Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. You Are Here (June 11, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88202 88202-21650957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 11, 2023 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome back to the museum. We’ve missed you.

On March 16, 2020, we closed our doors, just six days after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. We didn’t know for how long. At that point there were twelve confirmed COVID-19 cases in Washtenaw County. We weren’t wearing masks because we didn’t fully understand how the virus is transmitted. We reopened to the public 488 days later, on June 17, 2021. While it is exciting to be together again and to see the world slowly reopen, we are also deeply impacted by what we’ve been through. This exhibition holds both of those feelings.

The works of art in this show were selected because you really need to experience them in person, to be immersed in their textures, patterns, colors, and ideas. The exhibition is designed to remind visitors to be present where they are: to look and feel and be at UMMA, in person at the museum. It also reminds visitors where they aren’t: at home, isolated, connecting with each other virtually. 

The centerpiece of the exhibition—Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of Keshawn Warren standing in front of a vibrant floral background—exemplifies the idea of being present in oneself. Elsewhere you’ll find experiences for all of your senses. Come visit and play the Harry Bertoia sound sculpture to announce your presence in the gallery. After all, you are here.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 
 

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Exhibition Sun, 11 Jun 2023 18:15:31 -0400 2023-06-11T11:00:00-04:00 2023-06-11T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo by UMMA Staff
I See What You're Saying: A WICAD Symposium at UMMA (June 24, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108536 108536-21819931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 24, 2023 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://umich.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0785e9645d0a19a8765e0b58f&id=b363ef87e4&e=9fc0b66088.

8 - 10:30 AM – Public Panel Discussion, Moderated by Audrey Bennett

For generations, large swaths of the population have been excluded from experiencing exhibitions at art museums. Those who are sighted have the privilege of visiting museums and engaging with the art within its spaces, including reading contextual information about each piece on the placards positioned nearby. That same level of engagement has been more difficult or impossible for blind or partially blind visitors. While the conversation around the uses of audio description started decades ago, in recent years, it has emerged as a viable way to facilitate blind and partially blind museum visitors experiencing museum artwork through oral descriptions of them facilitated via virtual and in-person experiences, particularly during the Covid age of social distancing.

In those conversations, audio descriptions are typically created solely by museum professionals, without input from visitors who are blind and partially blind. Join us for a symposium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art to launch a generative co-creation of audio description educational program that brings together museum professionals with community members to co-create audio descriptions of select artwork from UMMA’s collection.

Following the public discussion, an invite-only WICAD session will take place with blind, partially blind, and sighted participants. 

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Other Sat, 24 Jun 2023 12:15:28 -0400 2023-06-24T08:00:00-04:00 2023-06-24T10:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
The Clements Bookworm: Jason Young and Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina (August 18, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109336 109336-21821484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 18, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6-uBey5BRneGzLydB7kbqA#/registration.

On the third Friday of the month, the Clements Library hosts a virtual Bookworm program that gathers authors, collectors, fellows and University staff for a conversation on a variety of history topics. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library Tea Time, attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to the conversation. On August 18th, the Bookworm will host U-M Professor Jason Young, curator of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina--an exhibition that will open at UMMA on August 26th. 

Hear Me Now is a landmark exhibition of more than 60 objects representing the work of African American potters in the decades surrounding the Civil War. The exhibition features monumental storage jars by the enslaved and literate potter and poet Dave, later recorded as David Drake (about 1800–about 1870), while the inclusion of several contemporary works from leading Black artists links the past to the present. Working primarily in clay, these artists respond to the legacy of the Edgefield potters and consider the resonance of this history for audiences today.

For more information, please call The Clements Library at 734-764-2347 or visit https://clements.umich.edu/public-programs/bookworm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:15:41 -0400 2023-08-18T10:00:00-04:00 2023-08-18T11:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Artscapade! (August 25, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109118 109118-21821090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 25, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts Initiative

The Arts Initiative and UMMA celebrate Welcome Week by introducing students to the wide array of possibilities for arts participation on campus at an exciting evening of art-making, live music, dance, poetry, and games.

We're looking for volunteers for this event-- help us make it happen (and get a free Artscapade t-shirt in the process!). Sign up today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

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Reception / Open House Wed, 09 Aug 2023 16:36:40 -0400 2023-08-25T18:00:00-04:00 2023-08-25T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts Initiative Reception / Open House Students celebrate Artscapade 2022 with performance group Groove
Dopamine Dressing (August 27, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100404 100404-21799714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 27, 2023 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Discover Delight in the Decadence

In this exhibition, YehRim Lee positions colorful clay and metal sculptures on a complex structure of her own design to create a joyful, immersive environment. Inspired by the fashion trend of the same name, Dopamine Dressing leans into the idea that bright colors and surprising textures can create happiness by activating chemicals in the brain. Clothing designers used this concept to battle the doldrums of the pandemic and here, artist YehRim Lee asks visitors to see how vibrancy, materiality, and expressive movement in art can have the same effect. 

She repeatedly refires her clay sculptures, introducing a new glaze each time until the surfaces begin to warp and crack, approaching collapse, suggesting that the dopamine bursts that come from sensual pleasure or excessive consumption perhaps provide only temporary relief from the cares of the world.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the William C. Weese, M.D. Endowment for Ceramic Arts, the U–M Office of the Provost, and the Nam Center for Korean Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the U-M Department of History of Art and the U-M Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.
 

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Exhibition Sun, 27 Aug 2023 12:15:51 -0400 2023-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2023-08-27T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition YehRim Lee, Candy Angle Green Small, 2021, stoneware, glaze, luster. Courtesy the artist. © YehRim Lee 2022
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina — Exhibition Tour with Jason Young (August 27, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109341 109341-21821896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 27, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ejw9z5vn118a949b.

Join exhibition co-curator and U-M Associate Professor of History Jason Young for an exploration of the dynamic exhibition Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina. Hear Me Now centers around the complicated history and continuing legacy of an African American ceramic tradition that emerged out of the plantation economies of Edgefield, South Carolina. As an artistic tradition rooted in the history of American slavery, the exhibition highlights the tangled histories of race, slavery and art in this country. The exhibition features historic work including monumental storage jars by the enslaved and literate potter and poet Dave, later recorded as David Drake as well as leading contemporary Black artists who have responded to or whose practice resonates with the Edgefield story. Established figures like Theaster Gates and Simone Leigh, as well as younger, emerging artists like Adebunmi Gbadebo, Woody De Othello, and Robert Pruitt, have contributed to the show. Working primarily in clay, these artists respond to the legacy of the Edgefield potters and consider the resonance of this history for audiences today.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 27 Aug 2023 12:15:45 -0400 2023-08-27T14:00:00-04:00 2023-08-27T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
The Farm Stand (September 7, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111676 111676-21827398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

The Farm Stand is a weekly pop-up market and education project that sells produce grown by students for students. It is held on Thursdays from 12pm-3pm from July through mid November on State St outside of the U-M Museum of Art. Powered by the U-M Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) and the Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens (CF), this project seeks to increase access to local food for students and engage the wider U-M community in food systems learning and engagement opportunities. Students receive a 30% discount and the proceeds from the Farm Stand go towards funding student-led sustainable food initiatives here at the U-M through UMSFP’s mini-grants for food justice program.

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Other Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:32:20 -0400 2023-09-07T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-07T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Other Beautiful student grown produce displayed on a table with a UM Farm Stand staff member in the background.
MFA Faculty Flash Reading (September 7, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108985 108985-21820682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Come hear poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from distinguished MFA and English Department faculty members!

This year's readers will include: Karyna McGlynn, Kelly Hoffer, Linda Gregerson, Tung-Hui Hu, Kiley Reid, Aaron Coleman, Gabe Habash, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, and more!

This event is free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

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Performance Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:19:42 -0400 2023-09-07T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-07T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance MFA Faculty Flash Reading
Mark Webster Reading Series (September 8, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109047 109047-21821002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:56:41 -0400 2023-09-08T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-08T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
GISC Screening & Talkback. American Jedi: The Salman Hamdani Story (September 12, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110627 110627-21825179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

RSVP: http://bit.ly/AmJedi
When: Sept 12th, 2023 | 6:30 PM ET
Where: U-M Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Join the Global Islamic Studies Center, on September 12th at 6:30 PM at the UMMA for a screening of the short film “American Jedi: The Salman Hamdani Story”. This screening will be followed by a talkback with filmmakers Nick Eyde and Mohammad Khalil.

*American Jedi*: The Salman Hamdani Story: A devout Muslim and proud American immigrant makes the ultimate heroic sacrifice. Like the fictional Jedi he admires, Salman Hamdani is ready to face adversity for the sake of others. On the morning of September 11, 2001, this young man takes a daring leap and runs toward the Twin Towers. When his body isn't immediately found, his absence inevitably leads to questions--and suspicions. His family is forced to overcome tragedy and ostracization in response to their son's death.

Mohammad Khalil is a professor of Religious Studies, adjunct professor of Law, and the director of the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University. He has authored and edited multiple books on Islam and Muslims and was the lead investigator of the Muslims of the Midwest digital archive. He received all of his degrees from the University of Michigan.

Nick Eyde played for six seasons in the Italian Football League, quarterbacking for the Rome Ducks, Reggio Emilia Hogs, Lazio Marines and Bolzano Giants, including one Italian Bowl appearance. He is now a real estate developer in the Toledo area. He redeveloped the former Fiberglas Tower into the mixed-use Tower on the Maumee and spearheaded the effort to bring the Italian Bowl to the Glass City (Toledo). He has been a featured guest star on Chicago Fire and has produced a handful of independent film projects.


This event is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, The Department of Middle East Studies, Arab and Muslim American Studies, and the MSU Muslim Studies Program.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter below! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum. Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@umich.edu. 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 Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:11:18 -0400 2023-09-12T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-12T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening American Jedi: The Salman Hamdani Story
The Farm Stand (September 14, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111676 111676-21827399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

The Farm Stand is a weekly pop-up market and education project that sells produce grown by students for students. It is held on Thursdays from 12pm-3pm from July through mid November on State St outside of the U-M Museum of Art. Powered by the U-M Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) and the Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens (CF), this project seeks to increase access to local food for students and engage the wider U-M community in food systems learning and engagement opportunities. Students receive a 30% discount and the proceeds from the Farm Stand go towards funding student-led sustainable food initiatives here at the U-M through UMSFP’s mini-grants for food justice program.

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Other Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:32:20 -0400 2023-09-14T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-14T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Other Beautiful student grown produce displayed on a table with a UM Farm Stand staff member in the background.
"I Can't Be Lost When I See You": A Dark Noise Collective Panel Discussion About Finding Strength in Artistic Community (September 15, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110451 110451-21824938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

As part of the Arts and Resistance Theme Semester, Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts (LSWA) presents "I Can't Be Lost When I See You": A Dark Noise Collective Panel Discussion About Finding Strength in Artistic Community. The Dark Noise Collective is a literary troupe comprised of today's most exciting, insightful, and powerful poets of color -- Franny Choi, Jamila Woods, Aaron Samuels, Danez Smith, Fatimah Asghar, and Nate Marshall. This event is free and open to the public!

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:19:24 -0400 2023-09-15T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T16:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Lecture / Discussion A flyer featuring headshots of each member of the Dark Noise Collective, along with the posted event information.
Voter Registration Tabling (September 19, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/112160 112160-21828532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Turn Up Turnout will be tabling on the Diag, inside the UMMA, and the Grove on North Campus, helping students register to vote. For more information visit our website: https://www.govote.umich.edu

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Rally / Mass Meeting Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:37:22 -0400 2023-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Turn Up Turnout Rally / Mass Meeting Turn Up Turnout
The Farm Stand (September 21, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111676 111676-21827400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

The Farm Stand is a weekly pop-up market and education project that sells produce grown by students for students. It is held on Thursdays from 12pm-3pm from July through mid November on State St outside of the U-M Museum of Art. Powered by the U-M Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) and the Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens (CF), this project seeks to increase access to local food for students and engage the wider U-M community in food systems learning and engagement opportunities. Students receive a 30% discount and the proceeds from the Farm Stand go towards funding student-led sustainable food initiatives here at the U-M through UMSFP’s mini-grants for food justice program.

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Other Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:32:20 -0400 2023-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Other Beautiful student grown produce displayed on a table with a UM Farm Stand staff member in the background.
Feel Good Friday @ UMMA (September 22, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111859 111859-21827689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Join us for Feel Good Friday!

Open late with something to discover around every corner – join your neighbors at Feel Good Friday and experience the restorative power of a fun Friday night surrounded by art, music, and culture. Featuring:
Live DJ sets with Miss Ginger and Detroit's legendary Stacey Hotwaxx Hale Beadmaking with Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum and Heron Hill Designs Musical performances featuring the Hear Us Now Quartet Check out the unveiling of a new commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. 
Free and open to the public. 

This month’s Feel Good Friday is a celebration of the opening of UMMA’s fall season and kick-off of the Arts & Resistance Theme Semester.

Click here to see more.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

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Other Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:15:56 -0400 2023-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Artist Meet & Greet – Cannupa Hanska Luger (September 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111861 111861-21827691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No registration is required. .

Drop in and chat with artist Cannupa Hanska Luger about his exhibition You're Welcome at UMMA.

You're Welcome asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories.

Click here to read more about You're Welcome.  

 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:15:55 -0400 2023-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Beading Workshop with Heron Hill Designs (September 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112740 112740-21829494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No registration required. .

Keep the good vibes going from Feel Good Friday with part two of a beading workshop with Heron Hill Designs! Drop by at any time to learn about cowrie shells, experiment with designs, and be in community with local indigenous beaders. 

Heron Hill Designs, HHD for short, is a collective started by Joey Kennedy and Daniel Beck, who are currently based in Michigan. All items produced are one-of-a-kind handmade and hand-harvested when possible or otherwise stated. Any materials that cannot be made are outsourced within indigenous communities when possible. HHD focuses on creating with sustainability, respect, and conscientious consumption in mind. Their work is a blend of contemporary styles of art and older traditional woodland floral designs. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:15:56 -0400 2023-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Hear Us Now Quartet (September 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111860 111860-21827690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No registration required. .

Gather to see two live performances by Hear Us Now, an exciting new quartet featuring Helga Davis (vocals), Ashley Jackson (harp), and Fred Cash Jr. (bass), and Justin Hicks (composer). The quartet will perform new work inspired by the exhibition Hear Me Now, The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina in which direct poetry and texts created by Edgefield potter David Drake are used to craft the composition.

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Helga Davis is a vocalist and performance artist with feet planted on the most prestigious international stages and with firm roots in the realities and concerns of her local community whose work draws out insights that illuminate how artistic leaps for an individual can offer connection among audiences. Davis was principal actor in the 25th-anniversary international revival of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s seminal opera Einstein on the Beach.

, a harpist praised for her “soulful” and “eloquent” playing (Musical America), enjoys a multifaceted career as a highly sought-after musician and collaborator in New York and beyond. As a soloist, she has performed at Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn! and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolis Ensemble, the Qatar Philharmonic, and is the principal harpist of NOVUS NY, the contemporary music orchestra of Trinity Wall Street led by Grammy-nominated conductor Julian Wachner. She is a member of the Harlem Chamber Players, with whom she has developed a number of projects, including her first film, In Song and Spirit and the Harlem Walking Tour Series.

Fred Cash, Jr. hails from Chicago and was born into soul royalty, as the son of Fred Cash Sr. of The Impressions with Curtis Mayfield. After college, Fred moved to New York where he has worked with artists such as India Arie, Toshi Reagon, Alicia Keys, Henry Butler, Elvis Costello and George Clinton.

is a Drama Desk-nominated composer, vocalist, and sound artist.  He’s worked with notable artists such as Abigail DeVille, Meshell Ndegeocello, Hilton Als, Steffani Jemison, Joan As Policewoman, Charlotte Brathwaite, Mimi Lien, and Toshi Reagon.  His work has been presented at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,  The Public,  Baryshnikov Art Center, Festival steirischer herbst (Graz, AT), Symphony Space. He recently provided music for Lynn Nottage's Clyde's on Broadway and presented his commissioned work Outside as part of The Shed's Open Call series. Hicks was a member of Kara Walker’s 6-8 Months Space and holds a culinary diploma from ICE in New York City.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Performance Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:15:55 -0400 2023-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T14:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Hear Us Now Quartet (September 23, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111862 111862-21827692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No registration required. .

Gather to see two live performances by Hear Us Now, an exciting new quartet featuring Helga Davis (vocals), Ashley Jackson (harp), and Fred Cash Jr. (bass), and Justin Hicks (composer). The quartet will perform new work inspired by the exhibition Hear Me Now, The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina in which direct poetry and texts created by Edgefield potter David Drake are used to craft the composition.

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Helga Davis is a vocalist and performance artist with feet planted on the most prestigious international stages and with firm roots in the realities and concerns of her local community whose work draws out insights that illuminate how artistic leaps for an individual can offer connection among audiences. Davis was principal actor in the 25th-anniversary international revival of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s seminal opera Einstein on the Beach.

, a harpist praised for her “soulful” and “eloquent” playing (Musical America), enjoys a multifaceted career as a highly sought-after musician and collaborator in New York and beyond. As a soloist, she has performed at Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn! and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolis Ensemble, the Qatar Philharmonic, and is the principal harpist of NOVUS NY, the contemporary music orchestra of Trinity Wall Street led by Grammy-nominated conductor Julian Wachner. She is a member of the Harlem Chamber Players, with whom she has developed a number of projects, including her first film, In Song and Spirit and the Harlem Walking Tour Series.

Fred Cash, Jr. hails from Chicago and was born into soul royalty, as the son of Fred Cash Sr. of The Impressions with Curtis Mayfield. After college, Fred moved to New York where he has worked with artists such as India Arie, Toshi Reagon, Alicia Keys, Henry Butler, Elvis Costello and George Clinton.

is a Drama Desk-nominated composer, vocalist, and sound artist.  He’s worked with notable artists such as Abigail DeVille, Meshell Ndegeocello, Hilton Als, Steffani Jemison, Joan As Policewoman, Charlotte Brathwaite, Mimi Lien, and Toshi Reagon.  His work has been presented at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,  The Public,  Baryshnikov Art Center, Festival steirischer herbst (Graz, AT), Symphony Space. He recently provided music for Lynn Nottage's Clyde's on Broadway and presented his commissioned work Outside as part of The Shed's Open Call series. Hicks was a member of Kara Walker’s 6-8 Months Space and holds a culinary diploma from ICE in New York City.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Performance Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:15:55 -0400 2023-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Black Homecoming Gala (September 23, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112077 112077-21828405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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The annual Black Homecoming Gala at the University of Michigan is a cultural event that unites students of African descent within the campus community. Hosted by Sister 2 Sister (S2s) and Here Earning a Destiny Through Honesty, Eagerness, and Determination of Self (H.E.A.D.S.) and in partnership with the UMMA, this event celebrates the achievements and diversity of our black student body. Every year, Michigan students, faculty, staff, and alumni gather to honor each other’s accomplishments, show their school spirit, and appreciate one another in a festive and formal environment that allows students to embody their creativity and style through fashion. The event serves a valuable role in creating meaningful and life-long connections between past, present, and future classes of University of Michigan students. Find more info @heads_um and @s2s_um on Instagram! 

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Presentation Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:15:57 -0400 2023-09-23T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
You're Welcome – Curator Tour with Ozi Uduma (September 24, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111863 111863-21827693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ejylq4b1cdadbcf4.

Please join Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art, for an introduction to You’re Welcome–from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. The project asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

We will gather in UMMA’s Forum before the tour begins (directly through the doors next to the large white sculpture).

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 24 Sep 2023 18:15:58 -0400 2023-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
The Farm Stand (September 28, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111676 111676-21827401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

The Farm Stand is a weekly pop-up market and education project that sells produce grown by students for students. It is held on Thursdays from 12pm-3pm from July through mid November on State St outside of the U-M Museum of Art. Powered by the U-M Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) and the Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens (CF), this project seeks to increase access to local food for students and engage the wider U-M community in food systems learning and engagement opportunities. Students receive a 30% discount and the proceeds from the Farm Stand go towards funding student-led sustainable food initiatives here at the U-M through UMSFP’s mini-grants for food justice program.

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Other Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:32:20 -0400 2023-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Other Beautiful student grown produce displayed on a table with a UM Farm Stand staff member in the background.
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 29, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112383 112383-21828851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look
like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials
and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, “Afterthought”
memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing. Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

September 29, 6pm
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of
Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Film Screening Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:17:23 -0400 2023-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Department of American Culture Film Screening Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (September 29, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109622 109622-21822415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:16:01 -0400 2023-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (September 30, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109705 109705-21822717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:15:55 -0400 2023-09-30T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (October 1, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109706 109706-21822718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:15:55 -0400 2023-10-01T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina: Exhibition Tour with GUEST TBD (October 1, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110483 110483-21824973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Join exhibition co-curator and U-M Associate Professor of History Jason Young for an exploration of the dynamic exhibition Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield South Carolina. Hear Me Now centers around the complicated history and continuing legacy of an African American ceramic tradition that emerged out of the plantation economies of Edgefield, South Carolina. As an artistic tradition rooted in the history of American slavery, the exhibition highlights the tangled histories of race, slavery and art in this country. The exhibition features historic work including monumental storage jars by the enslaved and literate potter and poet Dave, later recorded as David Drake as well as leading contemporary Black artists who have responded to or whose practice resonates with the Edgefield story. Established figures like Theaster Gates and Simone Leigh, as well as younger, emerging artists like Adebunmi Gbadebo, Woody De Othello, and Robert Pruitt, have contributed to the show. Working primarily in clay, these artists respond to the legacy of the Edgefield potters and consider the resonance of this history for audiences today.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Other Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:15:54 -0400 2023-10-01T14:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Pottery as Poetry: Learning from The Black Potters of Old Edgefield Ceramic Workshop with Ebitenyefa Baralaye (October 2, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113302 113302-21830695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pottery-as-poetry-learning-from-the-black-potters-of-old-edgefield-tickets-718433031537?aff=oddtdtcreator.

Detroit based artist and educator Ebitenyefa Baralaye will lead a hands-on workshop on ceramic techniques and glazing methods inspired by the Black Potters of Old Edgefield. Clay and tools will be provided. This event is co-presented by Stamps Gallery, UMMA, and AADL in conjunction with the exhibition  currently on view at UMMA through Jan 7, 2024.

This event series is sponsored by the U-M Arts Initiative.  This program is organized by the Stamps Gallery, for more information contact Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan at jenjkhan@​umich.​edu.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Oct 2023 12:15:56 -0400 2023-10-02T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T13:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Snapshots & Straight Talk: Devin Allen in Conversation with Imani Mixon (October 3, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109916 109916-21823227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Devin Allen is a self-taught photographer who gained national attention when his photograph of the Baltimore Uprising was published on the cover of *Time* magazine in 2015. His book, *No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter*, came out last year and he's the founder of a youth photography educational program called Through Their Eyes.

Imani Mixon was born and raised at the magnetic center of the world’s cultural compass — Detroit, Michigan. She is a long-form storyteller who is inspired by everyday griots who bear witness to their surroundings and report it back out. Equal parts urgent and essential, her multimedia work centers the experiences of Black women and independent artists.

Join us today as Imani Mixon talks to Devin Allen about his life and work, the tension between truth and beauty, capturing community, and maintaining authenticity.

This event is part of LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:25:16 -0400 2023-10-03T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-03T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Devin Allen and Imani Mixon overlay on a Baltimore Uprising photo by Devin Allen
The Farm Stand (October 5, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111676 111676-21827402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

The Farm Stand is a weekly pop-up market and education project that sells produce grown by students for students. It is held on Thursdays from 12pm-3pm from July through mid November on State St outside of the U-M Museum of Art. Powered by the U-M Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) and the Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens (CF), this project seeks to increase access to local food for students and engage the wider U-M community in food systems learning and engagement opportunities. Students receive a 30% discount and the proceeds from the Farm Stand go towards funding student-led sustainable food initiatives here at the U-M through UMSFP’s mini-grants for food justice program.

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Other Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:32:20 -0400 2023-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Other Beautiful student grown produce displayed on a table with a UM Farm Stand staff member in the background.
Reading and Q&A with Sidik Fofana (October 5, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108953 108953-21820646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Sidik Fofana is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program and a public school teacher in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in the *Sewanee Review* and *Granta*. He was also named a fellow at the Center for Fiction in 2018. His debut short story collection was published by Scribner in August 2022.

Set in a Harlem high rise, *Stories from the Tenants Downstairs* is a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it.

Like Gloria Naylor’s *The Women of Brewster Place* and Lin Manuel Miranda’s *In the Heights*, Sidik Fofana’s electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths, struggles, and hopes of one residential community in a powerful storytelling experience.

Each short story follows a tenant in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone’s mind. There is Swan in apartment 6B, whose excitement about his friend’s release from prison jeopardizes the life he’s been trying to lead. Mimi, in apartment 14D, who hustles to raise the child she had with Swan, waitressing at Roscoe’s and doing hair on the side. And Quanneisha B. Miles, a former gymnast with a good education who wishes she could leave Banneker for good, but can’t seem to escape the building’s gravitational pull. We root for these characters and more as they weave in and out of each other’s lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and blaze new paths forward for themselves and the people they love.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you.The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:08:38 -0400 2023-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-05T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Sidik Fofana
Pottery as Poetry: Learning from The Black Potters of Old Edgefield Ceramic Workshop with Ebitenyefa Baralaye (October 6, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113303 113303-21830696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pottery-as-poetry-learning-from-the-black-potters-of-old-edgefield-tickets-718440403587?aff=oddtdtcreator.

Detroit based artist and educator Ebitenyefa Baralaye will lead a hands-on workshop on ceramic techniques and glazing methods inspired by the Black Potters of Old Edgefield. Clay and tools will be provided. This event is co-presented by Stamps Gallery, UMMA, and AADL in conjunction with the exhibition  currently on view at UMMA, Aug 26, 2023 - Jan 7, 2024.

This event series is sponsored by the U-M Arts Initiative.  This program is organized by the Stamps Gallery, for more information contact Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan at jenjkhan@umich.edu.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Oct 2023 12:15:55 -0400 2023-10-06T10:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Mark Webster Reading Series (October 6, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109048 109048-21821003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:59:16 -0400 2023-10-06T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina – Exhibition Tour with ​Ebitenyefa Baralaye and Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan (October 8, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110485 110485-21824975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ejy5wzp9e719b410.

Please join Ebitenyefa Baralaye and Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan for a tour of Hear Me Now for a discussion of the works in the exhibition and relationships with the art practice of Baralaye who works in similar materials and processes. They will focus on specific works that resonate personally for the artist and discuss what questions the exhibition raises around memory, equity and legacy for local communities in Detroit and Southeast Michigan.  

(he/him) is a ceramicist, sculptor, designer, and educator. His work explores cultural, spiritual, and material translations of objects, text, bodies, and symbols interpreted through a diaspora lens and abstracted around the aesthetics of craft and design. Baralaye’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Friedman Benda Gallery (New York), David Klein Gallery (Detroit), and the Korea Ceramic Foundation (Icheon), among others. He is currently an assistant professor and the Section Lead of Ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI.

Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan (she/hers) is a curator, writer, and arts administrator based in Detroit. She has worked on numerous exhibitions of contemporary art nationally and internationally and is the co-founding editor of Infinite Mile, a journal of art and cultures in Detroit. Through her work, she aims to create change within art and cultural organizations so that inclusivity, belonging, equity, and access can be more fully realized in the production,

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 08 Oct 2023 18:15:49 -0400 2023-10-08T14:00:00-04:00 2023-10-08T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Subject Matters: Weird Art Makes the World Better (October 10, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113414 113414-21830973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ek0gnry0a0f6c542.

Being weird makes the world more just and joyful by challenging conventions, questioning norms, and overturning preconceptions. By looking at art that upsets the dominant narratives of power and subverts our traditional understanding of what art can be, we confront discomfort, uncertainty, and irreverent play, allowing new possibilities to open up in the process. Join UMMA curator Dave Choberka and Lecturer Darcy Brandel for a weird evening, exploring the creative eccentricities that make our lives fuller. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Oct 2023 18:15:50 -0400 2023-10-10T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
The Farm Stand (October 12, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111676 111676-21827403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

The Farm Stand is a weekly pop-up market and education project that sells produce grown by students for students. It is held on Thursdays from 12pm-3pm from July through mid November on State St outside of the U-M Museum of Art. Powered by the U-M Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) and the Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens (CF), this project seeks to increase access to local food for students and engage the wider U-M community in food systems learning and engagement opportunities. Students receive a 30% discount and the proceeds from the Farm Stand go towards funding student-led sustainable food initiatives here at the U-M through UMSFP’s mini-grants for food justice program.

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Other Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:32:20 -0400 2023-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Other Beautiful student grown produce displayed on a table with a UM Farm Stand staff member in the background.
Virtual Zell Visiting Writers Series: Fiction Author Liz Moore Reading and Q&A (October 12, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113818 113818-21831754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23.

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. 

Liz Moore is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing (Fiction) in Temple University’s MFA program and the author of four novels. Her most recent novel, the New York Times-and internationally bestselling Long Bright River(Riverhead), was also a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, the inaugural pick for the New York Times’s monthly “Group Text” column; and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2020. 

Her other novels include The Words of Every Song (Random House, 2007); Heft (W.W. Norton, 2012); and The Unseen World (W.W. Norton, 2016). Moore's short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in venues such as Tin House, The New York Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. After winning a 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she spent 2014-15 at the American Academy in Rome. Moore’s books have appeared on the “Best of the Year” lists of venues such as The New Yorker, NPR, Goodreads, and The Washington Post. Her novels have been published in more than twenty-five foreign territories to date. 

Her next novel is forthcoming from Riverhead in 2024, and a limited series adaptation of Long Bright River, co-written by Moore, is currently greenlit for production by Peacock. Moore lives with her family in Philadelphia. 

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. 

The Zell Visiting Writers Series is a reading series presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and Janey Lack.

ZVWS events are free and open to the public. For additional information, questions, or accommodations needs, please contact Program Manager Julie Cadman-Kim at kimjulie@umich.edu.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:15:49 -0400 2023-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 2023-10-12T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (October 13, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109707 109707-21822719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:15:57 -0400 2023-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (October 14, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109708 109708-21822720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2023 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:15:57 -0400 2023-10-14T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-14T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (October 15, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109709 109709-21822721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 15, 2023 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:43:30 -0400 2023-10-15T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Afterthought (website cover: How will we remember the pandemic and the lives it cut short?)
The Politics of Desire in Higher Education—A public talk with Dr. D-L Stewart (October 18, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112583 112583-21829152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Spectrum Center

ABOUT THE TALK—from the speaker:
Too often our work in higher education institutions - including our diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice efforts - are driven by and driven to meet externally focused outcomes. We use benchmark data to measure up to aspirational peers. We devise strategic plans with goals informed by consultants and, sometimes, research findings. However, we rarely examine our own desires for the future of our work and of our academic communities. It is rare to talk about desire in the academy but drawing from the work of Eve Tuck, Audre Lorde, and adrienne maree brown, we will engage the “politics of desire” as a tool for envisioning and strategizing for the transformation of our communities.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. D-L Stewart is professor and chair of the Higher Education Department in the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver. Over the course of his faculty career, he has focused most intently on the history and philosophy of higher education and the institutional systems and structures that affect the experiences, growth, development, and success of racially minoritized and queer and trans* students in historically white postsecondary institutions. Dr. Stewart examines these topics through intersectional, critical, and poststructural frameworks that interrogate the multiple manifestations of whiteness and settler colonialism in U.S. higher education. In addition to more than 150 invited and refereed presentations and over 90 journal publications and book chapters, Dr. Stewart is also an author or editor of four books related to multicultural student services, contexts and opportunities for LGBTQ+ students, history of Black collegians in private liberal arts colleges, and the use of critical frameworks in student development theorizing. Dr. Stewart has also received numerous awards for teaching, research, and service, including being named a 2022 Senior Scholar Diplomate and receiving the 2021 Contribution to Knowledge Award from ACPA-College Student Educators International. Dr. Stewart was the 2021 president for the Association for the Study of Higher Education. In 2020, Dr. Stewart founded Radical Insights Speaking, Consulting, and Training LLC whose mission is to transform, initiate, generate, equip, and reinvigorate (T.I.G.E.R.) leaders and organizations toward greater equity and justice.

DOORS
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Event starts at 6:00 p.m.


LGBT HISTORY MONTH
For more campus events marking LGBT History Month, visit myumi.ch/lgbt-history-month.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:38:36 -0400 2023-10-18T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-18T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion D-L Stewart
Farm Stand (October 19, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114000 114000-21832018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Farm Stand is a weekly pop-up market and education project that sells produce grown by students for students. It is held on Thursdays from 12pm-3pm from July through November 10 on State St outside of the U-M Museum of Art. Students receive a 30% discount and the proceeds from the Farm Stand go towards funding student-led sustainable food initiatives.

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Community Service Sat, 14 Oct 2023 22:07:32 -0400 2023-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-19T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Community Service An image showing baskets full of fall produce.
The Farm Stand (October 19, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111676 111676-21827404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

The Farm Stand is a weekly pop-up market and education project that sells produce grown by students for students. It is held on Thursdays from 12pm-3pm from July through mid November on State St outside of the U-M Museum of Art. Powered by the U-M Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) and the Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens (CF), this project seeks to increase access to local food for students and engage the wider U-M community in food systems learning and engagement opportunities. Students receive a 30% discount and the proceeds from the Farm Stand go towards funding student-led sustainable food initiatives here at the U-M through UMSFP’s mini-grants for food justice program.

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Other Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:32:20 -0400 2023-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-19T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Other Beautiful student grown produce displayed on a table with a UM Farm Stand staff member in the background.
Reading and Q&A with Atsuro Riley (October 19, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108955 108955-21820648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Atsuro Riley is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and winner of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He is the author of *Heard-Hoard* (University of Chicago Press, 2021), winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a finalist for PEN America’s Voelcker Poetry Award, a *Boston Globe* Best Book of the Year, and a *Bookworm *Top 10 Book of the Year.

His 2010 book *Romey’s Order* received the Whiting Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, *The Believer *Poetry Award, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress.

Riley’s other honors include Lannan Foundation and NEA Fellowships, the Pushcart Prize, and the Wood Prize given by *POETRY *magazine.

His poems have been anthologized in *The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall, The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of POETRY Magazine, The Oxford Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Poems of the American South, The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets, Poems from Far and Wide, Vinegar and Char, Gracious,* and *Home: 100 Poems.*

Brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry, Atsuro Riley lives in San Francisco.

He is the editor of *Revel*, a literary journal.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:00:40 -0400 2023-10-19T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-19T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion photo credit: Sven Wiederholt
The Vessel as a Metaphor: An Artist Talk by Ebitenyefa Baralaye at AADL (October 21, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113304 113304-21830697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-vessel-as-a-metaphor-an-artist-talk-by-ebitenyefa-baralaye-tickets-715637560207?aff=oddtdtcreator.

Join us for a talk by Detroit based artist and educator Ebitenyefa Baralaye whose work explores cultural, spiritual, and material translations of objects, text, and symbols interpreted through a diaspora lens and abstracted around the aesthetics of craft and design. He received a BFA in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in ceramics from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Baralaye's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Friedman Benda Gallery (New York), David Klein Gallery (Detroit), Shoshana Wayne Gallery (Los Angeles), the Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco), and the Korea Ceramic Foundation (Icheon). This event is co-presented by Stamps Gallery, UMMA, and AADL in conjunction with the exhibition Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina currently on view at UMMA, Aug 26, 2023 - Jan 7, 2024.

This event series is sponsored by the U-M Arts Initiative. This program is organized by the Stamps Gallery, for more information contact Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan at jenjkhan@umich.edu.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 21 Oct 2023 18:16:00 -0400 2023-10-21T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Making Art in Prison (October 22, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110811 110811-21825563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 22, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required.

Janie Paul, co-founder of the *Annual Exhibitions of Artists in Michigan Prisons*, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project, along with formerly incarcerated artists will discuss the significance of making visual art in prison in connection with Paul’s recently published book, *Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance*. Using philosophical, aesthetic, and political lenses, they will share and explore various modes of resistance employed by imprisoned artists that combat the dehumanization of prison and create paths toward meaning and purpose. They will reflect on ways to be in solidarity with those who are incarcerated.

Janie Paul is a painter, curator, writer, and an Arthur F. Thurnau professor emerita of the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. For 27 years, she has traveled throughout Michigan to meet artists and select work for the project she co-founded: *The Annual Exhibitions of Artists in Michigan Prisons*, an initiative of the Prison Creative Arts Project at U-M.

In *Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance*, Janie Paul introduces readers to the culture and aesthetics of prison art communities featuring over 200 images of extraordinary work. These powerful stories and images upend the manufactured stereotypes of those living in prison, imparting a real human dimension—a critical step in the movement to end mass incarceration.

This afternoon’s program is presented by UMMA in partnership with Janie Paul, the Prison Creative Arts Project, and the Stamps School of Art and Design on the occasion of the U-M LSA Theme Semester Arts & Resistance.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:44:44 -0400 2023-10-22T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion DeJesus, R., Orange Nation, 2016
Subject Matters: Discovering the Source of Art’s Power to Resist (October 24, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113415 113415-21830974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ek0gnrzxa6090e86.

What roles have artists played inside and outside protest movements? How do artists make political work under systems of control and censorship? Together with Professor Sascha Crasnow and UMMA Curator Dave Choberka, you’ll explore some of the ways artists from around the world have contested tyranny and subjugation in the last two centuries using one of art’s strongest powers: making visible what was once invisible.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:15:46 -0400 2023-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-24T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Farm Stand (October 26, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114000 114000-21832019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Farm Stand is a weekly pop-up market and education project that sells produce grown by students for students. It is held on Thursdays from 12pm-3pm from July through November 10 on State St outside of the U-M Museum of Art. Students receive a 30% discount and the proceeds from the Farm Stand go towards funding student-led sustainable food initiatives.

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Community Service Sat, 14 Oct 2023 22:07:32 -0400 2023-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Community Service An image showing baskets full of fall produce.
The Farm Stand (October 26, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111676 111676-21827405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

The Farm Stand is a weekly pop-up market and education project that sells produce grown by students for students. It is held on Thursdays from 12pm-3pm from July through mid November on State St outside of the U-M Museum of Art. Powered by the U-M Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) and the Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens (CF), this project seeks to increase access to local food for students and engage the wider U-M community in food systems learning and engagement opportunities. Students receive a 30% discount and the proceeds from the Farm Stand go towards funding student-led sustainable food initiatives here at the U-M through UMSFP’s mini-grants for food justice program.

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Other Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:32:20 -0400 2023-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Other Beautiful student grown produce displayed on a table with a UM Farm Stand staff member in the background.
UNDER THE CAMPUS, THE LAND - Reckoning with the Settler University (October 27, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113525 113525-21831121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

How can universities that were founded on colonized land, funded by the colonization of land, and dedicated to advancing colonialism reckon with their histories and the ongoing legacies of those histories in the present moment?

Introduction:
Ethriam Brammer, Assistant Dean and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Implementation Lead, Rackham Graduate School

Panel:
Misty Blue, (White Earth Nation), Grassroots Solutions, Toward Recognition and University-Tribal Healing Project, University of Minnesota

Phenocia Bauerle (Apsaálooke), The University of California Land Grab, University of California, Berkeley

Jon Parmenter, Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession Project, Cornell University

Respondent:
Matthew Fletcher, Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law, Law School; Professor of American Culture, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

UNDER THE CAMPUS, THE LAND is a set of public conversations about the place of the U.S. university in Native and settler colonial histories and futures. Organized by Andrew Herscher, these conversations will bring together Native and settler voices speaking to and about the university around four themes: reckoning with the settler university, advancing Native student activism, investigating university land, and making amends to the land. These conversations will take place in conjunction with two exhibitions at the University of Michigan Museum of Art: Andrea Carlson’s Future Cache, which commemorates the Cheboiganing Band of Ottawa and Chippewa people who were violently displaced from land in Northern Michigan now owned by the University of Michigan, and Cannupa Hanska Luger’s You’re Welcome, which explores histories and narratives of land occupied by the University of Michigan.

Generously supported by the Native American Studies (NAS) Program at the University of Michigan, the U-M Arts Initiative, Stamps School of Art & Design, Stamps Gallery, UMMA, and the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan

RELATED EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS
October 26, 5:30 p.m.: Cannupa Hanska Luger: How Do We Remember? A conversation with Monument Lab Co-Founder Paul Farber, Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI

October 27-28: Under the Campus, the Land, UMMA and Stamps Gallery
October 27, 5:00 p.m.: Under the Campus, the Land – ​2023 Binda Lecture: Keynote by Tristan Ahtone

October 28, 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.: Memory & Monuments Open House

October 28, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.: Live podcast recording of Broken Boxes by Ginger Dunnill and Cannupa Hanska Luger, with artists Andrea Carlson and Matika Wilbur, UMMA

October 28, 6:00 p.m.: Matika Wilbur Artist Talk and Book Signing, Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division, Ann Arbor, MI

October 26 – 28: Andrea Carlson Future Cache, UMMA

October 26 – 28: Cannupa Hanska Luger You’re Welcome, UMMA

Related events & exhibitions coordinated as part of the Memory & Monuments Weekend program of the Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative in partnership with the Stamps Gallery and “Under the Campus, the Land” series of conversations by Taubman College faculty Andrew Herscher.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 06 Oct 2023 15:00:16 -0400 2023-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-27T14:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium UTCTL
UNDER THE CAMPUS, THE LAND - Investigative Memorialization: The Anishinaabe Land Grant and the University of Michigan (October 27, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113528 113528-21831123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs, Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi people granted land to an institution where their children could be educated. Taking ownership of this grant, the University of Michigan acquired three properties in the 1820s. What needs to be known about the Anishinaabe land grant and the University of Michigan’s use of this grant in order for the university to carry out its treaty obligations?

Presentation:
Andrew Herscher, Professor of Architecture, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Professor of History of Art, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Respondent:
Andrea Carlson, Artist and co-founder of the Center for Native Futures

UNDER THE CAMPUS, THE LAND is a set of public conversations about the place of the U.S. university in Native and settler colonial histories and futures. Organized by Andrew Herscher, these conversations will bring together Native and settler voices speaking to and about the university around four themes: reckoning with the settler university, advancing Native student activism, investigating university land, and making amends to the land. These conversations will take place in conjunction with two exhibitions at the University of Michigan Museum of Art: Andrea Carlson’s Future Cache, which commemorates the Cheboiganing Band of Ottawa and Chippewa people who were violently displaced from land in Northern Michigan now owned by the University of Michigan, and Cannupa Hanska Luger’s You’re Welcome, which explores histories and narratives of land occupied by the University of Michigan.

Generously supported by the Native American Studies (NAS) Program at the University of Michigan, the U-M Arts Initiative, Stamps School of Art & Design, Stamps Gallery, UMMA, and the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan

RELATED EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS
October 26, 5:30 p.m.: Cannupa Hanska Luger: How Do We Remember? A conversation with Monument Lab Co-Founder Paul Farber, Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI

October 27-28: Under the Campus, the Land, UMMA and Stamps Gallery
October 27, 5:00 p.m.: Under the Campus, the Land – ​2023 Binda Lecture: Keynote by Tristan Ahtone

October 28, 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.: Memory & Monuments Open House

October 28, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.: Live podcast recording of Broken Boxes by Ginger Dunnill and Cannupa Hanska Luger, with artists Andrea Carlson and Matika Wilbur, UMMA

October 28, 6:00 p.m.: Matika Wilbur Artist Talk and Book Signing, Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division, Ann Arbor, MI

October 26 – 28: Andrea Carlson Future Cache, UMMA

October 26 – 28: Cannupa Hanska Luger You’re Welcome, UMMA

Related events & exhibitions coordinated as part of the Memory & Monuments Weekend program of the Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative in partnership with the Stamps Gallery and “Under the Campus, the Land” series of conversations by Taubman College faculty Andrew Herscher.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:59:48 -0400 2023-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-27T16:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium UTCTL
UNDER THE CAMPUS, THE LAND - 2023 GUIDO A. BINDA LECTURE: TRISTAN AHTONE (October 27, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113529 113529-21831124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Land Grab Universities: A legacy of profit and a just climate future

Through the Morrill Act of 1862, nearly 11 million acres of Indigenous land became seed money for higher education. Land Grant Universities got their money through violence and Indigenous dispossession, but they continue to make money from lands granted through other legislative actions. In this talk, journalist and Land-Grab Universities co-author Tristan Ahtone will cover the history of land grant universities, as well as current efforts to investigate how institutions profit from extractive industries on Indigenous territories.

This event is supported by the Guido A. Binda Exhibit and Lecture fund. For seven decades, Guido Binda, B.Arch.’31, practiced architecture in Western Michigan, specializing in school design. Guido, with his wife Elizabeth, created this fund to provide for an exhibit program and annual lecture by visiting professionals.


UNDER THE CAMPUS, THE LAND is a set of public conversations about the place of the U.S. university in Native and settler colonial histories and futures. Organized by Andrew Herscher, these conversations will bring together Native and settler voices speaking to and about the university around four themes: reckoning with the settler university, advancing Native student activism, investigating university land, and making amends to the land. These conversations will take place in conjunction with two exhibitions at the University of Michigan Museum of Art: Andrea Carlson’s Future Cache, which commemorates the Cheboiganing Band of Ottawa and Chippewa people who were violently displaced from land in Northern Michigan now owned by the University of Michigan, and Cannupa Hanska Luger’s You’re Welcome, which explores histories and narratives of land occupied by the University of Michigan.

Generously supported by the Native American Studies (NAS) Program at the University of Michigan, the U-M Arts Initiative, Stamps School of Art & Design, Stamps Gallery, UMMA, and the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan


RELATED EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS
October 26, 5:30 p.m.: Cannupa Hanska Luger: How Do We Remember? A conversation with Monument Lab Co-Founder Paul Farber, Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI

October 27-28: Under the Campus, the Land, UMMA and Stamps Gallery
October 27, 5:00 p.m.: Under the Campus, the Land – ​2023 Binda Lecture: Keynote by Tristan Ahtone

October 28, 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.: Memory & Monuments Open House

October 28, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.: Live podcast recording of Broken Boxes by Ginger Dunnill and Cannupa Hanska Luger, with artists Andrea Carlson and Matika Wilbur, UMMA

October 28, 6:00 p.m.: Matika Wilbur Artist Talk and Book Signing, Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division, Ann Arbor, MI

October 26 – 28: Andrea Carlson Future Cache, UMMA

October 26 – 28: Cannupa Hanska Luger You’re Welcome, UMMA

Related events & exhibitions coordinated as part of the Memory & Monuments Weekend program of the Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative in partnership with the Stamps Gallery and “Under the Campus, the Land” series of conversations by Taubman College faculty Andrew Herscher.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:59:20 -0400 2023-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 2023-10-27T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium UTCTL
Memory & Monuments Open House (October 28, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113107 113107-21830054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 28, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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How do we remember on this campus and beyond? At this afternoon-long open house, UMMA and our partners at Monument Lab and the U-M Arts Initiative, invite you to explore the ways memory takes shape through monuments, markers, and the stories we tell. 

Event highlights include:
Regional memory practitioners, including The James and Grace Lee Boggs Center, the Detroit Sound Conservancy, Gidinawemaaganinaanig: Endazhigiyan (All My Relations: The Place Where We All Grow), and Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School (MIIBS) will share their work and prompt us to consider what’s worthy of a monument and whose history gets to be included.  Flower-making for all ages with Monument Lab partner Aubree Penney. Live recording of the podcast Broken Boxes by Ginger Dunhill and Cannupa Hanska Luger, with artists Andrea Carlson and Matika Wilbur, 3-4 p.m. in the UMMA Auditorium. snacks by Indigenous chef Kirby Shoote (Tlingit).
In celebration of a year of examining the changing nature of monuments with Curator-in-Residence Paul Farber, Director of Monument Lab and the new exhibition You’re Welcome by Cannupa Hanska Luger.  

A partnership between UMMA, the Arts Initiative, Stamps Gallery, and “Under the Campus, the Land” series of conversations by Taubman College faculty Andrew Herscher.   

Related events & exhibitions:
October 26, 5:30 p.m. Cannupa Hanska Luger: How Do We Remember? A conversation with Monument Lab Co-Founder Paul Farber, Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI Oct 27-28: Under the Campus, the Land, UMMA and Stamps Gallery October 28, 3-4 p.m. Live podcast recording of Broken Boxes by Ginger Dunnill and Cannupa Hanska Luger, with artists Andrea Carlson and Matika Wilbur, UMMA October 28, 6-8 p.m. Matika Wilbur Artist Talk and Book Signing, Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division, Ann Arbor, MI On-going: Andrea Carlson Future Cache, UMMA On-going: Cannupa Hanska Luger You’re Welcome, UMMA

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:15:35 -0400 2023-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Live podcast recording of Broken Boxes by Ginger Dunnill and Cannupa Hanska Luger, with artists Andrea Carlson and Matika Wilbur (October 28, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113108 113108-21830055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 28, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Join Broken Boxes co-hosts Ginger Dunnill and Cannupa Hanska Luger as they record an upcoming episode featuring artists Andrea Carlson and Matika Wilbur. This will be the culminating event for the Memory & Monuments Open House at UMMA.

More about the artists: Artist and producer Ginger Dunnill centers human complexity and intersection through broadcasting, sound composition, performance and advocacy driven communication efforts in order to create a living archive of solidarity. For over two decades she has produced experiential artwork and organized numerous exhibitions and social engagement projects globally, collaborating with artists and activating transformative justice practices through long term acts of respect, relationship building, accomplice-ship and accountability. Dunnill is the founder of Broken Boxes, a nearly decade long archival project which amplifies narratives of solidarity, contradiction and inspiration in the Arts via broadcasting, exhibition and live programs. As a practicing artist, Dunnill has exhibited internationally at institutions such as The Whitney Museum of American Art, Smack Mellon, Washington Project for the Arts and Io Deposito in Italy, among others. She is currently touring as a DJ and continues to produce large scale projects in collaboration with other artists.

Multidisciplinary artist Cannupa Hanska Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara), and Lakota. Through monumental installations and social collaborations that reflect a deep engagement and respect for materials, the environment, and community, Luger activates speculative fiction and communicates stories about 21st century Indigeneity. Luger is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, recipient of the 2021 United States Artists Fellowship Award for Craft, and was named a Grist 50 Fixer for 2021, a list that includes emerging leaders in climate, sustainability, and equity from across the nation.

Andrea Carlson is a visual artist maintains a studio practice in northern Minnesota. Carlson's works primarily on paper, creating painted and drawn surfaces with many mediums. Her work addresses land and institutional spaces, decolonization narratives, and assimilation metaphors in film.  Her work has been acquired by institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Denver Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada. Carlson was a recipient of a 2008 McKnight Fellow, a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors award, a 2021 Chicago Artadia Award, and a 2022 United States Artists Fellowship. Carlson is a co-founder of the Center for Native Futures in Chicago.

Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) is one of the nation’s leading photographers, based in the Pacific Northwest. She earned her BFA from Brooks Institute of Photography where she double majored in Advertising and Digital Imaging. Her most recent endeavor, Project 562, has brought Matika to over 300 tribal nations dispersed throughout 40 U.S. states where she has taken thousands of portraits, and collected hundreds of contemporary narratives from the breadth of Indian Country all in the pursuit of one goal: To Change The Way We See Native America.

More about the Broken Boxes podcast here.

Related events & exhibitions:
October 26, 5:30 p.m. Cannupa Hanska Luger: How Do We Remember? A conversation with Monument Lab Co-Founder Paul Farber, Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI Oct 27-28: Under the Campus, the Land, UMMA and Stamps Gallery October 28, 12-4 p.m. Memory & Monuments Open House, UMMA, 525 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI October 28, 6-8 p.m. Matika Wilbur Artist Talk and Book Signing, Stamps Gallery, 201 South Division Street Ann Arbor, MI On-going: Andrea Carlson Future Cache, UMMA On-going: Cannupa Hanska Luger You’re Welcome, UMMA

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:15:36 -0400 2023-10-28T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Farm Stand (November 2, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114000 114000-21832020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Farm Stand is a weekly pop-up market and education project that sells produce grown by students for students. It is held on Thursdays from 12pm-3pm from July through November 10 on State St outside of the U-M Museum of Art. Students receive a 30% discount and the proceeds from the Farm Stand go towards funding student-led sustainable food initiatives.

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Community Service Sat, 14 Oct 2023 22:07:32 -0400 2023-11-02T12:00:00-04:00 2023-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Community Service An image showing baskets full of fall produce.
The Farm Stand (November 2, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111676 111676-21827406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

The Farm Stand is a weekly pop-up market and education project that sells produce grown by students for students. It is held on Thursdays from 12pm-3pm from July through mid November on State St outside of the U-M Museum of Art. Powered by the U-M Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) and the Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens (CF), this project seeks to increase access to local food for students and engage the wider U-M community in food systems learning and engagement opportunities. Students receive a 30% discount and the proceeds from the Farm Stand go towards funding student-led sustainable food initiatives here at the U-M through UMSFP’s mini-grants for food justice program.

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Other Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:32:20 -0400 2023-11-02T12:00:00-04:00 2023-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Other Beautiful student grown produce displayed on a table with a UM Farm Stand staff member in the background.
Reading and Q&A with Rebecca Makkai (November 2, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108957 108957-21820651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Rebecca Makkai’s latest novel, *I Have Some Questions for You*, is a *New York Times* Best Seller. Her novel, *The Great Believers*, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the *LA Times* Book Prize; and it was one of the *New York Times*' Ten Best Books of 2018.

Her other books are the novels *The Borrower* and *The Hundred-Year House*, and the collection *Music for Wartime*—four stories from which appeared in* The Best American Short Stories*. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:42:23 -0400 2023-11-02T17:30:00-04:00 2023-11-02T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Rebecca Makkai
“Looking Both Ways” – Exhibition Tour of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina (November 5, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110827 110827-21825642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 5, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ejw9z5y0c901f3a3.

Join us for a discussion with Hear Me Now curator Jason Young and UMMA's Curator of African Art, Laura De Becker, who together will reflect on the connections between artistic and cultural traditions in 19th century West Central Africa and North America. Focusing on the so-called "face vessels" that were predominant in South Carolina pottery, the curators will explore the connections, legacy and persistence of African traditions in the American South—traditions that survived and adapted against great odds.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:15:28 -0500 2023-11-05T14:00:00-05:00 2023-11-05T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
A Conversation on the Future of the Engaged Humanities (November 7, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114862 114862-21833708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Please join us at the University of Michigan Museum of Art for a reception and engaging conversations, celebrating the work of Julie Ellison.

Guest speakers:

David Scobey, Director of Bringing Theory to Practice
“Scholarship and the Engaged Scholar”

Dr. Timothy Eatman, Dean of the Honors Living-Learning Community, Rutgers University
“Imagining America and the Work of Carving Out Space in the Academy”

Dr. Sylvia Gale, Executive Director, Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, University of Richmond
“Learning from PAGE: 20 Years of Engaged Graduate Education,”

Dr. Michelle May-Curry, Faculty in Georgetown University’s Program in Engaged and Public Humanities and Research Affiliate at the National Humanities Alliance
“Looking Forward”

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:00:06 -0400 2023-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 2023-11-07T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting, film screening and panel discussion – presented by RISE. (November 8, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113629 113629-21831258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_YFGTuPwYrc7YghmcmLubnoMwSCIPXGKLR1tLLtIiAI/viewform?edit_requested=true.

Research for Indigenous Social Action and Equity (RISE) presents a screening of Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting, immediately followed by a panel discussion featuring internationally renowned Indigenous activists, scholars, and film makers: Suzan Harjo, Stephanie Fryberg, Phil Deloria, Aviva Kempner, Ben West, and Yancey Burns.

Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting is an award-winning documentary that examines the movement that is ending the use of Native American names, logos, and mascots in the world of sports and beyond. The film details the current uprising against the misappropriation of Native culture in a national reckoning about racial injustice that has succeeded in the removal of Confederate imagery, toppling statues of Christopher Columbus and forcing corporate sponsors of Washington’s NFL team to demand it change its most-offensive name. It examines the origin and proliferation of the words, images, and gestures that many Native people and their allies find offensive. Imagining the Indian explores the impact that stereotyping and marginalization of Native history have had on Native people. It chronicles the long social movement to eliminate mascoting.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.

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Film Screening Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:15:26 -0500 2023-11-08T19:00:00-05:00 2023-11-08T21:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Farm Stand (November 9, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114000 114000-21832021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Farm Stand is a weekly pop-up market and education project that sells produce grown by students for students. It is held on Thursdays from 12pm-3pm from July through November 10 on State St outside of the U-M Museum of Art. Students receive a 30% discount and the proceeds from the Farm Stand go towards funding student-led sustainable food initiatives.

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Community Service Sat, 14 Oct 2023 22:07:32 -0400 2023-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Community Service An image showing baskets full of fall produce.
The Farm Stand (November 9, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111676 111676-21827407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

The Farm Stand is a weekly pop-up market and education project that sells produce grown by students for students. It is held on Thursdays from 12pm-3pm from July through mid November on State St outside of the U-M Museum of Art. Powered by the U-M Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) and the Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens (CF), this project seeks to increase access to local food for students and engage the wider U-M community in food systems learning and engagement opportunities. Students receive a 30% discount and the proceeds from the Farm Stand go towards funding student-led sustainable food initiatives here at the U-M through UMSFP’s mini-grants for food justice program.

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Other Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:32:20 -0400 2023-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Other Beautiful student grown produce displayed on a table with a UM Farm Stand staff member in the background.
Mark Webster Reading Series (November 10, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109049 109049-21821004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:58:43 -0400 2023-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
Advocacy through Storytelling: A Conversation with lea robinson (November 14, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114256 114256-21832567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Spectrum Center presents a conversation-style event with actor, writer, and rising star lea robinson.

Storytelling through art—whether through writing, acting, or other creative outlets—is a vital way to share our history and our stories especially for marginalized communities. In honor of Trans Awareness Month, join us for a conversation with lea robinson, sharing their own stories and experiences in telling QTBIPOC stories through art and advocacy.


ABOUT THE SPEAKER
lea (pronounced lee) robinson is a trans, queer, non-binary, butch and multiracial activist, educator and actor. lea robinson (they/them) has been at the frontline of interrupting bias and discrimination through diversity education, social justice and restorative practices. After spending 20+ years as a higher education administrator (at Columbia University, UC Berkeley and Mills College etc.) in diversity, equity, and inclusion and LGBTQA work, lea landed a leading role in Lena Waithe’s Twenties and Amazon hit series A League of Their Own! In Twenties, lea played Reverend Ty Harmon, a non-binary religious Ygure and in A League of Their Own, lea plays Bertie Hart, a Black transmasculine, nonbinary-identified person living in the 1940s. Both of these roles sparked national conversations about the histories of trans people in the US, the invisibility of certain identities within certain communities and the value of representation in the industry.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:07:45 -0500 2023-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion lea robinson
Subject Matters: The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword, but Who Wins When It’s Pen vs. Paintbrush? (November 14, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113416 113416-21830975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ek0gns0kf690c94c.

Trick question: they work together to take down even stronger foes. In this session, you’ll explore writing at the intersection of art and resistance. UMMA Curator Dave Choberka will be joined by Professor Scott Beal of the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts program to consider a range of art genres and objects and their relationship to resistance movements across the globe.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:15:24 -0500 2023-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Search Engines | "Asian futures, without Asians" (November 15, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111957 111957-21828062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: https://tinyurl.com/2btrxwmz

Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus: https://myumi.ch/byx2x

"Asian futures, without Asians" is a multimedia presentation by artist and curator Astria Suparak, which asks: “What does it mean when so many white filmmakers envision futures inflected by Asian culture, but devoid of actual Asian people?”

The first iteration of "Asian futures, without Asians" was an online performance commissioned by The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, as part of their Trinh T. Minh-ha season. The project has developed over a series of live performances made for the Zoom camera and for in-person, with script, imagery, costuming, and backdrops tailored to each arts institution and country in which it is presented.

As part of the inaugural season of the Digital Studies Institute and the DISCO Network’s Search Engines series, Astria Suparak will present a new, live multimedia performance edition of the project for the University of Michigan and for our broader community.

Part critical analysis, part reflective essay and sprinkled throughout with humor, justified anger, and informative morsels, this hour-long illustrated lecture examines nearly 60 years of American science fiction cinema through the lens of Asian appropriation and whitewashing. Using a wide interpretation of “Asian” to reflect current and historical geopolitical trends and self-definitions (inclusive of East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, Central Asia, North Africa, and the Pacific Islands—the latter two of which are not Asia), this research-creation project examines how Asian cultures have been mixed and matched, contrasted against, and conflated with each other, often creating a fungible “Asianness” in futuristic sci-fi.

The quick-paced performance lecture is interspersed with selected images and clips from dozens of futuristic movies and television shows, as Suparak delivers anecdotes, trivia, and historical documents (including photographs, advertisements, and cultural artifacts) from the histories of film, art, architecture, design, fashion, food, and martial arts. Suparak discusses the implications of not only borrowing heavily from Asian cultures, but decontextualizing and misrepresenting them, while excluding Asian contributors.

Artist Bio:

Astria Suparak is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, California.

Her cross-disciplinary projects address complex and urgent issues (like institutionalized racism, feminisms and gender, and colonialism) made accessible through a popular culture lens, such as science fiction movies, rock music, and sports. Straddling creative and scholarly work, the projects often take the form of publicly available tools and databases, chronicling subcultures and omitted perspectives.

Over the last year Suparak’s creative projects have been exhibited and performed at the Museum of Modern Art and the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York; Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and as part of the For Freedoms billboard series. She has curated exhibitions, screenings, and performances for the Liverpool Biennial; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; The Kitchen, Eyebeam, and MoMA PS1, in New York; and Expo Chicago, as well as for unconventional spaces, such as roller-skating rinks, sports bars, and rock clubs. Suparak is the winner of the 2022 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award.

We want to make our events accessible to all participants. This event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space.

Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: https://tinyurl.com/2btrxwmz

Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus: https://myumi.ch/byx2x

CART will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate, please email Giselle Mills at gimills@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.

Covid Precautions: The artists requests that guests wear well-fitting masks.

We would like to thank the following Department Co-Sponsors:

Department of American Culture
Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program
Department of Asian Languages and Culture
Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing
Center for Japanese Studies
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
Nam Center for Korean Studies
STAMPS School of Art and Design

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Performance Fri, 20 Oct 2023 15:57:54 -0400 2023-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Digital Studies Institute Performance Natalie Portman's character Padmé Amidala from the Star Wars movie franchise wearing "Asian-influenced" costuming.
Reading and Q&A with Paul Tran (November 16, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108958 108958-21820652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, *All the Flowers Kneeling*, published by Penguin. Their work appears in *The New York Times, The New Yorker, Best American Poetry*, and elsewhere.

They earned their BA in History from Brown University and MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. Winner of the Discovery/*Boston Review* Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Stanford University, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Paul is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom) .ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Jul 2023 12:46:36 -0400 2023-11-16T17:30:00-05:00 2023-11-16T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Paul Tran
Mark Webster Reading Series (November 17, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109050 109050-21821005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:57:55 -0400 2023-11-17T19:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
Hula Performance (November 30, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115439 115439-21834676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Department of American Culture

In the 1890s Native Hawaiians lived through the overthrow of their sovereign kingdom by rogue American businessmen in 1893, and the annexation of their islands to the United States in 1898. Historians reading English-language sources wrote that Hawaiians did not oppose annexation. But opposition and fierce loyalty are loud and vociferous in Hawaiian-language sources. As part of the "Arts and Resistance" theme semester, this semesterʻs hula class focused on this period, and will present two original class choreographies of poetic texts from that era.

Free and open to the public.

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Performance Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:17:58 -0500 2023-11-30T18:00:00-05:00 2023-11-30T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Department of American Culture Performance Event Poster
Artists Speak: Theaster Gates and Adebunmi Gbadebo with social justice curator and museum changemaker, Monica O. Montgomery (December 1, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113240 113240-21830597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQbDMYYn1ie7BmIbmMR2iJ9RUzsT8M5BN4PBb3A1etiug8wg/viewform.

Witness a dynamic discussion among movers and shakers in the social justice art world. Artist, Activist and Professor Theaster Gates and Artist Adebunmi Gbadebo contemplate their work in the Hear Me Now exhibition and in the world through a lens of restorative justice. Hear the unfiltered thoughts of these artists in conversation with social justice curator and museum changemaker, Monica O. Montgomery. 

This program is part "Free To Speak! A Convening on Art, Slavery and Reconciliation", a 2-day celebration of Black creativity, agency, and memory. Inspired by UMMA’s presentation of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, 'Free to Speak' hopes to contribute to urgent national conversations about racial justice while exploring what it means to exhibit materials made by enslaved people in Southeast Michigan, especially in light of the region’s relationships to the Underground Railroad, the Great Migration, the explosion of Black music and culture, and ongoing racial protest and liberation movements. Part storytelling, part scholarly deep dive, the discussions and diverse perspectives that emerge will offer new possibilities to inspire change in the arts and culture field. ​ To see the full convening schedule and to RSVP, please click here.   Artist and social innovator Theaster Gates lives and works in Chicago. Trained in urban planning and ceramics, his artistic practice translates the intricacies of Blackness through space theory and land development, sculpture, and performance. Through the expansiveness of his approach as a thinker, maker, and builder, he extends the role of the artist as an agent of change. His performance practice and visual work find roots in Black knowledge, objects, history, and archives. His work focuses on the possibility of the ​“life within things” and redeems spaces that have been left behind. He is the founder of the Rebuild Foundation, an artist-led, community-based platform for art, cultural development, and neighborhood transformation whose mission is to demonstrate the impact of innovative, ambitious and entrepreneurial cultural initiatives enriched by three core values: Black people matter, Black spaces matter, and Black objects matter.

Adebunmi Gbadebo, a multimedia artist, explores the intersections of land, matter, and memory on sites of slavery using materials like indigo dye, plantation soil, and Black hair. She holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY, and a Creative Place Keeping certification from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is a 2022 Pew Fellow, 2023 Maxwell and Hanrahan Fellow, and A.I.R at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia. Gbadebo has been written about in notable publications like The New York Times and Forbes. She has spoken at institutions like the Museum of the African Diaspora and the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Gbadebo's art resides in permanent collections at institutions such as the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She is currently designing a monument at Clemson University to honor enslaved laborers who transformed Fort Hill Plantation into the university.

Monica O. Montgomery is a museum thought leader and independent curator at the nexus of culture, community engagement, and equity. She consults with a myriad of organizations, corporations, associations, non profits, universities and museums on contemporary art, community engagement and championing inclusion and belonging to spark ecologies of promise. Known for curating social justice exhibits and founding diversity initiative Museum Hue, over the last 2 decades she has served as an executive director, fundraiser, marketer, educator, and program director. Her career credits include a TedX talk & SXSW plenary and over 40+ curated contemporary art and public history exhibits with renowned organizations like the South African Embassy, Brooklyn Museum, Portland Art Museum, Community Art Center, T Thomas Fortune Cultural Center, The New School. Teachers College, The National Trust for Historic Preservation, Weeksville Heritage Center and The Highline among others. She served as Curator of Social Justice and Special Programs for the FUTURES exhibition, at Smithsonian Arts & Industries, organizing an interactive exhibit of art, technology and history to celebrate the Smithsonian Institutions 175th Anniversary.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Free to Speak is generously supported by the U-M Inclusive History Project, the U-M Arts Initiative Arts & Resistance Theme Semester Fund, the Americana Foundation, Michigan Humanities, the U-M Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the U-M Department of History.

 


Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:15:15 -0500 2023-12-01T10:00:00-05:00 2023-12-01T11:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Speaking Freely: Lightning Talks & Roundtable Discussions facilitated by museum changemaker and social justice curator Monica O. Montgomery (December 1, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113241 113241-21830598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQbDMYYn1ie7BmIbmMR2iJ9RUzsT8M5BN4PBb3A1etiug8wg/viewform.

Join us for an action packed afternoon of learning and exchange, highlighting the artists, people and projects advancing equity and bringing us closer to our shared humanity. Using the power of story to bring people together, we are inviting a cross section of artists, community members, descendant family members, curators, historians, activists, poets, and scholars to be "Free to Speak!" presenting lightning talks on a variety of powerful entry points connected to the Hear Me Now exhibition and its themes. Our afternoon will be guided by museum changemaker, social justice curator, and expert facilitator Monica O. Montgomery and also includes roundtable discussions among participants, summary segments to recap and synthesize important ideas, and a graphic notetaker creating vivid illustrations of all that is being shared.

The afternoon will feature three "lightning rounds" with the following featured speakers:

1:00pm - 2:15pm: Nandi Comer, Poet Laureate of Michigan  Tonya Matthews, President & CEO, International African American Museum Wayne O’Bryant, storyteller, activist, and public speaker Yodit Mesfin Johnson, activist and poet

2:30pm - 3:45pm: Mary Elliott, Curator of American Slavery, NMAAHC James Claiborne, Senior Vice President of Exhibitions and Programs, The Wright Museum Beverly Willis, historian & storyteller from Washtenaw County

4:00pm - 5:30pm: With descendants of Old Edgefield potter David Drake: Pauline Baker, Wanda Holmes, and Fortune Carolina, Jr.

This program is part "Free To Speak! A Convening on Art, Slavery and Reconciliation", a 2-day celebration of Black creativity, agency, and memory. Inspired by UMMA’s presentation of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, 'Free to Speak' hopes to contribute to urgent national conversations about racial justice while exploring what it means to exhibit materials made by enslaved people in Southeast Michigan, especially in light of the region’s relationships to the Underground Railroad, the Great Migration, the explosion of Black music and culture, and ongoing racial protest and liberation movements. Part storytelling, part scholarly deep dive, the discussions and diverse perspectives that emerge will offer new possibilities to inspire change in the arts and culture field.   For the full convening schedule and to RSVP, click here.

 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Free to Speak is generously supported by the U-M Inclusive History Project, the U-M Arts Initiative Arts & Resistance Theme Semester Fund, the Americana Foundation, Michigan Humanities, the U-M Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the U-M Department of History.

 


Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:15:15 -0500 2023-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 2023-12-01T17:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
A Poet Speaks: Closing reception with words from poet Nikky Finney (December 1, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113242 113242-21830599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQbDMYYn1ie7BmIbmMR2iJ9RUzsT8M5BN4PBb3A1etiug8wg/viewform.

Join us for the culmination "Free To Speak! A Convening on Art, Slavery and Reconciliation", a celebration of Black creativity, agency, and memory inspired by the exhibition Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina. The evening will feature National Book award winning poet Nikky Finney and a chance to chat with the curators of Hear Me Now in the galleries. Refreshments provided.

Nikky Finney has spent her career illuminating the Southern cultural and political heritage of Black people in ways that resonate throughout the country and world. Her ongoing legacy of poignant expression, indomitable truth, and devotion to social justice has enriched the country and world. In her career of more than 30 years, Finney has written six books and hundreds of poems and essays that explore and confront the experiences that have shaped life in the South for herself and countless other African Americans. Her most recent book, Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry (Northwestern University Press, 2020) is an enduring love song to her father and 400 years of African American fight and ingenuity. Finney is Carolina Distinguished Professor at USC in Columbia where she is also Director of the Ernest A. Finney Jr. Cultural Arts Center, a 21st century arts and cultural center named for her father, an exciting endeavor deeply planted in the twin soils of creativity and Black cultural expression.

This program is part "Free To Speak! A Convening on Art, Slavery and Reconciliation", a 2-day celebration of Black creativity, agency, and memory. Inspired by UMMA’s presentation of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, 'Free to Speak' hopes to contribute to urgent national conversations about racial justice while exploring what it means to exhibit materials made by enslaved people in Southeast Michigan, especially in light of the region’s relationships to the Underground Railroad, the Great Migration, the explosion of Black music and culture, and ongoing racial protest and liberation movements. Part storytelling, part scholarly deep dive, the discussions and diverse perspectives that emerge will offer new possibilities to inspire change in the arts and culture field.   To see the full schedule and to RSVP, click here.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.


Free to Speak is generously supported by the U-M Inclusive History Project, the Arts Inititaive Arts & Resistance Theme Semester Fund, the Americana Foundation, and Michigan Humanities.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:15:14 -0500 2023-12-01T18:00:00-05:00 2023-12-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Reading and Q&A with Ross Gay (December 7, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108961 108961-21820653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Ross Gay is interested in joy.

Ross Gay wants to understand joy.

Ross Gay is curious about joy.

Ross Gay studies joy.

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Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: *Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding*, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and *Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude*, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays, *The Book of Delights*, was released in 2019 and was a *New York Times *bestseller. His new collection of essays, *Inciting Joy*, was released by Algonquin in October of 2022.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:31:05 -0400 2023-12-07T17:30:00-05:00 2023-12-07T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Ross Gay
EIHS Symposium: Call and Response: Slavery, Art, and the Politics of Repair (December 8, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108412 108412-21819554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina is a landmark exhibition of more than 60 objects representing the work of African American potters in the decades surrounding the Civil War. Join Professor Jason R. Young, exhibit co-curator, for a gallery tour and conversation at the Hear Me Now installation at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Note: Lunch will not be available at this event.

Jason R. Young is an associate professor of history at the University of Michigan. He teaches and researches in the fields of nineteenth-century United States history, African American history, and the African Diaspora. He specializes in the history of art, religion, and folk culture. He is the author of Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry Region of Georgia and South Carolina in the Era of Slavery and co-curator of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina.

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:58:18 -0500 2023-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2023-12-08T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium Image: Unrecorded potter, probably Thomas M. Chandler, Jr. (18101854), Phoenix Stone Ware Factory (ca. 1840), Old Edgefield District, South Carolina. Watercooler (detail), ca. 1840 (© Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Eileen Travell).
Curriculum / Collection: Arts & Resistance (December 17, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109938 109938-21823313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 17, 2023 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Presented as part of the Fall 2023 Theme Semester, "Arts & Resistance"

The capacity of the arts to challenge dominant regimes and ideologies, resist oppression, and envision pathways of change is at the center of the University of Michigan’s Fall 2023 Theme Semester: Arts & Resistance. A theme semester is a university-wide effort to engage with a subject of importance to learning across the disciplines and to public life and informed citizenship. 

More than 100 classes are being taugh this semester that engage with the theme, ranging from a political history of hula dance in American Culture to a class about carbon-climate interactions in the College of Engineering. All of the classes consider art’s potential to communicate with power and complexity about questions of justice.

In the Curriculum / Collection series, the guiding themes and questions of U-M courses take material form in installations of art curated from UMMA’s collection. For the Arts & Resistance theme semester, we asked fifteen faculty to choose artworks for their students to work with. 

Their selections address histories of injustice and of social and political transformation. They invite us into questions of identity and representation within historical and present-day processes of exclusion and inclusion. They enable us to think about all the ways that art resists, from formal qualities like materials, color, and shape, to the identities of makers, subjects, and viewers. And they demonstrate the diverse and creative ways in which art can play a central role in learning across the disciplines.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Arts Initiative, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:15:36 -0500 2023-12-17T11:00:00-05:00 2023-12-17T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Piotr Michalowski, They Came, They Saw, They Did a Little Shopping, 1989, photograph on paper. Gift of Nicholas and Elena Delbanco, 2017/1.575. Courtesy the artist. © Piotr Michalowski
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina (January 7, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107784 107784-21816479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 7, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Confront the past and celebrate the creative voices of an untold chapter of American history.

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina is a landmark exhibition of more than 60 objects representing the work of African American potters in the decades surrounding the Civil War. 

It is a reckoning with the central role that enslaved and free Black potters played in the long-standing stoneware traditions of Edgefield, South Carolina. It is also an important story about the unrelenting power of artistic expression and creativity, even while under the brutal conditions of slavery—and about the joy, struggle, creative ambition, and lived experience of African Americans in the 19th-century American South.

The exhibition features many objects rarely seen outside of the South, bringing together monumental storage jars by the enslaved and literate potter and poet Dave, later recorded as David Drake (about 1800–about 1870), along with rare examples of the region’s utilitarian wares and powerful face vessels by potters once known but unrecorded. 

The inclusion of several contemporary works from leading Black artists links the past to the present in Hear Me Now. Established figures like Theaster Gates and Simone Leigh, as well as younger, emerging artists like Adebunmi Gbadebo, and Woody De Othello have contributed to the exhibition. Working primarily in clay, these artists respond to the legacy of the Edgefield potters and consider the resonance of this history for audiences today.

Curated by Jason Young, Professor of History, University of Michigan; Adrienne Spinozzi, Associate Curator, American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Ethan Lasser, John Moors Cabot Chair, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 
 

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Exhibition Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:15:46 -0500 2024-01-07T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-07T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition hellowhellowUnidentified potters, Edgefield District, South Carolina Three Face Vessels, ca. mid-19th century Alkaline-glazed stoneware with kaolin inserts H: (from left to right) 7 in., 10 1/4 in., 7 in.The Metropolitan Museum of Art(from left to right) Rogers Fund, 1922 (22.26.4); Purchase, Nancy Dunn Revocable Trust Gift, 2017 (2017.310); Lent by April L. Hynes (L.2014.16)
K-12 Educators Virtual Learning Session for Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina (January 10, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114854 114854-21833701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ek2eppufc631ab5c.

Join K-12 educators from around the country in a virtual workshop centered around the previous exhibition Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina. The exhibition provides rich themes to explore in Social Studies, Literature, and Visual Arts classrooms--some examples include highlighting the voices of enslaved artists and emphasizing the tremendous skill involved in creating these vessels. In this two-pronged workshop, ceramic artist Ademunmi Gbadebo will begin by discussing how she incorporates clay from this region in her work and will share how materials impact her artistic process. Then middle and high school teachers will share how they have integrated exhibition content into their curriculum. This workshop will be recorded and is free and open to the public.   

Programs for K-12 students and educators are generously supported by Michigan Medicine and the Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor Foundation.

Programs for K-12 students and educators are generously supported by Michigan Medicine, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, and the Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor Foundation.

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Other Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:15:37 -0500 2024-01-10T16:00:00-05:00 2024-01-10T17:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Reading and Q&A with Christina Sharpe (January 11, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108963 108963-21820655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class (RGC), at the University of Johannesburg.

Sharpe is the author of *Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects* (Duke 2010) and *In the Wake: On Blackness and Being* (Duke 2016).* In the Wake* was named by the *Guardian* and *The Walrus* as one of the best books of 2016 and was a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Her third book *Ordinary Notes* was published in April 2023 by Knopf (Canada), FSG (USA), and Daunt (UK).

“The abacus of her eyelids,” her critical introduction to *Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems of Dionne Brand* was published in August 2022. She is currently working on three books: *Black. Still. Life.* (Duke 2025), *What Could a Vessel Be?* (FSG/Knopf 2025), and *To Have Been to the End of the World: 25 Essays on Art.*

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:00:19 -0500 2024-01-11T17:30:00-05:00 2024-01-11T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Christina Sharpe
Mark Webster Reading Series (January 19, 2024 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109051 109051-21821006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2024 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:57:14 -0400 2024-01-19T19:00:00-05:00 2024-01-19T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
Reading and Q&A with Karen Solie (January 25, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108964 108964-21820656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up in rural southwest Saskatchewan, Canada. After working as a reporter for three years for *The Lethbridge Herald*, she earned an MA in English at the University of Victoria. She is the author of five collections of poetry. *Short Haul Engine* (Brick Books, 2001) won the Dorothy Livesay Award, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. *Modern and Normal *(Brick Books, 2005) was shortlisted for the Trillium Poetry Prize. *Pigeon* (Anansi, 2009) won the Trillium Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize. *The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out* (Anansi, FSG, 2014) was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. *The Caiplie Caves* (Anansi, Picador, 2019; FSG, 2020) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Derek Walcott Prize. *The Living Option*, a volume of selected poems published in the UK by Bloodaxe Books in 2013, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Karen's poems have been published in journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Europe, and Australia and translated into eight languages. She is the recipient of the Latner Poetry Prize, the Canada Council Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for an artist in mid-career, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. She has taught for writing programs and universities across Canada and in the UK, was the 2021 Jack McClelland Writer in Residence for Massey College at the University of Toronto, and the 2022 Holloway Visiting Poet for the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently a lecturer in creative writing with the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:40:08 -0400 2024-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 2024-01-25T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Karen Solie
Mark Webster Reading Series (January 26, 2024 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109052 109052-21821007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2024 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:52:20 -0400 2024-01-26T19:00:00-05:00 2024-01-26T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
A Gathering Exhibition Tour - With Curator Felix Zamora Gomez (January 28, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116313 116313-21836595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 28, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ek4wriqy610bc8c6.

Join exhibition curator Felix Zamora Gomez for an exploration of A Gathering, an exhibition of the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. In addition, new works of art were added to this exhibition in December 2023. As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 28 Jan 2024 18:15:41 -0500 2024-01-28T14:00:00-05:00 2024-01-28T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
A Gathering (January 30, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (January 30, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (January 30, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (January 30, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21630755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (January 30, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (January 30, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (January 31, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (January 31, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (January 31, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (January 31, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (January 31, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (January 31, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (February 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Reading and Q&A with Halle Butler (February 1, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108965 108965-21820657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Halle Butler is a writer living in Chicago. She has co-written screenplays, including *Neighborhood Food Drive *(2017). Her first novel, *Jillian*, was called the “feel-bad book of the year” by the *Chicago Tribune*. She was recently included in *Granta's* 2017 list of Best of Young American Novelists. Her second novel,* The New Me*, is forthcoming from Penguin Books.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:22:06 -0400 2024-02-01T17:30:00-05:00 2024-02-01T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Halle Butler
A Gathering (February 2, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 2, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 2, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 2, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 2, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 2, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (February 3, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-03T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 3, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-03T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 3, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-03T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 3, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-03T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 3, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-03T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 3, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-03T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 3, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-03T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (February 4, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 4, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 4, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 4, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 4, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 4, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 4, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 4, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 4, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 4, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 4, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 4, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 4, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 4, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Angkor Complex Exhibition Tour - With Artist Sopheap Pich and Curator Nachiket Chanchani (February 4, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116315 116315-21836597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 4, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/hzejjea.

Join Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich and exhibition curator Nachiket Chanchani for a tour and discussion of Angkor Complex: Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s population died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition. 

Angkor Complex brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has changed in the face of upheavals. Angkor Complex also allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, U-M Ross School of Business, U-M Department of History of Art, Mark and Julie Phillips, U-M Center for Southeast Asian Studies, US Department of Education Title VI grant, and an anonymous donor. Additional generous support is provided by the U-M Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:42 -0500 2024-02-04T14:00:00-05:00 2024-02-04T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
A Gathering (February 6, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 6, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 6, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 6, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 6, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 6, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 6, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (February 7, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 7, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 7, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 7, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 7, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 7, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 7, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (February 8, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 8, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 8, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 8, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 8, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 8, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 8, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (February 9, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 9, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 9, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 9, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 9, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 9, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 9, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (February 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-10T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-10T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-10T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-10T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-10T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-10T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-10T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (February 11, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 11, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 11, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 11, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 11, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 11, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 11, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 11, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 11, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 11, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 11, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 11, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 11, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 11, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (February 13, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-13T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 13, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-13T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 13, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-13T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 13, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-13T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 13, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-13T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 13, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-13T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 13, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-13T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
12th Annual Shirley Verrett Award Ceremony (February 13, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118086 118086-21840493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Women of Color in the Academy Project

The University of Michigan Women of Color in the Academy Project (WOCAP) will present its 12th Annual Shirley Verrett Award on February 13, 2024 at the University of Michigan Museum of Art on 525 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 honoring Lester Monts and Clare Croft.

Please join us for an evening of celebration beginning at 5:30 P.M with a reception to follow.

The event is free and open to the public, however, registration is requested.

The Shirley Verrett Award was created in 2011 by the Office of the Senior Vice Provost in honor of the late Shirley Verrett, a U-M professor who “would have walked the world over for her students,” organizers say. It is administered by WOCAP and is supported by SMTD, UMMA, and ODEI.

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Ceremony / Service Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:32:52 -0500 2024-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 2024-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Women of Color in the Academy Project Ceremony / Service Image of Shirley Verrett, singing on stage with silhouette of palm trees in background
A Gathering (February 14, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-14T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 14, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-14T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 14, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-14T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 14, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-14T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 14, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-14T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 14, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-14T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 14, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-14T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (February 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-15T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-15T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-15T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-15T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-15T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-15T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-15T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-15T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-15T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-15T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-15T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-15T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-15T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-15T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (February 16, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-16T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 16, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-16T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 16, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-16T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 16, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-16T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 16, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-16T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 16, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-16T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 16, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-16T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (February 17, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-17T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 17, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-17T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 17, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-17T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 17, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-17T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 17, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-17T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 17, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-17T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 17, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-17T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye