Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Family Art Studio: Don't throw it out! Let's make art with it! (January 12, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58506 58506-14510828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 12, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Create a 3D sculpture inspired by the artist Louise Nevelson who was known to make work using everyday objects and materials she found on the street. We will explore the UMMA exhibition, Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s, which features a large-scale work by Nevelson, as well as other well known abstract expressionists, followed by a hands-on workshop with local artists Susan Clinthorne and Nora Venturelli. 

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:08 -0500 2019-01-12T11:00:00-05:00 2019-01-12T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
Family Art Studio: Don't throw it out! Let's make art with it! (January 12, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58507 58507-14510829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 12, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Create a 3D sculpture inspired by the artist Louise Nevelson who was known to make work using everyday objects and materials she found on the street. We will explore the UMMA exhibition, Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s, which features a large-scale work by Nevelson, as well as other well known abstract expressionists, followed by a hands-on workshop with local artists Susan Clinthorne and Nora Venturelli. 

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:09 -0500 2019-01-12T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
Opening: Deported: An American Division (January 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59202 59202-14717500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

A display of Rachel Woolf’s documentary photography capturing Lourdes Salazar Bautista and her family’s experience of deportation. Woolf, 2018 winner of the Emerging Lens competition, captures moments in the days before Bautista’s deportation hearing in Detroit and the family’s forced return to Toluca, Mexico, revealing in intimate detail the impact of deportation on real families. Stamps professor Hannah Smotrich designed the exhibition and collaborated with Ford School faculty Ann Lin and Fabiana Silva to situate the photographs in a policy, political, and historical context. Exhibit will be on display through January 31.

For more information about the exhibit, visit http://www.artworksprojects.org/project/deported/

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:14:04 -0500 2019-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Exhibition Deported
Art Exhibition Opening: The Smell of Lint and Frost (January 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59133 59133-14686334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

The Opening Reception for the Artist will take place on Wednesday, January 16 from 4-6pm. Refreshments will be served, and Elizabeth will give a Q&A at approx. 4:30pm.

Elizabeth Youngblood is a Detroit-based artist trained and working in a variety of media disciplines including fiber and clay. Recent work is based on drawing/mark making, with a developing body of photographic work. Both consider themes relating to the passage of time, but in ways particular the each medium.

Youngblood earned a BFA in ceramics from The University of Michigan, School of Art (now The Stamps School of Art & Design) and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art working with Katherine McCoy.

Since returning to Detroit after living and working in New York City, Philadelphia, and other cities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and teaching at a range of colleges and universities, Youngblood now maintains a full-time studio practice. Her art is exhibited locally and nationally, and is represented in both private and public collections.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 28 Jan 2019 10:11:41 -0500 2019-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Reception / Open House Elizabeth Youngblood
Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series and UMMA Present: Eva Respini: Art in the Age of the Internet (January 17, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58508 58508-14510830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

“The internet has introduced a new way of seeing and being,” says Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the ICA/Boston. “It’s affected how we shop, eat, date, travel, our social behaviors, our political machines, and how we create and consider art,” both online and off. The exhibition Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, on view at UMMA December 15, 2018 - April 7, 2019, brings together more than forty works across a variety of media and features artists and collectives of different generations and backgrounds to take a look at this ubiquitous influence.  Join Respini, the exhibition curator, for an in-depth exploration of the art, artists, and ideas behind the show.

Eva Respini is the Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the ICA/Boston and specializes in global contemporary art and image-making practices. At the ICA Respini recently curated Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today and has organized exhibitions of leading contemporary artists such as Diana Thater, Liz Deschenes, Nalini Malani, Dana Schutz, as well as forthcoming exhibitions of William Forsythe, Huma Bhabha, John Akomfrah and an exhibition on art and migration in the 21st century.  

Formerly Curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Respini organized there critically acclaimed retrospectives of Cindy Sherman, Walid Raad, and Robert Heinecken, and exhibitions with artists Klara Liden, Anne Collier, Leslie Hewitt, and Akram Zaatari. She is author of Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (2018); Liz Deschenes (2016); Walid Raad (2015); Robert Heinecken: Object Matter (2014); Cindy Sherman (2012).

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecelia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:09 -0500 2019-01-17T17:10:00-05:00 2019-01-17T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Whine, Werk, & Roll: The Art of the Lapa (January 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59655 59655-14777853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 8:00am
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

The lap, worn around the waist, is the uniform of the African dancer. At its simplest it is a rectangular piece of cloth, at its most elegant it is a beautiful skirt made of different colors, textures, and patterns. Whine, Werk, and Roll: the Art of the Lapa celebrates this utilitarian object of beauty and the craftsmanship of the men and women who sew their seams.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:43:02 -0500 2019-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2019-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Detroit Center University of Michigan Detroit Center Reception / Open House The Art of the Lapa
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (January 20, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58501 58501-14510823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 20, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s explores large-scale works of art by Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Nevelson, Sam Gilliam, and Al Loving, within the context of highly-charged debates of the early 1970s about aesthetics, politics, race, and feminism. This exhibition explores the gendered and racialized terms upon which great art was defined and assessed, and the strategy of artists to question the identity and aesthetics of the artist making the art. UMMA docents will help visitors look through the lens of the four artists’ works to explore the aesthetic choices inherent in abstraction as well as the acts of staining, pouring, draping, —or even taking apart the wall itself—within this charged political context.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:08 -0500 2019-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
UMMA Book Club: The Age of the Internet in Comic Books (January 20, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58511 58511-14510833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 20, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In conjunction with the exhibition Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, UMMA and Vault of Midnight-Ann Arbor partner to present a book club that will read and discuss three comic books that explore some of the extreme possibilities of life in the age of the internet. Books include: The Private Eye (January 20), Snot Girl vol. 1 (February 17), and Bitch Planet vol 1 (March 10). Pick and choose your favorites or come to the whole series. Books will be available for sale at Vault of Midnight. All are invited to read and participate. Please note that these comic books deal with mature material.

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecelia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

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Other Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:09 -0500 2019-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Marisa Morán Jahn: The Mighty and the Mythic (January 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59587 59587-14754459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Marisa Morán Jahn: The Mighty and the Mythic
January 24, 2019 – March 2, 2019

Stamps Gallery is proud to present The Mighty and the Mythic, a solo exhibition of work by renowned social practice artist Marisa Morán Jahn. For the first time, The Mighty and the Mythic brings together three key projects — CareForce (2012– ongoing), Bibliobandido (2010–ongoing), and MIRROR | MASK (2017–ongoing) — that highlight her deep and meaningful collaborations with low-wage immigrants, caregivers, and youth. Jahn describes her use of play and humor as essential tools that enable her and her collaborators to portray their lives with dignity, critique power, and build momentum within their community. Jahn’s practice is deeply informed by her own experiences growing up as a second-generation immigrant of Chinese and Ecuadorian heritage. For Jahn home was not a fixed place but an adaptation itself. Her varied vocational past as a schoolteacher, caretaker, woodshop cleaner-upper, lumber hauler, community organizer, and now university professor and mother informs the urgency in her work to find common ground between (her-)self and (an-)other, through the concepts of care and empathy. Each of the works in this exhibition highlights her deep engagement with the stories of everyday people, mundane routines, and a desire to build an inclusive society. Marisa Morán Jahn: the Mighty and the Mythic celebrates and acknowledges the daily struggles and minor victories of the 99 percent that make up the spirit of our society in the twenty-first century.

Artwork by Marisa Morán Jahn: The Driver (detail), from MIRROR | MASK series, featuring Darlyne Komukama. 2017, Uganda

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:26 -0500 2019-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2019-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Driver-mirror-mask.jpg
Marisa Morán Jahn: Unraveling Power Through Art, Play, and Hijinks (January 24, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58870 58870-14569978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

An artist, filmmaker, and writer of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent, Marisa Morán Jahn founded Studio REV-, a nonprofit organization whose public art and creative media affects the lives of low-wage workers, immigrants, women, and youth. Key projects include El Bibliobandido (a masked, story-eating bandit who terrorizes little kids to offer him stories they’ve written), Video Slink Uganda (experimental films slipped or “slinked” into Uganda’s bootleg cinemas), and Contratados (a Yelp for migrant workers). As an artist in residence with the National Domestic Workers Alliance since 2012, Jahn co-created various projects that amplify the voices of America’s fastest growing workforce, caregivers: two mobile studios (NannyVan, CareForce One), an app for domestic workers that CNN named “one of five apps to change the world,” and CareForce One Travelogues, a Sundance-supported docu series for PBS/ITVS co-produced with Oscar- and Emmy-winning filmmaker Yael Melamede. Jahn’s work has been reviewed by the New York Times, BBC, Univision, and Artforum, which described Jahn’s work as “exemplifying the possibilities of art as social practice.” Her work has been awarded numerous grants and has been exhibited at the White House, Museum of Modern Art, New Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, and more.

Presented in partnership with Stamps Gallery as part of the 2019 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:17:58 -0500 2019-01-24T17:10:00-05:00 2019-01-24T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/jahn.jpg
Penny W. Stamps Speaker Series - Marisa Morán Jahn (January 24, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58767 58767-14553143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us at the Michigan Theater for Marisa Morán Jahn’s Penny W. Stamps Speaker Series talk, titled “Unraveling Power Through Art, Play, and Hijinks.”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:15:21 -0500 2019-01-24T17:10:00-05:00 2019-01-24T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Driver-mirror-mask.jpg
Student Late Night: Art in the Age of the Internet (January 24, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58514 58514-14510836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized by U-M students for U-M students, and inspired by the exhibition Art in the Age of the Internet, the 10th annual Student Late Night event at UMMA will be a fun-filled creative explosion!

