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 (September 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 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 2019-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World (September 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65088 65088-16515415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World), the first standardized city atlas, contains over 540 maps and views between its six volumes. First published in 1572 by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590), Civitates was first intended as a companion to Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. New editions of the city atlas continued to be printed through 1617. Hogenberg, one of the most prolific engravers of the time, was joined by many other engravers in creating the Civitates. Braun edited the work and provided the descriptions of the cities on the verso of each plate. This exhibit contains 18 works from the Civitates, including many from the Clark Library’s holdings. Also included are reproductions of large panoramas Amsterdam, London, and St. Petersburg that reflect the evolution of city mapping through the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:19:19 -0400 2019-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture (September 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67407 67407-16848990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This exhibit of Steve Wirtz’ sculptures features a selection of his Dynamic Football series and animal works. The Dynamic Football laminated paper works explore compositions of action, allowing the artist to exploit the properties of the medium. The pieces are constructed by gluing many layers of paper over wire armatures. When dry, the sculptures are painted in an often splashy, sketchy style. Wirtz’ silly animal works are what the artist is best known for, and they take shape in his Goetzville, Michigan studio.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:26:38 -0400 2019-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition When Do We Eat? by Steve Wirtz, photograph by the artist.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (September 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67398 67398-16848738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2018 winning piece in Painting, Harriet by Merideth Sauvé
Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas (September 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67410 67410-16849074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Brighton, Michigan artist Jeff Joseph’s introduction to art making was drawing pencil sketches of his junior high classmates. His specialty is sports arts, and he has a license to create art for several universities including U-M, Ohio State and Michigan State. His work is about the quiet moments of sports as well as the shifting and complex panorama of all sports. This exhibit will include portraits, stadium landscapes and images from Michigan sports teams. Focusing on accuracy and detail, his originals can take anywhere from four months to a year to complete, but he is always updating collectors around the country with new pieces.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:37:28 -0400 2019-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Coach Lloyd Carr by Jeff Joseph, photograph by the artist.
Oil on Water: Painting on Linen (September 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67400 67400-16848821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Danielle Eubank is an award-winning artist who has been on four international sailing expeditions and painted every ocean on the planet to raise awareness about the oceans and climate change. Her large paintings are emotive abstract portraits of specific bodies of water. The Oil on Water exhibition features Eubank’s oil on linen paintings of the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. She creates patterns within patterns, representing vertical stacks of rhythms. The undulating forms, such as water ripples, oil slicks, and refuse, combined with the memories that water evokes, makes her work eye-opening, yet soothing and sensual.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:12:19 -0400 2019-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ny Alesund II by Danielle Eubank, photograph by the artist.
Pen & Ink Queens (September 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67401 67401-16848904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Introverted and shy by nature, Laura Cavanagh uses her art as an outlet to create humorous larger than life personalities. In Pen & Ink Queens, Cavanagh draws inspiration from medieval and renaissance-era garments to adorn quirky, queenly figures. Cavanagh works in a style that is hyper-detailed and intricate, so she remains present during the creative process. A true Michigander, Cavanagh was born and raised in Southeast Michigan, attended U-M, and currently works in Detroit. Cavanagh makes a concerted effort to exhibit as much as possible in her home state, and when she is not in her studio, you can find her cooking, practicing yoga or playing with her cat, Benji.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:06 -0400 2019-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Zora by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media (September 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67393 67393-16846430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Unruly Arts is a professional art studio that serves adults with disabilities, located within the Artist Village at the Toledo Botanical Garden. In this supportive community, each artist is encouraged to find and develop their authentic voice through art and the creative process. The Un-Quarium exhibit is a series of three large canvases of stretched silk polyester, along with a collection of smaller aquatic themed glass and silk abstracts showcasing a wondrous world beneath the sea. The works reflect a collaborative effort by eighteen artists from Unruly Arts studio. Their art celebrates the joyful and vibrant expression of color and texture as well as their unique vision.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:53:58 -0400 2019-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition The Un-Quarium series by Unruly artists, photograph by Lori Schoen.
Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels (September 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67395 67395-16846513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Victoria (Vika) Bulgakova grew up in Ukraine, a part of the former Soviet Union. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1994, and for the next 22 years, New York became her home. In 2016, she moved to Michigan to pursue an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She found the raw beauty of Detroit inspiring and kept her metalsmithing studio practice in the city. The copper and brass vessels in her Ваза series and other included works are a meditation on fluidity of memories: their ability to shift from reflection to re-invention over time. Each vessel potentially holds something within its boundaries, whether tangible or not.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:03:02 -0400 2019-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cinderella Shoes by Victoria Bulgakova, photograph by the artist.
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (September 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 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 2019-09-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Nature a Moment: Visions of the World from Three Korean-American Artists (September 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67493 67493-16866537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Three Chicago-area Korean-American artists render deeply personal interpretations of the natural world in the exhibit “Nature a Moment” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Using woodcut, painting on canvas, and mixed media, Linda Hyong, Sung Eun Hong, and Seong Ok Lee explore the world of flowers, gardens, and nature in vivid works that slow time to a fleeting present moment.

Linda Hyong is a University of Michigan alumna and former teaching assistant in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. She draws her inspiration from Claude Monet’s water lily garden in France to create her own modern interpretation of impressionism. Seong Ok Lee is inspired by flowers, which she believes are the most beautiful forms in nature. In her dream-like, nearly abstract paintings, Sung Eun Hong communicates her vision of what she calls “pure dreams and fantasy.”

Exhibit runs September 14 through November 15, 2019 at the

University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd., Ann Arbor. Free.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:08:53 -0400 2019-09-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Kyoto lily pond by Linda Hyong
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (September 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 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 2019-09-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 18, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 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 2019-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 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 (September 18, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 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 2019-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 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: (September 18, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 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 2019-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Ceal Floyer: Things (September 18, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 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 2019-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 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 (September 18, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 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 2019-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Gallery DAAS exhibit opening: Il faut se souvenir, we must not forget: Memorializing Slavery in Detroit and Martinique (September 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66697 66697-16770221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Using photographs of memorials to slavery as a story visual, “Il faut se souvenir, we must not forget” is a multi-media exhibit that explores the little-known history of slavery in the city of Detroit and its unexpected connection to the French island of Martinique.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:12:52 -0400 2019-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (September 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 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 2019-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World (September 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65088 65088-16515416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World), the first standardized city atlas, contains over 540 maps and views between its six volumes. First published in 1572 by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590), Civitates was first intended as a companion to Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. New editions of the city atlas continued to be printed through 1617. Hogenberg, one of the most prolific engravers of the time, was joined by many other engravers in creating the Civitates. Braun edited the work and provided the descriptions of the cities on the verso of each plate. This exhibit contains 18 works from the Civitates, including many from the Clark Library’s holdings. Also included are reproductions of large panoramas Amsterdam, London, and St. Petersburg that reflect the evolution of city mapping through the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:19:19 -0400 2019-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture (September 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67407 67407-16848991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This exhibit of Steve Wirtz’ sculptures features a selection of his Dynamic Football series and animal works. The Dynamic Football laminated paper works explore compositions of action, allowing the artist to exploit the properties of the medium. The pieces are constructed by gluing many layers of paper over wire armatures. When dry, the sculptures are painted in an often splashy, sketchy style. Wirtz’ silly animal works are what the artist is best known for, and they take shape in his Goetzville, Michigan studio.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:26:38 -0400 2019-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition When Do We Eat? by Steve Wirtz, photograph by the artist.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (September 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67398 67398-16848739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2018 winning piece in Painting, Harriet by Merideth Sauvé
Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas (September 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67410 67410-16849075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Brighton, Michigan artist Jeff Joseph’s introduction to art making was drawing pencil sketches of his junior high classmates. His specialty is sports arts, and he has a license to create art for several universities including U-M, Ohio State and Michigan State. His work is about the quiet moments of sports as well as the shifting and complex panorama of all sports. This exhibit will include portraits, stadium landscapes and images from Michigan sports teams. Focusing on accuracy and detail, his originals can take anywhere from four months to a year to complete, but he is always updating collectors around the country with new pieces.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:37:28 -0400 2019-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Coach Lloyd Carr by Jeff Joseph, photograph by the artist.
Oil on Water: Painting on Linen (September 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67400 67400-16848822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Danielle Eubank is an award-winning artist who has been on four international sailing expeditions and painted every ocean on the planet to raise awareness about the oceans and climate change. Her large paintings are emotive abstract portraits of specific bodies of water. The Oil on Water exhibition features Eubank’s oil on linen paintings of the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. She creates patterns within patterns, representing vertical stacks of rhythms. The undulating forms, such as water ripples, oil slicks, and refuse, combined with the memories that water evokes, makes her work eye-opening, yet soothing and sensual.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:12:19 -0400 2019-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ny Alesund II by Danielle Eubank, photograph by the artist.
Pen & Ink Queens (September 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67401 67401-16848905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Introverted and shy by nature, Laura Cavanagh uses her art as an outlet to create humorous larger than life personalities. In Pen & Ink Queens, Cavanagh draws inspiration from medieval and renaissance-era garments to adorn quirky, queenly figures. Cavanagh works in a style that is hyper-detailed and intricate, so she remains present during the creative process. A true Michigander, Cavanagh was born and raised in Southeast Michigan, attended U-M, and currently works in Detroit. Cavanagh makes a concerted effort to exhibit as much as possible in her home state, and when she is not in her studio, you can find her cooking, practicing yoga or playing with her cat, Benji.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:06 -0400 2019-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Zora by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media (September 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67393 67393-16846431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Unruly Arts is a professional art studio that serves adults with disabilities, located within the Artist Village at the Toledo Botanical Garden. In this supportive community, each artist is encouraged to find and develop their authentic voice through art and the creative process. The Un-Quarium exhibit is a series of three large canvases of stretched silk polyester, along with a collection of smaller aquatic themed glass and silk abstracts showcasing a wondrous world beneath the sea. The works reflect a collaborative effort by eighteen artists from Unruly Arts studio. Their art celebrates the joyful and vibrant expression of color and texture as well as their unique vision.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:53:58 -0400 2019-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition The Un-Quarium series by Unruly artists, photograph by Lori Schoen.
Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels (September 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67395 67395-16846514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Victoria (Vika) Bulgakova grew up in Ukraine, a part of the former Soviet Union. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1994, and for the next 22 years, New York became her home. In 2016, she moved to Michigan to pursue an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She found the raw beauty of Detroit inspiring and kept her metalsmithing studio practice in the city. The copper and brass vessels in her Ваза series and other included works are a meditation on fluidity of memories: their ability to shift from reflection to re-invention over time. Each vessel potentially holds something within its boundaries, whether tangible or not.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:03:02 -0400 2019-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cinderella Shoes by Victoria Bulgakova, photograph by the artist.
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (September 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 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 2019-09-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Yo Tengo Nombre (September 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-09-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Gallery DAAS exhibit opening: Il faut se souvenir, we must not forget: Memorializing Slavery in Detroit and Martinique (September 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66698 66698-16770222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Using photographs of memorials to slavery as a story visual, “Il faut se souvenir, we must not forget” is a multi-media exhibit that explores the little-known history of slavery in the city of Detroit and its unexpected connection to the French island of Martinique.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:20:50 -0400 2019-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Nature a Moment: Visions of the World from Three Korean-American Artists (September 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67493 67493-16866538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Three Chicago-area Korean-American artists render deeply personal interpretations of the natural world in the exhibit “Nature a Moment” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Using woodcut, painting on canvas, and mixed media, Linda Hyong, Sung Eun Hong, and Seong Ok Lee explore the world of flowers, gardens, and nature in vivid works that slow time to a fleeting present moment.

Linda Hyong is a University of Michigan alumna and former teaching assistant in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. She draws her inspiration from Claude Monet’s water lily garden in France to create her own modern interpretation of impressionism. Seong Ok Lee is inspired by flowers, which she believes are the most beautiful forms in nature. In her dream-like, nearly abstract paintings, Sung Eun Hong communicates her vision of what she calls “pure dreams and fantasy.”

Exhibit runs September 14 through November 15, 2019 at the

University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd., Ann Arbor. Free.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:08:53 -0400 2019-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Kyoto lily pond by Linda Hyong
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (September 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 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 2019-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 19, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 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 2019-09-19T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 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 (September 19, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 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 2019-09-19T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 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: (September 19, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 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 2019-09-19T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Ceal Floyer: Things (September 19, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 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 2019-09-19T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 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 (September 19, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 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 2019-09-19T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Costume Designs: Some of My Favorite Things (September 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64823 64823-16454991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

An exhibit of former students' costume renderings along with favorite pieces Prof. Jessica Hahn has designed for SMTD in the past 25 years.

Exhibit open Sunday-Friday 12:00-6:00 PM.

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Exhibition Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:25:57 -0400 2019-09-19T12:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Exhibition Costume Designs
Enter the As I See It Photography Competition! (September 19, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67344 67344-16839884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student photos for the As I See It Photo Competition. Submit up to two photos you've taken that represent the theme "Night and Day." The first place winner will receive a $150 CASH PRIZE! Deadline for submissions is Thursday, September 19 at 10pm.

Learn more and download prospectus at artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/asiseeit.

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Exhibition Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:26:13 -0400 2019-09-19T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T15:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition As I See It Photo Competition Graphic
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (September 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 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 2019-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World (September 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65088 65088-16515417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World), the first standardized city atlas, contains over 540 maps and views between its six volumes. First published in 1572 by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590), Civitates was first intended as a companion to Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. New editions of the city atlas continued to be printed through 1617. Hogenberg, one of the most prolific engravers of the time, was joined by many other engravers in creating the Civitates. Braun edited the work and provided the descriptions of the cities on the verso of each plate. This exhibit contains 18 works from the Civitates, including many from the Clark Library’s holdings. Also included are reproductions of large panoramas Amsterdam, London, and St. Petersburg that reflect the evolution of city mapping through the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:19:19 -0400 2019-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture (September 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67407 67407-16848992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This exhibit of Steve Wirtz’ sculptures features a selection of his Dynamic Football series and animal works. The Dynamic Football laminated paper works explore compositions of action, allowing the artist to exploit the properties of the medium. The pieces are constructed by gluing many layers of paper over wire armatures. When dry, the sculptures are painted in an often splashy, sketchy style. Wirtz’ silly animal works are what the artist is best known for, and they take shape in his Goetzville, Michigan studio.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:26:38 -0400 2019-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition When Do We Eat? by Steve Wirtz, photograph by the artist.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (September 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67398 67398-16848740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2018 winning piece in Painting, Harriet by Merideth Sauvé
Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas (September 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67410 67410-16849076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Brighton, Michigan artist Jeff Joseph’s introduction to art making was drawing pencil sketches of his junior high classmates. His specialty is sports arts, and he has a license to create art for several universities including U-M, Ohio State and Michigan State. His work is about the quiet moments of sports as well as the shifting and complex panorama of all sports. This exhibit will include portraits, stadium landscapes and images from Michigan sports teams. Focusing on accuracy and detail, his originals can take anywhere from four months to a year to complete, but he is always updating collectors around the country with new pieces.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:37:28 -0400 2019-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Coach Lloyd Carr by Jeff Joseph, photograph by the artist.
Oil on Water: Painting on Linen (September 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67400 67400-16848823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Danielle Eubank is an award-winning artist who has been on four international sailing expeditions and painted every ocean on the planet to raise awareness about the oceans and climate change. Her large paintings are emotive abstract portraits of specific bodies of water. The Oil on Water exhibition features Eubank’s oil on linen paintings of the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. She creates patterns within patterns, representing vertical stacks of rhythms. The undulating forms, such as water ripples, oil slicks, and refuse, combined with the memories that water evokes, makes her work eye-opening, yet soothing and sensual.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:12:19 -0400 2019-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ny Alesund II by Danielle Eubank, photograph by the artist.
Pen & Ink Queens (September 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67401 67401-16848906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Introverted and shy by nature, Laura Cavanagh uses her art as an outlet to create humorous larger than life personalities. In Pen & Ink Queens, Cavanagh draws inspiration from medieval and renaissance-era garments to adorn quirky, queenly figures. Cavanagh works in a style that is hyper-detailed and intricate, so she remains present during the creative process. A true Michigander, Cavanagh was born and raised in Southeast Michigan, attended U-M, and currently works in Detroit. Cavanagh makes a concerted effort to exhibit as much as possible in her home state, and when she is not in her studio, you can find her cooking, practicing yoga or playing with her cat, Benji.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:06 -0400 2019-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Zora by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media (September 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67393 67393-16846432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Unruly Arts is a professional art studio that serves adults with disabilities, located within the Artist Village at the Toledo Botanical Garden. In this supportive community, each artist is encouraged to find and develop their authentic voice through art and the creative process. The Un-Quarium exhibit is a series of three large canvases of stretched silk polyester, along with a collection of smaller aquatic themed glass and silk abstracts showcasing a wondrous world beneath the sea. The works reflect a collaborative effort by eighteen artists from Unruly Arts studio. Their art celebrates the joyful and vibrant expression of color and texture as well as their unique vision.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:53:58 -0400 2019-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition The Un-Quarium series by Unruly artists, photograph by Lori Schoen.
Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels (September 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67395 67395-16846515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Victoria (Vika) Bulgakova grew up in Ukraine, a part of the former Soviet Union. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1994, and for the next 22 years, New York became her home. In 2016, she moved to Michigan to pursue an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She found the raw beauty of Detroit inspiring and kept her metalsmithing studio practice in the city. The copper and brass vessels in her Ваза series and other included works are a meditation on fluidity of memories: their ability to shift from reflection to re-invention over time. Each vessel potentially holds something within its boundaries, whether tangible or not.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:03:02 -0400 2019-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cinderella Shoes by Victoria Bulgakova, photograph by the artist.
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (September 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 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 2019-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Yo Tengo Nombre (September 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-20T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Nature a Moment: Visions of the World from Three Korean-American Artists (September 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67493 67493-16866539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Three Chicago-area Korean-American artists render deeply personal interpretations of the natural world in the exhibit “Nature a Moment” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Using woodcut, painting on canvas, and mixed media, Linda Hyong, Sung Eun Hong, and Seong Ok Lee explore the world of flowers, gardens, and nature in vivid works that slow time to a fleeting present moment.

Linda Hyong is a University of Michigan alumna and former teaching assistant in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. She draws her inspiration from Claude Monet’s water lily garden in France to create her own modern interpretation of impressionism. Seong Ok Lee is inspired by flowers, which she believes are the most beautiful forms in nature. In her dream-like, nearly abstract paintings, Sung Eun Hong communicates her vision of what she calls “pure dreams and fantasy.”

Exhibit runs September 14 through November 15, 2019 at the

University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd., Ann Arbor. Free.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:08:53 -0400 2019-09-20T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Kyoto lily pond by Linda Hyong
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (September 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 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 2019-09-20T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Things I Like Most About the Clements Library (September 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63371 63371-15661317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 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 2019-09-20T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Niagara River ca.1807
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 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 2019-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 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 (September 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 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 2019-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 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: (September 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 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 2019-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Ceal Floyer: Things (September 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 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 2019-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 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 (September 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 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 2019-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Costume Designs: Some of My Favorite Things (September 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64823 64823-16454992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

An exhibit of former students' costume renderings along with favorite pieces Prof. Jessica Hahn has designed for SMTD in the past 25 years.

Exhibit open Sunday-Friday 12:00-6:00 PM.

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Exhibition Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:25:57 -0400 2019-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Exhibition Costume Designs
Enter the As I See It Photography Competition! (September 20, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67344 67344-16839885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student photos for the As I See It Photo Competition. Submit up to two photos you've taken that represent the theme "Night and Day." The first place winner will receive a $150 CASH PRIZE! Deadline for submissions is Thursday, September 19 at 10pm.

Learn more and download prospectus at artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/asiseeit.

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Exhibition Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:26:13 -0400 2019-09-20T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T15:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition As I See It Photo Competition Graphic
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (September 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 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 2019-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World (September 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65088 65088-16515418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World), the first standardized city atlas, contains over 540 maps and views between its six volumes. First published in 1572 by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590), Civitates was first intended as a companion to Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. New editions of the city atlas continued to be printed through 1617. Hogenberg, one of the most prolific engravers of the time, was joined by many other engravers in creating the Civitates. Braun edited the work and provided the descriptions of the cities on the verso of each plate. This exhibit contains 18 works from the Civitates, including many from the Clark Library’s holdings. Also included are reproductions of large panoramas Amsterdam, London, and St. Petersburg that reflect the evolution of city mapping through the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:19:19 -0400 2019-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture (September 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67407 67407-16848993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This exhibit of Steve Wirtz’ sculptures features a selection of his Dynamic Football series and animal works. The Dynamic Football laminated paper works explore compositions of action, allowing the artist to exploit the properties of the medium. The pieces are constructed by gluing many layers of paper over wire armatures. When dry, the sculptures are painted in an often splashy, sketchy style. Wirtz’ silly animal works are what the artist is best known for, and they take shape in his Goetzville, Michigan studio.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:26:38 -0400 2019-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition When Do We Eat? by Steve Wirtz, photograph by the artist.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (September 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67398 67398-16848741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2018 winning piece in Painting, Harriet by Merideth Sauvé
Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas (September 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67410 67410-16849077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Brighton, Michigan artist Jeff Joseph’s introduction to art making was drawing pencil sketches of his junior high classmates. His specialty is sports arts, and he has a license to create art for several universities including U-M, Ohio State and Michigan State. His work is about the quiet moments of sports as well as the shifting and complex panorama of all sports. This exhibit will include portraits, stadium landscapes and images from Michigan sports teams. Focusing on accuracy and detail, his originals can take anywhere from four months to a year to complete, but he is always updating collectors around the country with new pieces.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:37:28 -0400 2019-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Coach Lloyd Carr by Jeff Joseph, photograph by the artist.
Oil on Water: Painting on Linen (September 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67400 67400-16848824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Danielle Eubank is an award-winning artist who has been on four international sailing expeditions and painted every ocean on the planet to raise awareness about the oceans and climate change. Her large paintings are emotive abstract portraits of specific bodies of water. The Oil on Water exhibition features Eubank’s oil on linen paintings of the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. She creates patterns within patterns, representing vertical stacks of rhythms. The undulating forms, such as water ripples, oil slicks, and refuse, combined with the memories that water evokes, makes her work eye-opening, yet soothing and sensual.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:12:19 -0400 2019-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ny Alesund II by Danielle Eubank, photograph by the artist.
Pen & Ink Queens (September 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67401 67401-16848907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Introverted and shy by nature, Laura Cavanagh uses her art as an outlet to create humorous larger than life personalities. In Pen & Ink Queens, Cavanagh draws inspiration from medieval and renaissance-era garments to adorn quirky, queenly figures. Cavanagh works in a style that is hyper-detailed and intricate, so she remains present during the creative process. A true Michigander, Cavanagh was born and raised in Southeast Michigan, attended U-M, and currently works in Detroit. Cavanagh makes a concerted effort to exhibit as much as possible in her home state, and when she is not in her studio, you can find her cooking, practicing yoga or playing with her cat, Benji.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:06 -0400 2019-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Zora by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media (September 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67393 67393-16846433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Unruly Arts is a professional art studio that serves adults with disabilities, located within the Artist Village at the Toledo Botanical Garden. In this supportive community, each artist is encouraged to find and develop their authentic voice through art and the creative process. The Un-Quarium exhibit is a series of three large canvases of stretched silk polyester, along with a collection of smaller aquatic themed glass and silk abstracts showcasing a wondrous world beneath the sea. The works reflect a collaborative effort by eighteen artists from Unruly Arts studio. Their art celebrates the joyful and vibrant expression of color and texture as well as their unique vision.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:53:58 -0400 2019-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition The Un-Quarium series by Unruly artists, photograph by Lori Schoen.
Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels (September 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67395 67395-16846516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Victoria (Vika) Bulgakova grew up in Ukraine, a part of the former Soviet Union. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1994, and for the next 22 years, New York became her home. In 2016, she moved to Michigan to pursue an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She found the raw beauty of Detroit inspiring and kept her metalsmithing studio practice in the city. The copper and brass vessels in her Ваза series and other included works are a meditation on fluidity of memories: their ability to shift from reflection to re-invention over time. Each vessel potentially holds something within its boundaries, whether tangible or not.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:03:02 -0400 2019-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cinderella Shoes by Victoria Bulgakova, photograph by the artist.
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Nature a Moment: Visions of the World from Three Korean-American Artists (September 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67493 67493-16866540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Three Chicago-area Korean-American artists render deeply personal interpretations of the natural world in the exhibit “Nature a Moment” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Using woodcut, painting on canvas, and mixed media, Linda Hyong, Sung Eun Hong, and Seong Ok Lee explore the world of flowers, gardens, and nature in vivid works that slow time to a fleeting present moment.

Linda Hyong is a University of Michigan alumna and former teaching assistant in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. She draws her inspiration from Claude Monet’s water lily garden in France to create her own modern interpretation of impressionism. Seong Ok Lee is inspired by flowers, which she believes are the most beautiful forms in nature. In her dream-like, nearly abstract paintings, Sung Eun Hong communicates her vision of what she calls “pure dreams and fantasy.”

Exhibit runs September 14 through November 15, 2019 at the

University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd., Ann Arbor. Free.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:08:53 -0400 2019-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Kyoto lily pond by Linda Hyong
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (September 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 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 2019-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 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 10:39:06 -0400 2019-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 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. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 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 2019-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 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: (September 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 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 2019-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Ceal Floyer: Things (September 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 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 2019-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 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 (September 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 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 2019-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
New at UMMA: Walter Oltmann (September 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63283 63283-15611986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Infant Skull II, a woven “tapestry” made out of very fine aluminum wire, only reveals its shape when seen from afar. Drawing inspiration from his country’s basketry traditions, the South African artist Walter Oltmann (b. 1960) alternates densely layered sections with open spaces, allowing the underlying surface of the work to show through. The skull that emerges is, in a South African context, evocative of the Cradle of Humankind—a series of caves outside Johannesburg, where some of the oldest hominin fossils in the world have been found.

The work complements UMMA’s renowned and growing collection of historical and contemporary African art and reminds us of the central role of Africa in the history of humankind. The purchase was made possible thanks to the generosity of UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee.

This acquisition was made possible by the generosity of the UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee, 2016.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/AP_151005_054%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (September 21, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 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 2019-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 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 (September 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 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 2019-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World (September 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65088 65088-16515419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World), the first standardized city atlas, contains over 540 maps and views between its six volumes. First published in 1572 by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590), Civitates was first intended as a companion to Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. New editions of the city atlas continued to be printed through 1617. Hogenberg, one of the most prolific engravers of the time, was joined by many other engravers in creating the Civitates. Braun edited the work and provided the descriptions of the cities on the verso of each plate. This exhibit contains 18 works from the Civitates, including many from the Clark Library’s holdings. Also included are reproductions of large panoramas Amsterdam, London, and St. Petersburg that reflect the evolution of city mapping through the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:19:19 -0400 2019-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture (September 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67407 67407-16848994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This exhibit of Steve Wirtz’ sculptures features a selection of his Dynamic Football series and animal works. The Dynamic Football laminated paper works explore compositions of action, allowing the artist to exploit the properties of the medium. The pieces are constructed by gluing many layers of paper over wire armatures. When dry, the sculptures are painted in an often splashy, sketchy style. Wirtz’ silly animal works are what the artist is best known for, and they take shape in his Goetzville, Michigan studio.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:26:38 -0400 2019-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition When Do We Eat? by Steve Wirtz, photograph by the artist.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (September 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67398 67398-16848742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2018 winning piece in Painting, Harriet by Merideth Sauvé
Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas (September 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67410 67410-16849078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Brighton, Michigan artist Jeff Joseph’s introduction to art making was drawing pencil sketches of his junior high classmates. His specialty is sports arts, and he has a license to create art for several universities including U-M, Ohio State and Michigan State. His work is about the quiet moments of sports as well as the shifting and complex panorama of all sports. This exhibit will include portraits, stadium landscapes and images from Michigan sports teams. Focusing on accuracy and detail, his originals can take anywhere from four months to a year to complete, but he is always updating collectors around the country with new pieces.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:37:28 -0400 2019-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Coach Lloyd Carr by Jeff Joseph, photograph by the artist.
Oil on Water: Painting on Linen (September 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67400 67400-16848825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Danielle Eubank is an award-winning artist who has been on four international sailing expeditions and painted every ocean on the planet to raise awareness about the oceans and climate change. Her large paintings are emotive abstract portraits of specific bodies of water. The Oil on Water exhibition features Eubank’s oil on linen paintings of the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. She creates patterns within patterns, representing vertical stacks of rhythms. The undulating forms, such as water ripples, oil slicks, and refuse, combined with the memories that water evokes, makes her work eye-opening, yet soothing and sensual.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:12:19 -0400 2019-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ny Alesund II by Danielle Eubank, photograph by the artist.
Pen & Ink Queens (September 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67401 67401-16848908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Introverted and shy by nature, Laura Cavanagh uses her art as an outlet to create humorous larger than life personalities. In Pen & Ink Queens, Cavanagh draws inspiration from medieval and renaissance-era garments to adorn quirky, queenly figures. Cavanagh works in a style that is hyper-detailed and intricate, so she remains present during the creative process. A true Michigander, Cavanagh was born and raised in Southeast Michigan, attended U-M, and currently works in Detroit. Cavanagh makes a concerted effort to exhibit as much as possible in her home state, and when she is not in her studio, you can find her cooking, practicing yoga or playing with her cat, Benji.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:06 -0400 2019-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Zora by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media (September 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67393 67393-16846434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Unruly Arts is a professional art studio that serves adults with disabilities, located within the Artist Village at the Toledo Botanical Garden. In this supportive community, each artist is encouraged to find and develop their authentic voice through art and the creative process. The Un-Quarium exhibit is a series of three large canvases of stretched silk polyester, along with a collection of smaller aquatic themed glass and silk abstracts showcasing a wondrous world beneath the sea. The works reflect a collaborative effort by eighteen artists from Unruly Arts studio. Their art celebrates the joyful and vibrant expression of color and texture as well as their unique vision.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:53:58 -0400 2019-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition The Un-Quarium series by Unruly artists, photograph by Lori Schoen.
Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels (September 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67395 67395-16846517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Victoria (Vika) Bulgakova grew up in Ukraine, a part of the former Soviet Union. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1994, and for the next 22 years, New York became her home. In 2016, she moved to Michigan to pursue an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She found the raw beauty of Detroit inspiring and kept her metalsmithing studio practice in the city. The copper and brass vessels in her Ваза series and other included works are a meditation on fluidity of memories: their ability to shift from reflection to re-invention over time. Each vessel potentially holds something within its boundaries, whether tangible or not.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:03:02 -0400 2019-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cinderella Shoes by Victoria Bulgakova, photograph by the artist.
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-22T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Nature a Moment: Visions of the World from Three Korean-American Artists (September 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67493 67493-16866541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Three Chicago-area Korean-American artists render deeply personal interpretations of the natural world in the exhibit “Nature a Moment” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Using woodcut, painting on canvas, and mixed media, Linda Hyong, Sung Eun Hong, and Seong Ok Lee explore the world of flowers, gardens, and nature in vivid works that slow time to a fleeting present moment.

Linda Hyong is a University of Michigan alumna and former teaching assistant in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. She draws her inspiration from Claude Monet’s water lily garden in France to create her own modern interpretation of impressionism. Seong Ok Lee is inspired by flowers, which she believes are the most beautiful forms in nature. In her dream-like, nearly abstract paintings, Sung Eun Hong communicates her vision of what she calls “pure dreams and fantasy.”

Exhibit runs September 14 through November 15, 2019 at the

University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd., Ann Arbor. Free.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:08:53 -0400 2019-09-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Kyoto lily pond by Linda Hyong
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (September 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 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 2019-09-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 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 2019-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 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. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 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 2019-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 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: (September 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 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 2019-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Ceal Floyer: Things (September 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63427 63427-15694119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 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 2019-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 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 (September 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 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 2019-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Costume Designs: Some of My Favorite Things (September 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64823 64823-16454993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

An exhibit of former students' costume renderings along with favorite pieces Prof. Jessica Hahn has designed for SMTD in the past 25 years.

Exhibit open Sunday-Friday 12:00-6:00 PM.

