Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. UMMA After Hours (March 16, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49492 49492-11464944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Drop in during this free community event to enjoy this season’s special exhibitions, hear from UMMA curators in the galleries, and groove to live jazz-funk fusion with the Ypsilanti-based band, Impulse, in a fun and relaxed atmosphere.

Browse the galleries and enjoy new special exhibitions including: a collection of works from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century in 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection'; eye-catching contemporary poster designs by renowned Japanese artists, Ikko Tanaka, Shigeo Fukuda, and Kazumasa Nagai; 'Aftermath: Landscapes of Devastation' featuring photographs that portray both well-known and untold stories of violence, tragedy, and loss, spanning over 2,000 years of human history—from ancient Pompeii to September 11, 2001; and two sculpture installations, 'Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece​,' a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin​; and 'Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter,' in which strange and evocative sculptures incorporate ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress.

Enjoy live music performed by Impulse, an Ypsilanti-based jazz-funk fusion band known for delighting audiences with their unique blend of get-on-up-on-the-floor and laid back sounds.

​Curators’ conversations and light refreshments round out the event.

UMMA After Hours is generously sponsored by Fidelity Investments. The media sponsor for UMMA After Hours is the Ann Arbor Observer.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:32:46 -0500 2018-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering UMMA After Hours
Gifts of Art presents Beauty Meets My Mess: Mixed Media Collage (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50430 50430-11736760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Re Kielar was born in Chicago’s little Italy neighborhood with her grandparents upstairs and aunt and uncle across the courtyard. Her world was very Italian, and when she walked outside, she felt like she was leaving one country and entering another. Ever since she was a child, she has loved paint and texture and seen beauty in the most unlikely places. Her artwork expresses human emotion through drawing in ink with rough papers, old book pages, metal embellishments and natural objects. Each abstract collage is coupled with her poetry, so each piece is a walk into her soul. She hopes that by sharing that which is broken, we can find healing spaces that knit our hearts together.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:26:42 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Mixed Messages by Re Kielar, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Being There: Acrylic on Canvas (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50426 50426-11736508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Dempsey’s large scale paintings bring together different environments – factories, religious spaces, government facilities, public areas and landscapes – into single compositions. He visually chronicles and explores the complex combinations of environments that we collage together from memory everyday as we form impressions of the places we go. These paintings from the Glare Series present a variety of environments together, all at once, in order to visually chronicle and explore this complex circumstance of place. Dempsey’s studio is in Flint, and he currently is an Instructor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:15:10 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Memory Serves No. 2 (detail) by John Dempsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Ducks to Dresses: Paper Possibilities (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50429 50429-11736676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from New York, Aimee Lee works in Cleveland and is an artist, papermaker, Fulbright Scholar, author and the leading hanji (Korean paper) researcher and practitioner in the US. Fusing contemporary fashion ideas with traditional clothing, Lee connects past and present through everyday dress creations in paper. The hanji techniques she uses include natural dyeing and waxing, texturing for supple or stiff surfaces, slicing and spinning into thread, and tearing strips to cord. Her paper ducks are inspired by Korean wedding ducks – known for fertility and mating for life – and are built without an armature; the hollow bodies are woven like baskets.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:20:55 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ice Stages by Aimee Lee, photograph by Stefan Hagen. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Figures in Bronze (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50422 50422-11736256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Figures in Bronze showcases 30 years of Richard Light’s human and animal sculptures, from 1987 to 2017. Look for giraffes, birds, women of industry, and a portrait bust of a young Einstein, a commission made for the Albert Einstein Memorial at the Collège de France in Paris. Light, a fine art bronze sculptor and park designer, has garnered prizes in the US and Europe including the Prix de France from the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, the largest art show in France. His studio is located in the Park Trades Center in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:07:39 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Women of Industry V by Richard Light. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Group Ceramics Show (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50424 50424-11736424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This group show will feature the work of faculty, staff and students from the Washtenaw Community College (WCC) Ceramics Program. Artists range in ages from 17-87. Many different styles and approaches to ceramic art will be on display, including ceramic sculpture and functional ceramics. Curated by WCC Instructor I.B. Remsen, all of the pieces in this show are personal favorites of the participating artists.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:10:25 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Filigree Platter by I.B. Remsen photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request. http://www.med.umich.edu/goa/exhibits.htm#wcc
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents On Blue: Photographic Meditations (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50423 50423-11736340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Loosely based on the concept of the early 20th century group f64, the f8collective is composed of female contemporary Chicago photographers who all happen to have strong family ties to Michigan. The group of images on exhibit is from a project called On Blue: A Meditation. Blue is… tranquil pools of clear water; languid clouds drifting in azure skies; mood indigo; cobalt glass; cerulean blue eyes; sapphire cornflowers; poignant music, emotion and sentiment. Blue is a rare color in nature, yet found in the largest things such as sea, lake and sky, as well as some of the smallest: sapphires, forget-me-nots and delicate tropical butterflies.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:09:06 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Deep Blue, Riistina Finland by Susan Aurinko. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Timeless Instants: Still Life Photographs (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50411 50411-11736161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Originally from Kansas City, Tina West discovered photography while studying sculpture. She sees her photographs more as paintings, and her still lifes have powerful cast shadows and frequent light play. Influenced by Gerhardt Richter and surrealism, West’s images communicate a sense of being, connecting not only the objects in the photographs, but also the viewer and the photograph. She draws inspiration from the objects in her vast collection of unique treasures, and she speaks to their unreserved timelessness with maturity and wonder. All of the images in this exhibit were created using instant film in a 4x5 view camera.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:05:34 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Bouncing Ball by Tina West. High resolution version available upon request.
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
Call for Submissions rEVOLUTION: Making Art for Change (March 19, 2018 11:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49510 49510-11465111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 11:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

The Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center's Survivor Empowerment & Ally Support (SEAS) Volunteer Program is now accepting submissions for the 13th annual rEVOLUTION: Making Art for Change art show!

We welcome all UM affiliated artists to submit their artworks to be displayed in our art show in rEVOLUTION: Making Art for Change. Art of any medium is welcome, including, but not limited to: painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, spoken word, and poetry. The themes of our show are gender, sexism, sexual violence, empowerment, and healing. The topic of sexual violence can include sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual and gender-based harassment, and stalking.

Healing is a process that works in different ways for different people. Creating and displaying art can prove very helpful as a way to promote healing. Artistic expression provides a medium to bring up and process emotions and experiences in a way that can be difficult to discuss otherwise.

Our goal with this event is to create and engage in a supportive community space for survivors where UM student allies and survivors will build empathy and an understanding of sexual violence and healing through the unique creative expression of survivor experiences and perspectives.

Please e-mail submissions to artrevolution@umich.edu and fill out this form (https://goo.gl/forms/CeVUxF7iRs9fQbPy1) by Monday March 19th! If your work is accepted, it will be displayed at the opening night of the art show the evening of April 6th. Opening night will be held from 6-9 PM in the East and West Conference Rooms on the fourth floor of Rackham Graduate School.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:20:48 -0500 2018-03-19T23:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Exhibition Rev Call for Submissions
Past, Present, Future: A Digital Projection Series (March 20, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50376 50376-11724563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Three weeks of short digital projections showing on the outer window (202 S. Thayer) of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, sunset to sunrise, to coincide with the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Watch the video trailer at https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/digital-graffiti-exhibition.html

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Exhibition Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:41:12 -0400 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T03:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition 202 S. Thayer
PCAP Exhibition (March 21, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46981 46981-10714039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners.

The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around making art inside prisons. The 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

The event is free and open to the public.

Photo Credit: Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017

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Exhibition Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:38:48 -0500 2018-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017
PCAP Exhibition: Opening Event (March 21, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51152 51152-12007283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around making art inside prisons. The 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

Celebrate the opening day of the 23rd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. Gallery opens at 10:00 AM. Sales begin at 6:00 PM. Opening Reception begins at 7:00 PM, with guest speakers from the University of Michigan and the Michigan Department of Corrections as well as artists from previous
exhibitions.

The event is free and open to the public.

Photo Credit: Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:21:44 -0400 2018-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Lee Latham, Boxing Floyd Mayweather and Family, Color Pencil, 2017-01
Guided Tour - Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (March 25, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49500 49500-11464951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century including Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others. Join docents as they explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:05:56 -0500 2018-03-25T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113