are empty. In place of visible objects, each plinth is equipped with a speaker from which we hear the word “thing” sung—edited out of and isolated from a range of pop songs. The result is an amusing and thoughtful exploration of language, meaning, and the conventions of museum presentation and spectatorship.

The installation, like much of Berlin-based artist Ceal Floyer’s art, is characteristically austere, but its visual simplicity masks a more complicated message—often a wry cerebral twist the artist creates through language-based symbols and aesthetic devices. Floyer’s work is rooted in conceptual art, in which the idea, delivered through words or acts that undercut or supersede formal qualities, is the essence of the artwork.

Lead support  for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan College of Engineering and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, Institute for the Humanities, CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:15:48 -0400 2019-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Things%252C%25202009%252C%2520KW%252C%25202009%252C%2520photo%2520Uwe%2520Walter02.jpg
Copies and Invention in East Asia (August 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (August 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
New at UMMA: Egon Schiele (August 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63428 63428-15694191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), one of the most well-known and controversial figures of Austrian Expressionism, made more than 3,000 works over the span of his short life and career. Working at the turn of the twentieth century, Schiele challenged the classical conventions of the day producing emotionally charged—often unsettling—drawings and watercolors depicting landscapes, portraits, and nudes. Two retired U-M professors recently gifted four works of art by Schiele to UMMA. Throughout their lifetimes, Frances McSparran (English language and literature) and the late Ernst Pulgram (Romance and classical linguistics) collected over forty Austrian and German Expressionist works, donating many of them to the Museum. The three watercolors and one drawing on view in this special installation complement the couple’s previous gifts of works by Schiele and his contemporaries Oskar Kokoschka, George Grosz, and Gustav Klimt, reuniting these important works that together provide important insights into this tumultuous period in European history.        

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Exhibition Mon, 20 May 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2018_2_1_representation_19141_original.jpg
Divide and Clothe: Illustrating Fashion in Nineteenth-Century Europe (August 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63469 63469-16316350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibition explores a dramatic surge in images of clothing that appeared in European books, journals, and prints from the 1780s through the 1870s. These images contributed to and reflected shifting ideas about the interrelationship between clothing and identity. It was in this period that "fashion" became the core concept defining clothing choice for Europeans. As a dedicated fashion press emerged by 1800, so did expectations about fashion: trends now dictated the pace at which clothing should be updated.

But the early nineteenth century also witnessed a rise in interest in clothing that did not change, and which became subsumed in the category of "costume." The period's prolific illustrated press documented traditional costumes worn in rural regions of Europe or far-flung parts of the world. Such images contributed to perceived divisions between those who participated in fashion and those who did not. In so doing, these images complemented contemporary beliefs that progress and modernity were inherently metropolitan, Western phenomena. The exhibition traces these contrasting ideas about clothing as fashion and as costume (as well as hybrids of the two) across visual representations ranging from fashion plates to caricatures, and from journals associated with clothing production, to encyclopedic volumes on historic dress and world costume.

This exhibition is curated by Isabelle Gillet and Courtney Wilder, graduate students in the History of Art department.

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Exhibition Thu, 02 May 2019 10:49:28 -0400 2019-08-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T13:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Morning dress illustration from Gallery of Fashion, Vol II, October 1795
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (August 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-08-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Gifts of Art presents Cacti, Pine Trees & Tumblers: How Nature Influences Design (August 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63817 63817-15896639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Glass Academy is a private, modern-day studio in Dearborn. Co-creators and founders Michelle Plucinsky and Chris Nordin share the love of glass art and traditional glass blowing methods with the community thru various art projects, installations and seasonal events. Formally trained at College for Creative Studies, Alfred University, Pilchuck, Penland and Haystack, Nordin and Plucinsky have over 60 years of combined glass experience. During the day, the hot shop team manufactures glass items designed by the founding artists to sell in the studio’s 4,000 sq. ft. gallery. In the special project area, the founding artists can be found working on large scale, site specific sculptures commissioned for hospitals, hotels and public corporations across the U.S.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:44:50 -0400 2019-08-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tumbler by the Glass Academy, photograph by Michelle Plucinsky.
Gifts of Art presents Clover Springs Crochet Dolls (August 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63815 63815-15896475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Kate Lebowsky enjoys creating fun and playful art that provokes smiles and laughter. As a native to Ann Arbor, she has spent over 30 years drawing inspiration from life experiences with the diversity in cultures offered in the area and beyond. Her crocheted dolls come to life through the inspiration of children’s daydreams, books, movies and music. She lets the creativity form itself with fiber. Creating plush toys allows her to share her compassion and smiles with others through huggable art.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:33:45 -0400 2019-08-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Ember by Kate Lebowsky, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Evidence of Urban Fairies: Multi Media (August 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63821 63821-15896968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Two U-M alums, Jonathan B. Wright, a life-long Ann Arborite, and his wife Kathleen Wright, have been finding evidence of fairies in their home since 1993. In 2005, fairy doors began to appear in downtown Ann Arbor and Jonathan began documenting them in earnest as a certified fairyologist. He studied graphic design, architecture and illustration, while Kathleen is a teacher of young children, a writer and professional storyteller. Together they discover the stories behind the fairy doors. Though Jonathan’s multi-media works require no shortage of labor, he says, "imagination is the key to the fairy doors."

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:01:07 -0400 2019-08-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Faux-Pumpkin-Head by Jonathan B. Wright, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Hide & Seek: Fiber Wall Quilts (August 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63819 63819-15896721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jeanne Bieri’s art practice begins with the simple act of hand sewing. This allows contemplation of the art making process and careful organization of the parts. As she assembles it piece by piece, the work grows in a way that closely relates to painting. Bieri received a grant from the State of Michigan in 2000 to study quilts and their patterns. She discovered that they often touch people on a personal level and encourage memories. Whether an army blanket or quilt, she delights to find a treasure that has a personal history that goes well beyond her and extends to the observer. Hide & Seek, Bieri’s current series of art quilts incorporating fabrics with history, encourages viewer interaction and reminiscence. She received a Kresge Fellowship for her fiber pieces in 2017.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:50:21 -0400 2019-08-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Thought Cloud – Mended Shirt Quilt by Jeanne Bieri, photograph by Eric Law.
Gifts of Art presents Honor & Comfort: Handmade Paper & Mixed Media (August 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63799 63799-15881941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each of Laurie LeBreton’s paper tapestries are a kind of meditation or prayer. Some works she created to reach out to a greater power, while others honor a particular person or joyful time. Her sculptural paper tapestries can be installed in a number of different ways, reflecting the impermanence of this world. LeBreton lives and works in Chicago and has been working with handmade paper for ten years. She enjoys its surprising properties: it is light and appears fragile, yet it is also pliable, absorbs color beautifully, and is very strong. LeBreton particularly loves papermaking because of the calm that comes from the repeating forms in the process, and she appreciates working with water for its beauty, sensuality and healing qualities.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 15:24:00 -0400 2019-08-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Homage to the Goddess by Stephen Desantis
Gifts of Art presents The Art of Leaves: Soft Pastel & Pencil (August 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63820 63820-15896804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born in Houston, Texas, one of the most colorful cities in the U.S., J. Howard recognizes that color is important in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, our homes, our cars, and even our pets. She points out that “there is a great deal more to color than what meets the eye.” Howard utilizes hyper-realism and enhanced depth of field to create highly detailed soft pastel drawings on canvas that are often mistaken for photographs. She uses the beauty and intense color of organic soft pastels to elicit emotional responses from viewers, recognizing and working with the inherent qualities of color. Also a practicing art therapist, Howard’s award-winning work has been recognized both nationally and internationally.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:55:42 -0400 2019-08-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Leaving an Impression by J. Howard, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents The Bold & the Beautiful: Acrylic Paintings (August 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63816 63816-15896557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ronaldo Byrd was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and now resides in Burlington, New Jersey with his mother and three younger siblings. Byrd's main medium is acrylic on foamboard, and his process involves observation of the world and the people in it. His paintings depict his ideal world and how its inhabitants should treat each other. Byrd is known as the Artist of Happiness and the overall theme of his paintings is love and acceptance. Byrd and his artwork represent a different way of seeing, and his hope is that the world can see beauty and acceptance through his eyes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:40:15 -0400 2019-08-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Urban Life 2 by Ronaldo Byrd, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Through My Lens: Photography of National Parks (August 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63822 63822-15897050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Raymond Gaynor, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been practicing art photography for over 25 years. This exhibition of photographic works from 12 U.S. National Parks captures both iconic and unique landscape scenes. Gaynor chooses subjects that have a sense of solace and rejuvenation. One of his goals is to give the viewer an opportunity to imagine what it would be like to be the one looking through the camera lens while composing and capturing an image. He hopes to evoke emotions, memories, and a desire to witness firsthand the beauty of the National Parks. Recently he has been invited to participate in numerous juried art exhibitions, expanding his passion to pursue exhibiting throughout the Midwest.
Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:05:32 -0400 2019-08-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition First Impressions – Yosemite N.P. by Raymond Gaynor.
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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 2019-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (August 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (August 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 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 2019-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Ceal Floyer: Things (August 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Visitors entering Floyer’s installation Things (2009) in the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery encounter a collection of identical plinths that would ordinarily be used to display art objects in the Museum, but these platforms are empty. In place of visible objects, each plinth is equipped with a speaker from which we hear the word “thing” sung—edited out of and isolated from a range of pop songs. The result is an amusing and thoughtful exploration of language, meaning, and the conventions of museum presentation and spectatorship.

The installation, like much of Berlin-based artist Ceal Floyer’s art, is characteristically austere, but its visual simplicity masks a more complicated message—often a wry cerebral twist the artist creates through language-based symbols and aesthetic devices. Floyer’s work is rooted in conceptual art, in which the idea, delivered through words or acts that undercut or supersede formal qualities, is the essence of the artwork.

Lead support  for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan College of Engineering and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, Institute for the Humanities, CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:15:48 -0400 2019-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Things%252C%25202009%252C%2520KW%252C%25202009%252C%2520photo%2520Uwe%2520Walter02.jpg
Copies and Invention in East Asia (August 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (August 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
New at UMMA: Egon Schiele (August 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63428 63428-15694192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), one of the most well-known and controversial figures of Austrian Expressionism, made more than 3,000 works over the span of his short life and career. Working at the turn of the twentieth century, Schiele challenged the classical conventions of the day producing emotionally charged—often unsettling—drawings and watercolors depicting landscapes, portraits, and nudes. Two retired U-M professors recently gifted four works of art by Schiele to UMMA. Throughout their lifetimes, Frances McSparran (English language and literature) and the late Ernst Pulgram (Romance and classical linguistics) collected over forty Austrian and German Expressionist works, donating many of them to the Museum. The three watercolors and one drawing on view in this special installation complement the couple’s previous gifts of works by Schiele and his contemporaries Oskar Kokoschka, George Grosz, and Gustav Klimt, reuniting these important works that together provide important insights into this tumultuous period in European history.        

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Exhibition Mon, 20 May 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2018_2_1_representation_19141_original.jpg
Divide and Clothe: Illustrating Fashion in Nineteenth-Century Europe (August 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63469 63469-16316351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibition explores a dramatic surge in images of clothing that appeared in European books, journals, and prints from the 1780s through the 1870s. These images contributed to and reflected shifting ideas about the interrelationship between clothing and identity. It was in this period that "fashion" became the core concept defining clothing choice for Europeans. As a dedicated fashion press emerged by 1800, so did expectations about fashion: trends now dictated the pace at which clothing should be updated.

