Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 22, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-22T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 22, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-22T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (October 22, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-10-22T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (October 22, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data (October 22, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84616 84616-21625757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is proud to present the first survey of renowned transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins, who creates platforms for dialogue about artificial intelligence as it intersects race, gender, aging, and our future histories.
Through her work, Dinkins has become a central figure nationally and internationally recognized for exposing bias and inequity within artificial intelligence systems. Weaving together art production and exhibition, community-based workshops and public speaking all with the intention of encouraging action towards making artificial intelligence systems more inclusive, accessible and transparent.
In this exhibition, Dinkins will debut new and interactive installations and workshops that build on her concept of Afro-now-ism. In this poetic manifesto-like text, Dinkins asks her audience, particularly from communities of color, to not only confront the litany of violences that humans have wielded upon one another based on the institutional and social constructions of race, caste, class, and gender to maintain status quo and the current systems of power - but rise above it by taking action to start building the world that they desire.
She writes: “Instead of waiting to reach the proverbial promised land, also known as a time in the future that may or may not manifest in your lifetime, Afro-now-ism is taking the leap and the risks to imagine and define oneself beyond systemic oppression... For black people in particular, it means conceiving yourself in the space of free and expansive thought and acting from a critically integrated space, allowing for more community-sustaining work.”
Through her installations and workshops Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data develops a dialogue with the audience on the hierarchies embedded within machine learning and AI architecture and one's individual agency in transforming the algorithms within it. The audience will explore and participate in creating a more inclusive data-based narrative of what governance of the people, by the people and for the people can look like in an AI mediated world where care is encoded within our digital civic system.

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Oct 2021 12:15:20 -0400 2021-10-22T11:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Computer-generated image shows a flower garden full of glowing spheres
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 23, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (October 23, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-10-23T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data (October 23, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84616 84616-21625758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is proud to present the first survey of renowned transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins, who creates platforms for dialogue about artificial intelligence as it intersects race, gender, aging, and our future histories.
Through her work, Dinkins has become a central figure nationally and internationally recognized for exposing bias and inequity within artificial intelligence systems. Weaving together art production and exhibition, community-based workshops and public speaking all with the intention of encouraging action towards making artificial intelligence systems more inclusive, accessible and transparent.
In this exhibition, Dinkins will debut new and interactive installations and workshops that build on her concept of Afro-now-ism. In this poetic manifesto-like text, Dinkins asks her audience, particularly from communities of color, to not only confront the litany of violences that humans have wielded upon one another based on the institutional and social constructions of race, caste, class, and gender to maintain status quo and the current systems of power - but rise above it by taking action to start building the world that they desire.
She writes: “Instead of waiting to reach the proverbial promised land, also known as a time in the future that may or may not manifest in your lifetime, Afro-now-ism is taking the leap and the risks to imagine and define oneself beyond systemic oppression... For black people in particular, it means conceiving yourself in the space of free and expansive thought and acting from a critically integrated space, allowing for more community-sustaining work.”
Through her installations and workshops Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data develops a dialogue with the audience on the hierarchies embedded within machine learning and AI architecture and one's individual agency in transforming the algorithms within it. The audience will explore and participate in creating a more inclusive data-based narrative of what governance of the people, by the people and for the people can look like in an AI mediated world where care is encoded within our digital civic system.

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Oct 2021 12:15:20 -0400 2021-10-23T11:00:00-04:00 2021-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Computer-generated image shows a flower garden full of glowing spheres
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 24, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 24, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (October 24, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 24, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-10-24T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
U-M Retirees Association Presents: The Joy of Carving: Carving Caricatures for 50 Years (October 24, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88583 88583-21655822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 24, 2021 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Floyd Radigan has been a carver his entire life. He is a member of the prestigious organization, Caricature Carvers of America of which there are only 25 members. Join us to hear about caricature carving.

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Exhibition Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:07:35 -0400 2021-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Exhibition
U-M Retirees Association Presents: The Joy of Carving: Carving Caricatures for 50 Years (October 24, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88583 88583-21655823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 24, 2021 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Floyd Radigan has been a carver his entire life. He is a member of the prestigious organization, Caricature Carvers of America of which there are only 25 members. Join us to hear about caricature carving.

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Exhibition Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:07:35 -0400 2021-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Exhibition
U-M Retirees Association Presents: The Joy of Carving: Carving Caricatures for 50 Years (October 24, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88583 88583-21655824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 24, 2021 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Floyd Radigan has been a carver his entire life. He is a member of the prestigious organization, Caricature Carvers of America of which there are only 25 members. Join us to hear about caricature carving.

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Exhibition Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:07:35 -0400 2021-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Exhibition
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 25, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (October 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (October 25, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-10-25T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 26, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 26, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (October 26, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (October 26, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-10-26T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 27, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 27, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-27T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (October 27, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-10-27T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 27, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-27T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (October 27, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-10-27T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 28, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 28, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-28T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (October 28, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-10-28T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 28, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-28T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (October 28, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-10-28T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 29, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-29T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (October 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-10-29T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 29, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (October 29, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 30, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (October 30, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-10-30T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 30, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-30T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (October 31, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 31, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 31, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 31, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 31, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 31, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 2, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-02T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 2, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-02T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 2, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-02T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 2, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-02T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 3, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-03T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 3, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-03T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 3, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-03T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 3, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-03T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 3, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-03T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-04T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-04T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-04T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 4, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-04T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 4, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-04T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-04T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-05T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-05T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-05T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-05T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-05T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 6, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 6, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-06T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-06T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 6, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 6, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-06T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-06T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-06T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Curator Tour: Free Your Mind (November 6, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88759 88759-21657350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 6, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Behind every exhibition there are many people, stories, and histories to share. Janie Paul, co-curator of the Free Your Mind exhibition, is a thirty-plus year veteran of working with artists who have experienced incarceration—and many who still remain behind bars. Join Janie to learn about the exhibition, her work, and how art-making in prison can be a form of resistance and liberation.

This fall at the MSU Broad Art Museum visitors are invited to join artists and guest curators participating in the exhibition program to explore the works on view at the museum and Art Lab. These special opportunities to dialogue and learn directly from artists themselves will provide unique insights and further shed light on the important conversations their work contributes.

This program is presented in partnership with the MSU Broad Art Museum. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is on view through Dec. 12, 2021 at the MSU Broad.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:03:51 -0400 2021-11-06T14:00:00-04:00 2021-11-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Janie Paul leads a tour at the Free Your Mind exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 7, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 7, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-07T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 7, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 7, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-07T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 8, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-08T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 9, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 9, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 9, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 9, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-09T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 10, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-10T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 10, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-10T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
U-M Retirees Association Presents: The Joy of Carving: Carving Caricatures for 50 Years (November 11, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88583 88583-21655821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Floyd Radigan has been a carver his entire life. He is a member of the prestigious organization, Caricature Carvers of America of which there are only 25 members. Join us to hear about caricature carving.

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Exhibition Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:07:35 -0400 2021-11-11T00:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T13:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Exhibition
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 11, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 11, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 11, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 11, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 11, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (November 12, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21624276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-11-12T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 13, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-13T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 13, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-13T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (November 13, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-11-13T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 14, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 14, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-14T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 14, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 14, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-14T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 15, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-15T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 15, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-15T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-15T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-15T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition! (November 15, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89277 89277-21661671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student drawings for our As I See It Drawing Competition! All drawing media are accepted-- pencil, charcoal, comic, digital drawing, watercolor, etc. Share your artistic genius with us and you could win $100! Deadline for submissions is Thursday, November 18 at 10pm.

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:40:34 -0500 2021-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition
Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition! (November 15, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89277 89277-21661672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student drawings for our As I See It Drawing Competition! All drawing media are accepted-- pencil, charcoal, comic, digital drawing, watercolor, etc. Share your artistic genius with us and you could win $100! Deadline for submissions is Thursday, November 18 at 10pm.

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:40:34 -0500 2021-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 16, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 16, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 16, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-16T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 16, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-16T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition! (November 16, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89277 89277-21661673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student drawings for our As I See It Drawing Competition! All drawing media are accepted-- pencil, charcoal, comic, digital drawing, watercolor, etc. Share your artistic genius with us and you could win $100! Deadline for submissions is Thursday, November 18 at 10pm.

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:40:34 -0500 2021-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 17, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-17T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 17, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-17T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (November 17, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition! (November 17, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89277 89277-21661674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student drawings for our As I See It Drawing Competition! All drawing media are accepted-- pencil, charcoal, comic, digital drawing, watercolor, etc. Share your artistic genius with us and you could win $100! Deadline for submissions is Thursday, November 18 at 10pm.

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:40:34 -0500 2021-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 18, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-18T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 18, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-18T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 18, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 18, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 18, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (November 18, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-11-18T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition! (November 18, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89277 89277-21661675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student drawings for our As I See It Drawing Competition! All drawing media are accepted-- pencil, charcoal, comic, digital drawing, watercolor, etc. Share your artistic genius with us and you could win $100! Deadline for submissions is Thursday, November 18 at 10pm.

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:40:34 -0500 2021-11-18T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 19, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-19T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 19, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-19T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (November 19, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-11-19T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 20, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 20, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-20T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 20, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-20T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (November 20, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-11-20T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative Exhibition Tour (November 20, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88775 88775-21657751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for an exhi­bi­tion tour of Envi­sion: The
Michi­gan Artist Ini­tia­tive at Stamps Gallery. The exhi­bi­tion fea­tures new work by the five Envi­sion final­ists, artists Nayda Col­lazo-Llorens, Michael Dixon,
Car­ole Har­ris, Kylie Lock­wood, and Dar­ryl DeAn­gelo Ter­rell. We will
discuss the artworks on view and look forward to hearing your thoughts as
well.
This is the inau­gural year of Envi­sion: The
Michi­gan Artist Ini­tia­tive, a new awards pro­gram designed to sup­port
the devel­op­ment of con­tem­po­rary artists liv­ing and work­ing in
Michi­gan. The five final­ists were selected by jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Cura­tor, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA ​’73), Artist; and
Lor­ing Ran­dolph (BFA ​’04), Direc­tor, Nancy A. Nasher
and David J. Haemiseg­ger Collection.
Spaces are lim­ited. Please reserve your ticket here. Tour par­tic­i­pants are requested to wear masks, main­tain
social dis­tanc­ing and fol­low Stamps Gallery’s COVID-19
policies.
Envi­sion: The Michi­gan Artist Ini­tia­tive is on view at Stamps Gallery from November 12, 2021 — Janu­ary 22, 2022.

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Exhibition Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:15:28 -0400 2021-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Envision logo: stylized white letters spell out ENVISION on a black background
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 21, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 21, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-21T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 21, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 21, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-21T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-21T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 21, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 21, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-21T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 22, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 22, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 22, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 22, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 22, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 22, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-22T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-22T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 22, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 22, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-22T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-22T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 23, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 23, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-23T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 23, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 23, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-23T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 23, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 23, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-23T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-23T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 23, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 23, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-23T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-23T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 24, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-24T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-24T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-24T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-24T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (November 24, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-11-24T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-25T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-25T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 25, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 25, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-25T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-25T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 25, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 25, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-25T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-25T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-25T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-25T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 26, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 26, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-26T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 26, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 26, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-26T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-26T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 26, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 26, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-26T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-26T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-26T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-26T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 27, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 27, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-27T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-27T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 27, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 27, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-27T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-27T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-27T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-27T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 28, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 28, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-28T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-28T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 28, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 28, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-28T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-28T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-28T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-28T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 29, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 29, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-29T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-29T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 29, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 29, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-29T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (November 30, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 30, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 30, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-30T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (November 30, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-11-30T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 30, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21664521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-30T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 (December 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86339 86339-21632835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:04:25 -0400 2021-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detroit Model, 1922, Aladdin Company, Bay City.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (December 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 10:00am
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Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-12-01T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-01T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan (December 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88484 88484-21654288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change. 
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials. 
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions. 
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

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Exhibition Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:52:01 -0400 2021-12-01T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (December 1, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-12-01T11:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background