Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Linkage Project Artist Reception at B-24's Espresso Bar (August 16, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64829 64829-16458979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 16, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Meet the PCAP artists exhibiting their work this month at B-24's Espresso Bar in Ypsilanti.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 02 Aug 2019 08:03:46 -0400 2019-08-16T15:00:00-04:00 2019-08-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Reception / Open House two men sit facing the viewer in front of artwork being installed on a wall
Copies and Invention in East Asia (August 17, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 17, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-08-17T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
In Conversation: Copies and Creativity in East Asian Art (August 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63388 63388-15663395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, UMMA's exhibition Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world. Join Natsu Oyobe, exhibition curator and Curator of Asian Art, for a discussion of these works and how the practice of copying has been a source of creativity and innovation within a variety of artistic practices across the region from past to present. 

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:16:00 -0400 2019-08-18T15:00:00-04:00 2019-08-18T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (August 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located in modern-day northern Sudan), involved pilgrimage and leaving informal marks on temples, pyramids, and other monumental structures. These graffiti are found in temples throughout the later (“Meroitic”) period of Kush, when it bordered Roman Egypt. They represent one of the few direct traces of the devotional practices of private people in Kush and hint at individuals’ thoughts, values, and daily lives. This exhibition explores the times and places in which Kushite graffiti were inscribed through photos, text, and interactive media presentations. At the heart of the show are the hundreds of Meroitic graffiti recently discovered in a rock-cut temple by the Kelsey expedition to El-Kurru in northern Sudan.

Curators: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis

View the online exhibition:
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:06:16 -0400 2019-08-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-23T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
71st Annual Dahlia Show (August 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64744 64744-16442906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Open to the public, hosted at Washtenaw Community College.

Saturday August 24th and Sunday August 25th.

Presented by Michigan Dahlia Association (MDA).

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:21:25 -0400 2019-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-24T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition
Collection Ensemble (August 25, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63395 63395-15669543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The reinstallation of UMMA’s Apse, called “Collection Ensemble” highlights the breadth and variety of the Museum’s collection and juxtaposes works of art from different artists, periods, areas, and media. The installation is organized around a very large photograph of a Baroque church by Candida Höfer. From this centerpiece, the works of art are grouped in scenes or distinctive vignettes comprised of a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media. The reinstallation doesn’t adhere to either chronological or geographic boundaries. Curated by Vera Grant, UMMA’s Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Of this installation, she says: “The exhibition recasts the role of the collection as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation. The arrangements remind us that works of art can change in meaning and affect when placed in new contexts.” Join an docent to explore and interpret this exciting new project.

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Presentation Fri, 17 May 2019 18:15:29 -0400 2019-08-25T14:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
In Conversation:  Contemporary Inuit Art:  An Artistic and Cultural Phenomenon (August 25, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63492 63492-15753280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 25, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Tillirnanngittuq (pronounced “tid-ee-nang-ee-took” and meaning “unexpected”) is UMMA’s first exhibition to showcase The Power Family Program for Inuit Art and presents 34 engaging sculptures and 24 striking prints.  In mid-20th-century, the Inuit of Canada’s Arctic experienced profound cultural change – moving from a semi-nomadic hunting culture (one of the last hunting cultures on earth) into permanent settlements, where the Inuit came into daily contact with the technology and values of the increasingly global economy.  Contemporary Inuit art first gained public attention in the 1950s and quickly attracted international acclaim for both its cultural interest and its artistic strength.  Join guest curator, Mame Jackson, for an overview of this fascinating history and for a discussion of the traditional cultural values and “world view” of the Inuit as revealed in time-honored Inuit legends and expressed in Inuit art.

This exhibition inaugurates the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:16:15 -0400 2019-08-25T15:00:00-04:00 2019-08-25T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (August 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-15808584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T12:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-03T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-03T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Exhibition Opening Lecture | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (September 5, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62287 62287-15344249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 5, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This exhibition presents a group of unusual finds from a Kelsey Museum field project in northern Sudan: figural graffiti carved in antiquity by visitors to the site of El-Kurru, which was a pyramid cemetery of kings and queens of ancient Kush in the first millennium BCE. In the opening lecture, exhibition co-curators Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis discuss the historical context and meaning of the graffiti, as well as their work to discover, catalogue, understand, and preserve them.

Reception follows at the Kelsey Museum.

Geoff Emberling is an associate research scientist at the Kelsey Museum and co-director of the International Kurru Archaeological Project. Suzanne Davis is an associate curator and head of Conservation at the Kelsey Museum

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this lecture, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Jun 2019 09:30:02 -0400 2019-09-05T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-05T19:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion graffito
2nd Annual RC Open House (September 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53119 53119-16388958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Featuring faculty and student-led workshops, meet-and-greets, language fair, open art studios and theater, music jam sessions, film screenings, instrument petting zoo, alumni mingle, garden harvest, and more! There will be a reception for Cindy Sowers's exhibition of visual art in the RC Art Gallery, as well!

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Reception / Open House Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:24:11 -0400 2019-09-06T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-06T18:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Reception / Open House Open House Poster
Curator Tour | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile (September 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64008 64008-16059472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located in modern-day northern Sudan), involved pilgrimage and leaving informal marks on temples, pyramids, and other monumental structures. These graffiti are found in temples throughout the later (“Meroitic”) period of Kush, when it bordered Roman Egypt. They represent one of the few direct traces of the devotional practices of private people in Kush and hint at individuals’ thoughts, values, and daily lives.

On this tour, led by the curators of the exhibition, explore the times and places in which Kushite graffiti were inscribed through photos, text, and interactive media presentations. At the heart of the show are the hundreds of Meroitic graffiti recently discovered by the Kelsey expedition to El-Kurru in northern Sudan.

Curator tours are free and open to all visitors. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Other Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:18:17 -0400 2019-09-08T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-08T15:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other ram graffito
UMMA Book Club: Art, Ideas, & Politics (September 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58557 58557-14510879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA's exploration of abstract art, politics, and identity continues with Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s.  Join UMMA and Literati Bookstore for the Art, Ideas & Politics Book Club which will include texts relevant to abstract art as well as the immense social changes of the period. Surrounded by the artworks by Howardena Pindell, John T. Scott, Richard Hunt, Helen Frankenthaler, and Louise Nevelson, we will read and discuss bold and critical voices—both fiction and nonfiction—guided by Literati Bookstore's Creative Programs Manager, Gina Balibrera Amyx. Books include  (Jan 10),  by Bell Hooks (March 14), , edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Sept 12).

 

Gina Balibrera Amyx is the Creative Program Manager at Literati Bookstore, and a graduate of Zell MFA Program. Her writing has been featured in the Boston Review, Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Wandering Song, an anthology of the Central American diaspora.

 

The Art, Ideas, & Politics Book Club will meet on the second Thursday of the month, 12-1 p.m. in the exhibition gallery. Pick and choose or come to all of them. Books will be available for sale at Literati Bookstore as well as after book club meetings at UMMA, at a 15% book club discount.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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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Other Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:18:01 -0400 2019-09-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Student Meet-up and Art Crawl (September 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66329 66329-16727908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 4:00pm
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Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan's Student Meet-up and Art Crawl is perfect for meeting fellow students and discovering some arts venues around Ann Arbor. We'll walk around, chat with each other, see some art galleries, movie theatres, and music venues, and end up at a closing reception at the Ann Arbor Art Center. This trip is open to all current U of M students, and is FREE!

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:15:11 -0400 2019-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T18:30:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Arts Crawl poster
What's in Your Attic? (September 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64932 64932-16491249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We would love to see what's in your attic!

Join us for an open house, informal day of sharing and bring in your paper Americana such as maps, letters, journals, books, photographs, and ephemera. Clements staff as well as collector volunteers will be available to share tips about care and storage and to answer questions. (No appraisals will be available at this event.)

Of course, it's not required that you bring in a treasure to share! This is also a rare opportunity to visit the Clements Library on a Sunday to enjoy our exhibits. You can also learn more about the history, collections, and architecture of the Clements in a behind-the-scenes tour at 11:00am or 2:30pm.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:39:18 -0400 2019-09-15T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar What's in Your Attic (2018)