But the early nineteenth century also witnessed a rise in interest in clothing that did not change, and which became subsumed in the category of "costume." The period's prolific illustrated press documented traditional costumes worn in rural regions of Europe or far-flung parts of the world. Such images contributed to perceived divisions between those who participated in fashion and those who did not. In so doing, these images complemented contemporary beliefs that progress and modernity were inherently metropolitan, Western phenomena. The exhibition traces these contrasting ideas about clothing as fashion and as costume (as well as hybrids of the two) across visual representations ranging from fashion plates to caricatures, and from journals associated with clothing production, to encyclopedic volumes on historic dress and world costume.

This exhibition is curated by Isabelle Gillet and Courtney Wilder, graduate students in the History of Art department.

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Exhibition Thu, 02 May 2019 10:49:28 -0400 2019-08-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T13:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Morning dress illustration from Gallery of Fashion, Vol II, October 1795
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (August 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-08-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Gifts of Art presents Cacti, Pine Trees & Tumblers: How Nature Influences Design (August 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63817 63817-15896640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Glass Academy is a private, modern-day studio in Dearborn. Co-creators and founders Michelle Plucinsky and Chris Nordin share the love of glass art and traditional glass blowing methods with the community thru various art projects, installations and seasonal events. Formally trained at College for Creative Studies, Alfred University, Pilchuck, Penland and Haystack, Nordin and Plucinsky have over 60 years of combined glass experience. During the day, the hot shop team manufactures glass items designed by the founding artists to sell in the studio’s 4,000 sq. ft. gallery. In the special project area, the founding artists can be found working on large scale, site specific sculptures commissioned for hospitals, hotels and public corporations across the U.S.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:44:50 -0400 2019-08-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tumbler by the Glass Academy, photograph by Michelle Plucinsky.
Gifts of Art presents Clover Springs Crochet Dolls (August 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63815 63815-15896476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Kate Lebowsky enjoys creating fun and playful art that provokes smiles and laughter. As a native to Ann Arbor, she has spent over 30 years drawing inspiration from life experiences with the diversity in cultures offered in the area and beyond. Her crocheted dolls come to life through the inspiration of children’s daydreams, books, movies and music. She lets the creativity form itself with fiber. Creating plush toys allows her to share her compassion and smiles with others through huggable art.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:33:45 -0400 2019-08-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Ember by Kate Lebowsky, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Evidence of Urban Fairies: Multi Media (August 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63821 63821-15896969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Two U-M alums, Jonathan B. Wright, a life-long Ann Arborite, and his wife Kathleen Wright, have been finding evidence of fairies in their home since 1993. In 2005, fairy doors began to appear in downtown Ann Arbor and Jonathan began documenting them in earnest as a certified fairyologist. He studied graphic design, architecture and illustration, while Kathleen is a teacher of young children, a writer and professional storyteller. Together they discover the stories behind the fairy doors. Though Jonathan’s multi-media works require no shortage of labor, he says, "imagination is the key to the fairy doors."

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:01:07 -0400 2019-08-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Faux-Pumpkin-Head by Jonathan B. Wright, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Hide & Seek: Fiber Wall Quilts (August 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63819 63819-15896722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jeanne Bieri’s art practice begins with the simple act of hand sewing. This allows contemplation of the art making process and careful organization of the parts. As she assembles it piece by piece, the work grows in a way that closely relates to painting. Bieri received a grant from the State of Michigan in 2000 to study quilts and their patterns. She discovered that they often touch people on a personal level and encourage memories. Whether an army blanket or quilt, she delights to find a treasure that has a personal history that goes well beyond her and extends to the observer. Hide & Seek, Bieri’s current series of art quilts incorporating fabrics with history, encourages viewer interaction and reminiscence. She received a Kresge Fellowship for her fiber pieces in 2017.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:50:21 -0400 2019-08-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Thought Cloud – Mended Shirt Quilt by Jeanne Bieri, photograph by Eric Law.
Gifts of Art presents Honor & Comfort: Handmade Paper & Mixed Media (August 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63799 63799-15881942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each of Laurie LeBreton’s paper tapestries are a kind of meditation or prayer. Some works she created to reach out to a greater power, while others honor a particular person or joyful time. Her sculptural paper tapestries can be installed in a number of different ways, reflecting the impermanence of this world. LeBreton lives and works in Chicago and has been working with handmade paper for ten years. She enjoys its surprising properties: it is light and appears fragile, yet it is also pliable, absorbs color beautifully, and is very strong. LeBreton particularly loves papermaking because of the calm that comes from the repeating forms in the process, and she appreciates working with water for its beauty, sensuality and healing qualities.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 15:24:00 -0400 2019-08-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Homage to the Goddess by Stephen Desantis
Gifts of Art presents The Art of Leaves: Soft Pastel & Pencil (August 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63820 63820-15896805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born in Houston, Texas, one of the most colorful cities in the U.S., J. Howard recognizes that color is important in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, our homes, our cars, and even our pets. She points out that “there is a great deal more to color than what meets the eye.” Howard utilizes hyper-realism and enhanced depth of field to create highly detailed soft pastel drawings on canvas that are often mistaken for photographs. She uses the beauty and intense color of organic soft pastels to elicit emotional responses from viewers, recognizing and working with the inherent qualities of color. Also a practicing art therapist, Howard’s award-winning work has been recognized both nationally and internationally.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:55:42 -0400 2019-08-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Leaving an Impression by J. Howard, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents The Bold & the Beautiful: Acrylic Paintings (August 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63816 63816-15896558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ronaldo Byrd was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and now resides in Burlington, New Jersey with his mother and three younger siblings. Byrd's main medium is acrylic on foamboard, and his process involves observation of the world and the people in it. His paintings depict his ideal world and how its inhabitants should treat each other. Byrd is known as the Artist of Happiness and the overall theme of his paintings is love and acceptance. Byrd and his artwork represent a different way of seeing, and his hope is that the world can see beauty and acceptance through his eyes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:40:15 -0400 2019-08-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Urban Life 2 by Ronaldo Byrd, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Through My Lens: Photography of National Parks (August 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63822 63822-15897051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Raymond Gaynor, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been practicing art photography for over 25 years. This exhibition of photographic works from 12 U.S. National Parks captures both iconic and unique landscape scenes. Gaynor chooses subjects that have a sense of solace and rejuvenation. One of his goals is to give the viewer an opportunity to imagine what it would be like to be the one looking through the camera lens while composing and capturing an image. He hopes to evoke emotions, memories, and a desire to witness firsthand the beauty of the National Parks. Recently he has been invited to participate in numerous juried art exhibitions, expanding his passion to pursue exhibiting throughout the Midwest.
Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:05:32 -0400 2019-08-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition First Impressions – Yosemite N.P. by Raymond Gaynor.
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (August 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located in modern-day northern Sudan), involved pilgrimage and leaving informal marks on temples, pyramids, and other monumental structures. These graffiti are found in temples throughout the later (“Meroitic”) period of Kush, when it bordered Roman Egypt. They represent one of the few direct traces of the devotional practices of private people in Kush and hint at individuals’ thoughts, values, and daily lives. This exhibition explores the times and places in which Kushite graffiti were inscribed through photos, text, and interactive media presentations. At the heart of the show are the hundreds of Meroitic graffiti recently discovered in a rock-cut temple by the Kelsey expedition to El-Kurru in northern Sudan.

Curators: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis

View the online exhibition:
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:06:16 -0400 2019-08-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
Things I Like Most About the Clements Library (August 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63371 63371-15661313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 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 2019-08-23T10:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Niagara River ca.1807
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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 2019-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (August 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (August 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 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 2019-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Ceal Floyer: Things (August 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Visitors entering Floyer’s installation Things (2009) in the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery encounter a collection of identical plinths that would ordinarily be used to display art objects in the Museum, but these platforms are empty. In place of visible objects, each plinth is equipped with a speaker from which we hear the word “thing” sung—edited out of and isolated from a range of pop songs. The result is an amusing and thoughtful exploration of language, meaning, and the conventions of museum presentation and spectatorship.

The installation, like much of Berlin-based artist Ceal Floyer’s art, is characteristically austere, but its visual simplicity masks a more complicated message—often a wry cerebral twist the artist creates through language-based symbols and aesthetic devices. Floyer’s work is rooted in conceptual art, in which the idea, delivered through words or acts that undercut or supersede formal qualities, is the essence of the artwork.

Lead support  for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan College of Engineering and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, Institute for the Humanities, CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:15:48 -0400 2019-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Things%252C%25202009%252C%2520KW%252C%25202009%252C%2520photo%2520Uwe%2520Walter02.jpg
Copies and Invention in East Asia (August 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (August 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
New at UMMA: Egon Schiele (August 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63428 63428-15694193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), one of the most well-known and controversial figures of Austrian Expressionism, made more than 3,000 works over the span of his short life and career. Working at the turn of the twentieth century, Schiele challenged the classical conventions of the day producing emotionally charged—often unsettling—drawings and watercolors depicting landscapes, portraits, and nudes. Two retired U-M professors recently gifted four works of art by Schiele to UMMA. Throughout their lifetimes, Frances McSparran (English language and literature) and the late Ernst Pulgram (Romance and classical linguistics) collected over forty Austrian and German Expressionist works, donating many of them to the Museum. The three watercolors and one drawing on view in this special installation complement the couple’s previous gifts of works by Schiele and his contemporaries Oskar Kokoschka, George Grosz, and Gustav Klimt, reuniting these important works that together provide important insights into this tumultuous period in European history.        

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Exhibition Mon, 20 May 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2018_2_1_representation_19141_original.jpg
Divide and Clothe: Illustrating Fashion in Nineteenth-Century Europe (August 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63469 63469-16316352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibition explores a dramatic surge in images of clothing that appeared in European books, journals, and prints from the 1780s through the 1870s. These images contributed to and reflected shifting ideas about the interrelationship between clothing and identity. It was in this period that "fashion" became the core concept defining clothing choice for Europeans. As a dedicated fashion press emerged by 1800, so did expectations about fashion: trends now dictated the pace at which clothing should be updated.

But the early nineteenth century also witnessed a rise in interest in clothing that did not change, and which became subsumed in the category of "costume." The period's prolific illustrated press documented traditional costumes worn in rural regions of Europe or far-flung parts of the world. Such images contributed to perceived divisions between those who participated in fashion and those who did not. In so doing, these images complemented contemporary beliefs that progress and modernity were inherently metropolitan, Western phenomena. The exhibition traces these contrasting ideas about clothing as fashion and as costume (as well as hybrids of the two) across visual representations ranging from fashion plates to caricatures, and from journals associated with clothing production, to encyclopedic volumes on historic dress and world costume.

This exhibition is curated by Isabelle Gillet and Courtney Wilder, graduate students in the History of Art department.

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Exhibition Thu, 02 May 2019 10:49:28 -0400 2019-08-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T13:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Morning dress illustration from Gallery of Fashion, Vol II, October 1795
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (August 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-08-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Gifts of Art presents Cacti, Pine Trees & Tumblers: How Nature Influences Design (August 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63817 63817-15896641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Glass Academy is a private, modern-day studio in Dearborn. Co-creators and founders Michelle Plucinsky and Chris Nordin share the love of glass art and traditional glass blowing methods with the community thru various art projects, installations and seasonal events. Formally trained at College for Creative Studies, Alfred University, Pilchuck, Penland and Haystack, Nordin and Plucinsky have over 60 years of combined glass experience. During the day, the hot shop team manufactures glass items designed by the founding artists to sell in the studio’s 4,000 sq. ft. gallery. In the special project area, the founding artists can be found working on large scale, site specific sculptures commissioned for hospitals, hotels and public corporations across the U.S.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:44:50 -0400 2019-08-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tumbler by the Glass Academy, photograph by Michelle Plucinsky.
Gifts of Art presents Clover Springs Crochet Dolls (August 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63815 63815-15896477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Kate Lebowsky enjoys creating fun and playful art that provokes smiles and laughter. As a native to Ann Arbor, she has spent over 30 years drawing inspiration from life experiences with the diversity in cultures offered in the area and beyond. Her crocheted dolls come to life through the inspiration of children’s daydreams, books, movies and music. She lets the creativity form itself with fiber. Creating plush toys allows her to share her compassion and smiles with others through huggable art.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:33:45 -0400 2019-08-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Ember by Kate Lebowsky, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Evidence of Urban Fairies: Multi Media (August 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63821 63821-15896970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Two U-M alums, Jonathan B. Wright, a life-long Ann Arborite, and his wife Kathleen Wright, have been finding evidence of fairies in their home since 1993. In 2005, fairy doors began to appear in downtown Ann Arbor and Jonathan began documenting them in earnest as a certified fairyologist. He studied graphic design, architecture and illustration, while Kathleen is a teacher of young children, a writer and professional storyteller. Together they discover the stories behind the fairy doors. Though Jonathan’s multi-media works require no shortage of labor, he says, "imagination is the key to the fairy doors."

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:01:07 -0400 2019-08-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Faux-Pumpkin-Head by Jonathan B. Wright, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Hide & Seek: Fiber Wall Quilts (August 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63819 63819-15896723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jeanne Bieri’s art practice begins with the simple act of hand sewing. This allows contemplation of the art making process and careful organization of the parts. As she assembles it piece by piece, the work grows in a way that closely relates to painting. Bieri received a grant from the State of Michigan in 2000 to study quilts and their patterns. She discovered that they often touch people on a personal level and encourage memories. Whether an army blanket or quilt, she delights to find a treasure that has a personal history that goes well beyond her and extends to the observer. Hide & Seek, Bieri’s current series of art quilts incorporating fabrics with history, encourages viewer interaction and reminiscence. She received a Kresge Fellowship for her fiber pieces in 2017.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:50:21 -0400 2019-08-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Thought Cloud – Mended Shirt Quilt by Jeanne Bieri, photograph by Eric Law.
Gifts of Art presents Honor & Comfort: Handmade Paper & Mixed Media (August 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63799 63799-15881943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each of Laurie LeBreton’s paper tapestries are a kind of meditation or prayer. Some works she created to reach out to a greater power, while others honor a particular person or joyful time. Her sculptural paper tapestries can be installed in a number of different ways, reflecting the impermanence of this world. LeBreton lives and works in Chicago and has been working with handmade paper for ten years. She enjoys its surprising properties: it is light and appears fragile, yet it is also pliable, absorbs color beautifully, and is very strong. LeBreton particularly loves papermaking because of the calm that comes from the repeating forms in the process, and she appreciates working with water for its beauty, sensuality and healing qualities.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 15:24:00 -0400 2019-08-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Homage to the Goddess by Stephen Desantis
Gifts of Art presents The Art of Leaves: Soft Pastel & Pencil (August 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63820 63820-15896806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born in Houston, Texas, one of the most colorful cities in the U.S., J. Howard recognizes that color is important in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, our homes, our cars, and even our pets. She points out that “there is a great deal more to color than what meets the eye.” Howard utilizes hyper-realism and enhanced depth of field to create highly detailed soft pastel drawings on canvas that are often mistaken for photographs. She uses the beauty and intense color of organic soft pastels to elicit emotional responses from viewers, recognizing and working with the inherent qualities of color. Also a practicing art therapist, Howard’s award-winning work has been recognized both nationally and internationally.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:55:42 -0400 2019-08-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Leaving an Impression by J. Howard, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents The Bold & the Beautiful: Acrylic Paintings (August 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63816 63816-15896559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ronaldo Byrd was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and now resides in Burlington, New Jersey with his mother and three younger siblings. Byrd's main medium is acrylic on foamboard, and his process involves observation of the world and the people in it. His paintings depict his ideal world and how its inhabitants should treat each other. Byrd is known as the Artist of Happiness and the overall theme of his paintings is love and acceptance. Byrd and his artwork represent a different way of seeing, and his hope is that the world can see beauty and acceptance through his eyes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:40:15 -0400 2019-08-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Urban Life 2 by Ronaldo Byrd, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Through My Lens: Photography of National Parks (August 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63822 63822-15897052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Raymond Gaynor, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been practicing art photography for over 25 years. This exhibition of photographic works from 12 U.S. National Parks captures both iconic and unique landscape scenes. Gaynor chooses subjects that have a sense of solace and rejuvenation. One of his goals is to give the viewer an opportunity to imagine what it would be like to be the one looking through the camera lens while composing and capturing an image. He hopes to evoke emotions, memories, and a desire to witness firsthand the beauty of the National Parks. Recently he has been invited to participate in numerous juried art exhibitions, expanding his passion to pursue exhibiting throughout the Midwest.
Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:05:32 -0400 2019-08-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition First Impressions – Yosemite N.P. by Raymond Gaynor.
71st Annual Dahlia Show (August 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64744 64744-16442906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Open to the public, hosted at Washtenaw Community College.

Saturday August 24th and Sunday August 25th.

Presented by Michigan Dahlia Association (MDA).

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:21:25 -0400 2019-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 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 10:39:06 -0400 2019-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 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 2019-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (August 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (August 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 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 2019-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Ceal Floyer: Things (August 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Visitors entering Floyer’s installation Things (2009) in the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery encounter a collection of identical plinths that would ordinarily be used to display art objects in the Museum, but these platforms are empty. In place of visible objects, each plinth is equipped with a speaker from which we hear the word “thing” sung—edited out of and isolated from a range of pop songs. The result is an amusing and thoughtful exploration of language, meaning, and the conventions of museum presentation and spectatorship.

The installation, like much of Berlin-based artist Ceal Floyer’s art, is characteristically austere, but its visual simplicity masks a more complicated message—often a wry cerebral twist the artist creates through language-based symbols and aesthetic devices. Floyer’s work is rooted in conceptual art, in which the idea, delivered through words or acts that undercut or supersede formal qualities, is the essence of the artwork.

Lead support  for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan College of Engineering and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, Institute for the Humanities, CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:15:48 -0400 2019-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Things%252C%25202009%252C%2520KW%252C%25202009%252C%2520photo%2520Uwe%2520Walter02.jpg
Copies and Invention in East Asia (August 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (August 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
New at UMMA: Egon Schiele (August 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63428 63428-15694194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), one of the most well-known and controversial figures of Austrian Expressionism, made more than 3,000 works over the span of his short life and career. Working at the turn of the twentieth century, Schiele challenged the classical conventions of the day producing emotionally charged—often unsettling—drawings and watercolors depicting landscapes, portraits, and nudes. Two retired U-M professors recently gifted four works of art by Schiele to UMMA. Throughout their lifetimes, Frances McSparran (English language and literature) and the late Ernst Pulgram (Romance and classical linguistics) collected over forty Austrian and German Expressionist works, donating many of them to the Museum. The three watercolors and one drawing on view in this special installation complement the couple’s previous gifts of works by Schiele and his contemporaries Oskar Kokoschka, George Grosz, and Gustav Klimt, reuniting these important works that together provide important insights into this tumultuous period in European history.        

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Exhibition Mon, 20 May 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2018_2_1_representation_19141_original.jpg
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (August 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located in modern-day northern Sudan), involved pilgrimage and leaving informal marks on temples, pyramids, and other monumental structures. These graffiti are found in temples throughout the later (“Meroitic”) period of Kush, when it bordered Roman Egypt. They represent one of the few direct traces of the devotional practices of private people in Kush and hint at individuals’ thoughts, values, and daily lives. This exhibition explores the times and places in which Kushite graffiti were inscribed through photos, text, and interactive media presentations. At the heart of the show are the hundreds of Meroitic graffiti recently discovered in a rock-cut temple by the Kelsey expedition to El-Kurru in northern Sudan.

Curators: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis

View the online exhibition:
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:06:16 -0400 2019-08-24T13:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (August 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-08-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Gifts of Art presents Cacti, Pine Trees & Tumblers: How Nature Influences Design (August 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63817 63817-15896642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Glass Academy is a private, modern-day studio in Dearborn. Co-creators and founders Michelle Plucinsky and Chris Nordin share the love of glass art and traditional glass blowing methods with the community thru various art projects, installations and seasonal events. Formally trained at College for Creative Studies, Alfred University, Pilchuck, Penland and Haystack, Nordin and Plucinsky have over 60 years of combined glass experience. During the day, the hot shop team manufactures glass items designed by the founding artists to sell in the studio’s 4,000 sq. ft. gallery. In the special project area, the founding artists can be found working on large scale, site specific sculptures commissioned for hospitals, hotels and public corporations across the U.S.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:44:50 -0400 2019-08-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tumbler by the Glass Academy, photograph by Michelle Plucinsky.
Gifts of Art presents Clover Springs Crochet Dolls (August 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63815 63815-15896478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Kate Lebowsky enjoys creating fun and playful art that provokes smiles and laughter. As a native to Ann Arbor, she has spent over 30 years drawing inspiration from life experiences with the diversity in cultures offered in the area and beyond. Her crocheted dolls come to life through the inspiration of children’s daydreams, books, movies and music. She lets the creativity form itself with fiber. Creating plush toys allows her to share her compassion and smiles with others through huggable art.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:33:45 -0400 2019-08-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Ember by Kate Lebowsky, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Evidence of Urban Fairies: Multi Media (August 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63821 63821-15896971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Two U-M alums, Jonathan B. Wright, a life-long Ann Arborite, and his wife Kathleen Wright, have been finding evidence of fairies in their home since 1993. In 2005, fairy doors began to appear in downtown Ann Arbor and Jonathan began documenting them in earnest as a certified fairyologist. He studied graphic design, architecture and illustration, while Kathleen is a teacher of young children, a writer and professional storyteller. Together they discover the stories behind the fairy doors. Though Jonathan’s multi-media works require no shortage of labor, he says, "imagination is the key to the fairy doors."

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:01:07 -0400 2019-08-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Faux-Pumpkin-Head by Jonathan B. Wright, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Hide & Seek: Fiber Wall Quilts (August 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63819 63819-15896724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jeanne Bieri’s art practice begins with the simple act of hand sewing. This allows contemplation of the art making process and careful organization of the parts. As she assembles it piece by piece, the work grows in a way that closely relates to painting. Bieri received a grant from the State of Michigan in 2000 to study quilts and their patterns. She discovered that they often touch people on a personal level and encourage memories. Whether an army blanket or quilt, she delights to find a treasure that has a personal history that goes well beyond her and extends to the observer. Hide & Seek, Bieri’s current series of art quilts incorporating fabrics with history, encourages viewer interaction and reminiscence. She received a Kresge Fellowship for her fiber pieces in 2017.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:50:21 -0400 2019-08-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Thought Cloud – Mended Shirt Quilt by Jeanne Bieri, photograph by Eric Law.
Gifts of Art presents Honor & Comfort: Handmade Paper & Mixed Media (August 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63799 63799-15881944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each of Laurie LeBreton’s paper tapestries are a kind of meditation or prayer. Some works she created to reach out to a greater power, while others honor a particular person or joyful time. Her sculptural paper tapestries can be installed in a number of different ways, reflecting the impermanence of this world. LeBreton lives and works in Chicago and has been working with handmade paper for ten years. She enjoys its surprising properties: it is light and appears fragile, yet it is also pliable, absorbs color beautifully, and is very strong. LeBreton particularly loves papermaking because of the calm that comes from the repeating forms in the process, and she appreciates working with water for its beauty, sensuality and healing qualities.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 15:24:00 -0400 2019-08-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Homage to the Goddess by Stephen Desantis
Gifts of Art presents The Art of Leaves: Soft Pastel & Pencil (August 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63820 63820-15896807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born in Houston, Texas, one of the most colorful cities in the U.S., J. Howard recognizes that color is important in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, our homes, our cars, and even our pets. She points out that “there is a great deal more to color than what meets the eye.” Howard utilizes hyper-realism and enhanced depth of field to create highly detailed soft pastel drawings on canvas that are often mistaken for photographs. She uses the beauty and intense color of organic soft pastels to elicit emotional responses from viewers, recognizing and working with the inherent qualities of color. Also a practicing art therapist, Howard’s award-winning work has been recognized both nationally and internationally.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:55:42 -0400 2019-08-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Leaving an Impression by J. Howard, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents The Bold & the Beautiful: Acrylic Paintings (August 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63816 63816-15896560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ronaldo Byrd was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and now resides in Burlington, New Jersey with his mother and three younger siblings. Byrd's main medium is acrylic on foamboard, and his process involves observation of the world and the people in it. His paintings depict his ideal world and how its inhabitants should treat each other. Byrd is known as the Artist of Happiness and the overall theme of his paintings is love and acceptance. Byrd and his artwork represent a different way of seeing, and his hope is that the world can see beauty and acceptance through his eyes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:40:15 -0400 2019-08-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Urban Life 2 by Ronaldo Byrd, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Through My Lens: Photography of National Parks (August 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63822 63822-15897053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Raymond Gaynor, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been practicing art photography for over 25 years. This exhibition of photographic works from 12 U.S. National Parks captures both iconic and unique landscape scenes. Gaynor chooses subjects that have a sense of solace and rejuvenation. One of his goals is to give the viewer an opportunity to imagine what it would be like to be the one looking through the camera lens while composing and capturing an image. He hopes to evoke emotions, memories, and a desire to witness firsthand the beauty of the National Parks. Recently he has been invited to participate in numerous juried art exhibitions, expanding his passion to pursue exhibiting throughout the Midwest.
Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:05:32 -0400 2019-08-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition First Impressions – Yosemite N.P. by Raymond Gaynor.
71st Annual Dahlia Show (August 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64744 64744-16442907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Open to the public, hosted at Washtenaw Community College.

Saturday August 24th and Sunday August 25th.

Presented by Michigan Dahlia Association (MDA).

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:21:25 -0400 2019-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 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 2019-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 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 2019-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (August 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (August 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 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 2019-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Ceal Floyer: Things (August 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Visitors entering Floyer’s installation Things (2009) in the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery encounter a collection of identical plinths that would ordinarily be used to display art objects in the Museum, but these platforms are empty. In place of visible objects, each plinth is equipped with a speaker from which we hear the word “thing” sung—edited out of and isolated from a range of pop songs. The result is an amusing and thoughtful exploration of language, meaning, and the conventions of museum presentation and spectatorship.

The installation, like much of Berlin-based artist Ceal Floyer’s art, is characteristically austere, but its visual simplicity masks a more complicated message—often a wry cerebral twist the artist creates through language-based symbols and aesthetic devices. Floyer’s work is rooted in conceptual art, in which the idea, delivered through words or acts that undercut or supersede formal qualities, is the essence of the artwork.

Lead support  for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan College of Engineering and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, Institute for the Humanities, CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:15:48 -0400 2019-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Things%252C%25202009%252C%2520KW%252C%25202009%252C%2520photo%2520Uwe%2520Walter02.jpg
Copies and Invention in East Asia (August 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (August 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
New at UMMA: Egon Schiele (August 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63428 63428-15694195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), one of the most well-known and controversial figures of Austrian Expressionism, made more than 3,000 works over the span of his short life and career. Working at the turn of the twentieth century, Schiele challenged the classical conventions of the day producing emotionally charged—often unsettling—drawings and watercolors depicting landscapes, portraits, and nudes. Two retired U-M professors recently gifted four works of art by Schiele to UMMA. Throughout their lifetimes, Frances McSparran (English language and literature) and the late Ernst Pulgram (Romance and classical linguistics) collected over forty Austrian and German Expressionist works, donating many of them to the Museum. The three watercolors and one drawing on view in this special installation complement the couple’s previous gifts of works by Schiele and his contemporaries Oskar Kokoschka, George Grosz, and Gustav Klimt, reuniting these important works that together provide important insights into this tumultuous period in European history.        

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Exhibition Mon, 20 May 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2018_2_1_representation_19141_original.jpg
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (August 25, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located in modern-day northern Sudan), involved pilgrimage and leaving informal marks on temples, pyramids, and other monumental structures. These graffiti are found in temples throughout the later (“Meroitic”) period of Kush, when it bordered Roman Egypt. They represent one of the few direct traces of the devotional practices of private people in Kush and hint at individuals’ thoughts, values, and daily lives. This exhibition explores the times and places in which Kushite graffiti were inscribed through photos, text, and interactive media presentations. At the heart of the show are the hundreds of Meroitic graffiti recently discovered in a rock-cut temple by the Kelsey expedition to El-Kurru in northern Sudan.

Curators: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis

View the online exhibition:
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:06:16 -0400 2019-08-25T13:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (August 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-08-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Gifts of Art presents Cacti, Pine Trees & Tumblers: How Nature Influences Design (August 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63817 63817-15896643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Glass Academy is a private, modern-day studio in Dearborn. Co-creators and founders Michelle Plucinsky and Chris Nordin share the love of glass art and traditional glass blowing methods with the community thru various art projects, installations and seasonal events. Formally trained at College for Creative Studies, Alfred University, Pilchuck, Penland and Haystack, Nordin and Plucinsky have over 60 years of combined glass experience. During the day, the hot shop team manufactures glass items designed by the founding artists to sell in the studio’s 4,000 sq. ft. gallery. In the special project area, the founding artists can be found working on large scale, site specific sculptures commissioned for hospitals, hotels and public corporations across the U.S.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:44:50 -0400 2019-08-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tumbler by the Glass Academy, photograph by Michelle Plucinsky.
Gifts of Art presents Clover Springs Crochet Dolls (August 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63815 63815-15896479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Kate Lebowsky enjoys creating fun and playful art that provokes smiles and laughter. As a native to Ann Arbor, she has spent over 30 years drawing inspiration from life experiences with the diversity in cultures offered in the area and beyond. Her crocheted dolls come to life through the inspiration of children’s daydreams, books, movies and music. She lets the creativity form itself with fiber. Creating plush toys allows her to share her compassion and smiles with others through huggable art.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:33:45 -0400 2019-08-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Ember by Kate Lebowsky, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Evidence of Urban Fairies: Multi Media (August 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63821 63821-15896972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Two U-M alums, Jonathan B. Wright, a life-long Ann Arborite, and his wife Kathleen Wright, have been finding evidence of fairies in their home since 1993. In 2005, fairy doors began to appear in downtown Ann Arbor and Jonathan began documenting them in earnest as a certified fairyologist. He studied graphic design, architecture and illustration, while Kathleen is a teacher of young children, a writer and professional storyteller. Together they discover the stories behind the fairy doors. Though Jonathan’s multi-media works require no shortage of labor, he says, "imagination is the key to the fairy doors."

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:01:07 -0400 2019-08-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Faux-Pumpkin-Head by Jonathan B. Wright, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Hide & Seek: Fiber Wall Quilts (August 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63819 63819-15896725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jeanne Bieri’s art practice begins with the simple act of hand sewing. This allows contemplation of the art making process and careful organization of the parts. As she assembles it piece by piece, the work grows in a way that closely relates to painting. Bieri received a grant from the State of Michigan in 2000 to study quilts and their patterns. She discovered that they often touch people on a personal level and encourage memories. Whether an army blanket or quilt, she delights to find a treasure that has a personal history that goes well beyond her and extends to the observer. Hide & Seek, Bieri’s current series of art quilts incorporating fabrics with history, encourages viewer interaction and reminiscence. She received a Kresge Fellowship for her fiber pieces in 2017.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:50:21 -0400 2019-08-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Thought Cloud – Mended Shirt Quilt by Jeanne Bieri, photograph by Eric Law.
Gifts of Art presents Honor & Comfort: Handmade Paper & Mixed Media (August 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63799 63799-15881945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each of Laurie LeBreton’s paper tapestries are a kind of meditation or prayer. Some works she created to reach out to a greater power, while others honor a particular person or joyful time. Her sculptural paper tapestries can be installed in a number of different ways, reflecting the impermanence of this world. LeBreton lives and works in Chicago and has been working with handmade paper for ten years. She enjoys its surprising properties: it is light and appears fragile, yet it is also pliable, absorbs color beautifully, and is very strong. LeBreton particularly loves papermaking because of the calm that comes from the repeating forms in the process, and she appreciates working with water for its beauty, sensuality and healing qualities.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 15:24:00 -0400 2019-08-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Homage to the Goddess by Stephen Desantis
Gifts of Art presents The Art of Leaves: Soft Pastel & Pencil (August 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63820 63820-15896808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born in Houston, Texas, one of the most colorful cities in the U.S., J. Howard recognizes that color is important in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, our homes, our cars, and even our pets. She points out that “there is a great deal more to color than what meets the eye.” Howard utilizes hyper-realism and enhanced depth of field to create highly detailed soft pastel drawings on canvas that are often mistaken for photographs. She uses the beauty and intense color of organic soft pastels to elicit emotional responses from viewers, recognizing and working with the inherent qualities of color. Also a practicing art therapist, Howard’s award-winning work has been recognized both nationally and internationally.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:55:42 -0400 2019-08-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Leaving an Impression by J. Howard, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents The Bold & the Beautiful: Acrylic Paintings (August 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63816 63816-15896561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ronaldo Byrd was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and now resides in Burlington, New Jersey with his mother and three younger siblings. Byrd's main medium is acrylic on foamboard, and his process involves observation of the world and the people in it. His paintings depict his ideal world and how its inhabitants should treat each other. Byrd is known as the Artist of Happiness and the overall theme of his paintings is love and acceptance. Byrd and his artwork represent a different way of seeing, and his hope is that the world can see beauty and acceptance through his eyes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:40:15 -0400 2019-08-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Urban Life 2 by Ronaldo Byrd, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Through My Lens: Photography of National Parks (August 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63822 63822-15897054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Raymond Gaynor, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been practicing art photography for over 25 years. This exhibition of photographic works from 12 U.S. National Parks captures both iconic and unique landscape scenes. Gaynor chooses subjects that have a sense of solace and rejuvenation. One of his goals is to give the viewer an opportunity to imagine what it would be like to be the one looking through the camera lens while composing and capturing an image. He hopes to evoke emotions, memories, and a desire to witness firsthand the beauty of the National Parks. Recently he has been invited to participate in numerous juried art exhibitions, expanding his passion to pursue exhibiting throughout the Midwest.
Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:05:32 -0400 2019-08-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition First Impressions – Yosemite N.P. by Raymond Gaynor.
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (August 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Refugees have been at the forefront of political discussion in the United States as the Syrian crisis escalates and xenophobia heightens. Much has been said regarding these refugees, but all too often the voices of refugees themselves are left out of the conversation.

This exhibit uses the data collected from a Photovoice project, combining photography and transcriptions from groups discussions with adolescent refugees to better understand the lived experiences of adolescent refugees. The gallery highlights five main themes that were discussed: Stability and Security, Interpersonal Difficulties, Rooting Factors, Personal Growth, and Contribution.

“I wish I could help out people… Imma give them everything. Because they are my people, I have to save my people.” -Alex

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:34:47 -0400 2019-08-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-08-26T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (August 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-08-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Gifts of Art presents Cacti, Pine Trees & Tumblers: How Nature Influences Design (August 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63817 63817-15896644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Glass Academy is a private, modern-day studio in Dearborn. Co-creators and founders Michelle Plucinsky and Chris Nordin share the love of glass art and traditional glass blowing methods with the community thru various art projects, installations and seasonal events. Formally trained at College for Creative Studies, Alfred University, Pilchuck, Penland and Haystack, Nordin and Plucinsky have over 60 years of combined glass experience. During the day, the hot shop team manufactures glass items designed by the founding artists to sell in the studio’s 4,000 sq. ft. gallery. In the special project area, the founding artists can be found working on large scale, site specific sculptures commissioned for hospitals, hotels and public corporations across the U.S.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:44:50 -0400 2019-08-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tumbler by the Glass Academy, photograph by Michelle Plucinsky.
Gifts of Art presents Clover Springs Crochet Dolls (August 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63815 63815-15896480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Kate Lebowsky enjoys creating fun and playful art that provokes smiles and laughter. As a native to Ann Arbor, she has spent over 30 years drawing inspiration from life experiences with the diversity in cultures offered in the area and beyond. Her crocheted dolls come to life through the inspiration of children’s daydreams, books, movies and music. She lets the creativity form itself with fiber. Creating plush toys allows her to share her compassion and smiles with others through huggable art.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:33:45 -0400 2019-08-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Ember by Kate Lebowsky, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Evidence of Urban Fairies: Multi Media (August 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63821 63821-15896973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Two U-M alums, Jonathan B. Wright, a life-long Ann Arborite, and his wife Kathleen Wright, have been finding evidence of fairies in their home since 1993. In 2005, fairy doors began to appear in downtown Ann Arbor and Jonathan began documenting them in earnest as a certified fairyologist. He studied graphic design, architecture and illustration, while Kathleen is a teacher of young children, a writer and professional storyteller. Together they discover the stories behind the fairy doors. Though Jonathan’s multi-media works require no shortage of labor, he says, "imagination is the key to the fairy doors."

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:01:07 -0400 2019-08-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Faux-Pumpkin-Head by Jonathan B. Wright, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Hide & Seek: Fiber Wall Quilts (August 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63819 63819-15896726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jeanne Bieri’s art practice begins with the simple act of hand sewing. This allows contemplation of the art making process and careful organization of the parts. As she assembles it piece by piece, the work grows in a way that closely relates to painting. Bieri received a grant from the State of Michigan in 2000 to study quilts and their patterns. She discovered that they often touch people on a personal level and encourage memories. Whether an army blanket or quilt, she delights to find a treasure that has a personal history that goes well beyond her and extends to the observer. Hide & Seek, Bieri’s current series of art quilts incorporating fabrics with history, encourages viewer interaction and reminiscence. She received a Kresge Fellowship for her fiber pieces in 2017.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:50:21 -0400 2019-08-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Thought Cloud – Mended Shirt Quilt by Jeanne Bieri, photograph by Eric Law.
Gifts of Art presents Honor & Comfort: Handmade Paper & Mixed Media (August 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63799 63799-15881946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each of Laurie LeBreton’s paper tapestries are a kind of meditation or prayer. Some works she created to reach out to a greater power, while others honor a particular person or joyful time. Her sculptural paper tapestries can be installed in a number of different ways, reflecting the impermanence of this world. LeBreton lives and works in Chicago and has been working with handmade paper for ten years. She enjoys its surprising properties: it is light and appears fragile, yet it is also pliable, absorbs color beautifully, and is very strong. LeBreton particularly loves papermaking because of the calm that comes from the repeating forms in the process, and she appreciates working with water for its beauty, sensuality and healing qualities.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 15:24:00 -0400 2019-08-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Homage to the Goddess by Stephen Desantis
Gifts of Art presents The Art of Leaves: Soft Pastel & Pencil (August 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63820 63820-15896809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born in Houston, Texas, one of the most colorful cities in the U.S., J. Howard recognizes that color is important in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, our homes, our cars, and even our pets. She points out that “there is a great deal more to color than what meets the eye.” Howard utilizes hyper-realism and enhanced depth of field to create highly detailed soft pastel drawings on canvas that are often mistaken for photographs. She uses the beauty and intense color of organic soft pastels to elicit emotional responses from viewers, recognizing and working with the inherent qualities of color. Also a practicing art therapist, Howard’s award-winning work has been recognized both nationally and internationally.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:55:42 -0400 2019-08-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Leaving an Impression by J. Howard, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents The Bold & the Beautiful: Acrylic Paintings (August 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63816 63816-15896562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ronaldo Byrd was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and now resides in Burlington, New Jersey with his mother and three younger siblings. Byrd's main medium is acrylic on foamboard, and his process involves observation of the world and the people in it. His paintings depict his ideal world and how its inhabitants should treat each other. Byrd is known as the Artist of Happiness and the overall theme of his paintings is love and acceptance. Byrd and his artwork represent a different way of seeing, and his hope is that the world can see beauty and acceptance through his eyes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:40:15 -0400 2019-08-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Urban Life 2 by Ronaldo Byrd, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Through My Lens: Photography of National Parks (August 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63822 63822-15897055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Raymond Gaynor, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been practicing art photography for over 25 years. This exhibition of photographic works from 12 U.S. National Parks captures both iconic and unique landscape scenes. Gaynor chooses subjects that have a sense of solace and rejuvenation. One of his goals is to give the viewer an opportunity to imagine what it would be like to be the one looking through the camera lens while composing and capturing an image. He hopes to evoke emotions, memories, and a desire to witness firsthand the beauty of the National Parks. Recently he has been invited to participate in numerous juried art exhibitions, expanding his passion to pursue exhibiting throughout the Midwest.
Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:05:32 -0400 2019-08-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition First Impressions – Yosemite N.P. by Raymond Gaynor.
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (August 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located in modern-day northern Sudan), involved pilgrimage and leaving informal marks on temples, pyramids, and other monumental structures. These graffiti are found in temples throughout the later (“Meroitic”) period of Kush, when it bordered Roman Egypt. They represent one of the few direct traces of the devotional practices of private people in Kush and hint at individuals’ thoughts, values, and daily lives. This exhibition explores the times and places in which Kushite graffiti were inscribed through photos, text, and interactive media presentations. At the heart of the show are the hundreds of Meroitic graffiti recently discovered in a rock-cut temple by the Kelsey expedition to El-Kurru in northern Sudan.

Curators: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis

View the online exhibition:
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:06:16 -0400 2019-08-27T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (August 27, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Refugees have been at the forefront of political discussion in the United States as the Syrian crisis escalates and xenophobia heightens. Much has been said regarding these refugees, but all too often the voices of refugees themselves are left out of the conversation.

This exhibit uses the data collected from a Photovoice project, combining photography and transcriptions from groups discussions with adolescent refugees to better understand the lived experiences of adolescent refugees. The gallery highlights five main themes that were discussed: Stability and Security, Interpersonal Difficulties, Rooting Factors, Personal Growth, and Contribution.

“I wish I could help out people… Imma give them everything. Because they are my people, I have to save my people.” -Alex

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:34:47 -0400 2019-08-27T10:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2019-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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 2019-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (August 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (August 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 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 2019-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Ceal Floyer: Things (August 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Visitors entering Floyer’s installation Things (2009) in the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery encounter a collection of identical plinths that would ordinarily be used to display art objects in the Museum, but these platforms are empty. In place of visible objects, each plinth is equipped with a speaker from which we hear the word “thing” sung—edited out of and isolated from a range of pop songs. The result is an amusing and thoughtful exploration of language, meaning, and the conventions of museum presentation and spectatorship.

The installation, like much of Berlin-based artist Ceal Floyer’s art, is characteristically austere, but its visual simplicity masks a more complicated message—often a wry cerebral twist the artist creates through language-based symbols and aesthetic devices. Floyer’s work is rooted in conceptual art, in which the idea, delivered through words or acts that undercut or supersede formal qualities, is the essence of the artwork.

Lead support  for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan College of Engineering and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, Institute for the Humanities, CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:15:48 -0400 2019-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Things%252C%25202009%252C%2520KW%252C%25202009%252C%2520photo%2520Uwe%2520Walter02.jpg
Copies and Invention in East Asia (August 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (August 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
New at UMMA: Egon Schiele (August 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63428 63428-15694196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), one of the most well-known and controversial figures of Austrian Expressionism, made more than 3,000 works over the span of his short life and career. Working at the turn of the twentieth century, Schiele challenged the classical conventions of the day producing emotionally charged—often unsettling—drawings and watercolors depicting landscapes, portraits, and nudes. Two retired U-M professors recently gifted four works of art by Schiele to UMMA. Throughout their lifetimes, Frances McSparran (English language and literature) and the late Ernst Pulgram (Romance and classical linguistics) collected over forty Austrian and German Expressionist works, donating many of them to the Museum. The three watercolors and one drawing on view in this special installation complement the couple’s previous gifts of works by Schiele and his contemporaries Oskar Kokoschka, George Grosz, and Gustav Klimt, reuniting these important works that together provide important insights into this tumultuous period in European history.        

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Exhibition Mon, 20 May 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2018_2_1_representation_19141_original.jpg
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (August 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-08-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Gifts of Art presents Cacti, Pine Trees & Tumblers: How Nature Influences Design (August 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63817 63817-15896645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Glass Academy is a private, modern-day studio in Dearborn. Co-creators and founders Michelle Plucinsky and Chris Nordin share the love of glass art and traditional glass blowing methods with the community thru various art projects, installations and seasonal events. Formally trained at College for Creative Studies, Alfred University, Pilchuck, Penland and Haystack, Nordin and Plucinsky have over 60 years of combined glass experience. During the day, the hot shop team manufactures glass items designed by the founding artists to sell in the studio’s 4,000 sq. ft. gallery. In the special project area, the founding artists can be found working on large scale, site specific sculptures commissioned for hospitals, hotels and public corporations across the U.S.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:44:50 -0400 2019-08-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tumbler by the Glass Academy, photograph by Michelle Plucinsky.
Gifts of Art presents Clover Springs Crochet Dolls (August 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63815 63815-15896481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Kate Lebowsky enjoys creating fun and playful art that provokes smiles and laughter. As a native to Ann Arbor, she has spent over 30 years drawing inspiration from life experiences with the diversity in cultures offered in the area and beyond. Her crocheted dolls come to life through the inspiration of children’s daydreams, books, movies and music. She lets the creativity form itself with fiber. Creating plush toys allows her to share her compassion and smiles with others through huggable art.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:33:45 -0400 2019-08-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Ember by Kate Lebowsky, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Evidence of Urban Fairies: Multi Media (August 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63821 63821-15896974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Two U-M alums, Jonathan B. Wright, a life-long Ann Arborite, and his wife Kathleen Wright, have been finding evidence of fairies in their home since 1993. In 2005, fairy doors began to appear in downtown Ann Arbor and Jonathan began documenting them in earnest as a certified fairyologist. He studied graphic design, architecture and illustration, while Kathleen is a teacher of young children, a writer and professional storyteller. Together they discover the stories behind the fairy doors. Though Jonathan’s multi-media works require no shortage of labor, he says, "imagination is the key to the fairy doors."

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:01:07 -0400 2019-08-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Faux-Pumpkin-Head by Jonathan B. Wright, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Hide & Seek: Fiber Wall Quilts (August 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63819 63819-15896727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jeanne Bieri’s art practice begins with the simple act of hand sewing. This allows contemplation of the art making process and careful organization of the parts. As she assembles it piece by piece, the work grows in a way that closely relates to painting. Bieri received a grant from the State of Michigan in 2000 to study quilts and their patterns. She discovered that they often touch people on a personal level and encourage memories. Whether an army blanket or quilt, she delights to find a treasure that has a personal history that goes well beyond her and extends to the observer. Hide & Seek, Bieri’s current series of art quilts incorporating fabrics with history, encourages viewer interaction and reminiscence. She received a Kresge Fellowship for her fiber pieces in 2017.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:50:21 -0400 2019-08-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Thought Cloud – Mended Shirt Quilt by Jeanne Bieri, photograph by Eric Law.
Gifts of Art presents Honor & Comfort: Handmade Paper & Mixed Media (August 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63799 63799-15881947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each of Laurie LeBreton’s paper tapestries are a kind of meditation or prayer. Some works she created to reach out to a greater power, while others honor a particular person or joyful time. Her sculptural paper tapestries can be installed in a number of different ways, reflecting the impermanence of this world. LeBreton lives and works in Chicago and has been working with handmade paper for ten years. She enjoys its surprising properties: it is light and appears fragile, yet it is also pliable, absorbs color beautifully, and is very strong. LeBreton particularly loves papermaking because of the calm that comes from the repeating forms in the process, and she appreciates working with water for its beauty, sensuality and healing qualities.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 15:24:00 -0400 2019-08-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Homage to the Goddess by Stephen Desantis
Gifts of Art presents The Art of Leaves: Soft Pastel & Pencil (August 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63820 63820-15896810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born in Houston, Texas, one of the most colorful cities in the U.S., J. Howard recognizes that color is important in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, our homes, our cars, and even our pets. She points out that “there is a great deal more to color than what meets the eye.” Howard utilizes hyper-realism and enhanced depth of field to create highly detailed soft pastel drawings on canvas that are often mistaken for photographs. She uses the beauty and intense color of organic soft pastels to elicit emotional responses from viewers, recognizing and working with the inherent qualities of color. Also a practicing art therapist, Howard’s award-winning work has been recognized both nationally and internationally.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:55:42 -0400 2019-08-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Leaving an Impression by J. Howard, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents The Bold & the Beautiful: Acrylic Paintings (August 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63816 63816-15896563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ronaldo Byrd was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and now resides in Burlington, New Jersey with his mother and three younger siblings. Byrd's main medium is acrylic on foamboard, and his process involves observation of the world and the people in it. His paintings depict his ideal world and how its inhabitants should treat each other. Byrd is known as the Artist of Happiness and the overall theme of his paintings is love and acceptance. Byrd and his artwork represent a different way of seeing, and his hope is that the world can see beauty and acceptance through his eyes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:40:15 -0400 2019-08-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Urban Life 2 by Ronaldo Byrd, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Through My Lens: Photography of National Parks (August 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63822 63822-15897056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Raymond Gaynor, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been practicing art photography for over 25 years. This exhibition of photographic works from 12 U.S. National Parks captures both iconic and unique landscape scenes. Gaynor chooses subjects that have a sense of solace and rejuvenation. One of his goals is to give the viewer an opportunity to imagine what it would be like to be the one looking through the camera lens while composing and capturing an image. He hopes to evoke emotions, memories, and a desire to witness firsthand the beauty of the National Parks. Recently he has been invited to participate in numerous juried art exhibitions, expanding his passion to pursue exhibiting throughout the Midwest.
Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:05:32 -0400 2019-08-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition First Impressions – Yosemite N.P. by Raymond Gaynor.
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (August 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located in modern-day northern Sudan), involved pilgrimage and leaving informal marks on temples, pyramids, and other monumental structures. These graffiti are found in temples throughout the later (“Meroitic”) period of Kush, when it bordered Roman Egypt. They represent one of the few direct traces of the devotional practices of private people in Kush and hint at individuals’ thoughts, values, and daily lives. This exhibition explores the times and places in which Kushite graffiti were inscribed through photos, text, and interactive media presentations. At the heart of the show are the hundreds of Meroitic graffiti recently discovered in a rock-cut temple by the Kelsey expedition to El-Kurru in northern Sudan.

Curators: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis

View the online exhibition:
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:06:16 -0400 2019-08-28T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (August 28, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Refugees have been at the forefront of political discussion in the United States as the Syrian crisis escalates and xenophobia heightens. Much has been said regarding these refugees, but all too often the voices of refugees themselves are left out of the conversation.

This exhibit uses the data collected from a Photovoice project, combining photography and transcriptions from groups discussions with adolescent refugees to better understand the lived experiences of adolescent refugees. The gallery highlights five main themes that were discussed: Stability and Security, Interpersonal Difficulties, Rooting Factors, Personal Growth, and Contribution.

“I wish I could help out people… Imma give them everything. Because they are my people, I have to save my people.” -Alex

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:34:47 -0400 2019-08-28T10:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 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
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 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 2019-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (August 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (August 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 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 2019-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Ceal Floyer: Things (August 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Visitors entering Floyer’s installation Things (2009) in the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery encounter a collection of identical plinths that would ordinarily be used to display art objects in the Museum, but these platforms are empty. In place of visible objects, each plinth is equipped with a speaker from which we hear the word “thing” sung—edited out of and isolated from a range of pop songs. The result is an amusing and thoughtful exploration of language, meaning, and the conventions of museum presentation and spectatorship.

The installation, like much of Berlin-based artist Ceal Floyer’s art, is characteristically austere, but its visual simplicity masks a more complicated message—often a wry cerebral twist the artist creates through language-based symbols and aesthetic devices. Floyer’s work is rooted in conceptual art, in which the idea, delivered through words or acts that undercut or supersede formal qualities, is the essence of the artwork.

Lead support  for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan College of Engineering and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, Institute for the Humanities, CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:15:48 -0400 2019-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Things%252C%25202009%252C%2520KW%252C%25202009%252C%2520photo%2520Uwe%2520Walter02.jpg
Copies and Invention in East Asia (August 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (August 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
New at UMMA: Egon Schiele (August 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63428 63428-15694197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), one of the most well-known and controversial figures of Austrian Expressionism, made more than 3,000 works over the span of his short life and career. Working at the turn of the twentieth century, Schiele challenged the classical conventions of the day producing emotionally charged—often unsettling—drawings and watercolors depicting landscapes, portraits, and nudes. Two retired U-M professors recently gifted four works of art by Schiele to UMMA. Throughout their lifetimes, Frances McSparran (English language and literature) and the late Ernst Pulgram (Romance and classical linguistics) collected over forty Austrian and German Expressionist works, donating many of them to the Museum. The three watercolors and one drawing on view in this special installation complement the couple’s previous gifts of works by Schiele and his contemporaries Oskar Kokoschka, George Grosz, and Gustav Klimt, reuniting these important works that together provide important insights into this tumultuous period in European history.        

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Exhibition Mon, 20 May 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2018_2_1_representation_19141_original.jpg
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (August 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-08-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Gifts of Art presents Cacti, Pine Trees & Tumblers: How Nature Influences Design (August 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63817 63817-15896646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Glass Academy is a private, modern-day studio in Dearborn. Co-creators and founders Michelle Plucinsky and Chris Nordin share the love of glass art and traditional glass blowing methods with the community thru various art projects, installations and seasonal events. Formally trained at College for Creative Studies, Alfred University, Pilchuck, Penland and Haystack, Nordin and Plucinsky have over 60 years of combined glass experience. During the day, the hot shop team manufactures glass items designed by the founding artists to sell in the studio’s 4,000 sq. ft. gallery. In the special project area, the founding artists can be found working on large scale, site specific sculptures commissioned for hospitals, hotels and public corporations across the U.S.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:44:50 -0400 2019-08-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tumbler by the Glass Academy, photograph by Michelle Plucinsky.
Gifts of Art presents Clover Springs Crochet Dolls (August 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63815 63815-15896482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Kate Lebowsky enjoys creating fun and playful art that provokes smiles and laughter. As a native to Ann Arbor, she has spent over 30 years drawing inspiration from life experiences with the diversity in cultures offered in the area and beyond. Her crocheted dolls come to life through the inspiration of children’s daydreams, books, movies and music. She lets the creativity form itself with fiber. Creating plush toys allows her to share her compassion and smiles with others through huggable art.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:33:45 -0400 2019-08-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Ember by Kate Lebowsky, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Evidence of Urban Fairies: Multi Media (August 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63821 63821-15896975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Two U-M alums, Jonathan B. Wright, a life-long Ann Arborite, and his wife Kathleen Wright, have been finding evidence of fairies in their home since 1993. In 2005, fairy doors began to appear in downtown Ann Arbor and Jonathan began documenting them in earnest as a certified fairyologist. He studied graphic design, architecture and illustration, while Kathleen is a teacher of young children, a writer and professional storyteller. Together they discover the stories behind the fairy doors. Though Jonathan’s multi-media works require no shortage of labor, he says, "imagination is the key to the fairy doors."

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:01:07 -0400 2019-08-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Faux-Pumpkin-Head by Jonathan B. Wright, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Hide & Seek: Fiber Wall Quilts (August 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63819 63819-15896728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jeanne Bieri’s art practice begins with the simple act of hand sewing. This allows contemplation of the art making process and careful organization of the parts. As she assembles it piece by piece, the work grows in a way that closely relates to painting. Bieri received a grant from the State of Michigan in 2000 to study quilts and their patterns. She discovered that they often touch people on a personal level and encourage memories. Whether an army blanket or quilt, she delights to find a treasure that has a personal history that goes well beyond her and extends to the observer. Hide & Seek, Bieri’s current series of art quilts incorporating fabrics with history, encourages viewer interaction and reminiscence. She received a Kresge Fellowship for her fiber pieces in 2017.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:50:21 -0400 2019-08-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Thought Cloud – Mended Shirt Quilt by Jeanne Bieri, photograph by Eric Law.
Gifts of Art presents Honor & Comfort: Handmade Paper & Mixed Media (August 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63799 63799-15881948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each of Laurie LeBreton’s paper tapestries are a kind of meditation or prayer. Some works she created to reach out to a greater power, while others honor a particular person or joyful time. Her sculptural paper tapestries can be installed in a number of different ways, reflecting the impermanence of this world. LeBreton lives and works in Chicago and has been working with handmade paper for ten years. She enjoys its surprising properties: it is light and appears fragile, yet it is also pliable, absorbs color beautifully, and is very strong. LeBreton particularly loves papermaking because of the calm that comes from the repeating forms in the process, and she appreciates working with water for its beauty, sensuality and healing qualities.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 15:24:00 -0400 2019-08-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Homage to the Goddess by Stephen Desantis
Gifts of Art presents The Art of Leaves: Soft Pastel & Pencil (August 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63820 63820-15896811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born in Houston, Texas, one of the most colorful cities in the U.S., J. Howard recognizes that color is important in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, our homes, our cars, and even our pets. She points out that “there is a great deal more to color than what meets the eye.” Howard utilizes hyper-realism and enhanced depth of field to create highly detailed soft pastel drawings on canvas that are often mistaken for photographs. She uses the beauty and intense color of organic soft pastels to elicit emotional responses from viewers, recognizing and working with the inherent qualities of color. Also a practicing art therapist, Howard’s award-winning work has been recognized both nationally and internationally.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:55:42 -0400 2019-08-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Leaving an Impression by J. Howard, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents The Bold & the Beautiful: Acrylic Paintings (August 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63816 63816-15896564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ronaldo Byrd was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and now resides in Burlington, New Jersey with his mother and three younger siblings. Byrd's main medium is acrylic on foamboard, and his process involves observation of the world and the people in it. His paintings depict his ideal world and how its inhabitants should treat each other. Byrd is known as the Artist of Happiness and the overall theme of his paintings is love and acceptance. Byrd and his artwork represent a different way of seeing, and his hope is that the world can see beauty and acceptance through his eyes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:40:15 -0400 2019-08-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Urban Life 2 by Ronaldo Byrd, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Through My Lens: Photography of National Parks (August 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63822 63822-15897057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Raymond Gaynor, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been practicing art photography for over 25 years. This exhibition of photographic works from 12 U.S. National Parks captures both iconic and unique landscape scenes. Gaynor chooses subjects that have a sense of solace and rejuvenation. One of his goals is to give the viewer an opportunity to imagine what it would be like to be the one looking through the camera lens while composing and capturing an image. He hopes to evoke emotions, memories, and a desire to witness firsthand the beauty of the National Parks. Recently he has been invited to participate in numerous juried art exhibitions, expanding his passion to pursue exhibiting throughout the Midwest.
Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:05:32 -0400 2019-08-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition First Impressions – Yosemite N.P. by Raymond Gaynor.
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (August 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located in modern-day northern Sudan), involved pilgrimage and leaving informal marks on temples, pyramids, and other monumental structures. These graffiti are found in temples throughout the later (“Meroitic”) period of Kush, when it bordered Roman Egypt. They represent one of the few direct traces of the devotional practices of private people in Kush and hint at individuals’ thoughts, values, and daily lives. This exhibition explores the times and places in which Kushite graffiti were inscribed through photos, text, and interactive media presentations. At the heart of the show are the hundreds of Meroitic graffiti recently discovered in a rock-cut temple by the Kelsey expedition to El-Kurru in northern Sudan.

Curators: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis

View the online exhibition:
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:06:16 -0400 2019-08-29T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (August 29, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Refugees have been at the forefront of political discussion in the United States as the Syrian crisis escalates and xenophobia heightens. Much has been said regarding these refugees, but all too often the voices of refugees themselves are left out of the conversation.

This exhibit uses the data collected from a Photovoice project, combining photography and transcriptions from groups discussions with adolescent refugees to better understand the lived experiences of adolescent refugees. The gallery highlights five main themes that were discussed: Stability and Security, Interpersonal Difficulties, Rooting Factors, Personal Growth, and Contribution.

“I wish I could help out people… Imma give them everything. Because they are my people, I have to save my people.” -Alex

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:34:47 -0400 2019-08-29T10:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 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 2019-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 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 2019-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (August 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (August 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 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 2019-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Ceal Floyer: Things (August 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Visitors entering Floyer’s installation Things (2009) in the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery encounter a collection of identical plinths that would ordinarily be used to display art objects in the Museum, but these platforms are empty. In place of visible objects, each plinth is equipped with a speaker from which we hear the word “thing” sung—edited out of and isolated from a range of pop songs. The result is an amusing and thoughtful exploration of language, meaning, and the conventions of museum presentation and spectatorship.

The installation, like much of Berlin-based artist Ceal Floyer’s art, is characteristically austere, but its visual simplicity masks a more complicated message—often a wry cerebral twist the artist creates through language-based symbols and aesthetic devices. Floyer’s work is rooted in conceptual art, in which the idea, delivered through words or acts that undercut or supersede formal qualities, is the essence of the artwork.

Lead support  for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan College of Engineering and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, Institute for the Humanities, CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:15:48 -0400 2019-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Things%252C%25202009%252C%2520KW%252C%25202009%252C%2520photo%2520Uwe%2520Walter02.jpg
Copies and Invention in East Asia (August 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (August 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
New at UMMA: Egon Schiele (August 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63428 63428-15694198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), one of the most well-known and controversial figures of Austrian Expressionism, made more than 3,000 works over the span of his short life and career. Working at the turn of the twentieth century, Schiele challenged the classical conventions of the day producing emotionally charged—often unsettling—drawings and watercolors depicting landscapes, portraits, and nudes. Two retired U-M professors recently gifted four works of art by Schiele to UMMA. Throughout their lifetimes, Frances McSparran (English language and literature) and the late Ernst Pulgram (Romance and classical linguistics) collected over forty Austrian and German Expressionist works, donating many of them to the Museum. The three watercolors and one drawing on view in this special installation complement the couple’s previous gifts of works by Schiele and his contemporaries Oskar Kokoschka, George Grosz, and Gustav Klimt, reuniting these important works that together provide important insights into this tumultuous period in European history.        

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Exhibition Mon, 20 May 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2018_2_1_representation_19141_original.jpg
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (August 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-08-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Gifts of Art presents Cacti, Pine Trees & Tumblers: How Nature Influences Design (August 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63817 63817-15896647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Glass Academy is a private, modern-day studio in Dearborn. Co-creators and founders Michelle Plucinsky and Chris Nordin share the love of glass art and traditional glass blowing methods with the community thru various art projects, installations and seasonal events. Formally trained at College for Creative Studies, Alfred University, Pilchuck, Penland and Haystack, Nordin and Plucinsky have over 60 years of combined glass experience. During the day, the hot shop team manufactures glass items designed by the founding artists to sell in the studio’s 4,000 sq. ft. gallery. In the special project area, the founding artists can be found working on large scale, site specific sculptures commissioned for hospitals, hotels and public corporations across the U.S.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:44:50 -0400 2019-08-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tumbler by the Glass Academy, photograph by Michelle Plucinsky.
Gifts of Art presents Clover Springs Crochet Dolls (August 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63815 63815-15896483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Kate Lebowsky enjoys creating fun and playful art that provokes smiles and laughter. As a native to Ann Arbor, she has spent over 30 years drawing inspiration from life experiences with the diversity in cultures offered in the area and beyond. Her crocheted dolls come to life through the inspiration of children’s daydreams, books, movies and music. She lets the creativity form itself with fiber. Creating plush toys allows her to share her compassion and smiles with others through huggable art.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:33:45 -0400 2019-08-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Ember by Kate Lebowsky, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Evidence of Urban Fairies: Multi Media (August 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63821 63821-15896976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Two U-M alums, Jonathan B. Wright, a life-long Ann Arborite, and his wife Kathleen Wright, have been finding evidence of fairies in their home since 1993. In 2005, fairy doors began to appear in downtown Ann Arbor and Jonathan began documenting them in earnest as a certified fairyologist. He studied graphic design, architecture and illustration, while Kathleen is a teacher of young children, a writer and professional storyteller. Together they discover the stories behind the fairy doors. Though Jonathan’s multi-media works require no shortage of labor, he says, "imagination is the key to the fairy doors."

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:01:07 -0400 2019-08-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Faux-Pumpkin-Head by Jonathan B. Wright, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Hide & Seek: Fiber Wall Quilts (August 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63819 63819-15896729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jeanne Bieri’s art practice begins with the simple act of hand sewing. This allows contemplation of the art making process and careful organization of the parts. As she assembles it piece by piece, the work grows in a way that closely relates to painting. Bieri received a grant from the State of Michigan in 2000 to study quilts and their patterns. She discovered that they often touch people on a personal level and encourage memories. Whether an army blanket or quilt, she delights to find a treasure that has a personal history that goes well beyond her and extends to the observer. Hide & Seek, Bieri’s current series of art quilts incorporating fabrics with history, encourages viewer interaction and reminiscence. She received a Kresge Fellowship for her fiber pieces in 2017.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:50:21 -0400 2019-08-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Thought Cloud – Mended Shirt Quilt by Jeanne Bieri, photograph by Eric Law.
Gifts of Art presents Honor & Comfort: Handmade Paper & Mixed Media (August 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63799 63799-15881949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each of Laurie LeBreton’s paper tapestries are a kind of meditation or prayer. Some works she created to reach out to a greater power, while others honor a particular person or joyful time. Her sculptural paper tapestries can be installed in a number of different ways, reflecting the impermanence of this world. LeBreton lives and works in Chicago and has been working with handmade paper for ten years. She enjoys its surprising properties: it is light and appears fragile, yet it is also pliable, absorbs color beautifully, and is very strong. LeBreton particularly loves papermaking because of the calm that comes from the repeating forms in the process, and she appreciates working with water for its beauty, sensuality and healing qualities.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 15:24:00 -0400 2019-08-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Homage to the Goddess by Stephen Desantis
Gifts of Art presents The Art of Leaves: Soft Pastel & Pencil (August 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63820 63820-15896812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born in Houston, Texas, one of the most colorful cities in the U.S., J. Howard recognizes that color is important in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, our homes, our cars, and even our pets. She points out that “there is a great deal more to color than what meets the eye.” Howard utilizes hyper-realism and enhanced depth of field to create highly detailed soft pastel drawings on canvas that are often mistaken for photographs. She uses the beauty and intense color of organic soft pastels to elicit emotional responses from viewers, recognizing and working with the inherent qualities of color. Also a practicing art therapist, Howard’s award-winning work has been recognized both nationally and internationally.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:55:42 -0400 2019-08-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Leaving an Impression by J. Howard, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents The Bold & the Beautiful: Acrylic Paintings (August 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63816 63816-15896565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ronaldo Byrd was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and now resides in Burlington, New Jersey with his mother and three younger siblings. Byrd's main medium is acrylic on foamboard, and his process involves observation of the world and the people in it. His paintings depict his ideal world and how its inhabitants should treat each other. Byrd is known as the Artist of Happiness and the overall theme of his paintings is love and acceptance. Byrd and his artwork represent a different way of seeing, and his hope is that the world can see beauty and acceptance through his eyes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:40:15 -0400 2019-08-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Urban Life 2 by Ronaldo Byrd, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Through My Lens: Photography of National Parks (August 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63822 63822-15897058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Raymond Gaynor, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been practicing art photography for over 25 years. This exhibition of photographic works from 12 U.S. National Parks captures both iconic and unique landscape scenes. Gaynor chooses subjects that have a sense of solace and rejuvenation. One of his goals is to give the viewer an opportunity to imagine what it would be like to be the one looking through the camera lens while composing and capturing an image. He hopes to evoke emotions, memories, and a desire to witness firsthand the beauty of the National Parks. Recently he has been invited to participate in numerous juried art exhibitions, expanding his passion to pursue exhibiting throughout the Midwest.
Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:05:32 -0400 2019-08-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition First Impressions – Yosemite N.P. by Raymond Gaynor.
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (August 30, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located in modern-day northern Sudan), involved pilgrimage and leaving informal marks on temples, pyramids, and other monumental structures. These graffiti are found in temples throughout the later (“Meroitic”) period of Kush, when it bordered Roman Egypt. They represent one of the few direct traces of the devotional practices of private people in Kush and hint at individuals’ thoughts, values, and daily lives. This exhibition explores the times and places in which Kushite graffiti were inscribed through photos, text, and interactive media presentations. At the heart of the show are the hundreds of Meroitic graffiti recently discovered in a rock-cut temple by the Kelsey expedition to El-Kurru in northern Sudan.

Curators: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis

View the online exhibition:
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:06:16 -0400 2019-08-30T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (August 30, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Refugees have been at the forefront of political discussion in the United States as the Syrian crisis escalates and xenophobia heightens. Much has been said regarding these refugees, but all too often the voices of refugees themselves are left out of the conversation.

This exhibit uses the data collected from a Photovoice project, combining photography and transcriptions from groups discussions with adolescent refugees to better understand the lived experiences of adolescent refugees. The gallery highlights five main themes that were discussed: Stability and Security, Interpersonal Difficulties, Rooting Factors, Personal Growth, and Contribution.