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Exhibition Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:25:57 -0400 2019-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Exhibition Costume Designs
New at UMMA: Walter Oltmann (September 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63283 63283-15611987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Infant Skull II, a woven “tapestry” made out of very fine aluminum wire, only reveals its shape when seen from afar. Drawing inspiration from his country’s basketry traditions, the South African artist Walter Oltmann (b. 1960) alternates densely layered sections with open spaces, allowing the underlying surface of the work to show through. The skull that emerges is, in a South African context, evocative of the Cradle of Humankind—a series of caves outside Johannesburg, where some of the oldest hominin fossils in the world have been found.

The work complements UMMA’s renowned and growing collection of historical and contemporary African art and reminds us of the central role of Africa in the history of humankind. The purchase was made possible thanks to the generosity of UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee.

This acquisition was made possible by the generosity of the UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee, 2016.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/AP_151005_054%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (September 22, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 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 2019-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 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 (September 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 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 2019-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World (September 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65088 65088-16515420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World), the first standardized city atlas, contains over 540 maps and views between its six volumes. First published in 1572 by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590), Civitates was first intended as a companion to Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. New editions of the city atlas continued to be printed through 1617. Hogenberg, one of the most prolific engravers of the time, was joined by many other engravers in creating the Civitates. Braun edited the work and provided the descriptions of the cities on the verso of each plate. This exhibit contains 18 works from the Civitates, including many from the Clark Library’s holdings. Also included are reproductions of large panoramas Amsterdam, London, and St. Petersburg that reflect the evolution of city mapping through the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:19:19 -0400 2019-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture (September 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67407 67407-16848995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This exhibit of Steve Wirtz’ sculptures features a selection of his Dynamic Football series and animal works. The Dynamic Football laminated paper works explore compositions of action, allowing the artist to exploit the properties of the medium. The pieces are constructed by gluing many layers of paper over wire armatures. When dry, the sculptures are painted in an often splashy, sketchy style. Wirtz’ silly animal works are what the artist is best known for, and they take shape in his Goetzville, Michigan studio.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:26:38 -0400 2019-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition When Do We Eat? by Steve Wirtz, photograph by the artist.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (September 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67398 67398-16848743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2018 winning piece in Painting, Harriet by Merideth Sauvé
Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas (September 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67410 67410-16849079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Brighton, Michigan artist Jeff Joseph’s introduction to art making was drawing pencil sketches of his junior high classmates. His specialty is sports arts, and he has a license to create art for several universities including U-M, Ohio State and Michigan State. His work is about the quiet moments of sports as well as the shifting and complex panorama of all sports. This exhibit will include portraits, stadium landscapes and images from Michigan sports teams. Focusing on accuracy and detail, his originals can take anywhere from four months to a year to complete, but he is always updating collectors around the country with new pieces.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:37:28 -0400 2019-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Coach Lloyd Carr by Jeff Joseph, photograph by the artist.
Oil on Water: Painting on Linen (September 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67400 67400-16848826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Danielle Eubank is an award-winning artist who has been on four international sailing expeditions and painted every ocean on the planet to raise awareness about the oceans and climate change. Her large paintings are emotive abstract portraits of specific bodies of water. The Oil on Water exhibition features Eubank’s oil on linen paintings of the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. She creates patterns within patterns, representing vertical stacks of rhythms. The undulating forms, such as water ripples, oil slicks, and refuse, combined with the memories that water evokes, makes her work eye-opening, yet soothing and sensual.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:12:19 -0400 2019-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ny Alesund II by Danielle Eubank, photograph by the artist.
Pen & Ink Queens (September 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67401 67401-16848909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Introverted and shy by nature, Laura Cavanagh uses her art as an outlet to create humorous larger than life personalities. In Pen & Ink Queens, Cavanagh draws inspiration from medieval and renaissance-era garments to adorn quirky, queenly figures. Cavanagh works in a style that is hyper-detailed and intricate, so she remains present during the creative process. A true Michigander, Cavanagh was born and raised in Southeast Michigan, attended U-M, and currently works in Detroit. Cavanagh makes a concerted effort to exhibit as much as possible in her home state, and when she is not in her studio, you can find her cooking, practicing yoga or playing with her cat, Benji.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:06 -0400 2019-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Zora by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media (September 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67393 67393-16846435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Unruly Arts is a professional art studio that serves adults with disabilities, located within the Artist Village at the Toledo Botanical Garden. In this supportive community, each artist is encouraged to find and develop their authentic voice through art and the creative process. The Un-Quarium exhibit is a series of three large canvases of stretched silk polyester, along with a collection of smaller aquatic themed glass and silk abstracts showcasing a wondrous world beneath the sea. The works reflect a collaborative effort by eighteen artists from Unruly Arts studio. Their art celebrates the joyful and vibrant expression of color and texture as well as their unique vision.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:53:58 -0400 2019-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition The Un-Quarium series by Unruly artists, photograph by Lori Schoen.
Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels (September 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67395 67395-16846518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Victoria (Vika) Bulgakova grew up in Ukraine, a part of the former Soviet Union. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1994, and for the next 22 years, New York became her home. In 2016, she moved to Michigan to pursue an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She found the raw beauty of Detroit inspiring and kept her metalsmithing studio practice in the city. The copper and brass vessels in her Ваза series and other included works are a meditation on fluidity of memories: their ability to shift from reflection to re-invention over time. Each vessel potentially holds something within its boundaries, whether tangible or not.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:03:02 -0400 2019-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cinderella Shoes by Victoria Bulgakova, photograph by the artist.
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Yo Tengo Nombre (September 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Nature a Moment: Visions of the World from Three Korean-American Artists (September 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67493 67493-16866542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Three Chicago-area Korean-American artists render deeply personal interpretations of the natural world in the exhibit “Nature a Moment” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Using woodcut, painting on canvas, and mixed media, Linda Hyong, Sung Eun Hong, and Seong Ok Lee explore the world of flowers, gardens, and nature in vivid works that slow time to a fleeting present moment.

Linda Hyong is a University of Michigan alumna and former teaching assistant in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. She draws her inspiration from Claude Monet’s water lily garden in France to create her own modern interpretation of impressionism. Seong Ok Lee is inspired by flowers, which she believes are the most beautiful forms in nature. In her dream-like, nearly abstract paintings, Sung Eun Hong communicates her vision of what she calls “pure dreams and fantasy.”

Exhibit runs September 14 through November 15, 2019 at the

University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd., Ann Arbor. Free.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:08:53 -0400 2019-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Kyoto lily pond by Linda Hyong
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (September 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 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 2019-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Costume Designs: Some of My Favorite Things (September 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64823 64823-16454994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

An exhibit of former students' costume renderings along with favorite pieces Prof. Jessica Hahn has designed for SMTD in the past 25 years.

Exhibit open Sunday-Friday 12:00-6:00 PM.

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Exhibition Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:25:57 -0400 2019-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Exhibition Costume Designs
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (September 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 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 2019-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World (September 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65088 65088-16515421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World), the first standardized city atlas, contains over 540 maps and views between its six volumes. First published in 1572 by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590), Civitates was first intended as a companion to Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. New editions of the city atlas continued to be printed through 1617. Hogenberg, one of the most prolific engravers of the time, was joined by many other engravers in creating the Civitates. Braun edited the work and provided the descriptions of the cities on the verso of each plate. This exhibit contains 18 works from the Civitates, including many from the Clark Library’s holdings. Also included are reproductions of large panoramas Amsterdam, London, and St. Petersburg that reflect the evolution of city mapping through the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:19:19 -0400 2019-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture (September 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67407 67407-16848996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This exhibit of Steve Wirtz’ sculptures features a selection of his Dynamic Football series and animal works. The Dynamic Football laminated paper works explore compositions of action, allowing the artist to exploit the properties of the medium. The pieces are constructed by gluing many layers of paper over wire armatures. When dry, the sculptures are painted in an often splashy, sketchy style. Wirtz’ silly animal works are what the artist is best known for, and they take shape in his Goetzville, Michigan studio.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:26:38 -0400 2019-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition When Do We Eat? by Steve Wirtz, photograph by the artist.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (September 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67398 67398-16848744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2018 winning piece in Painting, Harriet by Merideth Sauvé
Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas (September 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67410 67410-16849080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Brighton, Michigan artist Jeff Joseph’s introduction to art making was drawing pencil sketches of his junior high classmates. His specialty is sports arts, and he has a license to create art for several universities including U-M, Ohio State and Michigan State. His work is about the quiet moments of sports as well as the shifting and complex panorama of all sports. This exhibit will include portraits, stadium landscapes and images from Michigan sports teams. Focusing on accuracy and detail, his originals can take anywhere from four months to a year to complete, but he is always updating collectors around the country with new pieces.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:37:28 -0400 2019-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Coach Lloyd Carr by Jeff Joseph, photograph by the artist.
Oil on Water: Painting on Linen (September 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67400 67400-16848827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Danielle Eubank is an award-winning artist who has been on four international sailing expeditions and painted every ocean on the planet to raise awareness about the oceans and climate change. Her large paintings are emotive abstract portraits of specific bodies of water. The Oil on Water exhibition features Eubank’s oil on linen paintings of the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. She creates patterns within patterns, representing vertical stacks of rhythms. The undulating forms, such as water ripples, oil slicks, and refuse, combined with the memories that water evokes, makes her work eye-opening, yet soothing and sensual.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:12:19 -0400 2019-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ny Alesund II by Danielle Eubank, photograph by the artist.
Pen & Ink Queens (September 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67401 67401-16848910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Introverted and shy by nature, Laura Cavanagh uses her art as an outlet to create humorous larger than life personalities. In Pen & Ink Queens, Cavanagh draws inspiration from medieval and renaissance-era garments to adorn quirky, queenly figures. Cavanagh works in a style that is hyper-detailed and intricate, so she remains present during the creative process. A true Michigander, Cavanagh was born and raised in Southeast Michigan, attended U-M, and currently works in Detroit. Cavanagh makes a concerted effort to exhibit as much as possible in her home state, and when she is not in her studio, you can find her cooking, practicing yoga or playing with her cat, Benji.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:06 -0400 2019-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Zora by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media (September 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67393 67393-16846436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Unruly Arts is a professional art studio that serves adults with disabilities, located within the Artist Village at the Toledo Botanical Garden. In this supportive community, each artist is encouraged to find and develop their authentic voice through art and the creative process. The Un-Quarium exhibit is a series of three large canvases of stretched silk polyester, along with a collection of smaller aquatic themed glass and silk abstracts showcasing a wondrous world beneath the sea. The works reflect a collaborative effort by eighteen artists from Unruly Arts studio. Their art celebrates the joyful and vibrant expression of color and texture as well as their unique vision.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:53:58 -0400 2019-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition The Un-Quarium series by Unruly artists, photograph by Lori Schoen.
Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels (September 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67395 67395-16846519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Victoria (Vika) Bulgakova grew up in Ukraine, a part of the former Soviet Union. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1994, and for the next 22 years, New York became her home. In 2016, she moved to Michigan to pursue an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She found the raw beauty of Detroit inspiring and kept her metalsmithing studio practice in the city. The copper and brass vessels in her Ваза series and other included works are a meditation on fluidity of memories: their ability to shift from reflection to re-invention over time. Each vessel potentially holds something within its boundaries, whether tangible or not.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:03:02 -0400 2019-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cinderella Shoes by Victoria Bulgakova, photograph by the artist.
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (September 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 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 2019-09-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Yo Tengo Nombre (September 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-09-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Nature a Moment: Visions of the World from Three Korean-American Artists (September 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67493 67493-16866543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Three Chicago-area Korean-American artists render deeply personal interpretations of the natural world in the exhibit “Nature a Moment” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Using woodcut, painting on canvas, and mixed media, Linda Hyong, Sung Eun Hong, and Seong Ok Lee explore the world of flowers, gardens, and nature in vivid works that slow time to a fleeting present moment.

Linda Hyong is a University of Michigan alumna and former teaching assistant in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. She draws her inspiration from Claude Monet’s water lily garden in France to create her own modern interpretation of impressionism. Seong Ok Lee is inspired by flowers, which she believes are the most beautiful forms in nature. In her dream-like, nearly abstract paintings, Sung Eun Hong communicates her vision of what she calls “pure dreams and fantasy.”

Exhibit runs September 14 through November 15, 2019 at the

University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd., Ann Arbor. Free.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:08:53 -0400 2019-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Kyoto lily pond by Linda Hyong
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (September 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 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 2019-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 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 2019-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 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 (September 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 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 2019-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 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: (September 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 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 2019-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Copies and Invention in East Asia (September 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 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 2019-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
New at UMMA: Walter Oltmann (September 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63283 63283-15611988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Infant Skull II, a woven “tapestry” made out of very fine aluminum wire, only reveals its shape when seen from afar. Drawing inspiration from his country’s basketry traditions, the South African artist Walter Oltmann (b. 1960) alternates densely layered sections with open spaces, allowing the underlying surface of the work to show through. The skull that emerges is, in a South African context, evocative of the Cradle of Humankind—a series of caves outside Johannesburg, where some of the oldest hominin fossils in the world have been found.

The work complements UMMA’s renowned and growing collection of historical and contemporary African art and reminds us of the central role of Africa in the history of humankind. The purchase was made possible thanks to the generosity of UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee.

This acquisition was made possible by the generosity of the UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee, 2016.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/AP_151005_054%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Costume Designs: Some of My Favorite Things (September 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64823 64823-16454995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

An exhibit of former students' costume renderings along with favorite pieces Prof. Jessica Hahn has designed for SMTD in the past 25 years.

Exhibit open Sunday-Friday 12:00-6:00 PM.

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Exhibition Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:25:57 -0400 2019-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Exhibition Costume Designs
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (September 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 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 2019-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World (September 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65088 65088-16515422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World), the first standardized city atlas, contains over 540 maps and views between its six volumes. First published in 1572 by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590), Civitates was first intended as a companion to Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. New editions of the city atlas continued to be printed through 1617. Hogenberg, one of the most prolific engravers of the time, was joined by many other engravers in creating the Civitates. Braun edited the work and provided the descriptions of the cities on the verso of each plate. This exhibit contains 18 works from the Civitates, including many from the Clark Library’s holdings. Also included are reproductions of large panoramas Amsterdam, London, and St. Petersburg that reflect the evolution of city mapping through the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:19:19 -0400 2019-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture (September 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67407 67407-16848997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This exhibit of Steve Wirtz’ sculptures features a selection of his Dynamic Football series and animal works. The Dynamic Football laminated paper works explore compositions of action, allowing the artist to exploit the properties of the medium. The pieces are constructed by gluing many layers of paper over wire armatures. When dry, the sculptures are painted in an often splashy, sketchy style. Wirtz’ silly animal works are what the artist is best known for, and they take shape in his Goetzville, Michigan studio.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:26:38 -0400 2019-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition When Do We Eat? by Steve Wirtz, photograph by the artist.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (September 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67398 67398-16848745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2018 winning piece in Painting, Harriet by Merideth Sauvé
Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas (September 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67410 67410-16849081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Brighton, Michigan artist Jeff Joseph’s introduction to art making was drawing pencil sketches of his junior high classmates. His specialty is sports arts, and he has a license to create art for several universities including U-M, Ohio State and Michigan State. His work is about the quiet moments of sports as well as the shifting and complex panorama of all sports. This exhibit will include portraits, stadium landscapes and images from Michigan sports teams. Focusing on accuracy and detail, his originals can take anywhere from four months to a year to complete, but he is always updating collectors around the country with new pieces.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:37:28 -0400 2019-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Coach Lloyd Carr by Jeff Joseph, photograph by the artist.
Oil on Water: Painting on Linen (September 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67400 67400-16848828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Danielle Eubank is an award-winning artist who has been on four international sailing expeditions and painted every ocean on the planet to raise awareness about the oceans and climate change. Her large paintings are emotive abstract portraits of specific bodies of water. The Oil on Water exhibition features Eubank’s oil on linen paintings of the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. She creates patterns within patterns, representing vertical stacks of rhythms. The undulating forms, such as water ripples, oil slicks, and refuse, combined with the memories that water evokes, makes her work eye-opening, yet soothing and sensual.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:12:19 -0400 2019-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ny Alesund II by Danielle Eubank, photograph by the artist.
Pen & Ink Queens (September 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67401 67401-16848911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Introverted and shy by nature, Laura Cavanagh uses her art as an outlet to create humorous larger than life personalities. In Pen & Ink Queens, Cavanagh draws inspiration from medieval and renaissance-era garments to adorn quirky, queenly figures. Cavanagh works in a style that is hyper-detailed and intricate, so she remains present during the creative process. A true Michigander, Cavanagh was born and raised in Southeast Michigan, attended U-M, and currently works in Detroit. Cavanagh makes a concerted effort to exhibit as much as possible in her home state, and when she is not in her studio, you can find her cooking, practicing yoga or playing with her cat, Benji.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:06 -0400 2019-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Zora by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media (September 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67393 67393-16846437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Unruly Arts is a professional art studio that serves adults with disabilities, located within the Artist Village at the Toledo Botanical Garden. In this supportive community, each artist is encouraged to find and develop their authentic voice through art and the creative process. The Un-Quarium exhibit is a series of three large canvases of stretched silk polyester, along with a collection of smaller aquatic themed glass and silk abstracts showcasing a wondrous world beneath the sea. The works reflect a collaborative effort by eighteen artists from Unruly Arts studio. Their art celebrates the joyful and vibrant expression of color and texture as well as their unique vision.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:53:58 -0400 2019-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition The Un-Quarium series by Unruly artists, photograph by Lori Schoen.
Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels (September 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67395 67395-16846520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Victoria (Vika) Bulgakova grew up in Ukraine, a part of the former Soviet Union. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1994, and for the next 22 years, New York became her home. In 2016, she moved to Michigan to pursue an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She found the raw beauty of Detroit inspiring and kept her metalsmithing studio practice in the city. The copper and brass vessels in her Ваза series and other included works are a meditation on fluidity of memories: their ability to shift from reflection to re-invention over time. Each vessel potentially holds something within its boundaries, whether tangible or not.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:03:02 -0400 2019-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cinderella Shoes by Victoria Bulgakova, photograph by the artist.
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (September 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 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 2019-09-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Yo Tengo Nombre (September 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-09-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-25T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Nature a Moment: Visions of the World from Three Korean-American Artists (September 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67493 67493-16866544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Three Chicago-area Korean-American artists render deeply personal interpretations of the natural world in the exhibit “Nature a Moment” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Using woodcut, painting on canvas, and mixed media, Linda Hyong, Sung Eun Hong, and Seong Ok Lee explore the world of flowers, gardens, and nature in vivid works that slow time to a fleeting present moment.

Linda Hyong is a University of Michigan alumna and former teaching assistant in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. She draws her inspiration from Claude Monet’s water lily garden in France to create her own modern interpretation of impressionism. Seong Ok Lee is inspired by flowers, which she believes are the most beautiful forms in nature. In her dream-like, nearly abstract paintings, Sung Eun Hong communicates her vision of what she calls “pure dreams and fantasy.”

Exhibit runs September 14 through November 15, 2019 at the

University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd., Ann Arbor. Free.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:08:53 -0400 2019-09-25T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Kyoto lily pond by Linda Hyong
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (September 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 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 2019-09-25T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-09-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 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
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-09-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 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: (September 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 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 2019-09-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Copies and Invention in East Asia (September 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 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 2019-09-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
New at UMMA: Walter Oltmann (September 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63283 63283-15611989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Infant Skull II, a woven “tapestry” made out of very fine aluminum wire, only reveals its shape when seen from afar. Drawing inspiration from his country’s basketry traditions, the South African artist Walter Oltmann (b. 1960) alternates densely layered sections with open spaces, allowing the underlying surface of the work to show through. The skull that emerges is, in a South African context, evocative of the Cradle of Humankind—a series of caves outside Johannesburg, where some of the oldest hominin fossils in the world have been found.

The work complements UMMA’s renowned and growing collection of historical and contemporary African art and reminds us of the central role of Africa in the history of humankind. The purchase was made possible thanks to the generosity of UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee.

This acquisition was made possible by the generosity of the UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee, 2016.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-09-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/AP_151005_054%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Costume Designs: Some of My Favorite Things (September 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64823 64823-16454996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

An exhibit of former students' costume renderings along with favorite pieces Prof. Jessica Hahn has designed for SMTD in the past 25 years.

Exhibit open Sunday-Friday 12:00-6:00 PM.

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Exhibition Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:25:57 -0400 2019-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Exhibition Costume Designs
Annual Bonsai Club Auction (September 25, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64756 64756-16442920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Members will offer trees, pots, and other bonsai-related items for sale. There will be both a live auction and a silent auction. Non-members may purchase items in the auction, but only members can offer items for sale.

Presented by Ann Arbor Bonsai Society

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:57:15 -0400 2019-09-25T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T21:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (September 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 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 2019-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World (September 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65088 65088-16515423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World), the first standardized city atlas, contains over 540 maps and views between its six volumes. First published in 1572 by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590), Civitates was first intended as a companion to Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. New editions of the city atlas continued to be printed through 1617. Hogenberg, one of the most prolific engravers of the time, was joined by many other engravers in creating the Civitates. Braun edited the work and provided the descriptions of the cities on the verso of each plate. This exhibit contains 18 works from the Civitates, including many from the Clark Library’s holdings. Also included are reproductions of large panoramas Amsterdam, London, and St. Petersburg that reflect the evolution of city mapping through the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:19:19 -0400 2019-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture (September 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67407 67407-16848998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This exhibit of Steve Wirtz’ sculptures features a selection of his Dynamic Football series and animal works. The Dynamic Football laminated paper works explore compositions of action, allowing the artist to exploit the properties of the medium. The pieces are constructed by gluing many layers of paper over wire armatures. When dry, the sculptures are painted in an often splashy, sketchy style. Wirtz’ silly animal works are what the artist is best known for, and they take shape in his Goetzville, Michigan studio.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:26:38 -0400 2019-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition When Do We Eat? by Steve Wirtz, photograph by the artist.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (September 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67398 67398-16848746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2018 winning piece in Painting, Harriet by Merideth Sauvé
Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas (September 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67410 67410-16849082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Brighton, Michigan artist Jeff Joseph’s introduction to art making was drawing pencil sketches of his junior high classmates. His specialty is sports arts, and he has a license to create art for several universities including U-M, Ohio State and Michigan State. His work is about the quiet moments of sports as well as the shifting and complex panorama of all sports. This exhibit will include portraits, stadium landscapes and images from Michigan sports teams. Focusing on accuracy and detail, his originals can take anywhere from four months to a year to complete, but he is always updating collectors around the country with new pieces.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:37:28 -0400 2019-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Coach Lloyd Carr by Jeff Joseph, photograph by the artist.
Oil on Water: Painting on Linen (September 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67400 67400-16848829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Danielle Eubank is an award-winning artist who has been on four international sailing expeditions and painted every ocean on the planet to raise awareness about the oceans and climate change. Her large paintings are emotive abstract portraits of specific bodies of water. The Oil on Water exhibition features Eubank’s oil on linen paintings of the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. She creates patterns within patterns, representing vertical stacks of rhythms. The undulating forms, such as water ripples, oil slicks, and refuse, combined with the memories that water evokes, makes her work eye-opening, yet soothing and sensual.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:12:19 -0400 2019-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ny Alesund II by Danielle Eubank, photograph by the artist.
Pen & Ink Queens (September 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67401 67401-16848912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Introverted and shy by nature, Laura Cavanagh uses her art as an outlet to create humorous larger than life personalities. In Pen & Ink Queens, Cavanagh draws inspiration from medieval and renaissance-era garments to adorn quirky, queenly figures. Cavanagh works in a style that is hyper-detailed and intricate, so she remains present during the creative process. A true Michigander, Cavanagh was born and raised in Southeast Michigan, attended U-M, and currently works in Detroit. Cavanagh makes a concerted effort to exhibit as much as possible in her home state, and when she is not in her studio, you can find her cooking, practicing yoga or playing with her cat, Benji.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:06 -0400 2019-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Zora by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media (September 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67393 67393-16846438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Unruly Arts is a professional art studio that serves adults with disabilities, located within the Artist Village at the Toledo Botanical Garden. In this supportive community, each artist is encouraged to find and develop their authentic voice through art and the creative process. The Un-Quarium exhibit is a series of three large canvases of stretched silk polyester, along with a collection of smaller aquatic themed glass and silk abstracts showcasing a wondrous world beneath the sea. The works reflect a collaborative effort by eighteen artists from Unruly Arts studio. Their art celebrates the joyful and vibrant expression of color and texture as well as their unique vision.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:53:58 -0400 2019-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition The Un-Quarium series by Unruly artists, photograph by Lori Schoen.
Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels (September 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67395 67395-16846521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Victoria (Vika) Bulgakova grew up in Ukraine, a part of the former Soviet Union. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1994, and for the next 22 years, New York became her home. In 2016, she moved to Michigan to pursue an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She found the raw beauty of Detroit inspiring and kept her metalsmithing studio practice in the city. The copper and brass vessels in her Ваза series and other included works are a meditation on fluidity of memories: their ability to shift from reflection to re-invention over time. Each vessel potentially holds something within its boundaries, whether tangible or not.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:03:02 -0400 2019-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cinderella Shoes by Victoria Bulgakova, photograph by the artist.
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (September 26, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 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 2019-09-26T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 26, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-26T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Yo Tengo Nombre (September 26, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-09-26T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Nature a Moment: Visions of the World from Three Korean-American Artists (September 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67493 67493-16866545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Three Chicago-area Korean-American artists render deeply personal interpretations of the natural world in the exhibit “Nature a Moment” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Using woodcut, painting on canvas, and mixed media, Linda Hyong, Sung Eun Hong, and Seong Ok Lee explore the world of flowers, gardens, and nature in vivid works that slow time to a fleeting present moment.

Linda Hyong is a University of Michigan alumna and former teaching assistant in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. She draws her inspiration from Claude Monet’s water lily garden in France to create her own modern interpretation of impressionism. Seong Ok Lee is inspired by flowers, which she believes are the most beautiful forms in nature. In her dream-like, nearly abstract paintings, Sung Eun Hong communicates her vision of what she calls “pure dreams and fantasy.”

Exhibit runs September 14 through November 15, 2019 at the

University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd., Ann Arbor. Free.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:08:53 -0400 2019-09-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Kyoto lily pond by Linda Hyong
Strengths of Refugees and Their Community (September 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64382 64382-16338372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 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 2019-09-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Candle vigil
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-09-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (September 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-14511272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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 2019-09-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (September 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 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 2019-09-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Copies and Invention in East Asia (September 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 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 2019-09-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
New at UMMA: Walter Oltmann (September 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63283 63283-15611990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Infant Skull II, a woven “tapestry” made out of very fine aluminum wire, only reveals its shape when seen from afar. Drawing inspiration from his country’s basketry traditions, the South African artist Walter Oltmann (b. 1960) alternates densely layered sections with open spaces, allowing the underlying surface of the work to show through. The skull that emerges is, in a South African context, evocative of the Cradle of Humankind—a series of caves outside Johannesburg, where some of the oldest hominin fossils in the world have been found.

The work complements UMMA’s renowned and growing collection of historical and contemporary African art and reminds us of the central role of Africa in the history of humankind. The purchase was made possible thanks to the generosity of UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee.

This acquisition was made possible by the generosity of the UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee, 2016.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-09-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/AP_151005_054%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Costume Designs: Some of My Favorite Things (September 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64823 64823-16454997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

An exhibit of former students' costume renderings along with favorite pieces Prof. Jessica Hahn has designed for SMTD in the past 25 years.

Exhibit open Sunday-Friday 12:00-6:00 PM.

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Exhibition Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:25:57 -0400 2019-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Exhibition Costume Designs
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (September 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 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 2019-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World (September 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65088 65088-16515424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World), the first standardized city atlas, contains over 540 maps and views between its six volumes. First published in 1572 by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590), Civitates was first intended as a companion to Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. New editions of the city atlas continued to be printed through 1617. Hogenberg, one of the most prolific engravers of the time, was joined by many other engravers in creating the Civitates. Braun edited the work and provided the descriptions of the cities on the verso of each plate. This exhibit contains 18 works from the Civitates, including many from the Clark Library’s holdings. Also included are reproductions of large panoramas Amsterdam, London, and St. Petersburg that reflect the evolution of city mapping through the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:19:19 -0400 2019-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture (September 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67407 67407-16848999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This exhibit of Steve Wirtz’ sculptures features a selection of his Dynamic Football series and animal works. The Dynamic Football laminated paper works explore compositions of action, allowing the artist to exploit the properties of the medium. The pieces are constructed by gluing many layers of paper over wire armatures. When dry, the sculptures are painted in an often splashy, sketchy style. Wirtz’ silly animal works are what the artist is best known for, and they take shape in his Goetzville, Michigan studio.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:26:38 -0400 2019-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition When Do We Eat? by Steve Wirtz, photograph by the artist.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (September 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67398 67398-16848747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2018 winning piece in Painting, Harriet by Merideth Sauvé
Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas (September 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67410 67410-16849083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Brighton, Michigan artist Jeff Joseph’s introduction to art making was drawing pencil sketches of his junior high classmates. His specialty is sports arts, and he has a license to create art for several universities including U-M, Ohio State and Michigan State. His work is about the quiet moments of sports as well as the shifting and complex panorama of all sports. This exhibit will include portraits, stadium landscapes and images from Michigan sports teams. Focusing on accuracy and detail, his originals can take anywhere from four months to a year to complete, but he is always updating collectors around the country with new pieces.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:37:28 -0400 2019-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Coach Lloyd Carr by Jeff Joseph, photograph by the artist.
Oil on Water: Painting on Linen (September 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67400 67400-16848830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Danielle Eubank is an award-winning artist who has been on four international sailing expeditions and painted every ocean on the planet to raise awareness about the oceans and climate change. Her large paintings are emotive abstract portraits of specific bodies of water. The Oil on Water exhibition features Eubank’s oil on linen paintings of the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. She creates patterns within patterns, representing vertical stacks of rhythms. The undulating forms, such as water ripples, oil slicks, and refuse, combined with the memories that water evokes, makes her work eye-opening, yet soothing and sensual.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:12:19 -0400 2019-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ny Alesund II by Danielle Eubank, photograph by the artist.
Pen & Ink Queens (September 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67401 67401-16848913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Introverted and shy by nature, Laura Cavanagh uses her art as an outlet to create humorous larger than life personalities. In Pen & Ink Queens, Cavanagh draws inspiration from medieval and renaissance-era garments to adorn quirky, queenly figures. Cavanagh works in a style that is hyper-detailed and intricate, so she remains present during the creative process. A true Michigander, Cavanagh was born and raised in Southeast Michigan, attended U-M, and currently works in Detroit. Cavanagh makes a concerted effort to exhibit as much as possible in her home state, and when she is not in her studio, you can find her cooking, practicing yoga or playing with her cat, Benji.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:06 -0400 2019-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Zora by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media (September 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67393 67393-16846439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Unruly Arts is a professional art studio that serves adults with disabilities, located within the Artist Village at the Toledo Botanical Garden. In this supportive community, each artist is encouraged to find and develop their authentic voice through art and the creative process. The Un-Quarium exhibit is a series of three large canvases of stretched silk polyester, along with a collection of smaller aquatic themed glass and silk abstracts showcasing a wondrous world beneath the sea. The works reflect a collaborative effort by eighteen artists from Unruly Arts studio. Their art celebrates the joyful and vibrant expression of color and texture as well as their unique vision.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:53:58 -0400 2019-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition The Un-Quarium series by Unruly artists, photograph by Lori Schoen.
Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels (September 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67395 67395-16846522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Victoria (Vika) Bulgakova grew up in Ukraine, a part of the former Soviet Union. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1994, and for the next 22 years, New York became her home. In 2016, she moved to Michigan to pursue an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She found the raw beauty of Detroit inspiring and kept her metalsmithing studio practice in the city. The copper and brass vessels in her Ваза series and other included works are a meditation on fluidity of memories: their ability to shift from reflection to re-invention over time. Each vessel potentially holds something within its boundaries, whether tangible or not.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:03:02 -0400 2019-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cinderella Shoes by Victoria Bulgakova, photograph by the artist.
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (September 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 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 2019-09-27T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion