Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. If we were ___________, this would be ________________. (December 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69729 69729-17392902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

The exhibition includes work created as part of the fall 2019 RCARTS classes including Photography, Sculpture, Ceramics and Drawing as well as the RCHUMS course, How To Think (Arts). Runs until December 17. Gallery hours 10-5pm, Monday through Friday.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:40:07 -0500 2019-12-16T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Exhibition Poster
The Human Voice End of the Semester Group Concert (December 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69728 69728-17392904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Students will perform solo popular and classical music selections.

RCHUMS 252.002 - Topics in Musical Expression: The Human Voice.
Under the instruction of RC Music faculty member, Jennifer Goltz-Taylor.

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Performance Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:27:52 -0500 2019-12-16T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Performance RC Logo
If we were ___________, this would be ________________. (December 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69729 69729-17392903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

The exhibition includes work created as part of the fall 2019 RCARTS classes including Photography, Sculpture, Ceramics and Drawing as well as the RCHUMS course, How To Think (Arts). Runs until December 17. Gallery hours 10-5pm, Monday through Friday.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:40:07 -0500 2019-12-17T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-17T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Exhibition Poster
NOS: Dismantling the Otro (January 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71010 71010-17768591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“NOS: Dismantling the Otro” is a presentation of work from the thesis project of Social Theory and Practice major Tess Garcia. The project, which takes the form of a magazine, profiles eight Latinx students at the University of Michigan. Each student participated in a one-on-one interview with Tess, during which they discussed the struggles they face in relation to their heritage. Their answers served as the basis for a feature-style article. Students also took part in individual photoshoots with Tess, whose location, style and focus they directed. Those photos are featured in this exhibition, along with excerpts from each student’s interview. Copies of the original magazine will be available for viewing within the gallery space.

>> Opening Reception: Friday, January 10 from 6-8pm. Refreshments will be served.

In Spanish, “nosotros” means “we.” On its own, however, “otros” means “others.” The title of this exhibition omits the latter part of the word to symbolize Tess’s dreams for the Latinx community: a shared space of “we” where nobody feels like the other.

Tess Garcia is a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in Communication and Media and Social Theory and Practice through the Residential College. Her work in STP has centered around exploring Latinx issues through journalism, culminating in the creation of the print magazine and accompanying exhibition for “NOS: Dismantling the Otro.”

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Exhibition Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:09:37 -0500 2020-01-07T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-07T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition NOS: Dismantling the Otro
NOS: Dismantling the Otro (January 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71010 71010-17768592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“NOS: Dismantling the Otro” is a presentation of work from the thesis project of Social Theory and Practice major Tess Garcia. The project, which takes the form of a magazine, profiles eight Latinx students at the University of Michigan. Each student participated in a one-on-one interview with Tess, during which they discussed the struggles they face in relation to their heritage. Their answers served as the basis for a feature-style article. Students also took part in individual photoshoots with Tess, whose location, style and focus they directed. Those photos are featured in this exhibition, along with excerpts from each student’s interview. Copies of the original magazine will be available for viewing within the gallery space.

>> Opening Reception: Friday, January 10 from 6-8pm. Refreshments will be served.

In Spanish, “nosotros” means “we.” On its own, however, “otros” means “others.” The title of this exhibition omits the latter part of the word to symbolize Tess’s dreams for the Latinx community: a shared space of “we” where nobody feels like the other.

Tess Garcia is a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in Communication and Media and Social Theory and Practice through the Residential College. Her work in STP has centered around exploring Latinx issues through journalism, culminating in the creation of the print magazine and accompanying exhibition for “NOS: Dismantling the Otro.”

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Exhibition Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:09:37 -0500 2020-01-08T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-08T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition NOS: Dismantling the Otro
NOS: Dismantling the Otro (January 9, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71010 71010-17768593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“NOS: Dismantling the Otro” is a presentation of work from the thesis project of Social Theory and Practice major Tess Garcia. The project, which takes the form of a magazine, profiles eight Latinx students at the University of Michigan. Each student participated in a one-on-one interview with Tess, during which they discussed the struggles they face in relation to their heritage. Their answers served as the basis for a feature-style article. Students also took part in individual photoshoots with Tess, whose location, style and focus they directed. Those photos are featured in this exhibition, along with excerpts from each student’s interview. Copies of the original magazine will be available for viewing within the gallery space.

>> Opening Reception: Friday, January 10 from 6-8pm. Refreshments will be served.

In Spanish, “nosotros” means “we.” On its own, however, “otros” means “others.” The title of this exhibition omits the latter part of the word to symbolize Tess’s dreams for the Latinx community: a shared space of “we” where nobody feels like the other.

Tess Garcia is a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in Communication and Media and Social Theory and Practice through the Residential College. Her work in STP has centered around exploring Latinx issues through journalism, culminating in the creation of the print magazine and accompanying exhibition for “NOS: Dismantling the Otro.”

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Exhibition Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:09:37 -0500 2020-01-09T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition NOS: Dismantling the Otro
NOS: Dismantling the Otro (January 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71010 71010-17768594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“NOS: Dismantling the Otro” is a presentation of work from the thesis project of Social Theory and Practice major Tess Garcia. The project, which takes the form of a magazine, profiles eight Latinx students at the University of Michigan. Each student participated in a one-on-one interview with Tess, during which they discussed the struggles they face in relation to their heritage. Their answers served as the basis for a feature-style article. Students also took part in individual photoshoots with Tess, whose location, style and focus they directed. Those photos are featured in this exhibition, along with excerpts from each student’s interview. Copies of the original magazine will be available for viewing within the gallery space.

>> Opening Reception: Friday, January 10 from 6-8pm. Refreshments will be served.

In Spanish, “nosotros” means “we.” On its own, however, “otros” means “others.” The title of this exhibition omits the latter part of the word to symbolize Tess’s dreams for the Latinx community: a shared space of “we” where nobody feels like the other.

Tess Garcia is a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in Communication and Media and Social Theory and Practice through the Residential College. Her work in STP has centered around exploring Latinx issues through journalism, culminating in the creation of the print magazine and accompanying exhibition for “NOS: Dismantling the Otro.”

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Exhibition Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:09:37 -0500 2020-01-10T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition NOS: Dismantling the Otro
Winter Training Day (January 12, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68868 68868-17186665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 12, 2020 8:30am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Registration is open for winter facilitator training. Sign up now to reserve your seat at our full-day session.

You'll participate in an actual demonstration workshop in the morning, learn how to lead your own as a PCAP volunteer, and be able to determine how you would like to volunteer with PCAP on your schedule, with your hours.

PCAP volunteers collaborate with people impacted by the justice system in prisons, youth detention and treatment centers, and community centers.

The Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) brings those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan Community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth. We are a program of the LSA Residential College.

Founded in 1990 with a single theater workshop, PCAP has grown to include courses, exhibits, publications, arts programming, and events that reach thousands of people each year.

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Meeting Tue, 29 Oct 2019 07:27:27 -0400 2020-01-12T08:30:00-05:00 2020-01-12T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting PCAP members
CANCELLED: PCAP Membership Meeting Winter 2020 (January 15, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68904 68904-17194938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP Membership Meeting Winter 2020
1405 East Quad, Residential College
6:00–8:00 p.m.

Upcoming Meetings:
Wednesday, February 26
Wednesday, March 11
Wednesday, March 25
Wednesday, April 8

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Meeting Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:56:05 -0400 2020-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Hands
CWPS Film Screening: Gone to the Village (January 16, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70293 70293-17564368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Gone to the Village: Royal Funerary Rites for Asantehemaa Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II
A Film by Kwasi Ampene
Executive Producer: Lester P. Monts

Thursday, January 16, 2020
7-8:30pm
East Quad Keene Theater
Free & Open to the public

Center for World Performance Studies hosts a screening of Gone to the Village, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Kwasi Ampene. Gone to the Village is a unique and powerful documentary, beautifully filmed, of the elaborate funerary rites for the Queen Mother of the Asante in Ghana. Leading Asante scholar Kwasi Ampene directs and narrates with the authority, gaze and sensitivity of a true insider, with stunning footage of the rich cultural traditions of the Asante people. Filmed on location in Kumase during the funeral, we witness traditions that have stubbornly and proudly resisted the onslaught of colonial rule and globalization.

Through the film, we learn about the history of the Asante as well as the central role of women in this matriarchal society. The scenes of dance, song, drumming, proverbs, and dress code are of exceptional and exquisite beauty, unprecedented in the African continent.

Watch the video trailer: https://youtu.be/C2buzvL4bGY

Kwasi Ampene is associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan (USA). He specializes in the rich musical traditions of the Akan people of Ghana, West Africa. He is the author of Female Song Tradition and the Akan Ghana (Ashgate); Engaging Modernity: Asante in the Twenty-First Century (Michigan Publishing); and the producer of the documentary film, Gone to the Village. His book manuscript, Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool, is under contract with Routledge Press.

This film was made possible with funding from: The Office of Research (UMOR) / LSA Scholarship/Research Fund (LSA) / African Studies Center (ASC) / The Michigan Musical Heritage Project (MMHP) / Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) / Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / The African Humanities and Heritage Initiative (AHHI at the ASC) / Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG)

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Film Screening Fri, 13 Dec 2019 09:28:18 -0500 2020-01-16T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T20:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Film Screening Asantehemaa
DEI Talk: Gaelynn Lea (January 17, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71098 71098-17777059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 3:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Gaelynn Lea will be giving an overview of her life as a touring musician with a disability. She will be discussing why accessibility and inclusion in the arts are so important in 2020, and she'll give practical tips to promote better access and visibility from the ground up.

Lea will discuss the relevance and urgency of representation in our culture - not only in the media but in our educational systems. She will end by sharing how her disability helped her discover an important breakthrough at the intersection of disability pride, acceptance, and inner freedom.

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Performance Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:15:36 -0500 2020-01-17T15:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance East Quadrangle
Opening Reception: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 17, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70340 70340-17584115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 5:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for the Opening of the Exhibition: The Indexical Print
Curated by Andrew Thompson
Opening reception Friday January 17th, 5-6:30pm
Refreshments will be served
Free and open to the public

Exhibit will be on display January 20 - February 14, Mondays-Fridays, 10am -5pm.

>> Information about the exhibit:
“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

>> About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

>> About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:21 -0500 2020-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T18:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Ovid's Metamorphoses in a Modern Theatrical Adaptation by Mary Zimmerman (January 17, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71158 71158-17783471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Mary Zimmerman’s stage adaptation of The Metamorphoses

Directed and produced by U-M Residential College Drama students Sammi Doll and Riley Russell

Under guidance from RC Drama Faculty Head, Kate Mendeloff, and Keene Theater Manager, Rudy Thomas

>>>>> Performances:
Friday, January 17 at 7pm
Saturday, January 18 at 7pm
Sunday, January 19 at 7pm

All performances at the Keene Theater, 701 East University. Doors open at 6:45pm.

Cast: Bryce Foley, Maria Garcia Reyna, Alec Korotney, Tegan Oppelt, Jack Randel, Jake Riegel, Cami Robinson, Steven Son, Sophie Thurschwell, Darby Williams

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Performance Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:58:12 -0500 2020-01-17T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T21:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Performance Metamorphoses poster
Ovid's Metamorphoses in a Modern Theatrical Adaptation by Mary Zimmerman (January 18, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71158 71158-17783472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 18, 2020 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Mary Zimmerman’s stage adaptation of The Metamorphoses

Directed and produced by U-M Residential College Drama students Sammi Doll and Riley Russell

Under guidance from RC Drama Faculty Head, Kate Mendeloff, and Keene Theater Manager, Rudy Thomas

>>>>> Performances:
Friday, January 17 at 7pm
Saturday, January 18 at 7pm
Sunday, January 19 at 7pm

All performances at the Keene Theater, 701 East University. Doors open at 6:45pm.

Cast: Bryce Foley, Maria Garcia Reyna, Alec Korotney, Tegan Oppelt, Jack Randel, Jake Riegel, Cami Robinson, Steven Son, Sophie Thurschwell, Darby Williams

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Performance Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:58:12 -0500 2020-01-18T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-18T21:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Performance Metamorphoses poster
Ovid's Metamorphoses in a Modern Theatrical Adaptation by Mary Zimmerman (January 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71158 71158-17783473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Mary Zimmerman’s stage adaptation of The Metamorphoses

Directed and produced by U-M Residential College Drama students Sammi Doll and Riley Russell

Under guidance from RC Drama Faculty Head, Kate Mendeloff, and Keene Theater Manager, Rudy Thomas

>>>>> Performances:
Friday, January 17 at 7pm
Saturday, January 18 at 7pm
Sunday, January 19 at 7pm

All performances at the Keene Theater, 701 East University. Doors open at 6:45pm.

Cast: Bryce Foley, Maria Garcia Reyna, Alec Korotney, Tegan Oppelt, Jack Randel, Jake Riegel, Cami Robinson, Steven Son, Sophie Thurschwell, Darby Williams

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Performance Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:58:12 -0500 2020-01-19T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-19T21:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Performance Metamorphoses poster
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Poetry Showcase | " Whose Dream Is This?" (January 20, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70870 70870-17724622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: The Guild Poetry Inc.

From performing for TEDx and the Detroit Pistons to Oxford and the Motown Museum, the award-winning poets of The Guild have assembled their talents to curate a poetry showcase that will be sure to inspire, challenge, and engage audiences of all backgrounds. The performance will feature Michigan-based poets including Justin Gordon, Candace Jackson, Mikhaella Norwood, Mariah Smith, Darius Simpson, Mercedes Pergande, and actor Kate Mendeloff.

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Performance Thu, 02 Jan 2020 10:24:41 -0500 2020-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T19:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle The Guild Poetry Inc. Performance Artists of The Guild Poetry
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-22T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Editing Team Meeting: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (January 22, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71007 71007-17766507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:41:45 -0500 2020-01-22T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Sister Helen
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 23, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-23T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 24, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 27, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-27T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
In Commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70992 70992-17766491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 8:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Join retired RC Social Theory and Practice faculty member Hank Greenspan and friends for a reading and discussion of his new 15-minute play "Death / Play or Rubinstein, the Mad Jester of the Warsaw Ghetto"

"Death / Play" centers on a psychological duel between Rubinstein and Abraham Gancwaych, a notorious collaborator with the Gestapo. Both Rubinstein and Gancwaych were real people, famous within the ghetto.

Directed by RC Drama head faculty member, Kate Mendeloff
Performed by Hank Greenspan, Robby Griswold, and Isaac Ellis

Monday, January 27, 2020
East Quad classroom 1405
8pm
Free and open to the public

For information, contact Hank at hgreensp@umich.edu

Henry Greenspan, Ph.D., taught in the Residential College of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts from 1987 to 2019, ultimately attaining a Lecturer IV title. Dr. Greenspan received his A.B. (1970) and M.Ed. (1973) from Harvard University and his Ph.D. (1985) from Brandeis University. He came to the University of Michigan as a Junior Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows (1977-80). He worked as a Senior Counselor at Counseling Services (now CAPS) from 1983 to 1988 and joined the faculty of the Residential College in 1987. Within the RC, Dr. Greenspan has been an Academic Advisor, Chair of the First-year Seminar and Social Theory and Practice programs, and a revered teacher.

Dr. Greenspan has been interviewing, writing about, and teaching about Holocaust survivors since the 1970s—now longer than anyone in the world. Both editions of his book—On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History (1998) and the expanded On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Beyond Testimony (2010)--are considered seminal texts in oral history and Holocaust studies. Along with numerous chapters and journal articles on survivors, Dr. Greenspan wrote the chapter on survivor testimony for the Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (2010). He has worked closely with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum since it opened in 1993. He was the museum’s sixth annual Weinmann Lecturer (2000) and co-led the annual Hess seminar for Professors of Holocaust Courses (2011). His interview methodology has been adopted by large oral history projects with genocide survivors—especially in Rwanda and Cambodia. He was the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the Centre of Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University in Montreal (2012). Dr. Greenspan continues to mentor, consult, and present his research internationally--most recently, in Jerusalem (2016), Berlin (2016), New Delhi (2018), London (2018), Toronto (2018), and Montreal (2019).

Dr. Greenspan is also a playwright whose “Remnants” was originally produced at WUOM-FM and distributed to NPR stations in 1991. “Remnants” became a stage play that has been performed at more 300 venues worldwide.

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Presentation Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:04:08 -0500 2020-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T21:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Presentation Rubinstein in the Warsaw Ghetto
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-28T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 29, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-29T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
CANCELLED: PCAP Membership Meeting Winter 2020 (January 29, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68904 68904-17194939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP Membership Meeting Winter 2020
1405 East Quad, Residential College
6:00–8:00 p.m.

Upcoming Meetings:
Wednesday, February 26
Wednesday, March 11
Wednesday, March 25
Wednesday, April 8

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Meeting Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:56:05 -0400 2020-01-29T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Hands
A Conversation On Children's Literature and Writing with Author Brigit Young (January 29, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71149 71149-17783447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Brigit Young is the author of the middle grade novels Worth a Thousand Words and The Prettiest (forthcoming in April, 2020) from Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan. Worth a Thousand Words was chosen as a Junior Library Guild selection and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year for ages 12-14. Before beginning her work as a novelist, Brigit’s poetry and fiction appeared in multiple literary journals including The North American Review, The Pinch, Midwestern Gothic, Gargoyle Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Word Riot, The Common, and 2 River View. Through the non-profit organization WritopiaLab, Brigit spent many years teaching creative writing to children of all ages, in settings ranging from classrooms to a pediatric hospital. A native Michigander, she currently resides in Brooklyn.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:14:11 -0500 2020-01-29T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Brigit Young and Worth a Thousand Words
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 30, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-30T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 31, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-31T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 3, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-03T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
2019 - 2020 Residential College Robertson Lecture featuring LSA Dean and Professor Anne Curzan (February 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71815 71815-17888055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for the 2019 - 2020 Residential College Robertson Lecture, featuring LSA Dean and Professor Anne Curzan. Her talk is titled "Life, Love, and the Liberal Arts: Pursuing an education that matters", and will focus on the joy of discovering the questions that drive us, the importance of not always knowing, and the value of a liberal arts education in preparing to succeed in "radically diverse environments," as Van Jones calls them.

The talk will be held in the East Quad Keene Theater on Tuesday, February 4th from 4-5:15pm, and will include some time for Q&A. It will be followed by a reception in the lobby of the Keene Theater.

Professor Anne Curzan is the Geneva Smitherman Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, and Education, and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English, Linguistics, and Education. Professor Curzan's research interests include the history of English, language and gender, corpus linguistics, medieval language and literature, historical sociolinguistics, pedagogy, and lexicography. In addition to her teaching, research, and administrative posts in the English Department, Professor Curzan is co-editor of the Journal of English Linguistics.

>> If you cannot join us in person, watch the livestream of this event at https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/yparexef

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:42:51 -0500 2020-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Robertson Lecture flyer
Worthy Bodies: Trans and Nonbinary Body Positivity (February 4, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71969 71969-17905477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register for this event and other HWW events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthReg

Historically, transgender and non-binary identities have been viewed by the medical and mental health community as pathological. Although change has occurred, the cultural narratives around transgender and non-binary remain disparaging, disempowering, and marginalizing. Namely, that people with these identities are born in the wrong bodies. Transgender and non-binary people are not immune to internalizing these narratives which often lead to the development of shame and other mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety, to name a few. The goal of this workshop is to utilize countercultural, body positive, and resiliency focused interventions to empower transgender and non binary college students to view their bodies and identities.

See more Health & Wellness Week events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthWeek2020
Get event details at: http://bit.ly/SCeventnav

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Well-being Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:00:35 -0500 2020-02-04T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T19:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Spectrum Center Well-being Photo of a gender-diverse group of individuals taking a group selfie with a burgundy overlay. Also has date, time, and location of the event and the CAPS and Spectrum Center Block M logos. Photo credit to the Gender Spectrum Collection from Vice, found at https://genderphotos.vice.com/
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 5, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-05T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Editing Team Meeting: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (February 5, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71007 71007-17766508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:41:45 -0500 2020-02-05T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Sister Helen
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-06T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Stone Sound Collective (February 7, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71110 71110-17777075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 8:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Stone Sound Collective unites diverse musicians and instruments to create a new global soundscape. Led by multi-percussionist Mark Stone, the group brings together celebrated world percussion traditions of Africa and India with the lyricism of cello and saxophone. Stone Sound Collective performs new music drawing on Mark's wide-ranging compositional influences, stretching from American jazz to traditional African music and classical Indian music to European concert music.

Prof. Mark Stone is a composer-performer with a passion for using music to bring diverse communities together. An internationally recognized multi-percussionist, Stone has performed with the foremost musicians of Uganda, Ghana, South Africa, India, Trinidad, Ecuador, and the United States. In the group, Stone plays the newly-invented array mbira, an American-made 120 key lamellaphone and a wide range of traditional melodic African instruments, including the Ghanaian gyil, Ugandan akogo, and South African karimba. He is joined by Matt Dufresne (saxophones, flute, atenteben, and nadaswaram), Abigail Alwin (cello), Chinelo Amen-Ra (djembe, congas, and cajon) and Sam Jeyasingham (mridangam, tabla, kanjira, thavil, and morsing). These established artists freely cross musical boundaries with their dynamic playing and are exceptional improvisers, bringing a wide-range of performance experience and artistry to the Stone Sound Collective.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Performance Wed, 08 Jan 2020 13:16:00 -0500 2020-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T22:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Performance Stone Sound Collective
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-10T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 12, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-12T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
CANCELLED: PCAP Membership Meeting Winter 2020 (February 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68904 68904-17194940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP Membership Meeting Winter 2020
1405 East Quad, Residential College
6:00–8:00 p.m.

Upcoming Meetings:
Wednesday, February 26
Wednesday, March 11
Wednesday, March 25
Wednesday, April 8

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Meeting Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:56:05 -0400 2020-02-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Hands
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-13T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Valentines Day Open-Mic (February 13, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72019 72019-17914206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

New decade, new year, new semester, new OPEN-MIC! It is The RC Review's pleasure to welcome you back to EQ to perform at our VALENTINE'S DAY OPEN-MIC, 7-9PM 02/13 in East Quad's KEENE THEATER. Bring WHATEVER you want, WHENEVER you want - love poems or breakup songs encouraged (but not necessary).

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Performance Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:47:55 -0500 2020-02-13T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T21:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Performance Valentines Day Open-Mic Poster
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-14T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
“Love and Information” (February 16, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72021 72021-17914208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 16, 2020 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

The Director and Text course with the actors of RCHums 281 present a collaboratively directed version of Caryl Churchill’s play about relationships in the age of technology. “Love and Information” is a series of short scenes that range from comedic to dramatic portraits of our present day struggle to connect.

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Performance Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:47:11 -0500 2020-02-16T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-16T21:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Performance Drama Poster
Editing Team Meeting: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (February 19, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71007 71007-17766509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:41:45 -0500 2020-02-19T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-19T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Sister Helen
Film Screening "Border South" with co-producer John-Doering-White (February 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71964 71964-17905468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Award-winning documentary film ‘Border South’ (2019, 90 min) brings together fragmented stories from Hondurans crossing through southern Mexico to assemble a vivid portrait of the thousands immigrants who disappear along the trail. Based on years of collaborative ethnographic research, this film reveals the immigrants’ resilience, ingenuity, and humor while also exposing a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life as well as death. U-M alum, John Doering-White, who is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Work at the University of South Carolina, collaborated on the film and will join for the screening and a Q&A with the audience after.

A reception will follow in the lobby of the Keene Theater.

Co-presented by the Residential College Social Theory & Practice major program and the Department of Anthropology.

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Film Screening Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:23:13 -0500 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Film Screening Border South poster
Greek Week (February 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71593 71593-18123078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Dining

East Quad will be hosting
Monday (2/24):

Dinner: Mediterranean Fish with Tomatoes, Lemons and Olives over Lemon Greek Rice

Dessert: Greek Yogurt Pana Cotta, Dried Apricot, Pistachio & Honey Syrup

Tuesday (2/25):

Lunch: Crispy Fried Calamari w/ Lemon, Greek lemon Chicken Soup

Dinner: Greek Lentil Salad Recipe with Feta cheese over Crispy Greek Fried Eggplant recipe

Dessert: Pasta Flora (Jam Tart)

Wednesday (2/26):

Dinner: Crispy Greek Lamb Meatballs, Tzatziki, Warm Pita, Shaved Red Onion, Cucumber and Olive.

Dessert: Chocolate Biscuit Cake/ Baklava

Thursday (2/27):

Breakfast: Greek Yogurt with Honey and Walnuts

Lunch: Greek Meatloaf stuffed with Eggs over Greek Spinach and Rice

Dessert: Greek rice Pudding recipe

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Well-being Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:00:34 -0500 2020-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Dining Well-being Greek Week
CANCELLED: PCAP Membership Meeting Winter 2020 (February 26, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68904 68904-17905460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP Membership Meeting Winter 2020
1405 East Quad, Residential College
6:00–8:00 p.m.

Upcoming Meetings:
Wednesday, February 26
Wednesday, March 11
Wednesday, March 25
Wednesday, April 8

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Meeting Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:56:05 -0400 2020-02-26T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Hands
Greek Week (February 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71593 71593-18123079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Dining

East Quad will be hosting
Monday (2/24):

Dinner: Mediterranean Fish with Tomatoes, Lemons and Olives over Lemon Greek Rice

Dessert: Greek Yogurt Pana Cotta, Dried Apricot, Pistachio & Honey Syrup

Tuesday (2/25):

Lunch: Crispy Fried Calamari w/ Lemon, Greek lemon Chicken Soup

Dinner: Greek Lentil Salad Recipe with Feta cheese over Crispy Greek Fried Eggplant recipe

Dessert: Pasta Flora (Jam Tart)

Wednesday (2/26):

Dinner: Crispy Greek Lamb Meatballs, Tzatziki, Warm Pita, Shaved Red Onion, Cucumber and Olive.

Dessert: Chocolate Biscuit Cake/ Baklava

Thursday (2/27):

Breakfast: Greek Yogurt with Honey and Walnuts

Lunch: Greek Meatloaf stuffed with Eggs over Greek Spinach and Rice

Dessert: Greek rice Pudding recipe

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Well-being Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:00:34 -0500 2020-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Dining Well-being Greek Week
CANCELLED: PCAP Membership Meeting Winter 2020 (March 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68904 68904-17905461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP Membership Meeting Winter 2020
1405 East Quad, Residential College
6:00–8:00 p.m.

Upcoming Meetings:
Wednesday, February 26
Wednesday, March 11
Wednesday, March 25
Wednesday, April 8

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Meeting Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:56:05 -0400 2020-03-11T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Hands
Cancelled - "Beware the Ives of March" (March 15, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72648 72648-18035592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

This event has been cancelled.

Seven short farces about language and relationships all by master comic playwright, David Ives. Performed by RC Drama students

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:43:23 -0400 2020-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T20:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Performance Drama poster
CANCELLED - Nam Center Artist Residency | “AGE OF FIRE: Women of the Scarred Earth” (March 21, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72974 72974-18120889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 4:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

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

*Doors open at 4:00pm, Lecture/Demonstration begins at 4:30 PM*

Peggy Choy’s lifetime of dance has become a means to frame and navigate the dangerous times in which we live. While life and our environment can inform dance, Choy also examines the converse, that dance can inform our life and environment. Join Professor Choy for an evening of her own dance stories—both spoken and performed. This event is free and open to the public.

Peggy Myo-Young Choy’s dance alchemy of focused mind and moving body is fueled by Asian dance, martial arts, as well as urban vernacular dance forms. Choy’s seminal solos include, “Comfort Woman” and “Wild Rice.” She has also created solos around the themes—“Sea Series” and “Blood Series.” Her women-centered stories created since the mid-1990s, integrate her foundations in Korean dance, Javanese dance, and martial arts.

Peggy Choy, associate professor of Dance and Asian-American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, is director of PEGGY CHOY DANCE company. Her company has performed around the world—at New York’s Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama E.T.C., and Alvin Ailey Studio, DC’s Kennedy Center, Dance Place and the Smithsonian Institution, Kennedy Theater in Honolulu, Utan Kayu in Jakarta, Seoul Art Center in Korea, Danza Teatro Retazos in Havana, and Baráčnická Rychta in Prague, and the Korean Cultural Center in Berlin.

Choy's national and international awards include an NEA/Atlantic Center for the Arts fellowship, Danspace Project's Commissioning Initiative, Princeton and Cornell University commissions, and commissions from the Kintari Foundation, Seoul Selection, and Cafe Intarsia.

This work was supported by the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2016-OLU-2240001).

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

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:39:35 -0400 2020-03-21T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Nam Center for Korean Studies Performance Peggy Myo-Young Choy (Dance and Asian American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Postponed - Why I Fight (March 26, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71813 71813-17888049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

This event has been postponed. Details TBA.

Why I Fight, a theatrical adaptation of the 2019 Michigan Quarterly Review novelette by James Munro Leaf, dramatizes the perils of being defined by a mental illness and being caught in the psychiatric system. It probes the presumption of labels and the complex dynamics of power, dehumanization, and abuse in clinical settings. Creative director Gillian Eaton and actor Malcolm Tulip, faculty of the U-M School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, engage several of their students in this production at the Residential College’s Keene Theater (dates TBA).

Based on collaboration with the staff at the U-M Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program and other University colleagues, a series of panels on mental illness and the arts follow each theatrical performance. Panelists will expand on themes in Why I Fight and invite conversation with audience members. Individuals and family members who live with mental illness; U-M faculty conducting psycho-social, public health, and biomedical research; mental health practitioners and community advocates, including the arts community, will explore the roles of creativity and nature for healing. The panels will be moderated by Dr. Melvin McInnis, Director of the Prechter Program, and other U-M mental health experts. A catered reception and information tables for resources in the arts and mental wellness organizations accompany each performance. (Please see the full list of panelists for more information).

A series of associated events and workshops, free and open to the public, are scheduled for the weekend.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:46:22 -0400 2020-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Presentation Why I Fight
Postponed - Why I Fight (March 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71813 71813-17888050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

This event has been postponed. Details TBA.

Why I Fight, a theatrical adaptation of the 2019 Michigan Quarterly Review novelette by James Munro Leaf, dramatizes the perils of being defined by a mental illness and being caught in the psychiatric system. It probes the presumption of labels and the complex dynamics of power, dehumanization, and abuse in clinical settings. Creative director Gillian Eaton and actor Malcolm Tulip, faculty of the U-M School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, engage several of their students in this production at the Residential College’s Keene Theater (dates TBA).

Based on collaboration with the staff at the U-M Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program and other University colleagues, a series of panels on mental illness and the arts follow each theatrical performance. Panelists will expand on themes in Why I Fight and invite conversation with audience members. Individuals and family members who live with mental illness; U-M faculty conducting psycho-social, public health, and biomedical research; mental health practitioners and community advocates, including the arts community, will explore the roles of creativity and nature for healing. The panels will be moderated by Dr. Melvin McInnis, Director of the Prechter Program, and other U-M mental health experts. A catered reception and information tables for resources in the arts and mental wellness organizations accompany each performance. (Please see the full list of panelists for more information).

A series of associated events and workshops, free and open to the public, are scheduled for the weekend.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:46:22 -0400 2020-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Presentation Why I Fight
Postponed - Why I Fight (March 28, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71813 71813-17888051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

This event has been postponed. Details TBA.

Why I Fight, a theatrical adaptation of the 2019 Michigan Quarterly Review novelette by James Munro Leaf, dramatizes the perils of being defined by a mental illness and being caught in the psychiatric system. It probes the presumption of labels and the complex dynamics of power, dehumanization, and abuse in clinical settings. Creative director Gillian Eaton and actor Malcolm Tulip, faculty of the U-M School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, engage several of their students in this production at the Residential College’s Keene Theater (dates TBA).

Based on collaboration with the staff at the U-M Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program and other University colleagues, a series of panels on mental illness and the arts follow each theatrical performance. Panelists will expand on themes in Why I Fight and invite conversation with audience members. Individuals and family members who live with mental illness; U-M faculty conducting psycho-social, public health, and biomedical research; mental health practitioners and community advocates, including the arts community, will explore the roles of creativity and nature for healing. The panels will be moderated by Dr. Melvin McInnis, Director of the Prechter Program, and other U-M mental health experts. A catered reception and information tables for resources in the arts and mental wellness organizations accompany each performance. (Please see the full list of panelists for more information).

A series of associated events and workshops, free and open to the public, are scheduled for the weekend.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:46:22 -0400 2020-03-28T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Presentation Why I Fight
Postponed - Why I Fight (March 29, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71813 71813-17888052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 2:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

This event has been postponed. Details TBA.

Why I Fight, a theatrical adaptation of the 2019 Michigan Quarterly Review novelette by James Munro Leaf, dramatizes the perils of being defined by a mental illness and being caught in the psychiatric system. It probes the presumption of labels and the complex dynamics of power, dehumanization, and abuse in clinical settings. Creative director Gillian Eaton and actor Malcolm Tulip, faculty of the U-M School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, engage several of their students in this production at the Residential College’s Keene Theater (dates TBA).

Based on collaboration with the staff at the U-M Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program and other University colleagues, a series of panels on mental illness and the arts follow each theatrical performance. Panelists will expand on themes in Why I Fight and invite conversation with audience members. Individuals and family members who live with mental illness; U-M faculty conducting psycho-social, public health, and biomedical research; mental health practitioners and community advocates, including the arts community, will explore the roles of creativity and nature for healing. The panels will be moderated by Dr. Melvin McInnis, Director of the Prechter Program, and other U-M mental health experts. A catered reception and information tables for resources in the arts and mental wellness organizations accompany each performance. (Please see the full list of panelists for more information).

A series of associated events and workshops, free and open to the public, are scheduled for the weekend.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:46:22 -0400 2020-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Presentation Why I Fight
CANCELLED: The Sisters Free (March 31, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72231 72231-17963869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Facilitated by the Prison Creative Arts Project, the Sisters Within is the longest-running women’s theater troupe in a Michigan prison. This year, the Sisters Within turns 30 years old. In honor of the women who were in the workshop and have come home from prison, as well as those who are still incarcerated, this performance will be made up of improv theater skits and an invitation for audience interaction.

This production is created and performed by currently and formerly incarcerated women, including Sister Within’s co-founder Mary Heinen and allies to the troupe who have served as playwrights and workshop facilitators. Come have fun with us! Admission is Free.

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Performance Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:59:01 -0400 2020-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Performance The Sisters Free Poster
Editing Team Meeting: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (April 1, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71007 71007-17766512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:41:45 -0500 2020-04-01T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Sister Helen
CANCELLED: Senior Brunch (April 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71962 71962-17905465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Sunday Senior Brunch

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Meeting Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:59:48 -0400 2020-04-05T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting East Quadrangle
CANCELLED: PCAP Membership Meeting Winter 2020 (April 8, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68904 68904-17905463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP Membership Meeting Winter 2020
1405 East Quad, Residential College
6:00–8:00 p.m.

Upcoming Meetings:
Wednesday, February 26
Wednesday, March 11
Wednesday, March 25
Wednesday, April 8

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Meeting Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:56:05 -0400 2020-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Hands
Editing Team Meeting: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (April 15, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71007 71007-17766513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:41:45 -0500 2020-04-15T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Sister Helen
Editing Team Meeting: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (April 29, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71007 71007-17766514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:41:45 -0500 2020-04-29T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-29T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Sister Helen
Take What You Need - East Quad (December 5, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79690 79690-20454286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 5, 2020 12:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

The DPE of East Quad has curated a list of affirmation quotes to help residents through this challenging end of the semester. East Quad will receive a flyer in the next East Quad newsletter with QR codes that lead to messages of hope, motivation, confidence, patience, and kindness. Take what you need to stay as this semester comes to a close!

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Well-being Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:31:35 -0500 2020-12-05T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-05T23:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Well-being Michigan Housing You Belong Here Slogan
Take What You Need - East Quad (December 6, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79690 79690-20454287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 6, 2020 12:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

The DPE of East Quad has curated a list of affirmation quotes to help residents through this challenging end of the semester. East Quad will receive a flyer in the next East Quad newsletter with QR codes that lead to messages of hope, motivation, confidence, patience, and kindness. Take what you need to stay as this semester comes to a close!

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Well-being Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:31:35 -0500 2020-12-06T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-06T23:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Well-being Michigan Housing You Belong Here Slogan
Take What You Need - East Quad (December 7, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79690 79690-20454288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 12:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

The DPE of East Quad has curated a list of affirmation quotes to help residents through this challenging end of the semester. East Quad will receive a flyer in the next East Quad newsletter with QR codes that lead to messages of hope, motivation, confidence, patience, and kindness. Take what you need to stay as this semester comes to a close!

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Well-being Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:31:35 -0500 2020-12-07T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T23:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Well-being Michigan Housing You Belong Here Slogan
Take What You Need - East Quad (December 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79690 79690-20454289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

The DPE of East Quad has curated a list of affirmation quotes to help residents through this challenging end of the semester. East Quad will receive a flyer in the next East Quad newsletter with QR codes that lead to messages of hope, motivation, confidence, patience, and kindness. Take what you need to stay as this semester comes to a close!

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Well-being Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:31:35 -0500 2020-12-08T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T23:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Well-being Michigan Housing You Belong Here Slogan
Take What You Need - East Quad (December 9, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79690 79690-20454290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

The DPE of East Quad has curated a list of affirmation quotes to help residents through this challenging end of the semester. East Quad will receive a flyer in the next East Quad newsletter with QR codes that lead to messages of hope, motivation, confidence, patience, and kindness. Take what you need to stay as this semester comes to a close!

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Well-being Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:31:35 -0500 2020-12-09T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T23:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Well-being Michigan Housing You Belong Here Slogan
Take What You Need - East Quad (December 10, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79690 79690-20454291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 12:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

The DPE of East Quad has curated a list of affirmation quotes to help residents through this challenging end of the semester. East Quad will receive a flyer in the next East Quad newsletter with QR codes that lead to messages of hope, motivation, confidence, patience, and kindness. Take what you need to stay as this semester comes to a close!

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Well-being Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:31:35 -0500 2020-12-10T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T23:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Well-being Michigan Housing You Belong Here Slogan
Take What You Need - East Quad (December 11, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79690 79690-20454292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 11, 2020 12:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

The DPE of East Quad has curated a list of affirmation quotes to help residents through this challenging end of the semester. East Quad will receive a flyer in the next East Quad newsletter with QR codes that lead to messages of hope, motivation, confidence, patience, and kindness. Take what you need to stay as this semester comes to a close!

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Well-being Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:31:35 -0500 2020-12-11T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-11T23:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Well-being Michigan Housing You Belong Here Slogan
Take What You Need - East Quad (December 12, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79690 79690-20454293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 12, 2020 12:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

The DPE of East Quad has curated a list of affirmation quotes to help residents through this challenging end of the semester. East Quad will receive a flyer in the next East Quad newsletter with QR codes that lead to messages of hope, motivation, confidence, patience, and kindness. Take what you need to stay as this semester comes to a close!

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Well-being Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:31:35 -0500 2020-12-12T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-12T23:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Well-being Michigan Housing You Belong Here Slogan
Take What You Need - East Quad (December 13, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79690 79690-20454294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 13, 2020 12:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

The DPE of East Quad has curated a list of affirmation quotes to help residents through this challenging end of the semester. East Quad will receive a flyer in the next East Quad newsletter with QR codes that lead to messages of hope, motivation, confidence, patience, and kindness. Take what you need to stay as this semester comes to a close!

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Well-being Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:31:35 -0500 2020-12-13T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-13T23:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Well-being Michigan Housing You Belong Here Slogan
Take What You Need - East Quad (December 14, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79690 79690-20454295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 14, 2020 12:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

The DPE of East Quad has curated a list of affirmation quotes to help residents through this challenging end of the semester. East Quad will receive a flyer in the next East Quad newsletter with QR codes that lead to messages of hope, motivation, confidence, patience, and kindness. Take what you need to stay as this semester comes to a close!

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Well-being Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:31:35 -0500 2020-12-14T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-14T23:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Well-being Michigan Housing You Belong Here Slogan