“I wish I could help out people… Imma give them everything. Because they are my people, I have to save my people.” -Alex

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:34:47 -0400 2019-08-30T10:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Things I Like Most About the Clements Library (August 30, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63371 63371-15661314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 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 2019-08-30T10:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Niagara River ca.1807
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 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 2019-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 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 (August 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 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 2019-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (August 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (August 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 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 2019-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Ceal Floyer: Things (August 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Visitors entering Floyer’s installation Things (2009) in the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery encounter a collection of identical plinths that would ordinarily be used to display art objects in the Museum, but these platforms are empty. In place of visible objects, each plinth is equipped with a speaker from which we hear the word “thing” sung—edited out of and isolated from a range of pop songs. The result is an amusing and thoughtful exploration of language, meaning, and the conventions of museum presentation and spectatorship.

The installation, like much of Berlin-based artist Ceal Floyer’s art, is characteristically austere, but its visual simplicity masks a more complicated message—often a wry cerebral twist the artist creates through language-based symbols and aesthetic devices. Floyer’s work is rooted in conceptual art, in which the idea, delivered through words or acts that undercut or supersede formal qualities, is the essence of the artwork.

Lead support  for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan College of Engineering and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, Institute for the Humanities, CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:15:48 -0400 2019-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Things%252C%25202009%252C%2520KW%252C%25202009%252C%2520photo%2520Uwe%2520Walter02.jpg
Copies and Invention in East Asia (August 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (August 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
New at UMMA: Egon Schiele (August 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63428 63428-15694199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), one of the most well-known and controversial figures of Austrian Expressionism, made more than 3,000 works over the span of his short life and career. Working at the turn of the twentieth century, Schiele challenged the classical conventions of the day producing emotionally charged—often unsettling—drawings and watercolors depicting landscapes, portraits, and nudes. Two retired U-M professors recently gifted four works of art by Schiele to UMMA. Throughout their lifetimes, Frances McSparran (English language and literature) and the late Ernst Pulgram (Romance and classical linguistics) collected over forty Austrian and German Expressionist works, donating many of them to the Museum. The three watercolors and one drawing on view in this special installation complement the couple’s previous gifts of works by Schiele and his contemporaries Oskar Kokoschka, George Grosz, and Gustav Klimt, reuniting these important works that together provide important insights into this tumultuous period in European history.        

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Exhibition Mon, 20 May 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2018_2_1_representation_19141_original.jpg
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (August 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-08-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Gifts of Art presents Cacti, Pine Trees & Tumblers: How Nature Influences Design (August 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63817 63817-15896648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Glass Academy is a private, modern-day studio in Dearborn. Co-creators and founders Michelle Plucinsky and Chris Nordin share the love of glass art and traditional glass blowing methods with the community thru various art projects, installations and seasonal events. Formally trained at College for Creative Studies, Alfred University, Pilchuck, Penland and Haystack, Nordin and Plucinsky have over 60 years of combined glass experience. During the day, the hot shop team manufactures glass items designed by the founding artists to sell in the studio’s 4,000 sq. ft. gallery. In the special project area, the founding artists can be found working on large scale, site specific sculptures commissioned for hospitals, hotels and public corporations across the U.S.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:44:50 -0400 2019-08-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Tumbler by the Glass Academy, photograph by Michelle Plucinsky.
Gifts of Art presents Clover Springs Crochet Dolls (August 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63815 63815-15896484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Kate Lebowsky enjoys creating fun and playful art that provokes smiles and laughter. As a native to Ann Arbor, she has spent over 30 years drawing inspiration from life experiences with the diversity in cultures offered in the area and beyond. Her crocheted dolls come to life through the inspiration of children’s daydreams, books, movies and music. She lets the creativity form itself with fiber. Creating plush toys allows her to share her compassion and smiles with others through huggable art.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:33:45 -0400 2019-08-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Ember by Kate Lebowsky, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Evidence of Urban Fairies: Multi Media (August 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63821 63821-15896977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Two U-M alums, Jonathan B. Wright, a life-long Ann Arborite, and his wife Kathleen Wright, have been finding evidence of fairies in their home since 1993. In 2005, fairy doors began to appear in downtown Ann Arbor and Jonathan began documenting them in earnest as a certified fairyologist. He studied graphic design, architecture and illustration, while Kathleen is a teacher of young children, a writer and professional storyteller. Together they discover the stories behind the fairy doors. Though Jonathan’s multi-media works require no shortage of labor, he says, "imagination is the key to the fairy doors."

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:01:07 -0400 2019-08-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Faux-Pumpkin-Head by Jonathan B. Wright, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Hide & Seek: Fiber Wall Quilts (August 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63819 63819-15896730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jeanne Bieri’s art practice begins with the simple act of hand sewing. This allows contemplation of the art making process and careful organization of the parts. As she assembles it piece by piece, the work grows in a way that closely relates to painting. Bieri received a grant from the State of Michigan in 2000 to study quilts and their patterns. She discovered that they often touch people on a personal level and encourage memories. Whether an army blanket or quilt, she delights to find a treasure that has a personal history that goes well beyond her and extends to the observer. Hide & Seek, Bieri’s current series of art quilts incorporating fabrics with history, encourages viewer interaction and reminiscence. She received a Kresge Fellowship for her fiber pieces in 2017.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:50:21 -0400 2019-08-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Thought Cloud – Mended Shirt Quilt by Jeanne Bieri, photograph by Eric Law.
Gifts of Art presents Honor & Comfort: Handmade Paper & Mixed Media (August 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63799 63799-15881950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each of Laurie LeBreton’s paper tapestries are a kind of meditation or prayer. Some works she created to reach out to a greater power, while others honor a particular person or joyful time. Her sculptural paper tapestries can be installed in a number of different ways, reflecting the impermanence of this world. LeBreton lives and works in Chicago and has been working with handmade paper for ten years. She enjoys its surprising properties: it is light and appears fragile, yet it is also pliable, absorbs color beautifully, and is very strong. LeBreton particularly loves papermaking because of the calm that comes from the repeating forms in the process, and she appreciates working with water for its beauty, sensuality and healing qualities.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 22 May 2019 15:24:00 -0400 2019-08-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Homage to the Goddess by Stephen Desantis
Gifts of Art presents The Art of Leaves: Soft Pastel & Pencil (August 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63820 63820-15896813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born in Houston, Texas, one of the most colorful cities in the U.S., J. Howard recognizes that color is important in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, our homes, our cars, and even our pets. She points out that “there is a great deal more to color than what meets the eye.” Howard utilizes hyper-realism and enhanced depth of field to create highly detailed soft pastel drawings on canvas that are often mistaken for photographs. She uses the beauty and intense color of organic soft pastels to elicit emotional responses from viewers, recognizing and working with the inherent qualities of color. Also a practicing art therapist, Howard’s award-winning work has been recognized both nationally and internationally.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:55:42 -0400 2019-08-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Leaving an Impression by J. Howard, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents The Bold & the Beautiful: Acrylic Paintings (August 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63816 63816-15896566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Ronaldo Byrd was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and now resides in Burlington, New Jersey with his mother and three younger siblings. Byrd's main medium is acrylic on foamboard, and his process involves observation of the world and the people in it. His paintings depict his ideal world and how its inhabitants should treat each other. Byrd is known as the Artist of Happiness and the overall theme of his paintings is love and acceptance. Byrd and his artwork represent a different way of seeing, and his hope is that the world can see beauty and acceptance through his eyes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 09:40:15 -0400 2019-08-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Urban Life 2 by Ronaldo Byrd, photograph by the artist.
Gifts of Art presents Through My Lens: Photography of National Parks (August 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63822 63822-15897059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Raymond Gaynor, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been practicing art photography for over 25 years. This exhibition of photographic works from 12 U.S. National Parks captures both iconic and unique landscape scenes. Gaynor chooses subjects that have a sense of solace and rejuvenation. One of his goals is to give the viewer an opportunity to imagine what it would be like to be the one looking through the camera lens while composing and capturing an image. He hopes to evoke emotions, memories, and a desire to witness firsthand the beauty of the National Parks. Recently he has been invited to participate in numerous juried art exhibitions, expanding his passion to pursue exhibiting throughout the Midwest.
Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display June 17-September 6, 2019
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Fri, 24 May 2019 10:05:32 -0400 2019-08-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition First Impressions – Yosemite N.P. by Raymond Gaynor.
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (August 31, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Refugees have been at the forefront of political discussion in the United States as the Syrian crisis escalates and xenophobia heightens. Much has been said regarding these refugees, but all too often the voices of refugees themselves are left out of the conversation.

This exhibit uses the data collected from a Photovoice project, combining photography and transcriptions from groups discussions with adolescent refugees to better understand the lived experiences of adolescent refugees. The gallery highlights five main themes that were discussed: Stability and Security, Interpersonal Difficulties, Rooting Factors, Personal Growth, and Contribution.

“I wish I could help out people… Imma give them everything. Because they are my people, I have to save my people.” -Alex

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:34:47 -0400 2019-08-31T10:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 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 10:39:06 -0400 2019-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (August 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 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 2019-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (August 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Bauhaus Architectural Exhibition TEST! (August 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63804 63804-15884274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 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 2019-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Ceal Floyer: Things (August 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Visitors entering Floyer’s installation Things (2009) in the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery encounter a collection of identical plinths that would ordinarily be used to display art objects in the Museum, but these platforms are empty. In place of visible objects, each plinth is equipped with a speaker from which we hear the word “thing” sung—edited out of and isolated from a range of pop songs. The result is an amusing and thoughtful exploration of language, meaning, and the conventions of museum presentation and spectatorship.

The installation, like much of Berlin-based artist Ceal Floyer’s art, is characteristically austere, but its visual simplicity masks a more complicated message—often a wry cerebral twist the artist creates through language-based symbols and aesthetic devices. Floyer’s work is rooted in conceptual art, in which the idea, delivered through words or acts that undercut or supersede formal qualities, is the essence of the artwork.

Lead support  for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan College of Engineering and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, Institute for the Humanities, CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:15:48 -0400 2019-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Things%252C%25202009%252C%2520KW%252C%25202009%252C%2520photo%2520Uwe%2520Walter02.jpg
Copies and Invention in East Asia (August 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (August 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
New at UMMA: Egon Schiele (August 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63428 63428-15694200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), one of the most well-known and controversial figures of Austrian Expressionism, made more than 3,000 works over the span of his short life and career. Working at the turn of the twentieth century, Schiele challenged the classical conventions of the day producing emotionally charged—often unsettling—drawings and watercolors depicting landscapes, portraits, and nudes. Two retired U-M professors recently gifted four works of art by Schiele to UMMA. Throughout their lifetimes, Frances McSparran (English language and literature) and the late Ernst Pulgram (Romance and classical linguistics) collected over forty Austrian and German Expressionist works, donating many of them to the Museum. The three watercolors and one drawing on view in this special installation complement the couple’s previous gifts of works by Schiele and his contemporaries Oskar Kokoschka, George Grosz, and Gustav Klimt, reuniting these important works that together provide important insights into this tumultuous period in European history.        

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Exhibition Mon, 20 May 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2018_2_1_representation_19141_original.jpg
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (August 31, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 31, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located in modern-day northern Sudan), involved pilgrimage and leaving informal marks on temples, pyramids, and other monumental structures. These graffiti are found in temples throughout the later (“Meroitic”) period of Kush, when it bordered Roman Egypt. They represent one of the few direct traces of the devotional practices of private people in Kush and hint at individuals’ thoughts, values, and daily lives. This exhibition explores the times and places in which Kushite graffiti were inscribed through photos, text, and interactive media presentations. At the heart of the show are the hundreds of Meroitic graffiti recently discovered in a rock-cut temple by the Kelsey expedition to El-Kurru in northern Sudan.

Curators: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis

View the online exhibition:
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:06:16 -0400 2019-08-31T13:00:00-04:00 2019-08-31T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion