Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (November 26, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 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 2022-11-26T11:00:00-05:00 2022-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 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 26, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 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 2022-11-26T11:00:00-05:00 2022-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 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 27, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 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 2022-11-27T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-27T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 27, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 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 2022-11-27T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-27T19:00:00-05:00 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 27, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 27, 2022 1:00pm
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 2022-11-27T13:00:00-05:00 2022-11-27T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (November 28, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 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 2022-11-28T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-28T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 28, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 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 2022-11-28T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-28T19:00:00-05:00 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 28, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 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 2022-11-28T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-28T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (November 28, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 28, 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 2022-11-28T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
The Vicky Barner Celebration for Native American Heritage Month (November 28, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101557 101557-21801514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 28, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Alice Lloyd Hall
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

This program will include a presentation on Native American Heritage followed by a canvas painting (in order to celebrate Vicky Barner's love for art). We will listen to Native American music and provide canvases and art supplies to paint Native American-inspired art.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:18:18 -0500 2022-11-28T18:00:00-05:00 2022-11-28T20:00:00-05:00 Alice Lloyd Hall Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Exhibition The Vicky Barner Celebration for Native American Heritage Month
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (November 29, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 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 2022-11-29T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-29T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 29, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 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 2022-11-29T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-29T19:00:00-05:00 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 29, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 29, 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 2022-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (November 29, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 29, 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 2022-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (November 30, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 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 2022-11-30T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-30T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow (November 30, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96225 96225-21798634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 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 2022-11-30T08:00:00-05:00 2022-11-30T19:00:00-05:00 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 30, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 30, 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 2022-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (November 30, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 30, 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 2022-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (November 30, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 30, 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 2022-11-30T11:00:00-05:00 2022-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 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 30, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 30, 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 2022-11-30T11:00:00-05:00 2022-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 1, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-01T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 1, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (December 1, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 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 2022-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 1, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 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 2022-12-01T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 1, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 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 2022-12-01T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 2, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 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 2022-12-02T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 2, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 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 2022-12-02T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (December 2, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 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 2022-12-02T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
RC Student Art Show (December 2, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101889 101889-21802618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Fall 22’ Student Art Show
Open for viewing at the Residential College Art Gallery!

Now through December 2022

Works of art are on display from the Studio Arts and the Arts and the Humanities classes ending this term. Work from ceramics, photography, printmaking, and sculpture courses are represented.

The opening on December 2, 2022, featured music from Residential College music ensembles directed by Katri Ervamaa. The artwork selection includes a broad selection of materials and techniques. From screen printing to film photography, to cold casting and ceramic sculpture there is something for everyone to see.

The gallery is open from 10am to 5pm Monday - Friday.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:14:03 -0500 2022-12-02T10:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition RC Student Art
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 2, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 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 2022-12-02T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 2, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 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 2022-12-02T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 3, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 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 2022-12-03T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-03T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 3, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 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 2022-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 3, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 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 2022-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 4, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 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 2022-12-04T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-04T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (December 5, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 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 2022-12-05T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-05T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 5, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 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 2022-12-05T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (December 5, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 5, 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 2022-12-05T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (December 6, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 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 2022-12-06T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-06T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 6, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 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 2022-12-06T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (December 6, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 6, 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 2022-12-06T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (December 7, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 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 2022-12-07T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-07T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 7, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 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 2022-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (December 7, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 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 2022-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 7, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 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 2022-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 7, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 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 2022-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Trade Show | Outdoors for All (December 7, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101753 101753-21802317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan's Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the "best of the best" of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product that lowers barriers to participation in outdoor activities by persons who have lost functional use of one or more limbs.

See the actual products and test them out. Then cast your vote! Network, have fun, and meet up with friends, old and new!

Parking is via street meter, or public parking is available in the Hill Street Structure Parking Garage.

The event is free and open to the public.

GREAT LOCATION: Lobby of the Robertson Auditorium, at the Ross School of Business, 1st floor at 701 Tappan, Ann Arbor, MI

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:54:59 -0400 2022-12-07T16:30:00-05:00 2022-12-07T18:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD Trade Show
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (December 8, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-08T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 8, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-08T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (December 8, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-08T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
Robotics Fall Demo Day 2022 (December 8, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101847 101847-21802549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 10:00am
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

Students will show off their projects worked on throughout the fall semester from several courses, including:
ENG 100.580: BioDesign, from noon - 1:30pm in 1050
ROB 311: How to Build Robots & Make Them Move from noon - 1:30pm in Atrium
ROB 550: Robotic Systems Lab, all day in 2010

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2022 10:54:53 -0500 2022-12-08T10:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T14:00:00-05:00 Ford Robotics Building Michigan Robotics Exhibition students work on basketball robot
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 8, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-08T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 8, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-08T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
VR / AR Student Project Exhibition (EECS 498) (December 8, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101626 101626-21801596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

Experience socially-impactful VR / AR apps made by Michigan students at the EECS 498 XR Exhibition! Join us December 9th in the first-floor Duderstadt VizStudio.

Learn more about the new "Extended Reality and Society" capstone / MDE course at bit.ly/umich_xr

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Exhibition Sun, 27 Nov 2022 19:56:07 -0500 2022-12-08T19:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T21:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition EECS 498 Student VR / AR Showcase!
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (December 9, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 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 2022-12-09T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-09T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 9, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 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 2022-12-09T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
La Pelea/The Fight (December 9, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97756 97756-21795095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 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 2022-12-09T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Pelea
RC Student Art Show (December 9, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101889 101889-21802619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 9, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Fall 22’ Student Art Show
Open for viewing at the Residential College Art Gallery!

Now through December 2022

Works of art are on display from the Studio Arts and the Arts and the Humanities classes ending this term. Work from ceramics, photography, printmaking, and sculpture courses are represented.

The opening on December 2, 2022, featured music from Residential College music ensembles directed by Katri Ervamaa. The artwork selection includes a broad selection of materials and techniques. From screen printing to film photography, to cold casting and ceramic sculpture there is something for everyone to see.

The gallery is open from 10am to 5pm Monday - Friday.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:14:03 -0500 2022-12-09T10:00:00-05:00 2022-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition RC Student Art
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 9, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 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 2022-12-09T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 9, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 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 2022-12-09T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
UM + EMU Student Games Showcase (December 9, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100845 100845-21800429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 9, 2022 7:00pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

[Hybrid In-Person / Online Showcase!]

In Person : Beyster Building Atrium
Online : 494Showcase.com

Experience 15+ new student-made video games at the UM + EMU Student Games Showcase! Interact with the student developers, learn more about Michigan and EMU's game development programs, and vote for your favorite games!

Learn more about EECS 494 and the EMU SAG program at www.eecs494.com and https://www.emich.edu/cot/vbe/programs/sag/curriculum.php respectively.

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Exhibition Sat, 29 Oct 2022 18:07:42 -0400 2022-12-09T19:00:00-05:00 2022-12-09T22:00:00-05:00 BBB EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition University of Michigan Student Game Showcase
SAS Open House (December 9, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101650 101650-21802185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 9, 2022 8:00pm
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.

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Exhibition Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:55:57 -0500 2022-12-09T20:00:00-05:00 2022-12-09T22:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Student Astronomical Society Exhibition Student Astronomical Society logo
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (December 10, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 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 2022-12-10T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-10T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 10, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 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 2022-12-10T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 10, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 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 2022-12-10T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 11, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 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 2022-12-11T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-11T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (December 12, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 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 2022-12-12T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-12T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 12, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 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 2022-12-12T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-12T16:00:00-05:00 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 (December 13, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 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 2022-12-13T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-13T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 13, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 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 2022-12-13T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-13T16:00:00-05:00 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 (December 14, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 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 2022-12-14T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-14T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 14, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 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 2022-12-14T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-14T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 14, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 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 2022-12-14T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 14, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 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 2022-12-14T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 15, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-15T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-15T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 15, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 15, 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 2022-12-15T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-15T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-15T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-15T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-15T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-15T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 16, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 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 2022-12-16T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-16T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
RC Student Art Show (December 16, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101889 101889-21802620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 16, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Fall 22’ Student Art Show
Open for viewing at the Residential College Art Gallery!

Now through December 2022

Works of art are on display from the Studio Arts and the Arts and the Humanities classes ending this term. Work from ceramics, photography, printmaking, and sculpture courses are represented.

The opening on December 2, 2022, featured music from Residential College music ensembles directed by Katri Ervamaa. The artwork selection includes a broad selection of materials and techniques. From screen printing to film photography, to cold casting and ceramic sculpture there is something for everyone to see.

The gallery is open from 10am to 5pm Monday - Friday.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:14:03 -0500 2022-12-16T10:00:00-05:00 2022-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition RC Student Art
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 16, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 16, 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 2022-12-16T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 16, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 16, 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 2022-12-16T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 17, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 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 2022-12-17T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-17T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 17, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 17, 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 2022-12-17T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-17T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 17, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 17, 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 2022-12-17T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-17T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 18, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 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 2022-12-18T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-18T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (December 19, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 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 2022-12-19T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-19T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (December 20, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 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 2022-12-20T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-20T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science and A Brief History of Information Graphics (December 21, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 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 2022-12-21T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-21T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 21, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 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 2022-12-21T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-21T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 21, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 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 2022-12-21T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-21T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 22, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-22T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-22T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 22, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-22T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-22T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 22, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-22T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-22T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 23, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96720 96720-21800851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 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 2022-12-23T08:00:00-05:00 2022-12-23T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Geologic Time Spiral: A Path to the Past
RC Student Art Show (December 23, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101889 101889-21802621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 23, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Fall 22’ Student Art Show
Open for viewing at the Residential College Art Gallery!

Now through December 2022

Works of art are on display from the Studio Arts and the Arts and the Humanities classes ending this term. Work from ceramics, photography, printmaking, and sculpture courses are represented.

The opening on December 2, 2022, featured music from Residential College music ensembles directed by Katri Ervamaa. The artwork selection includes a broad selection of materials and techniques. From screen printing to film photography, to cold casting and ceramic sculpture there is something for everyone to see.

The gallery is open from 10am to 5pm Monday - Friday.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:14:03 -0500 2022-12-23T10:00:00-05:00 2022-12-23T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition RC Student Art
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 23, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 23, 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 2022-12-23T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-23T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 23, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 23, 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 2022-12-23T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-23T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 24, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 24, 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 2022-12-24T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-24T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 24, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 24, 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 2022-12-24T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-24T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 28, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 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 2022-12-28T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-28T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 28, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 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 2022-12-28T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-28T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 29, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-29T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-29T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 29, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2022-12-29T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-29T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 30, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 30, 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 2022-12-30T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-30T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 30, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 30, 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 2022-12-30T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-30T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (December 31, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 31, 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 2022-12-31T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-31T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 31, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 31, 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 2022-12-31T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-31T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution (December 31, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84307 84307-21623078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 31, 2022 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This exhibition proactively engages with debates about restitution and the ethics of museums’ owning African heirlooms collected during the era of colonization. The investigation and research into 11 works of African art will be conducted publicly — visitors will have access to documents, photographs, and correspondence that will help us develop a better understanding of each object’s history, grappling in real time with questions surrounding legal and ethical ownership of these artworks. Though complex, this project presents exciting opportunities for museum transparency and creating new pathways for relationship-building with partners in Africa and its diaspora. Museum visitors can begin to explore this investigation online and in-person in Fall 2021.

Lead support for the UMMA exhibition Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council.

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Exhibition Sat, 31 Dec 2022 18:15:36 -0500 2022-12-31T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-31T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 3, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-03T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-03T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 4, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-04T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-04T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (January 4, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 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 2023-01-04T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-04T17:00:00-05:00 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 (January 4, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 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 2023-01-04T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 5, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 5, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-05T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-05T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (January 5, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 5, 2023 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 2023-01-05T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-05T17:00:00-05:00 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 (January 5, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 5, 2023 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 2023-01-05T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-05T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 6, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 6, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-06T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-06T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
PRINTWORKS (January 6, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101890 101890-21802622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 6, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Carl Wilson is known for his stark black and white linocut prints. The self-taught artist sees himself as a documentarian of lives easily ignored in a world obsessed with materialism and celebrity. His work frequently highlights not only the strength found in conquering the everyday and mundane, but also the pain and defeat of those not able to rise to the occasion. His love of film noir and pulp fiction novels from the nineteen forties and fifties has led him to experiment with minimalist animation and comic book illustration. He embraces the whimsy hidden in the darkness.



Carl is the recipient of a 2013 Kresge Artist Fellowship and is an alumni of the historic Yaddo Artists’ Community. During his residency there he carved the prints for, and wrote the book, Her Purse Smelled like JuicyFruit, a recollection of his mother’s life. Carl was named 2014 guest curator of Detroit’s Carr Center. Also in 2014 Complex Online Magazine named him one of Twenty Detroit Artists You Should Know. He was featured in Essay'd, a monthly publication about Detroit artists. In 2017 Carl's work was a part of Detroit's contribution to The Saint-Etienne Design Biennale in France. 2017 also saw the release of a comic book, the first installment of his graphic novel, Dead & Lost in Detroit. Spring of 2018 saw Carl complete a residency at MacDowell in New Hampshire. While there he finished the writing and illustration of his graphic novel and currently the book is in negotiation for publication. The year has also seen the completion of a ten print collection based on James Weldon Johnson's Prodigal Son poetry. It was commissioned by Calvin College and Dr. Larry Gerbens.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:17:40 -0500 2023-01-06T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-06T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Prints by Carl Wilson
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (January 6, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 6, 2023 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 2023-01-06T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-06T17:00:00-05:00 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 (January 6, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 6, 2023 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 2023-01-06T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-06T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 7, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 7, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-07T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-07T18:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (January 7, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 7, 2023 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 2023-01-07T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-07T17:00:00-05:00 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 (January 7, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 7, 2023 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 2023-01-07T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-07T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Liberty Research Annex and Gallery (January 7, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102331 102331-21803862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 7, 2023 1:00pm
Location: 305 W Liberty
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Students and faculty collaborate on architecture research in the 19,000-square-foot Liberty Research Annex. Located in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan, this open-plan facility provides space for students and faculty to collaboratively take on full-scale material assemblies, installations, and group projects. Students and faculty engage in architectural research through the process of researching and making. Additionally, the facility contains a 3,000-square-foot exhibition gallery, which is open to the public and contributes to the vibrant downtown Ann Arbor arts scene. Public visitors are encouraged to interact with exhibits and learn about the latest in architectural research at Taubman College. U-M's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Liberty Research Annex and Gallery is located at 305 W. Liberty Rd., Ann Arbor, MI, 48103.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Dec 2022 14:15:13 -0500 2023-01-07T13:00:00-05:00 2023-01-07T17:00:00-05:00 305 W Liberty A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Photo of Liberty Research Annex with Open Saturdays 1-5pm text
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 8, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 8, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-08T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-08T16:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 9, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 9, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-09T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
Back-to-School Poster Sale (January 9, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102028 102028-21803367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 9, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

It's time for a back-school-poster sale! Join us in the Michigan Union South Lounge from 10 am - 6 pm for movie posters, humor, fine art and more!

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Exhibition Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:59:38 -0500 2023-01-09T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-09T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Exhibition poster sale Michigan Union
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 9, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 9, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-09T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-09T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 9, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21806070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 9, 2023 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-09T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 9, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21806071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 9, 2023 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-09T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-09T13:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 10, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-10T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-10T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
Back-to-School Poster Sale (January 10, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102028 102028-21803368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

It's time for a back-school-poster sale! Join us in the Michigan Union South Lounge from 10 am - 6 pm for movie posters, humor, fine art and more!

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Exhibition Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:59:38 -0500 2023-01-10T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-10T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Exhibition poster sale Michigan Union
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 10, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-10T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-10T18:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 11, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-11T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
Traces (January 11, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101484 101484-21801399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Traces explores the relationship between the past and the present with a focus on the process of transformation as the connecting thread. The work consists of a series of collages and a collection of Polaroids that are accompanied by animations and video clips seen solely through the use of an augmented reality application (Virtual Mutations).

The scenarios presented in the static images act as literal stages for animated narratives. What once was a captured single moment echoes into motion, creating an additional layer as to what will come thereafter. A dialogue between the past and the present is established and the app itself acts as a mediator between these tenses, allowing the observer to have a glimpse of the afterthought, that range from digital collages to Polaroid instant film.

About the Artist
Camila Magrane is a multimedia artist originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Having a father from the U.S. and a mother from Venezuela, she grew up alternating between both countries. Being fully exposed to two different cultures gave her a greater understanding of what it means to have various perspectives. After graduating from film school in Caracas, she moved to San Francisco where she freelanced as an editor and camera operator. After discovering a passion for video games and interactive media, Magrane obtained a BS in computer science with a concentration in game development. This eventually led her to working in the game industry as a cinematic artist.

Magrane has been pursuing a professional career as a multimedia artist since 2017, working within a variety of mediums, from photography and collage to animation and virtual/augmented reality (AR). She has been most noted for the creation of her AR image-based work where she’s established a postmodern aesthetic by combining traditional darkroom techniques with the use of digital tools.

Prior to her career in the arts, Magrane worked as a community organizer and teacher, creating and managing a curriculum for teaching 3rd-6th graders coding skills in public schools in Caracas, Venezuela. She continues to be active in community work by giving talks and workshops revolving around the topics of art, technology, and the use of AR as a creative medium.

Camila Magrane has exhibited work internationally in numerous exhibitions, event spaces, fairs, and festivals. Selected exhibitions & clients include The Academy of Sciences, The Exploratorium, Themes+Projects Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, MUKEK, Gray Area, Sothebys, and Adobe. Selected press inquiries include Forbes, Adobe Blog, Refinery29, Lenscratch, Las Vegas Weekly, Las Vegas Review Journal, and Open Studios Guide.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:10:21 -0500 2023-01-11T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Traces
Back-to-School Poster Sale (January 11, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102028 102028-21803369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

It's time for a back-school-poster sale! Join us in the Michigan Union South Lounge from 10 am - 6 pm for movie posters, humor, fine art and more!

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Exhibition Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:59:38 -0500 2023-01-11T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-11T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Exhibition poster sale Michigan Union
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 11, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-11T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-11T18:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (January 11, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 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 2023-01-11T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 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 (January 11, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 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 2023-01-11T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 12, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-12T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-12T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
Traces (January 12, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101484 101484-21801400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Traces explores the relationship between the past and the present with a focus on the process of transformation as the connecting thread. The work consists of a series of collages and a collection of Polaroids that are accompanied by animations and video clips seen solely through the use of an augmented reality application (Virtual Mutations).

The scenarios presented in the static images act as literal stages for animated narratives. What once was a captured single moment echoes into motion, creating an additional layer as to what will come thereafter. A dialogue between the past and the present is established and the app itself acts as a mediator between these tenses, allowing the observer to have a glimpse of the afterthought, that range from digital collages to Polaroid instant film.

About the Artist
Camila Magrane is a multimedia artist originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Having a father from the U.S. and a mother from Venezuela, she grew up alternating between both countries. Being fully exposed to two different cultures gave her a greater understanding of what it means to have various perspectives. After graduating from film school in Caracas, she moved to San Francisco where she freelanced as an editor and camera operator. After discovering a passion for video games and interactive media, Magrane obtained a BS in computer science with a concentration in game development. This eventually led her to working in the game industry as a cinematic artist.

Magrane has been pursuing a professional career as a multimedia artist since 2017, working within a variety of mediums, from photography and collage to animation and virtual/augmented reality (AR). She has been most noted for the creation of her AR image-based work where she’s established a postmodern aesthetic by combining traditional darkroom techniques with the use of digital tools.

Prior to her career in the arts, Magrane worked as a community organizer and teacher, creating and managing a curriculum for teaching 3rd-6th graders coding skills in public schools in Caracas, Venezuela. She continues to be active in community work by giving talks and workshops revolving around the topics of art, technology, and the use of AR as a creative medium.

Camila Magrane has exhibited work internationally in numerous exhibitions, event spaces, fairs, and festivals. Selected exhibitions & clients include The Academy of Sciences, The Exploratorium, Themes+Projects Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, MUKEK, Gray Area, Sothebys, and Adobe. Selected press inquiries include Forbes, Adobe Blog, Refinery29, Lenscratch, Las Vegas Weekly, Las Vegas Review Journal, and Open Studios Guide.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:10:21 -0500 2023-01-12T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-12T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Traces
Back-to-School Poster Sale (January 12, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102028 102028-21803370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

It's time for a back-school-poster sale! Join us in the Michigan Union South Lounge from 10 am - 6 pm for movie posters, humor, fine art and more!

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Exhibition Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:59:38 -0500 2023-01-12T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-12T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Exhibition poster sale Michigan Union
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 12, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-12T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-12T18:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (January 12, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 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 2023-01-12T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-12T17:00:00-05:00 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 (January 12, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 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 2023-01-12T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 13, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 13, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-13T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
Traces (January 13, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101484 101484-21801401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 13, 2023 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Traces explores the relationship between the past and the present with a focus on the process of transformation as the connecting thread. The work consists of a series of collages and a collection of Polaroids that are accompanied by animations and video clips seen solely through the use of an augmented reality application (Virtual Mutations).

The scenarios presented in the static images act as literal stages for animated narratives. What once was a captured single moment echoes into motion, creating an additional layer as to what will come thereafter. A dialogue between the past and the present is established and the app itself acts as a mediator between these tenses, allowing the observer to have a glimpse of the afterthought, that range from digital collages to Polaroid instant film.

About the Artist
Camila Magrane is a multimedia artist originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Having a father from the U.S. and a mother from Venezuela, she grew up alternating between both countries. Being fully exposed to two different cultures gave her a greater understanding of what it means to have various perspectives. After graduating from film school in Caracas, she moved to San Francisco where she freelanced as an editor and camera operator. After discovering a passion for video games and interactive media, Magrane obtained a BS in computer science with a concentration in game development. This eventually led her to working in the game industry as a cinematic artist.

Magrane has been pursuing a professional career as a multimedia artist since 2017, working within a variety of mediums, from photography and collage to animation and virtual/augmented reality (AR). She has been most noted for the creation of her AR image-based work where she’s established a postmodern aesthetic by combining traditional darkroom techniques with the use of digital tools.

Prior to her career in the arts, Magrane worked as a community organizer and teacher, creating and managing a curriculum for teaching 3rd-6th graders coding skills in public schools in Caracas, Venezuela. She continues to be active in community work by giving talks and workshops revolving around the topics of art, technology, and the use of AR as a creative medium.

Camila Magrane has exhibited work internationally in numerous exhibitions, event spaces, fairs, and festivals. Selected exhibitions & clients include The Academy of Sciences, The Exploratorium, Themes+Projects Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, MUKEK, Gray Area, Sothebys, and Adobe. Selected press inquiries include Forbes, Adobe Blog, Refinery29, Lenscratch, Las Vegas Weekly, Las Vegas Review Journal, and Open Studios Guide.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:10:21 -0500 2023-01-13T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Traces
Back-to-School Poster Sale (January 13, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102028 102028-21803371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 13, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

It's time for a back-school-poster sale! Join us in the Michigan Union South Lounge from 10 am - 6 pm for movie posters, humor, fine art and more!

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Exhibition Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:59:38 -0500 2023-01-13T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-13T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Exhibition poster sale Michigan Union
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 13, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 13, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-13T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-13T18:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 13, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 13, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-13T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-13T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
PRINTWORKS (January 13, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101890 101890-21802623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 13, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Carl Wilson is known for his stark black and white linocut prints. The self-taught artist sees himself as a documentarian of lives easily ignored in a world obsessed with materialism and celebrity. His work frequently highlights not only the strength found in conquering the everyday and mundane, but also the pain and defeat of those not able to rise to the occasion. His love of film noir and pulp fiction novels from the nineteen forties and fifties has led him to experiment with minimalist animation and comic book illustration. He embraces the whimsy hidden in the darkness.



Carl is the recipient of a 2013 Kresge Artist Fellowship and is an alumni of the historic Yaddo Artists’ Community. During his residency there he carved the prints for, and wrote the book, Her Purse Smelled like JuicyFruit, a recollection of his mother’s life. Carl was named 2014 guest curator of Detroit’s Carr Center. Also in 2014 Complex Online Magazine named him one of Twenty Detroit Artists You Should Know. He was featured in Essay'd, a monthly publication about Detroit artists. In 2017 Carl's work was a part of Detroit's contribution to The Saint-Etienne Design Biennale in France. 2017 also saw the release of a comic book, the first installment of his graphic novel, Dead & Lost in Detroit. Spring of 2018 saw Carl complete a residency at MacDowell in New Hampshire. While there he finished the writing and illustration of his graphic novel and currently the book is in negotiation for publication. The year has also seen the completion of a ten print collection based on James Weldon Johnson's Prodigal Son poetry. It was commissioned by Calvin College and Dr. Larry Gerbens.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:17:40 -0500 2023-01-13T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Prints by Carl Wilson
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (January 13, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 13, 2023 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 2023-01-13T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 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 (January 13, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 13, 2023 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 2023-01-13T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 14, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 14, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-14T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-14T18:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (January 14, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 14, 2023 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 2023-01-14T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 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 (January 14, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 14, 2023 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 2023-01-14T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Liberty Research Annex and Gallery (January 14, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102331 102331-21803863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 14, 2023 1:00pm
Location: 305 W Liberty
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Students and faculty collaborate on architecture research in the 19,000-square-foot Liberty Research Annex. Located in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan, this open-plan facility provides space for students and faculty to collaboratively take on full-scale material assemblies, installations, and group projects. Students and faculty engage in architectural research through the process of researching and making. Additionally, the facility contains a 3,000-square-foot exhibition gallery, which is open to the public and contributes to the vibrant downtown Ann Arbor arts scene. Public visitors are encouraged to interact with exhibits and learn about the latest in architectural research at Taubman College. U-M's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Liberty Research Annex and Gallery is located at 305 W. Liberty Rd., Ann Arbor, MI, 48103.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Dec 2022 14:15:13 -0500 2023-01-14T13:00:00-05:00 2023-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 305 W Liberty A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Photo of Liberty Research Annex with Open Saturdays 1-5pm text
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 15, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 15, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-15T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 16, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-16T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
Traces (January 16, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101484 101484-21801404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2023 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Traces explores the relationship between the past and the present with a focus on the process of transformation as the connecting thread. The work consists of a series of collages and a collection of Polaroids that are accompanied by animations and video clips seen solely through the use of an augmented reality application (Virtual Mutations).

The scenarios presented in the static images act as literal stages for animated narratives. What once was a captured single moment echoes into motion, creating an additional layer as to what will come thereafter. A dialogue between the past and the present is established and the app itself acts as a mediator between these tenses, allowing the observer to have a glimpse of the afterthought, that range from digital collages to Polaroid instant film.

About the Artist
Camila Magrane is a multimedia artist originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Having a father from the U.S. and a mother from Venezuela, she grew up alternating between both countries. Being fully exposed to two different cultures gave her a greater understanding of what it means to have various perspectives. After graduating from film school in Caracas, she moved to San Francisco where she freelanced as an editor and camera operator. After discovering a passion for video games and interactive media, Magrane obtained a BS in computer science with a concentration in game development. This eventually led her to working in the game industry as a cinematic artist.

Magrane has been pursuing a professional career as a multimedia artist since 2017, working within a variety of mediums, from photography and collage to animation and virtual/augmented reality (AR). She has been most noted for the creation of her AR image-based work where she’s established a postmodern aesthetic by combining traditional darkroom techniques with the use of digital tools.

Prior to her career in the arts, Magrane worked as a community organizer and teacher, creating and managing a curriculum for teaching 3rd-6th graders coding skills in public schools in Caracas, Venezuela. She continues to be active in community work by giving talks and workshops revolving around the topics of art, technology, and the use of AR as a creative medium.

Camila Magrane has exhibited work internationally in numerous exhibitions, event spaces, fairs, and festivals. Selected exhibitions & clients include The Academy of Sciences, The Exploratorium, Themes+Projects Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, MUKEK, Gray Area, Sothebys, and Adobe. Selected press inquiries include Forbes, Adobe Blog, Refinery29, Lenscratch, Las Vegas Weekly, Las Vegas Review Journal, and Open Studios Guide.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:10:21 -0500 2023-01-16T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Traces
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 16, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-16T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-16T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
“The Water Remembers” Performance by The Sister Tour (January 16, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101849 101849-21802552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for a final event to
celebrate the powerful work of MacArthur Genius Awardee LaToya Ruby Frazier, who
collaborated with artists and activists Shea Cobb, Amber Hasan and their
families documenting, from 2016 - 2021, how they coped with one of the most
devastating man-made ecological crises in the US, the Flint Water Crisis.
“The Water
Remembers” is a performance by Flint-based artist collective, The Sister Tour.
This special event is a performative ethnographic experience that reframes and
illuminates the spiritual and physical connections (and at times complicated
relationships) between Black Women and Water. The event will feature a "The
Water Remembers" performance followed by a post-performance conversation with
the performers and a reception with light refreshments.Amber Hasan of The Sister Tour writes ‘For Black women water has often served as a reminder of how blessed we
are. Regardless of religious affiliation, we have a sacred relationship
with the waters of the world and have always worked to live in concert with
water, protecting it when necessary, and at other times using the water as a refuge. It is a complex bond, the water has been a saving grace and at
other times it has been used as the munitions of tyrants who mean to bring us
harm.”
The Water Remembers performance by The Sister Tour will be performed by: Shea Cobb aka
Phiresis, Zion Brown, Amber Hasan, Os’Zaria Terry-Dye, London Spearman,
Ashlynn Spearman, Niecole Middleton aka Big Juicy, Oliser Terry-Dye, and DeShano
Demps Jr.
The Sister Tour is a community organization of artists from Flint, Michigan, who present a mix of spoken word, comedy, and music as an expression of resilience to the ongoing water crisis. Activists Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan are featured in LaToya Ruby Frazier’s photographic series, Flint is Family In Three Acts. The Sister Tour has performed across the country including SF MOMA, Flint Institute of Arts, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI.

Please contact Jennifer
Junkermeier-Khan at jenjkhan@umich.edu for more information.

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Exhibition Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:15:05 -0500 2023-01-16T15:00:00-05:00 2023-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition black women on the ground performing in the WOW symposium
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 17, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
Portraits of Feminism in Japan (January 17, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103305 103305-21806885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

What is feminism in Japan? Rather than imagining it as a singular, coherent object, this exhibit seeks to introduce the diversity, difference, and complexity inherent in feminist activism in Japan. As in other cultural contexts, “feminism” in Japan can invoke sharply different associations, from office workers trying to reshape taken-for-granted structures of power and authority, to mothers advocating for safer school lunches after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disasters, and queer couples seeking legal recognition for the families they have created. Mainstream feminist activism in Japan has focused on advocating for change in families, workplaces, schools, political institutions, and laws, among many other contexts. Many ­– but certainly not all – feminist activists in Japan are also responding to the lasting legacies of Japanese colonial projects, working toward recognition, repair, and meaningful reparations for racial and gender-based violence that continue to impact communities disproportionately.

This exhibit features original portraits of feminists who have shaped the landscape of women's and gender rights in Japan and beyond. Created by nine contemporary artists in Japan and the United States, the portraits and accompanying texts challenge simplistic understandings of "feminism" while also drawing attention to a diversity of experiences, needs, and activism within Japan. This exhibit also spotlights the history of Japanese studies at the University of Michigan in conjunction with the Center for Japanese Studies' 75th anniversary celebration.

“Portraits of Feminism in Japan” is open for viewing M-F 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.

Featured artists:
Elaine Cromie, JenClare B. Gawaran, Takatoshi Hayashi, ivokuma (いぼくま), Nami Kaneko (金子奈美), Kang Jungsook, Lisa Taka Miyagi, Nancy Nishihira (西平・ナンシー), and Shigeki Shibata (柴田滋紀)

Curation team:
Allison Alexy, Bradly Hammond, Grace Mahoney, and Alexandria Molinari

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:28:07 -0500 2023-01-17T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition The left side of the image says "Portraits of Feminism in Japan; 2023 Jan 12~May 12; Lane Hall Exhibit Space; University of Michigan" followed by the co-sponsors against a salmon-colored background. The right side of the image is an art piece.
Traces (January 17, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101484 101484-21801405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Traces explores the relationship between the past and the present with a focus on the process of transformation as the connecting thread. The work consists of a series of collages and a collection of Polaroids that are accompanied by animations and video clips seen solely through the use of an augmented reality application (Virtual Mutations).

The scenarios presented in the static images act as literal stages for animated narratives. What once was a captured single moment echoes into motion, creating an additional layer as to what will come thereafter. A dialogue between the past and the present is established and the app itself acts as a mediator between these tenses, allowing the observer to have a glimpse of the afterthought, that range from digital collages to Polaroid instant film.

About the Artist
Camila Magrane is a multimedia artist originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Having a father from the U.S. and a mother from Venezuela, she grew up alternating between both countries. Being fully exposed to two different cultures gave her a greater understanding of what it means to have various perspectives. After graduating from film school in Caracas, she moved to San Francisco where she freelanced as an editor and camera operator. After discovering a passion for video games and interactive media, Magrane obtained a BS in computer science with a concentration in game development. This eventually led her to working in the game industry as a cinematic artist.

Magrane has been pursuing a professional career as a multimedia artist since 2017, working within a variety of mediums, from photography and collage to animation and virtual/augmented reality (AR). She has been most noted for the creation of her AR image-based work where she’s established a postmodern aesthetic by combining traditional darkroom techniques with the use of digital tools.

Prior to her career in the arts, Magrane worked as a community organizer and teacher, creating and managing a curriculum for teaching 3rd-6th graders coding skills in public schools in Caracas, Venezuela. She continues to be active in community work by giving talks and workshops revolving around the topics of art, technology, and the use of AR as a creative medium.

Camila Magrane has exhibited work internationally in numerous exhibitions, event spaces, fairs, and festivals. Selected exhibitions & clients include The Academy of Sciences, The Exploratorium, Themes+Projects Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, MUKEK, Gray Area, Sothebys, and Adobe. Selected press inquiries include Forbes, Adobe Blog, Refinery29, Lenscratch, Las Vegas Weekly, Las Vegas Review Journal, and Open Studios Guide.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:10:21 -0500 2023-01-17T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Traces
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-17T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-17T18:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 18, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
Portraits of Feminism in Japan (January 18, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103305 103305-21806886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

What is feminism in Japan? Rather than imagining it as a singular, coherent object, this exhibit seeks to introduce the diversity, difference, and complexity inherent in feminist activism in Japan. As in other cultural contexts, “feminism” in Japan can invoke sharply different associations, from office workers trying to reshape taken-for-granted structures of power and authority, to mothers advocating for safer school lunches after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disasters, and queer couples seeking legal recognition for the families they have created. Mainstream feminist activism in Japan has focused on advocating for change in families, workplaces, schools, political institutions, and laws, among many other contexts. Many ­– but certainly not all – feminist activists in Japan are also responding to the lasting legacies of Japanese colonial projects, working toward recognition, repair, and meaningful reparations for racial and gender-based violence that continue to impact communities disproportionately.

This exhibit features original portraits of feminists who have shaped the landscape of women's and gender rights in Japan and beyond. Created by nine contemporary artists in Japan and the United States, the portraits and accompanying texts challenge simplistic understandings of "feminism" while also drawing attention to a diversity of experiences, needs, and activism within Japan. This exhibit also spotlights the history of Japanese studies at the University of Michigan in conjunction with the Center for Japanese Studies' 75th anniversary celebration.

“Portraits of Feminism in Japan” is open for viewing M-F 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.

Featured artists:
Elaine Cromie, JenClare B. Gawaran, Takatoshi Hayashi, ivokuma (いぼくま), Nami Kaneko (金子奈美), Kang Jungsook, Lisa Taka Miyagi, Nancy Nishihira (西平・ナンシー), and Shigeki Shibata (柴田滋紀)

Curation team:
Allison Alexy, Bradly Hammond, Grace Mahoney, and Alexandria Molinari

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:28:07 -0500 2023-01-18T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition The left side of the image says "Portraits of Feminism in Japan; 2023 Jan 12~May 12; Lane Hall Exhibit Space; University of Michigan" followed by the co-sponsors against a salmon-colored background. The right side of the image is an art piece.
Traces (January 18, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101484 101484-21801406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Traces explores the relationship between the past and the present with a focus on the process of transformation as the connecting thread. The work consists of a series of collages and a collection of Polaroids that are accompanied by animations and video clips seen solely through the use of an augmented reality application (Virtual Mutations).

The scenarios presented in the static images act as literal stages for animated narratives. What once was a captured single moment echoes into motion, creating an additional layer as to what will come thereafter. A dialogue between the past and the present is established and the app itself acts as a mediator between these tenses, allowing the observer to have a glimpse of the afterthought, that range from digital collages to Polaroid instant film.

About the Artist
Camila Magrane is a multimedia artist originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Having a father from the U.S. and a mother from Venezuela, she grew up alternating between both countries. Being fully exposed to two different cultures gave her a greater understanding of what it means to have various perspectives. After graduating from film school in Caracas, she moved to San Francisco where she freelanced as an editor and camera operator. After discovering a passion for video games and interactive media, Magrane obtained a BS in computer science with a concentration in game development. This eventually led her to working in the game industry as a cinematic artist.

Magrane has been pursuing a professional career as a multimedia artist since 2017, working within a variety of mediums, from photography and collage to animation and virtual/augmented reality (AR). She has been most noted for the creation of her AR image-based work where she’s established a postmodern aesthetic by combining traditional darkroom techniques with the use of digital tools.

Prior to her career in the arts, Magrane worked as a community organizer and teacher, creating and managing a curriculum for teaching 3rd-6th graders coding skills in public schools in Caracas, Venezuela. She continues to be active in community work by giving talks and workshops revolving around the topics of art, technology, and the use of AR as a creative medium.

Camila Magrane has exhibited work internationally in numerous exhibitions, event spaces, fairs, and festivals. Selected exhibitions & clients include The Academy of Sciences, The Exploratorium, Themes+Projects Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, MUKEK, Gray Area, Sothebys, and Adobe. Selected press inquiries include Forbes, Adobe Blog, Refinery29, Lenscratch, Las Vegas Weekly, Las Vegas Review Journal, and Open Studios Guide.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:10:21 -0500 2023-01-18T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Traces
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 18, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-18T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-18T18:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 19, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
Portraits of Feminism in Japan (January 19, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103305 103305-21806887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

What is feminism in Japan? Rather than imagining it as a singular, coherent object, this exhibit seeks to introduce the diversity, difference, and complexity inherent in feminist activism in Japan. As in other cultural contexts, “feminism” in Japan can invoke sharply different associations, from office workers trying to reshape taken-for-granted structures of power and authority, to mothers advocating for safer school lunches after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disasters, and queer couples seeking legal recognition for the families they have created. Mainstream feminist activism in Japan has focused on advocating for change in families, workplaces, schools, political institutions, and laws, among many other contexts. Many ­– but certainly not all – feminist activists in Japan are also responding to the lasting legacies of Japanese colonial projects, working toward recognition, repair, and meaningful reparations for racial and gender-based violence that continue to impact communities disproportionately.

This exhibit features original portraits of feminists who have shaped the landscape of women's and gender rights in Japan and beyond. Created by nine contemporary artists in Japan and the United States, the portraits and accompanying texts challenge simplistic understandings of "feminism" while also drawing attention to a diversity of experiences, needs, and activism within Japan. This exhibit also spotlights the history of Japanese studies at the University of Michigan in conjunction with the Center for Japanese Studies' 75th anniversary celebration.

“Portraits of Feminism in Japan” is open for viewing M-F 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.

Featured artists:
Elaine Cromie, JenClare B. Gawaran, Takatoshi Hayashi, ivokuma (いぼくま), Nami Kaneko (金子奈美), Kang Jungsook, Lisa Taka Miyagi, Nancy Nishihira (西平・ナンシー), and Shigeki Shibata (柴田滋紀)

Curation team:
Allison Alexy, Bradly Hammond, Grace Mahoney, and Alexandria Molinari

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:28:07 -0500 2023-01-19T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition The left side of the image says "Portraits of Feminism in Japan; 2023 Jan 12~May 12; Lane Hall Exhibit Space; University of Michigan" followed by the co-sponsors against a salmon-colored background. The right side of the image is an art piece.
Traces (January 19, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101484 101484-21801407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Traces explores the relationship between the past and the present with a focus on the process of transformation as the connecting thread. The work consists of a series of collages and a collection of Polaroids that are accompanied by animations and video clips seen solely through the use of an augmented reality application (Virtual Mutations).

The scenarios presented in the static images act as literal stages for animated narratives. What once was a captured single moment echoes into motion, creating an additional layer as to what will come thereafter. A dialogue between the past and the present is established and the app itself acts as a mediator between these tenses, allowing the observer to have a glimpse of the afterthought, that range from digital collages to Polaroid instant film.

About the Artist
Camila Magrane is a multimedia artist originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Having a father from the U.S. and a mother from Venezuela, she grew up alternating between both countries. Being fully exposed to two different cultures gave her a greater understanding of what it means to have various perspectives. After graduating from film school in Caracas, she moved to San Francisco where she freelanced as an editor and camera operator. After discovering a passion for video games and interactive media, Magrane obtained a BS in computer science with a concentration in game development. This eventually led her to working in the game industry as a cinematic artist.

Magrane has been pursuing a professional career as a multimedia artist since 2017, working within a variety of mediums, from photography and collage to animation and virtual/augmented reality (AR). She has been most noted for the creation of her AR image-based work where she’s established a postmodern aesthetic by combining traditional darkroom techniques with the use of digital tools.

Prior to her career in the arts, Magrane worked as a community organizer and teacher, creating and managing a curriculum for teaching 3rd-6th graders coding skills in public schools in Caracas, Venezuela. She continues to be active in community work by giving talks and workshops revolving around the topics of art, technology, and the use of AR as a creative medium.

Camila Magrane has exhibited work internationally in numerous exhibitions, event spaces, fairs, and festivals. Selected exhibitions & clients include The Academy of Sciences, The Exploratorium, Themes+Projects Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, MUKEK, Gray Area, Sothebys, and Adobe. Selected press inquiries include Forbes, Adobe Blog, Refinery29, Lenscratch, Las Vegas Weekly, Las Vegas Review Journal, and Open Studios Guide.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:10:21 -0500 2023-01-19T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Traces
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 19, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-19T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 20, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
Portraits of Feminism in Japan (January 20, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103305 103305-21806888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

What is feminism in Japan? Rather than imagining it as a singular, coherent object, this exhibit seeks to introduce the diversity, difference, and complexity inherent in feminist activism in Japan. As in other cultural contexts, “feminism” in Japan can invoke sharply different associations, from office workers trying to reshape taken-for-granted structures of power and authority, to mothers advocating for safer school lunches after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disasters, and queer couples seeking legal recognition for the families they have created. Mainstream feminist activism in Japan has focused on advocating for change in families, workplaces, schools, political institutions, and laws, among many other contexts. Many ­– but certainly not all – feminist activists in Japan are also responding to the lasting legacies of Japanese colonial projects, working toward recognition, repair, and meaningful reparations for racial and gender-based violence that continue to impact communities disproportionately.

This exhibit features original portraits of feminists who have shaped the landscape of women's and gender rights in Japan and beyond. Created by nine contemporary artists in Japan and the United States, the portraits and accompanying texts challenge simplistic understandings of "feminism" while also drawing attention to a diversity of experiences, needs, and activism within Japan. This exhibit also spotlights the history of Japanese studies at the University of Michigan in conjunction with the Center for Japanese Studies' 75th anniversary celebration.

“Portraits of Feminism in Japan” is open for viewing M-F 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.

Featured artists:
Elaine Cromie, JenClare B. Gawaran, Takatoshi Hayashi, ivokuma (いぼくま), Nami Kaneko (金子奈美), Kang Jungsook, Lisa Taka Miyagi, Nancy Nishihira (西平・ナンシー), and Shigeki Shibata (柴田滋紀)

Curation team:
Allison Alexy, Bradly Hammond, Grace Mahoney, and Alexandria Molinari

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:28:07 -0500 2023-01-20T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition The left side of the image says "Portraits of Feminism in Japan; 2023 Jan 12~May 12; Lane Hall Exhibit Space; University of Michigan" followed by the co-sponsors against a salmon-colored background. The right side of the image is an art piece.
Traces (January 20, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101484 101484-21801408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Traces explores the relationship between the past and the present with a focus on the process of transformation as the connecting thread. The work consists of a series of collages and a collection of Polaroids that are accompanied by animations and video clips seen solely through the use of an augmented reality application (Virtual Mutations).

The scenarios presented in the static images act as literal stages for animated narratives. What once was a captured single moment echoes into motion, creating an additional layer as to what will come thereafter. A dialogue between the past and the present is established and the app itself acts as a mediator between these tenses, allowing the observer to have a glimpse of the afterthought, that range from digital collages to Polaroid instant film.

About the Artist
Camila Magrane is a multimedia artist originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Having a father from the U.S. and a mother from Venezuela, she grew up alternating between both countries. Being fully exposed to two different cultures gave her a greater understanding of what it means to have various perspectives. After graduating from film school in Caracas, she moved to San Francisco where she freelanced as an editor and camera operator. After discovering a passion for video games and interactive media, Magrane obtained a BS in computer science with a concentration in game development. This eventually led her to working in the game industry as a cinematic artist.

Magrane has been pursuing a professional career as a multimedia artist since 2017, working within a variety of mediums, from photography and collage to animation and virtual/augmented reality (AR). She has been most noted for the creation of her AR image-based work where she’s established a postmodern aesthetic by combining traditional darkroom techniques with the use of digital tools.

Prior to her career in the arts, Magrane worked as a community organizer and teacher, creating and managing a curriculum for teaching 3rd-6th graders coding skills in public schools in Caracas, Venezuela. She continues to be active in community work by giving talks and workshops revolving around the topics of art, technology, and the use of AR as a creative medium.

Camila Magrane has exhibited work internationally in numerous exhibitions, event spaces, fairs, and festivals. Selected exhibitions & clients include The Academy of Sciences, The Exploratorium, Themes+Projects Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, MUKEK, Gray Area, Sothebys, and Adobe. Selected press inquiries include Forbes, Adobe Blog, Refinery29, Lenscratch, Las Vegas Weekly, Las Vegas Review Journal, and Open Studios Guide.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:10:21 -0500 2023-01-20T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Traces
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
PRINTWORKS (January 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101890 101890-21802624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Carl Wilson is known for his stark black and white linocut prints. The self-taught artist sees himself as a documentarian of lives easily ignored in a world obsessed with materialism and celebrity. His work frequently highlights not only the strength found in conquering the everyday and mundane, but also the pain and defeat of those not able to rise to the occasion. His love of film noir and pulp fiction novels from the nineteen forties and fifties has led him to experiment with minimalist animation and comic book illustration. He embraces the whimsy hidden in the darkness.



Carl is the recipient of a 2013 Kresge Artist Fellowship and is an alumni of the historic Yaddo Artists’ Community. During his residency there he carved the prints for, and wrote the book, Her Purse Smelled like JuicyFruit, a recollection of his mother’s life. Carl was named 2014 guest curator of Detroit’s Carr Center. Also in 2014 Complex Online Magazine named him one of Twenty Detroit Artists You Should Know. He was featured in Essay'd, a monthly publication about Detroit artists. In 2017 Carl's work was a part of Detroit's contribution to The Saint-Etienne Design Biennale in France. 2017 also saw the release of a comic book, the first installment of his graphic novel, Dead & Lost in Detroit. Spring of 2018 saw Carl complete a residency at MacDowell in New Hampshire. While there he finished the writing and illustration of his graphic novel and currently the book is in negotiation for publication. The year has also seen the completion of a ten print collection based on James Weldon Johnson's Prodigal Son poetry. It was commissioned by Calvin College and Dr. Larry Gerbens.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:17:40 -0500 2023-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Prints by Carl Wilson
SAS Open House (January 20, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102899 102899-21805316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 8:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

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. There will be 3 planetarium shows during the 2 hour time span, each lasting roughly 40 minutes. 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 Fri, 20 Jan 2023 18:00:31 -0500 2023-01-20T20:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T22:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Maize Pages Student Organizations Exhibition Image Imported from Maize Pages
SAS Open House (January 20, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102897 102897-21805303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 8:00pm
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. There will be 3 planetarium shows during the 2 hour time span, each one lasting around 40 minutes.

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 Thu, 05 Jan 2023 16:48:51 -0500 2023-01-20T20:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T22:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Student Astronomical Society Exhibition Student Astronomical Society logo
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 21, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-21T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-21T18:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Liberty Research Annex and Gallery (January 21, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102331 102331-21803864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2023 1:00pm
Location: 305 W Liberty
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Students and faculty collaborate on architecture research in the 19,000-square-foot Liberty Research Annex. Located in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan, this open-plan facility provides space for students and faculty to collaboratively take on full-scale material assemblies, installations, and group projects. Students and faculty engage in architectural research through the process of researching and making. Additionally, the facility contains a 3,000-square-foot exhibition gallery, which is open to the public and contributes to the vibrant downtown Ann Arbor arts scene. Public visitors are encouraged to interact with exhibits and learn about the latest in architectural research at Taubman College. U-M's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Liberty Research Annex and Gallery is located at 305 W. Liberty Rd., Ann Arbor, MI, 48103.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Dec 2022 14:15:13 -0500 2023-01-21T13:00:00-05:00 2023-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 305 W Liberty A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Photo of Liberty Research Annex with Open Saturdays 1-5pm text
MedART presents Art Showcase & Open Mic (January 21, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103740 103740-21807745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2023 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: North Quad Programming

MedART invites you to North Quad's Space 2435 this Saturday from 4 PM to 7 PM to enjoy an art showcase created and hosted by UofM medical students—featuring process art from art therapy. MedART is an initiative at the U-M Medical School for students to foster imagination and create a space for discussion and creative expression.

There will be refreshments, an open mic, and arts & crafts table. Come relax and enjoy art! Free and open to the public.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 11:54:22 -0500 2023-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-21T19:00:00-05:00 North Quad North Quad Programming Exhibition MedART invites you to an Art Showcase and Open mic on 1/21 from 4 PM to 7 PM in U-M North Quad's Space 2435.
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 22, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-22T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-22T16:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 23, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
Portraits of Feminism in Japan (January 23, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103305 103305-21806891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

What is feminism in Japan? Rather than imagining it as a singular, coherent object, this exhibit seeks to introduce the diversity, difference, and complexity inherent in feminist activism in Japan. As in other cultural contexts, “feminism” in Japan can invoke sharply different associations, from office workers trying to reshape taken-for-granted structures of power and authority, to mothers advocating for safer school lunches after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disasters, and queer couples seeking legal recognition for the families they have created. Mainstream feminist activism in Japan has focused on advocating for change in families, workplaces, schools, political institutions, and laws, among many other contexts. Many ­– but certainly not all – feminist activists in Japan are also responding to the lasting legacies of Japanese colonial projects, working toward recognition, repair, and meaningful reparations for racial and gender-based violence that continue to impact communities disproportionately.

This exhibit features original portraits of feminists who have shaped the landscape of women's and gender rights in Japan and beyond. Created by nine contemporary artists in Japan and the United States, the portraits and accompanying texts challenge simplistic understandings of "feminism" while also drawing attention to a diversity of experiences, needs, and activism within Japan. This exhibit also spotlights the history of Japanese studies at the University of Michigan in conjunction with the Center for Japanese Studies' 75th anniversary celebration.

“Portraits of Feminism in Japan” is open for viewing M-F 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.

Featured artists:
Elaine Cromie, JenClare B. Gawaran, Takatoshi Hayashi, ivokuma (いぼくま), Nami Kaneko (金子奈美), Kang Jungsook, Lisa Taka Miyagi, Nancy Nishihira (西平・ナンシー), and Shigeki Shibata (柴田滋紀)

Curation team:
Allison Alexy, Bradly Hammond, Grace Mahoney, and Alexandria Molinari

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:28:07 -0500 2023-01-23T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition The left side of the image says "Portraits of Feminism in Japan; 2023 Jan 12~May 12; Lane Hall Exhibit Space; University of Michigan" followed by the co-sponsors against a salmon-colored background. The right side of the image is an art piece.
Traces (January 23, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101484 101484-21801411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2023 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Traces explores the relationship between the past and the present with a focus on the process of transformation as the connecting thread. The work consists of a series of collages and a collection of Polaroids that are accompanied by animations and video clips seen solely through the use of an augmented reality application (Virtual Mutations).

The scenarios presented in the static images act as literal stages for animated narratives. What once was a captured single moment echoes into motion, creating an additional layer as to what will come thereafter. A dialogue between the past and the present is established and the app itself acts as a mediator between these tenses, allowing the observer to have a glimpse of the afterthought, that range from digital collages to Polaroid instant film.

About the Artist
Camila Magrane is a multimedia artist originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Having a father from the U.S. and a mother from Venezuela, she grew up alternating between both countries. Being fully exposed to two different cultures gave her a greater understanding of what it means to have various perspectives. After graduating from film school in Caracas, she moved to San Francisco where she freelanced as an editor and camera operator. After discovering a passion for video games and interactive media, Magrane obtained a BS in computer science with a concentration in game development. This eventually led her to working in the game industry as a cinematic artist.

Magrane has been pursuing a professional career as a multimedia artist since 2017, working within a variety of mediums, from photography and collage to animation and virtual/augmented reality (AR). She has been most noted for the creation of her AR image-based work where she’s established a postmodern aesthetic by combining traditional darkroom techniques with the use of digital tools.

Prior to her career in the arts, Magrane worked as a community organizer and teacher, creating and managing a curriculum for teaching 3rd-6th graders coding skills in public schools in Caracas, Venezuela. She continues to be active in community work by giving talks and workshops revolving around the topics of art, technology, and the use of AR as a creative medium.

Camila Magrane has exhibited work internationally in numerous exhibitions, event spaces, fairs, and festivals. Selected exhibitions & clients include The Academy of Sciences, The Exploratorium, Themes+Projects Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, MUKEK, Gray Area, Sothebys, and Adobe. Selected press inquiries include Forbes, Adobe Blog, Refinery29, Lenscratch, Las Vegas Weekly, Las Vegas Review Journal, and Open Studios Guide.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:10:21 -0500 2023-01-23T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Traces
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 23, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-23T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-23T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 24, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
Portraits of Feminism in Japan (January 24, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103305 103305-21806892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

What is feminism in Japan? Rather than imagining it as a singular, coherent object, this exhibit seeks to introduce the diversity, difference, and complexity inherent in feminist activism in Japan. As in other cultural contexts, “feminism” in Japan can invoke sharply different associations, from office workers trying to reshape taken-for-granted structures of power and authority, to mothers advocating for safer school lunches after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disasters, and queer couples seeking legal recognition for the families they have created. Mainstream feminist activism in Japan has focused on advocating for change in families, workplaces, schools, political institutions, and laws, among many other contexts. Many ­– but certainly not all – feminist activists in Japan are also responding to the lasting legacies of Japanese colonial projects, working toward recognition, repair, and meaningful reparations for racial and gender-based violence that continue to impact communities disproportionately.

This exhibit features original portraits of feminists who have shaped the landscape of women's and gender rights in Japan and beyond. Created by nine contemporary artists in Japan and the United States, the portraits and accompanying texts challenge simplistic understandings of "feminism" while also drawing attention to a diversity of experiences, needs, and activism within Japan. This exhibit also spotlights the history of Japanese studies at the University of Michigan in conjunction with the Center for Japanese Studies' 75th anniversary celebration.

“Portraits of Feminism in Japan” is open for viewing M-F 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.

Featured artists:
Elaine Cromie, JenClare B. Gawaran, Takatoshi Hayashi, ivokuma (いぼくま), Nami Kaneko (金子奈美), Kang Jungsook, Lisa Taka Miyagi, Nancy Nishihira (西平・ナンシー), and Shigeki Shibata (柴田滋紀)

Curation team:
Allison Alexy, Bradly Hammond, Grace Mahoney, and Alexandria Molinari

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:28:07 -0500 2023-01-24T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition The left side of the image says "Portraits of Feminism in Japan; 2023 Jan 12~May 12; Lane Hall Exhibit Space; University of Michigan" followed by the co-sponsors against a salmon-colored background. The right side of the image is an art piece.
Traces (January 24, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101484 101484-21801412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Traces explores the relationship between the past and the present with a focus on the process of transformation as the connecting thread. The work consists of a series of collages and a collection of Polaroids that are accompanied by animations and video clips seen solely through the use of an augmented reality application (Virtual Mutations).

The scenarios presented in the static images act as literal stages for animated narratives. What once was a captured single moment echoes into motion, creating an additional layer as to what will come thereafter. A dialogue between the past and the present is established and the app itself acts as a mediator between these tenses, allowing the observer to have a glimpse of the afterthought, that range from digital collages to Polaroid instant film.

About the Artist
Camila Magrane is a multimedia artist originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Having a father from the U.S. and a mother from Venezuela, she grew up alternating between both countries. Being fully exposed to two different cultures gave her a greater understanding of what it means to have various perspectives. After graduating from film school in Caracas, she moved to San Francisco where she freelanced as an editor and camera operator. After discovering a passion for video games and interactive media, Magrane obtained a BS in computer science with a concentration in game development. This eventually led her to working in the game industry as a cinematic artist.

Magrane has been pursuing a professional career as a multimedia artist since 2017, working within a variety of mediums, from photography and collage to animation and virtual/augmented reality (AR). She has been most noted for the creation of her AR image-based work where she’s established a postmodern aesthetic by combining traditional darkroom techniques with the use of digital tools.

Prior to her career in the arts, Magrane worked as a community organizer and teacher, creating and managing a curriculum for teaching 3rd-6th graders coding skills in public schools in Caracas, Venezuela. She continues to be active in community work by giving talks and workshops revolving around the topics of art, technology, and the use of AR as a creative medium.

Camila Magrane has exhibited work internationally in numerous exhibitions, event spaces, fairs, and festivals. Selected exhibitions & clients include The Academy of Sciences, The Exploratorium, Themes+Projects Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, MUKEK, Gray Area, Sothebys, and Adobe. Selected press inquiries include Forbes, Adobe Blog, Refinery29, Lenscratch, Las Vegas Weekly, Las Vegas Review Journal, and Open Studios Guide.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:10:21 -0500 2023-01-24T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Traces
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-24T18:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
Tania El Khoury: Cultural Exchange Rate (January 24, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102301 102301-21803791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury examines the universal, never-ending story of migration through a family diary, and the recognition that the cruelest of borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life.
Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in border villages between Lebanon and Syria. The installation is based on recorded interviews with El Khoury's late grandmother, oral histories collected from her village in Lebanon, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family's attempt to secure dual citizenship. The audience is invited to immerse their heads into one family’s secret boxes to explore sounds, images, and textures that trace more than a century of border crossings.
Timed ticketed entry, with viewings at 11:30, 1:00, 3:00, 4:30, 6:00, and 7:30 daily. 10 people per time slot.Tickets are required for entry and can be purchased at UMS.org.

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Exhibition Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:15:05 -0500 2023-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Viewers bend their heads inside of chambers in a large metal safe installed in front of a brick wall
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (January 25, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101972 101972-21803029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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.

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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:34:27 -0500 2023-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2023-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition "I have a crisis for you" poster
Portraits of Feminism in Japan (January 25, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103305 103305-21806893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

What is feminism in Japan? Rather than imagining it as a singular, coherent object, this exhibit seeks to introduce the diversity, difference, and complexity inherent in feminist activism in Japan. As in other cultural contexts, “feminism” in Japan can invoke sharply different associations, from office workers trying to reshape taken-for-granted structures of power and authority, to mothers advocating for safer school lunches after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disasters, and queer couples seeking legal recognition for the families they have created. Mainstream feminist activism in Japan has focused on advocating for change in families, workplaces, schools, political institutions, and laws, among many other contexts. Many ­– but certainly not all – feminist activists in Japan are also responding to the lasting legacies of Japanese colonial projects, working toward recognition, repair, and meaningful reparations for racial and gender-based violence that continue to impact communities disproportionately.

This exhibit features original portraits of feminists who have shaped the landscape of women's and gender rights in Japan and beyond. Created by nine contemporary artists in Japan and the United States, the portraits and accompanying texts challenge simplistic understandings of "feminism" while also drawing attention to a diversity of experiences, needs, and activism within Japan. This exhibit also spotlights the history of Japanese studies at the University of Michigan in conjunction with the Center for Japanese Studies' 75th anniversary celebration.

“Portraits of Feminism in Japan” is open for viewing M-F 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.

Featured artists:
Elaine Cromie, JenClare B. Gawaran, Takatoshi Hayashi, ivokuma (いぼくま), Nami Kaneko (金子奈美), Kang Jungsook, Lisa Taka Miyagi, Nancy Nishihira (西平・ナンシー), and Shigeki Shibata (柴田滋紀)

Curation team:
Allison Alexy, Bradly Hammond, Grace Mahoney, and Alexandria Molinari

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:28:07 -0500 2023-01-25T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition The left side of the image says "Portraits of Feminism in Japan; 2023 Jan 12~May 12; Lane Hall Exhibit Space; University of Michigan" followed by the co-sponsors against a salmon-colored background. The right side of the image is an art piece.
Traces (January 25, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101484 101484-21801413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Traces explores the relationship between the past and the present with a focus on the process of transformation as the connecting thread. The work consists of a series of collages and a collection of Polaroids that are accompanied by animations and video clips seen solely through the use of an augmented reality application (Virtual Mutations).

The scenarios presented in the static images act as literal stages for animated narratives. What once was a captured single moment echoes into motion, creating an additional layer as to what will come thereafter. A dialogue between the past and the present is established and the app itself acts as a mediator between these tenses, allowing the observer to have a glimpse of the afterthought, that range from digital collages to Polaroid instant film.

About the Artist
Camila Magrane is a multimedia artist originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Having a father from the U.S. and a mother from Venezuela, she grew up alternating between both countries. Being fully exposed to two different cultures gave her a greater understanding of what it means to have various perspectives. After graduating from film school in Caracas, she moved to San Francisco where she freelanced as an editor and camera operator. After discovering a passion for video games and interactive media, Magrane obtained a BS in computer science with a concentration in game development. This eventually led her to working in the game industry as a cinematic artist.

Magrane has been pursuing a professional career as a multimedia artist since 2017, working within a variety of mediums, from photography and collage to animation and virtual/augmented reality (AR). She has been most noted for the creation of her AR image-based work where she’s established a postmodern aesthetic by combining traditional darkroom techniques with the use of digital tools.

Prior to her career in the arts, Magrane worked as a community organizer and teacher, creating and managing a curriculum for teaching 3rd-6th graders coding skills in public schools in Caracas, Venezuela. She continues to be active in community work by giving talks and workshops revolving around the topics of art, technology, and the use of AR as a creative medium.

Camila Magrane has exhibited work internationally in numerous exhibitions, event spaces, fairs, and festivals. Selected exhibitions & clients include The Academy of Sciences, The Exploratorium, Themes+Projects Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, MUKEK, Gray Area, Sothebys, and Adobe. Selected press inquiries include Forbes, Adobe Blog, Refinery29, Lenscratch, Las Vegas Weekly, Las Vegas Review Journal, and Open Studios Guide.

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Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:10:21 -0500 2023-01-25T09:00:00-05:00 2023-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Traces
Cathy Barry Connatural Art Exhibition (January 25, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103072 103072-21805974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Connatural Exhibition features the work of Ann Arbor artist, Cathy Barry and explores the intersection of art, science, and design. On display Saturday, January 7 through Sunday, April 30m, 2023.

Cathy Barry is an artist living and working in Ann Arbor whose creative process is closely tied to nature, plants, and the seasons. Cathy is an instructor at the UM School of Art and Design and the UM Program in the Environment and is very interested in the intersections between art, science, and design.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:46:55 -0500 2023-01-25T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-25T18:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Cathy Barry artwork. Circle in muted greens and yellows with smaller circles and vine shapes within
Tania El Khoury: Cultural Exchange Rate (January 25, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102301 102301-21803792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury examines the universal, never-ending story of migration through a family diary, and the recognition that the cruelest of borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life.
Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in border villages between Lebanon and Syria. The installation is based on recorded interviews with El Khoury's late grandmother, oral histories collected from her village in Lebanon, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family's attempt to secure dual citizenship. The audience is invited to immerse their heads into one family’s secret boxes to explore sounds, images, and textures that trace more than a century of border crossings.
Timed ticketed entry, with viewings at 11:30, 1:00, 3:00, 4:30, 6:00, and 7:30 daily. 10 people per time slot.Tickets are required for entry and can be purchased at UMS.org.

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Exhibition Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:15:05 -0500 2023-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Viewers bend their heads inside of chambers in a large metal safe installed in front of a brick wall