Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (March 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (March 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (March 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (March 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (March 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (March 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (March 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (March 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (March 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Dear Stranger: Diaries for the Private and Public Self (March 29, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70075 70075-17507815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Through this exhibit, we invite you to explore more than two centuries of diaries and diary-like documents from across the holdings of the Special Collections Research Center, ranging from privately emotive to publicly informative, from offering news reportage to depicting emotional processing, and from factual to purely fictional. As you read, consider how these journals embody elements of both private and public writing and the permeability between those spheres.

Diaries, journals, daily planners, notebooks: these ephemeral writings provide documentation of private lives and thoughts that can otherwise be difficult to find in the historical record. But does “private” necessarily imply unfiltered and unmediated? Many theorists have noted that the diarist is both writer and reader, both private and public self. Therefore the content and form of diaries are created for future reading, even if only by a future version of the self. The ambiguity of a diary’s audience is heightened in the case of published diaries. The form suggests that we, as readers, are accessing raw, unfiltered thoughts, but rounds of revision are common, and often essential to clearly convey the intended meaning. Even further from our notions of authentic, private writing, fictional diaries are written solely to be published and read by the public, but use the diary form to draw the reader into a particular relationship with the text and its protagonist.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:30:04 -0500 2020-03-29T08:30:00-04:00 2020-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Common Threads Volume LXXII. Candance Hicks, 2016. Special Collections Research Center.
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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 in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (March 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (March 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (March 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (March 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (March 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (March 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (March 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (March 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (March 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Dear Stranger: Diaries for the Private and Public Self (March 30, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70075 70075-17507816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Through this exhibit, we invite you to explore more than two centuries of diaries and diary-like documents from across the holdings of the Special Collections Research Center, ranging from privately emotive to publicly informative, from offering news reportage to depicting emotional processing, and from factual to purely fictional. As you read, consider how these journals embody elements of both private and public writing and the permeability between those spheres.

Diaries, journals, daily planners, notebooks: these ephemeral writings provide documentation of private lives and thoughts that can otherwise be difficult to find in the historical record. But does “private” necessarily imply unfiltered and unmediated? Many theorists have noted that the diarist is both writer and reader, both private and public self. Therefore the content and form of diaries are created for future reading, even if only by a future version of the self. The ambiguity of a diary’s audience is heightened in the case of published diaries. The form suggests that we, as readers, are accessing raw, unfiltered thoughts, but rounds of revision are common, and often essential to clearly convey the intended meaning. Even further from our notions of authentic, private writing, fictional diaries are written solely to be published and read by the public, but use the diary form to draw the reader into a particular relationship with the text and its protagonist.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:30:04 -0500 2020-03-30T08:30:00-04:00 2020-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Common Threads Volume LXXII. Candance Hicks, 2016. Special Collections Research Center.
As to the Woman Question (March 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-30T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (March 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (March 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (March 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (March 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (March 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (March 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (March 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (March 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (March 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Dear Stranger: Diaries for the Private and Public Self (March 31, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70075 70075-17507817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Through this exhibit, we invite you to explore more than two centuries of diaries and diary-like documents from across the holdings of the Special Collections Research Center, ranging from privately emotive to publicly informative, from offering news reportage to depicting emotional processing, and from factual to purely fictional. As you read, consider how these journals embody elements of both private and public writing and the permeability between those spheres.

Diaries, journals, daily planners, notebooks: these ephemeral writings provide documentation of private lives and thoughts that can otherwise be difficult to find in the historical record. But does “private” necessarily imply unfiltered and unmediated? Many theorists have noted that the diarist is both writer and reader, both private and public self. Therefore the content and form of diaries are created for future reading, even if only by a future version of the self. The ambiguity of a diary’s audience is heightened in the case of published diaries. The form suggests that we, as readers, are accessing raw, unfiltered thoughts, but rounds of revision are common, and often essential to clearly convey the intended meaning. Even further from our notions of authentic, private writing, fictional diaries are written solely to be published and read by the public, but use the diary form to draw the reader into a particular relationship with the text and its protagonist.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:30:04 -0500 2020-03-31T08:30:00-04:00 2020-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Common Threads Volume LXXII. Candance Hicks, 2016. Special Collections Research Center.
As to the Woman Question (March 31, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-31T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 31, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-03-31T09:51:00-04:00 2020-03-31T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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 in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
CANCELLED - CREES Pop-Up Exhibit. Brodsky on the Horizon (April 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72422 72422-18000494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This exhibit has been postponed due to COVID-19. We are working to reschedule Gluklya's campus visit, but in the meantime, enjoy this interview which was recently conducted by our alumna Dianne Beal (BA REES '79), curator and art advisor of Galerie Blue Square: https://youtu.be/QHO-gCuWQjY.

In "Brodsky on the Horizon" Gluklya will show the video from her latest project, "Carnival of Oppressed Feelings," which was last exhibited in 2019 at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Several examples of her "Utopian Clothes," previously used in performances and workshops, works on paper and other selected videos will be displayed as well. These works will visualize the artist's personal connection to Joseph Brodsky’s poems and writings. The exhibit will also depict Joseph Brodsky's time at the University of Michigan, through reproduced photographs from the Ardis Records in Special Collections of the Hatcher Library.

Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya) is a visual and performance artist. Her manifesto states: “The place of the artist is on the side of the weak.” She uses clothing, installations, video, participatory projects, text, and research to develop a concept of fragility. For Gluklya, fragility is interpreted not as “delicate beauty” but as “invisible strength.” Her work explores topics of social exclusion, untapped intuitive knowledge, mind-body connections, violation of human rights, and stereotypes. Considered a pioneer of Russian performance art, Gluklya is a co-founder of the Factory of Found Clothes (FFC) and the group Chto Delat (What is to be done?). In 2012, FFC became the Utopian Unemployment Union, a project that unites art, social science, and progressive pedagogy to give people from all social backgrounds an opportunity to make art together. Today, the artist participates in many international shows including the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale (2015) and Positions #4 at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands (2018-19). She has been awarded numerous art prizes and grants, including a fellowship from the Joseph Brodsky Fellowship Memorial Fund in 2014 and support from the Mondriaan Fund for recent projects.

Presented in partnership with the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:57:23 -0400 2020-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Exhibition CREES Pop-Up Exhibit. Brodsky on the Horizon
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Dear Stranger: Diaries for the Private and Public Self (April 1, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70075 70075-17507818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Through this exhibit, we invite you to explore more than two centuries of diaries and diary-like documents from across the holdings of the Special Collections Research Center, ranging from privately emotive to publicly informative, from offering news reportage to depicting emotional processing, and from factual to purely fictional. As you read, consider how these journals embody elements of both private and public writing and the permeability between those spheres.

Diaries, journals, daily planners, notebooks: these ephemeral writings provide documentation of private lives and thoughts that can otherwise be difficult to find in the historical record. But does “private” necessarily imply unfiltered and unmediated? Many theorists have noted that the diarist is both writer and reader, both private and public self. Therefore the content and form of diaries are created for future reading, even if only by a future version of the self. The ambiguity of a diary’s audience is heightened in the case of published diaries. The form suggests that we, as readers, are accessing raw, unfiltered thoughts, but rounds of revision are common, and often essential to clearly convey the intended meaning. Even further from our notions of authentic, private writing, fictional diaries are written solely to be published and read by the public, but use the diary form to draw the reader into a particular relationship with the text and its protagonist.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:30:04 -0500 2020-04-01T08:30:00-04:00 2020-04-01T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Common Threads Volume LXXII. Candance Hicks, 2016. Special Collections Research Center.
As to the Woman Question (April 1, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-04-01T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
CANCELED No Space Hidden (Under Heaven) (April 1, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70225 70225-17549995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

New work by Abigial DeVille. Born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works, DeVille has maintained a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places. She creates site-specific, immersive installations designed to bring attention to these forgotten stories, such as with the sculpture she built on the site of a former African American burial ground in Harlem.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:50 -0400 2020-04-01T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Abigal DeVille
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (April 1, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-04-01T09:51:00-04:00 2020-04-01T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (April 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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 in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-04-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-04-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (April 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-04-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (April 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-04-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-04-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (April 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-04-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
CANCELLED - CREES Pop-Up Exhibit. Brodsky on the Horizon (April 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72422 72422-18000495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This exhibit has been postponed due to COVID-19. We are working to reschedule Gluklya's campus visit, but in the meantime, enjoy this interview which was recently conducted by our alumna Dianne Beal (BA REES '79), curator and art advisor of Galerie Blue Square: https://youtu.be/QHO-gCuWQjY.

In "Brodsky on the Horizon" Gluklya will show the video from her latest project, "Carnival of Oppressed Feelings," which was last exhibited in 2019 at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Several examples of her "Utopian Clothes," previously used in performances and workshops, works on paper and other selected videos will be displayed as well. These works will visualize the artist's personal connection to Joseph Brodsky’s poems and writings. The exhibit will also depict Joseph Brodsky's time at the University of Michigan, through reproduced photographs from the Ardis Records in Special Collections of the Hatcher Library.

Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya) is a visual and performance artist. Her manifesto states: “The place of the artist is on the side of the weak.” She uses clothing, installations, video, participatory projects, text, and research to develop a concept of fragility. For Gluklya, fragility is interpreted not as “delicate beauty” but as “invisible strength.” Her work explores topics of social exclusion, untapped intuitive knowledge, mind-body connections, violation of human rights, and stereotypes. Considered a pioneer of Russian performance art, Gluklya is a co-founder of the Factory of Found Clothes (FFC) and the group Chto Delat (What is to be done?). In 2012, FFC became the Utopian Unemployment Union, a project that unites art, social science, and progressive pedagogy to give people from all social backgrounds an opportunity to make art together. Today, the artist participates in many international shows including the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale (2015) and Positions #4 at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands (2018-19). She has been awarded numerous art prizes and grants, including a fellowship from the Joseph Brodsky Fellowship Memorial Fund in 2014 and support from the Mondriaan Fund for recent projects.

Presented in partnership with the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:57:23 -0400 2020-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Exhibition CREES Pop-Up Exhibit. Brodsky on the Horizon
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Dear Stranger: Diaries for the Private and Public Self (April 2, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70075 70075-17507819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Through this exhibit, we invite you to explore more than two centuries of diaries and diary-like documents from across the holdings of the Special Collections Research Center, ranging from privately emotive to publicly informative, from offering news reportage to depicting emotional processing, and from factual to purely fictional. As you read, consider how these journals embody elements of both private and public writing and the permeability between those spheres.

Diaries, journals, daily planners, notebooks: these ephemeral writings provide documentation of private lives and thoughts that can otherwise be difficult to find in the historical record. But does “private” necessarily imply unfiltered and unmediated? Many theorists have noted that the diarist is both writer and reader, both private and public self. Therefore the content and form of diaries are created for future reading, even if only by a future version of the self. The ambiguity of a diary’s audience is heightened in the case of published diaries. The form suggests that we, as readers, are accessing raw, unfiltered thoughts, but rounds of revision are common, and often essential to clearly convey the intended meaning. Even further from our notions of authentic, private writing, fictional diaries are written solely to be published and read by the public, but use the diary form to draw the reader into a particular relationship with the text and its protagonist.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:30:04 -0500 2020-04-02T08:30:00-04:00 2020-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Common Threads Volume LXXII. Candance Hicks, 2016. Special Collections Research Center.
As to the Woman Question (April 2, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-04-02T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
CANCELED No Space Hidden (Under Heaven) (April 2, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70225 70225-17549996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

New work by Abigial DeVille. Born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works, DeVille has maintained a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places. She creates site-specific, immersive installations designed to bring attention to these forgotten stories, such as with the sculpture she built on the site of a former African American burial ground in Harlem.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:50 -0400 2020-04-02T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Abigal DeVille
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (April 2, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-04-02T09:51:00-04:00 2020-04-02T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (April 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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 in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (April 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (April 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (April 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
CANCELLED - CREES Pop-Up Exhibit. Brodsky on the Horizon (April 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72422 72422-18000496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This exhibit has been postponed due to COVID-19. We are working to reschedule Gluklya's campus visit, but in the meantime, enjoy this interview which was recently conducted by our alumna Dianne Beal (BA REES '79), curator and art advisor of Galerie Blue Square: https://youtu.be/QHO-gCuWQjY.

In "Brodsky on the Horizon" Gluklya will show the video from her latest project, "Carnival of Oppressed Feelings," which was last exhibited in 2019 at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Several examples of her "Utopian Clothes," previously used in performances and workshops, works on paper and other selected videos will be displayed as well. These works will visualize the artist's personal connection to Joseph Brodsky’s poems and writings. The exhibit will also depict Joseph Brodsky's time at the University of Michigan, through reproduced photographs from the Ardis Records in Special Collections of the Hatcher Library.

Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya) is a visual and performance artist. Her manifesto states: “The place of the artist is on the side of the weak.” She uses clothing, installations, video, participatory projects, text, and research to develop a concept of fragility. For Gluklya, fragility is interpreted not as “delicate beauty” but as “invisible strength.” Her work explores topics of social exclusion, untapped intuitive knowledge, mind-body connections, violation of human rights, and stereotypes. Considered a pioneer of Russian performance art, Gluklya is a co-founder of the Factory of Found Clothes (FFC) and the group Chto Delat (What is to be done?). In 2012, FFC became the Utopian Unemployment Union, a project that unites art, social science, and progressive pedagogy to give people from all social backgrounds an opportunity to make art together. Today, the artist participates in many international shows including the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale (2015) and Positions #4 at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands (2018-19). She has been awarded numerous art prizes and grants, including a fellowship from the Joseph Brodsky Fellowship Memorial Fund in 2014 and support from the Mondriaan Fund for recent projects.

Presented in partnership with the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:57:23 -0400 2020-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Exhibition CREES Pop-Up Exhibit. Brodsky on the Horizon
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Dear Stranger: Diaries for the Private and Public Self (April 3, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70075 70075-17507820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Through this exhibit, we invite you to explore more than two centuries of diaries and diary-like documents from across the holdings of the Special Collections Research Center, ranging from privately emotive to publicly informative, from offering news reportage to depicting emotional processing, and from factual to purely fictional. As you read, consider how these journals embody elements of both private and public writing and the permeability between those spheres.

Diaries, journals, daily planners, notebooks: these ephemeral writings provide documentation of private lives and thoughts that can otherwise be difficult to find in the historical record. But does “private” necessarily imply unfiltered and unmediated? Many theorists have noted that the diarist is both writer and reader, both private and public self. Therefore the content and form of diaries are created for future reading, even if only by a future version of the self. The ambiguity of a diary’s audience is heightened in the case of published diaries. The form suggests that we, as readers, are accessing raw, unfiltered thoughts, but rounds of revision are common, and often essential to clearly convey the intended meaning. Even further from our notions of authentic, private writing, fictional diaries are written solely to be published and read by the public, but use the diary form to draw the reader into a particular relationship with the text and its protagonist.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:30:04 -0500 2020-04-03T08:30:00-04:00 2020-04-03T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Common Threads Volume LXXII. Candance Hicks, 2016. Special Collections Research Center.
As to the Woman Question (April 3, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-04-03T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
CANCELED No Space Hidden (Under Heaven) (April 3, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70225 70225-17549997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

New work by Abigial DeVille. Born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works, DeVille has maintained a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places. She creates site-specific, immersive installations designed to bring attention to these forgotten stories, such as with the sculpture she built on the site of a former African American burial ground in Harlem.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:50 -0400 2020-04-03T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Abigal DeVille
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (April 3, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-04-03T09:51:00-04:00 2020-04-03T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (April 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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 in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-04-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-04-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-04-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (April 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-04-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-04-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (April 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-04-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Dear Stranger: Diaries for the Private and Public Self (April 4, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70075 70075-17507821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Through this exhibit, we invite you to explore more than two centuries of diaries and diary-like documents from across the holdings of the Special Collections Research Center, ranging from privately emotive to publicly informative, from offering news reportage to depicting emotional processing, and from factual to purely fictional. As you read, consider how these journals embody elements of both private and public writing and the permeability between those spheres.

Diaries, journals, daily planners, notebooks: these ephemeral writings provide documentation of private lives and thoughts that can otherwise be difficult to find in the historical record. But does “private” necessarily imply unfiltered and unmediated? Many theorists have noted that the diarist is both writer and reader, both private and public self. Therefore the content and form of diaries are created for future reading, even if only by a future version of the self. The ambiguity of a diary’s audience is heightened in the case of published diaries. The form suggests that we, as readers, are accessing raw, unfiltered thoughts, but rounds of revision are common, and often essential to clearly convey the intended meaning. Even further from our notions of authentic, private writing, fictional diaries are written solely to be published and read by the public, but use the diary form to draw the reader into a particular relationship with the text and its protagonist.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:30:04 -0500 2020-04-04T08:30:00-04:00 2020-04-04T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Common Threads Volume LXXII. Candance Hicks, 2016. Special Collections Research Center.
As to the Woman Question (April 4, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-04-04T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (April 4, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-04-04T09:51:00-04:00 2020-04-04T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Canceled - African Violets, Gesneriads, Terrarium and Fairy Garden Plants Display and Sale (April 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72811 72811-18079317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Includes a free hands-on workshop at 10:45 am. Class participants receive a free leaf packet to try their hand at propagating African violets from just a leaf.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:02:32 -0400 2020-04-04T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T15:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (April 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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 in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-04-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-04-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-04-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (April 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-04-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-04-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (April 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-04-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Dear Stranger: Diaries for the Private and Public Self (April 5, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70075 70075-17507822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Through this exhibit, we invite you to explore more than two centuries of diaries and diary-like documents from across the holdings of the Special Collections Research Center, ranging from privately emotive to publicly informative, from offering news reportage to depicting emotional processing, and from factual to purely fictional. As you read, consider how these journals embody elements of both private and public writing and the permeability between those spheres.

Diaries, journals, daily planners, notebooks: these ephemeral writings provide documentation of private lives and thoughts that can otherwise be difficult to find in the historical record. But does “private” necessarily imply unfiltered and unmediated? Many theorists have noted that the diarist is both writer and reader, both private and public self. Therefore the content and form of diaries are created for future reading, even if only by a future version of the self. The ambiguity of a diary’s audience is heightened in the case of published diaries. The form suggests that we, as readers, are accessing raw, unfiltered thoughts, but rounds of revision are common, and often essential to clearly convey the intended meaning. Even further from our notions of authentic, private writing, fictional diaries are written solely to be published and read by the public, but use the diary form to draw the reader into a particular relationship with the text and its protagonist.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:30:04 -0500 2020-04-05T08:30:00-04:00 2020-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Common Threads Volume LXXII. Candance Hicks, 2016. Special Collections Research Center.
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (April 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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 in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (April 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (April 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
CANCELLED - Nam Center K-pop Party | Trivia and Translation (April 5, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73067 73067-18138325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Join the University of Michigan Nam Center for Korean Studies for an afternoon of K-pop! Show off your knowledge of K-pop through the decades at our trivia stations, learn the dance moves of your favorite idols, and sing your heart out in the Karaoke room – all for a chance to earn prizes! This event is free and open to the public. Snacks will be provided.

RSVP on Facebook at http://bit.ly/kpop-party

Are you a student in Michigan between the grades of 6-12 who loves K-pop? Check out our “K-Pop Translation Contest” for a special prize opportunity (open until 3/22/20): https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/translation

What is K-pop?
K-pop, or Korean pop music, is the largest cultural export of Korea. The style of K-pop blends elements of pop/R&B/rap tones, repetitive verses, dancing, and unique fashion. Referred to as part of ‘Hallyu’ (한류), or the ‘Korean Wave,’ K-pop captivated audiences of Asia and traveled the world into the United States, including our community in Ann Arbor.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:40:18 -0400 2020-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Exhibition Nam Center K-pop Party | Trivia and Translation
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Dear Stranger: Diaries for the Private and Public Self (April 6, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70075 70075-17507823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Through this exhibit, we invite you to explore more than two centuries of diaries and diary-like documents from across the holdings of the Special Collections Research Center, ranging from privately emotive to publicly informative, from offering news reportage to depicting emotional processing, and from factual to purely fictional. As you read, consider how these journals embody elements of both private and public writing and the permeability between those spheres.

Diaries, journals, daily planners, notebooks: these ephemeral writings provide documentation of private lives and thoughts that can otherwise be difficult to find in the historical record. But does “private” necessarily imply unfiltered and unmediated? Many theorists have noted that the diarist is both writer and reader, both private and public self. Therefore the content and form of diaries are created for future reading, even if only by a future version of the self. The ambiguity of a diary’s audience is heightened in the case of published diaries. The form suggests that we, as readers, are accessing raw, unfiltered thoughts, but rounds of revision are common, and often essential to clearly convey the intended meaning. Even further from our notions of authentic, private writing, fictional diaries are written solely to be published and read by the public, but use the diary form to draw the reader into a particular relationship with the text and its protagonist.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:30:04 -0500 2020-04-06T08:30:00-04:00 2020-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Common Threads Volume LXXII. Candance Hicks, 2016. Special Collections Research Center.
As to the Woman Question (April 6, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-04-06T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
CANCELED No Space Hidden (Under Heaven) (April 6, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70225 70225-17550000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

New work by Abigial DeVille. Born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works, DeVille has maintained a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places. She creates site-specific, immersive installations designed to bring attention to these forgotten stories, such as with the sculpture she built on the site of a former African American burial ground in Harlem.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:50 -0400 2020-04-06T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Abigal DeVille
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Dear Stranger: Diaries for the Private and Public Self (April 7, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70075 70075-17507824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Through this exhibit, we invite you to explore more than two centuries of diaries and diary-like documents from across the holdings of the Special Collections Research Center, ranging from privately emotive to publicly informative, from offering news reportage to depicting emotional processing, and from factual to purely fictional. As you read, consider how these journals embody elements of both private and public writing and the permeability between those spheres.

Diaries, journals, daily planners, notebooks: these ephemeral writings provide documentation of private lives and thoughts that can otherwise be difficult to find in the historical record. But does “private” necessarily imply unfiltered and unmediated? Many theorists have noted that the diarist is both writer and reader, both private and public self. Therefore the content and form of diaries are created for future reading, even if only by a future version of the self. The ambiguity of a diary’s audience is heightened in the case of published diaries. The form suggests that we, as readers, are accessing raw, unfiltered thoughts, but rounds of revision are common, and often essential to clearly convey the intended meaning. Even further from our notions of authentic, private writing, fictional diaries are written solely to be published and read by the public, but use the diary form to draw the reader into a particular relationship with the text and its protagonist.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:30:04 -0500 2020-04-07T08:30:00-04:00 2020-04-07T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Common Threads Volume LXXII. Candance Hicks, 2016. Special Collections Research Center.
As to the Woman Question (April 7, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-04-07T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
CANCELED No Space Hidden (Under Heaven) (April 7, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70225 70225-17550001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

New work by Abigial DeVille. Born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works, DeVille has maintained a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places. She creates site-specific, immersive installations designed to bring attention to these forgotten stories, such as with the sculpture she built on the site of a former African American burial ground in Harlem.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:50 -0400 2020-04-07T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Abigal DeVille
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (April 7, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-04-07T09:51:00-04:00 2020-04-07T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (April 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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 in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-04-07T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-04-07T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-04-07T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (April 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-04-07T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-04-07T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (April 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-04-07T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Dear Stranger: Diaries for the Private and Public Self (April 8, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70075 70075-17507825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Through this exhibit, we invite you to explore more than two centuries of diaries and diary-like documents from across the holdings of the Special Collections Research Center, ranging from privately emotive to publicly informative, from offering news reportage to depicting emotional processing, and from factual to purely fictional. As you read, consider how these journals embody elements of both private and public writing and the permeability between those spheres.

Diaries, journals, daily planners, notebooks: these ephemeral writings provide documentation of private lives and thoughts that can otherwise be difficult to find in the historical record. But does “private” necessarily imply unfiltered and unmediated? Many theorists have noted that the diarist is both writer and reader, both private and public self. Therefore the content and form of diaries are created for future reading, even if only by a future version of the self. The ambiguity of a diary’s audience is heightened in the case of published diaries. The form suggests that we, as readers, are accessing raw, unfiltered thoughts, but rounds of revision are common, and often essential to clearly convey the intended meaning. Even further from our notions of authentic, private writing, fictional diaries are written solely to be published and read by the public, but use the diary form to draw the reader into a particular relationship with the text and its protagonist.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:30:04 -0500 2020-04-08T08:30:00-04:00 2020-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Common Threads Volume LXXII. Candance Hicks, 2016. Special Collections Research Center.
As to the Woman Question (April 8, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-04-08T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
CANCELED No Space Hidden (Under Heaven) (April 8, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70225 70225-17550002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

New work by Abigial DeVille. Born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works, DeVille has maintained a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places. She creates site-specific, immersive installations designed to bring attention to these forgotten stories, such as with the sculpture she built on the site of a former African American burial ground in Harlem.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:50 -0400 2020-04-08T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Abigal DeVille
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (April 8, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-04-08T09:51:00-04:00 2020-04-08T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (April 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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 in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-04-08T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-04-08T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-04-08T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (April 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-04-08T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-04-08T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (April 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-04-08T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.