Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 5, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 5, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-05T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 5, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-05T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 5, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-05T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (October 5, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-10-05T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (October 5, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 5, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-05T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 5, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-05T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 6, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-06T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 6, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-06T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 6, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-06T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 6, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-06T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (October 6, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-10-06T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (October 6, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-10-06T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 6, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 6, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 7, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 7, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-07T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 7, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-07T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 7, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-07T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (October 7, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-10-07T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (October 7, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-10-07T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 7, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-07T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 7, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-07T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 8, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 8, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-08T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-08T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 8, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 8, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-08T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 8, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 8, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-08T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (October 8, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 8, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-08T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 8, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 8, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-08T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 8, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 8, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-08T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 9, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 9, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-09T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-09T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 9, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 9, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 9, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 9, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (October 9, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 9, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-10-09T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-09T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 10, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 10, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-10T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-10T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 10, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 10, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-10T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 10, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 10, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-10T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 10, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 10, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-10T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (October 10, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 10, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-10-10T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (October 10, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 10, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-10-10T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-10T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 11, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-11T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 11, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 11, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 11, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-11T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (October 11, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-10-11T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (October 11, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-10-11T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 12, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 12, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-12T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 12, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-12T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 12, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-12T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (October 12, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-10-12T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (October 12, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-10-12T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 12, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-12T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 12, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-12T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 13, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-13T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 13, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-13T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 13, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-13T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 13, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-13T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (October 13, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-10-13T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (October 13, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-10-13T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 13, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-13T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 13, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-13T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 14, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-14T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 14, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-14T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 14, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-14T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 14, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-14T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (October 14, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-10-14T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (October 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-10-14T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 14, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-14T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 14, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-14T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
SAS Open House (October 14, 2022 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98190 98190-21795692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 9:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Student Astronomical Society

Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe firsthand. At each open house, members of SAS operate the telescopes and the planetarium of the Angell Hall Observatory. Visitors can view astronomical objects through the 8" and 0.4m telescopes (weather permitting), watch a planetarium show on a number of interesting topics, or learn about the cosmos from a presentation.

The Angell Hall Observatory is located on the roof of Angell Hall.

The Angell Hall Planetarium is located on the third floor of Angell Hall, in room 3118.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Sep 2022 19:45:33 -0400 2022-10-14T21:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T23:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Student Astronomical Society Exhibition
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 15, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 15, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-15T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 15, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 15, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-15T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-15T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 15, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 15, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-15T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-15T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 15, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-15T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 15, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-15T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 16, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 16, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-16T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-16T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 16, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 16, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-16T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 16, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 16, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-16T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 17, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 17, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-17T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-17T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 17, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 17, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-17T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-17T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 17, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 17, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-17T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (October 17, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 17, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-10-17T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 18, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-18T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 18, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-18T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 18, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-18T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (October 18, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-10-18T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 19, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 19, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 19, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-19T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (October 19, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-10-19T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 19, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-19T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 19, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-19T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 20, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 20, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 20, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-20T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (October 20, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-10-20T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 20, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 20, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 21, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-21T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 21, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-21T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 21, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-21T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (October 21, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-10-21T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
RC Art Exhibition (October 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98650 98650-21797025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

LOUIE PALU
PHOTOGRAPHS
Oct. 21-Nov. 21, 2022

Louie Palu is an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in publications and exhibitions internationally. He is a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant (2012) to cover the Mexican Drug War and a Milton Rogovin Fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography.

Palu's work has appeared in numerous books, and exhibitions and has been published widely including in Der Spiegel, El Pais, Le Figaro, National Geographic, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. His work is held in numerous collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the National Gallery of Art and has been selected for numerous exhibitions including in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. His films have been screened at numerous festivals including the Munich and Barcelona Documentary Film Festivals.

The RC Art Gallery is open Monday-Friday from 10:00 am-5:00 pm.

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Exhibition Tue, 13 Sep 2022 12:13:42 -0400 2022-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Image edit for print installation in a grid for "Zhari-Panjwaii: Dispatches from Afghanistan", exhibition at Dalhousie University Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2009. Also exhibited at Gallery TPW in Toronto, Canada, curated by Blake Fitzpatrick.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 21, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-21T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 21, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-21T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 22, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 22, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-22T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 22, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 22, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-22T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 22, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 22, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-22T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 22, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 22, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-22T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 23, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 23, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-23T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 23, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 23, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-23T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
Watershed (October 23, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93605 93605-21706336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 23, 2022 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings recent work from sixteen contemporary artists to UMMA for an exhibition that immerses visitors in the interconnected histories, present lives, and imagined futures of the Great Lakes region.

Some of these artists give voice to the experiences of communities that have been marginalized, making personal and visceral the social, economic, and political relationships among people, water, and land. Others use water as part of their process—whether photography, painting, sculpture—to provoke reflection on its ineffable effects on our bodies, language, and lives. All demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the critical problems confronting our region.

This exhibition will feature new commissions from those listed below as well as works by Dawoud Bey, Pope L, LaToya Ruby Fraizer, Cai Guo-Qiang, Doug Fogelson, Matthew Brandt, and Senghor Reid.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Susan and Richard Gutow, and the U-M Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, Graham Sustainability Institute, and the Department of English Language and Literature. Special thanks to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin.  
 

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Exhibition Sun, 23 Oct 2022 18:16:42 -0400 2022-10-23T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Doug Fogelson, Headwaters No. 10, from the Chemical Alterations series, 2018, archival inkjet print. Courtesy the artist. © Doug Fogelson
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 24, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 24, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-24T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 24, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 24, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-24T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 24, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 24, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-24T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 25, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-25T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 25, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-25T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 25, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 26, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-26T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 26, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-26T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 26, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 26, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 26, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 27, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-27T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 27, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21792145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-27T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 27, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-27T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 27, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-27T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 27, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-27T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 28, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 28, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 28, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 28, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 28, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 28, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-28T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
RC Art Exhibition (October 28, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98650 98650-21797026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 28, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

LOUIE PALU
PHOTOGRAPHS
Oct. 21-Nov. 21, 2022

Louie Palu is an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in publications and exhibitions internationally. He is a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant (2012) to cover the Mexican Drug War and a Milton Rogovin Fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography.

Palu's work has appeared in numerous books, and exhibitions and has been published widely including in Der Spiegel, El Pais, Le Figaro, National Geographic, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. His work is held in numerous collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the National Gallery of Art and has been selected for numerous exhibitions including in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. His films have been screened at numerous festivals including the Munich and Barcelona Documentary Film Festivals.

The RC Art Gallery is open Monday-Friday from 10:00 am-5:00 pm.

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Exhibition Tue, 13 Sep 2022 12:13:42 -0400 2022-10-28T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Image edit for print installation in a grid for "Zhari-Panjwaii: Dispatches from Afghanistan", exhibition at Dalhousie University Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2009. Also exhibited at Gallery TPW in Toronto, Canada, curated by Blake Fitzpatrick.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 28, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 28, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-28T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 28, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 28, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-28T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
SAS Open House (October 28, 2022 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98190 98190-21795693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 28, 2022 9:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Student Astronomical Society

Open houses are free, inclusive opportunities to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe firsthand. At each open house, members of SAS operate the telescopes and the planetarium of the Angell Hall Observatory. Visitors can view astronomical objects through the 8" and 0.4m telescopes (weather permitting), watch a planetarium show on a number of interesting topics, or learn about the cosmos from a presentation.

The Angell Hall Observatory is located on the roof of Angell Hall.

The Angell Hall Planetarium is located on the third floor of Angell Hall, in room 3118.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Sep 2022 19:45:33 -0400 2022-10-28T21:00:00-04:00 2022-10-28T23:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Student Astronomical Society Exhibition
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 29, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 29, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 29, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 29, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 29, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 29, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-29T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 29, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 29, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-29T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 30, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 30, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-30T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 30, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 30, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-30T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (October 31, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 31, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-31T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (October 31, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 31, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2022-10-31T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (October 31, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 31, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (November 1, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2022-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 1, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2022-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (November 1, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2022-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Student Art Exhibition - Childhood & Beauty (November 1, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100932 100932-21800517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Palmer Commons

Come to the Windows Lounge on our 3rd floor Plaza level of Palmer Commons to see Rachel Deveyra's student art exhibition. It will be up from November 1 - 18, 2022. Below is a statement from the artist.

This body of work is a reflection of my childhood experiences. Each one of these pieces represents how beauty standards have impacted my life. Through this reflection, I have not only accepted myself as I am now but also my third grade self who felt bad about herself. Merely acknowledging the existence of these standards and processing my memories through my art has been therapeutic and has served as a healthy reminder that beauty should be perceived broadly and inclusively. Hopefully, my art encourages others to be more accepting of themselves as well as each other’s differences.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:50:18 -0500 2022-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 2022-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Palmer Commons Exhibition Childhood & Beauty
Student Art Exhibition - Childhood & Beauty (November 1, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100932 100932-21800548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Palmer Commons

Come to the Windows Lounge on our 3rd floor Plaza level of Palmer Commons to see Rachel Deveyra's student art exhibition. It will be up from November 1 - 18, 2022. Below is a statement from the artist.

This body of work is a reflection of my childhood experiences. Each one of these pieces represents how beauty standards have impacted my life. Through this reflection, I have not only accepted myself as I am now but also my third grade self who felt bad about herself. Merely acknowledging the existence of these standards and processing my memories through my art has been therapeutic and has served as a healthy reminder that beauty should be perceived broadly and inclusively. Hopefully, my art encourages others to be more accepting of themselves as well as each other’s differences.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:50:18 -0500 2022-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 2022-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Exhibition Childhood & Beauty
Student Art Exhibition - Childhood & Beauty (November 1, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100932 100932-21800549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Palmer Commons

Come to the Windows Lounge on our 3rd floor Plaza level of Palmer Commons to see Rachel Deveyra's student art exhibition. It will be up from November 1 - 18, 2022. Below is a statement from the artist.

This body of work is a reflection of my childhood experiences. Each one of these pieces represents how beauty standards have impacted my life. Through this reflection, I have not only accepted myself as I am now but also my third grade self who felt bad about herself. Merely acknowledging the existence of these standards and processing my memories through my art has been therapeutic and has served as a healthy reminder that beauty should be perceived broadly and inclusively. Hopefully, my art encourages others to be more accepting of themselves as well as each other’s differences.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:50:18 -0500 2022-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 2022-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Exhibition Childhood & Beauty
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (November 2, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-11-02T08:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 2, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-11-02T08:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (November 2, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-11-02T09:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (November 2, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the Exhibition
*La Pelea/The Fight* is a 46-foot panoramic oil-on-canvas. At the center of the “picture” and surrounded by a jeering crowd, the viewer becomes literally and conceptually involved as the one who is about to fight and defend themself. Depending on where the viewer is standing in the space, however, a different perspective can emerge, suggesting that even a public, collective experience is highly subjective.

Like much of Diaz’s work, *La Pelea/The Fight* brings into question the reliability of the narrator and the complexity of stories, especially as they pertain to the manipulation of facts and suggestions of criminality by the media and those in positions of power. It is timely in an era defined by polarity and politically driven half-truths and fictions, and a reminder that it is the necessary tension of a myriad of perspectives that bring us closer to some truth, rather than the singular view from where we are standing.

About the Artist
Born in 1977 in Mexico, Diaz considers image and information, and how the media and individuals represent stories to a different end. His immersive Panoramic paintings allow for the viewer to be witness, gaining a different perspective or experience depending on the positioning in relation to the work. His work is so original, fresh and contemporary, while at the same time harkening back to the traditions of Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:34:34 -0400 2022-11-02T09:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (November 2, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-11-02T11:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (November 2, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-11-02T11:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (November 3, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-11-03T08:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 3, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-11-03T08:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (November 3, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-11-03T09:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (November 3, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the Exhibition
*La Pelea/The Fight* is a 46-foot panoramic oil-on-canvas. At the center of the “picture” and surrounded by a jeering crowd, the viewer becomes literally and conceptually involved as the one who is about to fight and defend themself. Depending on where the viewer is standing in the space, however, a different perspective can emerge, suggesting that even a public, collective experience is highly subjective.

Like much of Diaz’s work, *La Pelea/The Fight* brings into question the reliability of the narrator and the complexity of stories, especially as they pertain to the manipulation of facts and suggestions of criminality by the media and those in positions of power. It is timely in an era defined by polarity and politically driven half-truths and fictions, and a reminder that it is the necessary tension of a myriad of perspectives that bring us closer to some truth, rather than the singular view from where we are standing.

About the Artist
Born in 1977 in Mexico, Diaz considers image and information, and how the media and individuals represent stories to a different end. His immersive Panoramic paintings allow for the viewer to be witness, gaining a different perspective or experience depending on the positioning in relation to the work. His work is so original, fresh and contemporary, while at the same time harkening back to the traditions of Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:34:34 -0400 2022-11-03T09:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (November 3, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-11-03T11:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (November 3, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-11-03T11:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (November 4, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-11-04T08:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 4, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-11-04T08:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (November 4, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-11-04T09:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (November 4, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the Exhibition
*La Pelea/The Fight* is a 46-foot panoramic oil-on-canvas. At the center of the “picture” and surrounded by a jeering crowd, the viewer becomes literally and conceptually involved as the one who is about to fight and defend themself. Depending on where the viewer is standing in the space, however, a different perspective can emerge, suggesting that even a public, collective experience is highly subjective.

Like much of Diaz’s work, *La Pelea/The Fight* brings into question the reliability of the narrator and the complexity of stories, especially as they pertain to the manipulation of facts and suggestions of criminality by the media and those in positions of power. It is timely in an era defined by polarity and politically driven half-truths and fictions, and a reminder that it is the necessary tension of a myriad of perspectives that bring us closer to some truth, rather than the singular view from where we are standing.

About the Artist
Born in 1977 in Mexico, Diaz considers image and information, and how the media and individuals represent stories to a different end. His immersive Panoramic paintings allow for the viewer to be witness, gaining a different perspective or experience depending on the positioning in relation to the work. His work is so original, fresh and contemporary, while at the same time harkening back to the traditions of Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:34:34 -0400 2022-11-04T09:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
RC Art Exhibition (November 4, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98650 98650-21797027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

LOUIE PALU
PHOTOGRAPHS
Oct. 21-Nov. 21, 2022

Louie Palu is an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in publications and exhibitions internationally. He is a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant (2012) to cover the Mexican Drug War and a Milton Rogovin Fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography.

Palu's work has appeared in numerous books, and exhibitions and has been published widely including in Der Spiegel, El Pais, Le Figaro, National Geographic, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. His work is held in numerous collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the National Gallery of Art and has been selected for numerous exhibitions including in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. His films have been screened at numerous festivals including the Munich and Barcelona Documentary Film Festivals.

The RC Art Gallery is open Monday-Friday from 10:00 am-5:00 pm.

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Exhibition Tue, 13 Sep 2022 12:13:42 -0400 2022-11-04T10:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Image edit for print installation in a grid for "Zhari-Panjwaii: Dispatches from Afghanistan", exhibition at Dalhousie University Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2009. Also exhibited at Gallery TPW in Toronto, Canada, curated by Blake Fitzpatrick.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (November 4, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-11-04T11:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (November 4, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-11-04T11:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (November 5, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 5, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-11-05T08:00:00-04:00 2022-11-05T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 5, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 5, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-11-05T08:00:00-04:00 2022-11-05T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (November 5, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 5, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-11-05T11:00:00-04:00 2022-11-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (November 5, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 5, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-11-05T11:00:00-04:00 2022-11-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (November 6, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 6, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-11-06T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 6, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 6, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-11-06T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (November 7, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-11-07T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 7, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-11-07T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (November 7, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-11-07T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (November 7, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the Exhibition
*La Pelea/The Fight* is a 46-foot panoramic oil-on-canvas. At the center of the “picture” and surrounded by a jeering crowd, the viewer becomes literally and conceptually involved as the one who is about to fight and defend themself. Depending on where the viewer is standing in the space, however, a different perspective can emerge, suggesting that even a public, collective experience is highly subjective.

Like much of Diaz’s work, *La Pelea/The Fight* brings into question the reliability of the narrator and the complexity of stories, especially as they pertain to the manipulation of facts and suggestions of criminality by the media and those in positions of power. It is timely in an era defined by polarity and politically driven half-truths and fictions, and a reminder that it is the necessary tension of a myriad of perspectives that bring us closer to some truth, rather than the singular view from where we are standing.

About the Artist
Born in 1977 in Mexico, Diaz considers image and information, and how the media and individuals represent stories to a different end. His immersive Panoramic paintings allow for the viewer to be witness, gaining a different perspective or experience depending on the positioning in relation to the work. His work is so original, fresh and contemporary, while at the same time harkening back to the traditions of Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:34:34 -0400 2022-11-07T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (November 8, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-11-08T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 8, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-11-08T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (November 8, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (November 8, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the Exhibition
*La Pelea/The Fight* is a 46-foot panoramic oil-on-canvas. At the center of the “picture” and surrounded by a jeering crowd, the viewer becomes literally and conceptually involved as the one who is about to fight and defend themself. Depending on where the viewer is standing in the space, however, a different perspective can emerge, suggesting that even a public, collective experience is highly subjective.

Like much of Diaz’s work, *La Pelea/The Fight* brings into question the reliability of the narrator and the complexity of stories, especially as they pertain to the manipulation of facts and suggestions of criminality by the media and those in positions of power. It is timely in an era defined by polarity and politically driven half-truths and fictions, and a reminder that it is the necessary tension of a myriad of perspectives that bring us closer to some truth, rather than the singular view from where we are standing.

About the Artist
Born in 1977 in Mexico, Diaz considers image and information, and how the media and individuals represent stories to a different end. His immersive Panoramic paintings allow for the viewer to be witness, gaining a different perspective or experience depending on the positioning in relation to the work. His work is so original, fresh and contemporary, while at the same time harkening back to the traditions of Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:34:34 -0400 2022-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
Vote 2022: Midterms Matter (November 8, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96644 96644-21792972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Make Your Voice Heard at UMMA This Fall.

In the lead up to the 2022 U.S. midterm elections and beyond, UMMA is partnering with local, regional, and national organizations, designers, and artists to transform Museum spaces in the name of civic participation and engagement. In partnership with the Ann Arbor City Clerk’s Office, the Creative Campus Voting Project is collaborating with UMMA to turn your art museum into an election hub — register to vote, get your ballot, access voting resources, and celebrate participation. In addition, visiting artist Philippa Hughes will host a dynamic and deeply engaging series of experimental social events across UMMA’s galleries, creating space for authentic and honest conversations between politically diverse people.

UMMA, Creative Campus Voting Project, Turn Up Turnout, the U-M Ginsberg Center, and U-M Democracy & Debate Initiative comprise UMICH VOTES, a coalition of social and civic engagement organizations working to expand access, educate, and engage student voters in the democratic process. 

Lead support provided by:
U-M Office of the Provost
U-M Democracy and Debate Initiative
U-M Office of Research
U-M Stamps School of Art & Design

All costs associated with the operation of the Ann Arbor City Clerk’s Satellite Office were generously provided by the City of Ann Arbor.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 08 Nov 2022 18:16:28 -0500 2022-11-08T11:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo by Dominick Sokotoff
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (November 9, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-11-09T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 9, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-11-09T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (November 9, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (November 9, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the Exhibition
*La Pelea/The Fight* is a 46-foot panoramic oil-on-canvas. At the center of the “picture” and surrounded by a jeering crowd, the viewer becomes literally and conceptually involved as the one who is about to fight and defend themself. Depending on where the viewer is standing in the space, however, a different perspective can emerge, suggesting that even a public, collective experience is highly subjective.

Like much of Diaz’s work, *La Pelea/The Fight* brings into question the reliability of the narrator and the complexity of stories, especially as they pertain to the manipulation of facts and suggestions of criminality by the media and those in positions of power. It is timely in an era defined by polarity and politically driven half-truths and fictions, and a reminder that it is the necessary tension of a myriad of perspectives that bring us closer to some truth, rather than the singular view from where we are standing.

About the Artist
Born in 1977 in Mexico, Diaz considers image and information, and how the media and individuals represent stories to a different end. His immersive Panoramic paintings allow for the viewer to be witness, gaining a different perspective or experience depending on the positioning in relation to the work. His work is so original, fresh and contemporary, while at the same time harkening back to the traditions of Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:34:34 -0400 2022-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (November 9, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-11-09T11:00:00-05:00 2022-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (November 9, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-11-09T11:00:00-05:00 2022-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (November 10, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-11-10T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 10, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-11-10T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (November 10, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (November 10, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the Exhibition
*La Pelea/The Fight* is a 46-foot panoramic oil-on-canvas. At the center of the “picture” and surrounded by a jeering crowd, the viewer becomes literally and conceptually involved as the one who is about to fight and defend themself. Depending on where the viewer is standing in the space, however, a different perspective can emerge, suggesting that even a public, collective experience is highly subjective.

Like much of Diaz’s work, *La Pelea/The Fight* brings into question the reliability of the narrator and the complexity of stories, especially as they pertain to the manipulation of facts and suggestions of criminality by the media and those in positions of power. It is timely in an era defined by polarity and politically driven half-truths and fictions, and a reminder that it is the necessary tension of a myriad of perspectives that bring us closer to some truth, rather than the singular view from where we are standing.

About the Artist
Born in 1977 in Mexico, Diaz considers image and information, and how the media and individuals represent stories to a different end. His immersive Panoramic paintings allow for the viewer to be witness, gaining a different perspective or experience depending on the positioning in relation to the work. His work is so original, fresh and contemporary, while at the same time harkening back to the traditions of Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera.

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Exhibition Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:34:34 -0400 2022-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (November 10, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 2022-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (November 10, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 2022-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (November 11, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21793193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit introduces science mapping techniques and data visualization to the general public and to experts across diverse disciplines, and we hope inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate scholarly activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit includes a macroscope which showcases interactive visualizations that demonstrate the impact of different data cleaning, analysis, and visualization algorithms.

The Places & Spaces exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The complementary exhibit, A Brief History of Information Graphics, was created by Clark Library staff to provide an historical context to the Places and Spaces exhibit.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:31:35 -0400 2022-11-11T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 11, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit features various aspects of the Native North American powwow. More specifically, it features the history and culture behind Ann Arbor’s "Dance for Mother Earth Powwow," which is approaching its much-anticipated 50th celebration.

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is a multi-decade, intertribal celebration of Indigenous cultures. It grew from its early beginnings as a small gathering in a field just outside of Ann Arbor into one of the largest student-led powwows in North America. The event attracts crowds of thousands — dancers, singers, artists, tribal members from across the country, and non-Indigenous members of the community.

Stop by to learn more about The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, modern Indigenous culture, and resources to connect to today on campus.

This exhibition was curated by Michigan Library Scholar interns, Allison Jiang and Andrea Medina. The Michigan Library Scholars internship program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to research and develop a capstone project under the guidance of experienced library professionals at one of the largest academic research libraries in the world.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:50:34 -0400 2022-11-11T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition From the 1994 The Dance for Mother Earth poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (November 11, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022