Come to the party and enjoy some of the best fun that the digital age has to offer! Participate in live collaborative art making, motion graphics, and sound mixing. Have fun at the Silent Disco, snag some free food, and have a blast! Don’t miss it or you will be one grumpy cat.

Hosted by the Student Collective at UMMA in partnership with Maize Collective.

 

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecelia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

Student Late Night: Art in the Age of the Internet is brought to you by the Student Collective at UMMA in partnership with Maize Collective, and co-sponsored by Arts at Michigan,  ArtsEngine, the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the Institute for the Humanities, the History of Art Department, the department of American Culture, and the Museum Studies Department, with additional support from the African Student Association.

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Presentation Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:16:30 -0500 2019-01-24T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-24T22:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Paved with Good Intentions (January 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58128 58128-14426818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In keeping with artist David Opdyke’s previous work, this site-specific installation serves as a critique of U.S. culture and politics. In an era of fake news and daily hyperbole, Opdyke literally changes the picture by hand painting on 528 vintage postcards of well-known American landmarks and destinations. The postcards are assembled into a large mural--a vast gridded landscape beset by environmental chaos. Each card is placed to fit into the overall image, and carefully modified with the gouache to show a realistically rendered piece of the overall turmoil.

The installation also features animated shorts and script-driven video, which take place within the visual confines of one or more postcards. The animation is inspired, in part, by Terry Gilliam’s animation work on Monty Python’s "Flying Circus" and by the classical music sound effects in the Road Runner cartoons.

About David Opdyke:
David Opdyke is a draughtsman, sculptor, and animator known for his trenchant political send-ups of American culture. Born in Schenectady, NY in 1969, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in painting and sculpture. His work is informed by the massive industrial and corporate restructuring he witnessed growing up, namely the abandonment of the city center by manufacturing giants General Electric and ALCO. As GE shifted resources to neighboring Niskayuna, the disparities became hard for Opdyke to ignore. Massive, decaying factories, an empty interstate loop, and unemployment were downtown; new streets, expensive homes, sushi and shopping malls were in the suburbs.

For 20 years Opdyke worked as a scenic painter and architectural model-maker. Ranging from intricate miniature constructions to room-sized installations, his artwork explores globalization, consumerism, and civilization’s abusive relationship with the environment.

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:09:53 -0500 2019-01-25T09:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Paved with Good Intentions
she was here, once (January 25, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
CareForce One Travelogues Film Screening & Panel Discussion (January 26, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58732 58732-14546901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 26, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Please join Stamps Gallery in partnership with Michigan United for a screening of CareForce One Travelogues, a documentary by artist Marisa Morán Jahn about the fastest growing workforce in America: caregivers. The film will be introduced by the filmmaker followed by a panel discussion featuring local care workers and care worker organizers, moderated by Michigan United, Universal Family Care Organizer, Oriana Powell.  The event will conclude with closing remarks from Powell and Michigan United Michigan Caring Majority Campaign Director, Laura DePalma, on current advocacy initiatives that exist around these issues and action steps for moving forward. 

CareForce One Travelogues features artist Marisa, her son (Choco), and their buddy Anjum traveling in their car, the CareForce One, seeking solutions to the nation’s care crisis. The team sets off in New York City, meeting up with domestic employers and domestic workers (nannies, housekeepers, caregivers for the elderly/sick/disabled) along the way, and culminating in Miami. Mixing levity with hard-hitting stories around immigration, the legacies of slavery, racial discrimination, and more, the CareForce One is a road movie that invites its viewers to laugh and cry at the same time. Supported by Sundance, Tribeca Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, and more.

Event Speakers (more to be announced):

Marisa Morán Jahn is an artist, filmmaker, and creative technologist of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent based in NYC. She is the founder of Studio REV, a non-profit organization that codesigns public art and creative media co-designed with low-wage workers, immigrants, and women.  Jahn is an Assistant Professor at The New School and a Visiting Artist at MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology (her alma mater) and Teacher’s College of Columbia University.

Laura De Palma is a community organizer and the campaign director of the Michigan Caring Majority, a movement and coalition to win progressive legislation around universal long-term care, a living wage for direct care workers, compensation and support for family caregivers, paid family medical leave, and universal child care for Michiganders. She received a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

Oriana Powell is a community organizer born and raised in Detroit, MI. She is a mother of a two year old and former childcare and in-home care provider. Oriana is working directly with both professional and non-traditional caregivers to gain respect and support for the care workforce through proper training and compensation for caregivers. Oriana is determined to rebuild the village and community that Detroiters are missing.

This event is presented in partnership with Michigan United and held in conjunction with the Stamps Gallery exhibition Marisa Morán Jahn: The Mighty and the Mythic.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/careforce-one-travelogues-film-screening-and-discussion-tickets-54412471166

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Film Screening Mon, 14 Jan 2019 18:15:26 -0500 2019-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 2019-01-26T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Film Screening https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Careforceone_Film_Screening.jpg