Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CANCELLED - Latin American Film Series (March 11, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73228 73228-18179648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

All film screenings will take place in the Modern Languages Building, Room 1220 (Lec. Room 1) at 7:00pm.

These film screenings are free and open to the public, and each will be followed by a discussion. All films will have English subtitles.

February 26
Delicate Balance (Frágil equilibrio)
Guillermo García López / Chile, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Japan (2016)
*Spanish, English, French, and Japanese*

March 11
Ixcanul, Volcán
Jayro Bustamante / France, Guatemala (2015)

March 18
La soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy (2016)

March 24
El abrazo de la serpiente
Ciro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela (2015)

March 25
Pájaros de verano
Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego / Colombia, Mexico, Denmark (2018)

March 31
El lugar más pequeño
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico, El Salvador (2012)

April 1
Tempestad (w/ Q&A)
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico (2016)

Co-sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Institute for the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Rackham Graduate School. The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Film Screening Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:14:58 -0400 2020-03-11T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening Latin American Film Series Schedule
HH(C)*/An American Interior (March 12, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70083 70083-17507885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Hometown Hero (Chink): An American Interior, by Valery Jung Estabrook, re-creates a life-size living room sewn by hand, suggestive of the artist’s history growing up in rural southwestern Virginia.The installation includes a custom upholstered recliner embellished with a Confederate Flag motif, and a plush TV emanating country music karaoke sung by the artist.The exhibition challenges the notions of heritage, Southern nationalism and “traditional” American culture, providing a window into the tensions of being a perpetual foreigner in one’s own hometown.

Reflecting on her exhibition title, Estabrook states, “The second part of the title, “Chink,” is a word that is fundamentally linked to my lifelong experience as an Asian American. Yes, it’s offensive—an incredibly painful slur. But that same pain is something that I, unfortunately, think of when I think of home. I include it because I must in order to have an honest discussion about the America that I know.”

Valery Jung Estabrook was born in Plantation, Florida, and grew up on an organic pear farm in rural southwestern Virginia. She holds an MFA in drawing and painting from Brooklyn College and a BA in visual art from Brown University. Her work has been exhibited in major cities both domestically and internationally, including New York, Los Angeles, Lagos, Bilbao, and Melbourne. In 2018 she received the Gold AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award, an annual award recognizing artists of Korean heritage in the United States. She currently resides in Albuquerque and teaches experimental art at the University of New Mexico.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Feb 2020 08:40:18 -0500 2020-03-12T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Hometown Hero (Chink)
Beyond the Studio: Exploring How Artists Work with Communities (March 12, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72747 72747-18070555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Artists and community leaders are working together to create innovative visual art programs that encourage compassion, personal expression, and social interaction. Exploring how artists reach out to communities, speaker Professor Anne Mondro will highlight artists working in socially engaged art, and share her own experiences in designing and facilitating art programming for people living with memory loss and their care partners. She will discuss the positive impact of these programs in building community relationships and promoting well-being.

Anne Mondro is an artist and Associate Professor in the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Her research focuses on designing and facilitating creative arts programming for people living with memory loss and their caregiver, with the intention of increasing social interaction, supporting learning and discovery, and building relationships.

This is the third of a six-lecture series. The subject is The Power of Art. The next lecture will be March 19, 2020. The title is: Site-Specific Installations and Photography Projects, Detroit and Beyond.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:01:57 -0500 2020-03-12T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-15181813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
CANCELLED: Huey Copeland Lecture (March 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66561 66561-16751223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for a public lecture by Huey Copeland (Northwestern).

"Black Feminist Materialism and Art-historical Praxis"
In this lecture, art historian and critic Huey Copeland aims to reframe the biases of art-historical praxis through attention to African American abstract painting of the 1960s and '70s. While the practices of artists who emerged in that moment, such as Sam Gilliam and Howardena Pindell, have garnered increasing attention in recent years, critical discourse has tended to either emplot them within formalist narratives that elide considerations of race and gender or to frame them in identarian frameworks that leave aside the material complexity of the artworks themselves. Copeland moves beyond this dichotomy in articulating a black feminist approach to the construction of the modern material world that considers how African American women’s vernacular strategies of making-do variously inform modernist painters’ attempts to critique both the supposed autonomy of abstraction as well as the racialized and gendered construction of the gaze in Western cultures.

Huey Copeland is Interim Director of the Black Arts Initiative, Arthur Andersen Teaching and Research Professor, and Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, where he also enjoys affiliations with African American Studies, Art Theory & Practice, Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Performance Studies. His research focuses on modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on articulations of blackness in the Western visual field. An editor of OCTOBER and a contributing editor of Artforum, Copeland has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals as well as in numerous international exhibition catalogues and essay collections. At present, he is at work on two complementary volumes: “In the Shadow of the Negress: Modern Art in the Transatlantic World,” which explores the constitutive role played by fictions of black womanhood in Western art from the late 18th century to the present, and “Touched by the Mother: On Black Men, Artistic Practice, and Other Feminist Horizons, 1966–2016,” which brings together a selection of his critical essays.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:03:24 -0400 2020-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Howardena Pindell, Untitled (Dutch Wives Circled and Squared), detail, 1978
Live Event Canceled - Dr. Alex Dehgan: Hacking in the Sixth Extinction (March 12, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70393 70393-17594440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Live event canceled: To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all live events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

As a result, live Penny Stamps Speaker Series events will not take place as scheduled. When possible, our weekly presentations will be available online: video presentations will be announced via email and on the Stamps website (https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps).

Dr. Alex Dehgan’s contributions to the fight against climate change are prolific, solutions-oriented, and built to a global scale. As CEO and co-founder of Conservation X Labs, an innovation and technology start-up focused on conservation, Dehgan and his team apply science, technology, open innovation, design, and engineering to try to end human-induced extinction and address the planet’s biggest environmental challenges. Dehgan holds a PhD and master’s degree from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and a law degree from the University of California, Hastings. He was chosen as an “Icon of Science” by Seed magazine in 2005, received the World Technology Award for Policy in 2011, and has been recognized through multiple awards from the US Departments of State and Defense, and USAID. In 2013, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) selected Dehgan as one of its 40@40 fellows out of 2,600 AAAS Science Policy Fellows as an individual who has shown “exemplary dedication to applying science to serve society, was a creative, innovative, and collaborative problem solver in addressing global challenges, and was an uncommon ambassador for the role of science and technology.” He is the author of The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation (PublicAffairs, 2019).

This event is supported by the U-M Museum of Natural History and is part of the University of Michigan’s Earth Day at 50 celebration. Learn more: earthday.umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:43 -0400 2020-03-12T17:10:00-04:00 2020-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Deghan.jpg
Witness Lab Simulation: Mock Trial with U-M Mock Trial Team (March 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73683 73683-18280819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our Witness Lab page for an ever-evolving list of opportunities to see the Witness Lab project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:12 -0400 2020-03-12T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 13, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-03-13T09:51:00-04:00 2020-03-13T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Witness Lab Simulation: Professor Tzveta Kassabova's U-M Advanced Movement Class (March 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73684 73684-18280820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:12 -0400 2020-03-13T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-15181814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
CANCELLED: Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (March 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73255 73255-18181871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

This presentation will explore holdings and collection histories of objects from the Pacific Islands housed at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The Museum’s responsibility to these so-called “primitive arts” will be discussed in relation to the ethical dilemmas regarding repatriation of human remains and sacred objects.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 08:44:16 -0400 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation art from the Pacific Islands
Witness Lab Simulation: Romeo vs. the City of Verona with Katie McBride's Greenhills Middle School Class (March 13, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70547 70547-17604940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Greenhills Middle School students will speculate about a trial that never happened. Riffing on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, students will put Romeo on trial. You decide: Is Romeo responsible for Tybalt’s death?

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our Witness Lab page for an ever-evolving list of opportunities to see the Witness Lab project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Presentation Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:17:24 -0500 2020-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Canceled: 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception (March 13, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71059 71059-17770762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

Although the opening reception scheduled for Friday, March 13 has been canceled, the exhibition will be open during regular gallery hours from March 13 - May 2, 2020. 

sometimes something: 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition
sometimes something brings together culminating projects by Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula, second-year graduate students at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery
201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor, MI
Open during exhibitions Tuesday - Saturday.
Closed Sundays, Mondays, and holidays.

Hours
Tue: 11am - 5pm
Wed: 11am - 5pm
Thu: 11am - 7pm
Fri: 11am - 7pm
Sat: 11am - 5pm

For more information about this event contact Stamps Gallery Outreach and Public Engagement Coordinator Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan at jenjkhan@umich.edu or (734) 615-5322.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2020-mfa-thesis-exhibition-opening-reception-tickets-86595875595

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Reception / Open House Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:15:47 -0400 2020-03-13T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/mfa-thesis.jpeg
POSTPONED: South Meets North (March 13, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73528 73528-18322368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 6:30pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: SPIC MACAY at the University of Michigan

UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

SPICMACAY in collaboration with Jaya and Roger B. Natrajan present a Carnatic instrumental concert featuring Prof. Purnapragna Bangere on violin, accompanied by Amit Kavthekar on tabla.

Stay back after the concert for an interactive session with the artists and some insight into Prof. Bangere's geometric interpretation of music.

FREE ADMISSION!

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Performance Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:15:18 -0400 2020-03-13T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T20:30:00-04:00 1027 E. Huron Building SPIC MACAY at the University of Michigan Performance Poster for South meets North
Mark Webster Reading Series (March 13, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70548 70548-17604941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

​One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

This week's reading features Zahir Janmohamed and Joumana Altallal.

Zahir Janmohamed is a fiction writer from Sacramento, California. 

Joumana Altallal is an Iraqi-Lebanese poet and educator. Before moving to Ann Arbor, she lived in Charlottesville, Virginia. 

This event is free and open to the public.
For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu -- we are eager to help ensure that 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 are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event. 
 
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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Presentation Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:17:06 -0400 2020-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 14, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-03-14T09:51:00-04:00 2020-03-14T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Make Giant Puppets for FestiFools! (March 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73560 73560-18261057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Campus Safety Services Building
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

Join U-M students, staff, and faculty interested in helping out with the creation of giant puppets for this year's FestiFools event. Come to the FestiFools studio any Saturday to help bring these puppet creations to life just in time for our 14th Annual FestiFools extravaganza (held on Sunday, April 5, 2020, from 4-5pm/Main Street Ann Arbor). If you have questions, email Mitchel (heathmd@umich.edu).

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Community Service Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:05:20 -0400 2020-03-14T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Campus Safety Services Building Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Community Service Photo of FestiFools by Myra Klarman
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-14T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-15181815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-14T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-14T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-14T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-14T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-14T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
UMMA Pop Up: Karissa Bone (March 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73786 73786-18315758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Writing in her own genre, Karissa Bone introduces music with the bop-factor of Pop, the soul of R&B, and the unexpected element of pinpointed introspective lyrics. Hailing from Saginaw, MI, her style is influenced by Motown, Classic Rock, and everything in life that goes sideways. Her airy, yet powerful voice melts together with her soul-twisting lyrics to make every song a memorable journey. Whether she’s with a full band, string section, at a grand piano, or playing solo with her electric guitar, Bone’s live shows are full of energy and belonging. With short comedic breaks, she seamlessly covers topics from heartbreak to nostalgia, to the modern age of technology. Her artistry truly shows through– when she sings, you stop and listen. 

In 2019, while studying at the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Bone paid her dues in Ann Arbor, where she's performed at the famed Blind Pig, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, and the Canterbury House. She currently studies songwriting at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. 

You can find her on Instagram @itskarissabone 

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:16 -0400 2020-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Postponed: Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event #3 w/Nia King (March 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71060 71060-17770763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all events with estimated attendance of over 100 people. 

This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled; please check this page for additional information.

Join us for a talk by artist, activist and author, Nia King. King will speak about her book series, Queer & Trans Artists of Color and other projects. Copies of the books will be for sale. A book signing will follow the event. Recommended reading: Queer & Trans Artists of Color, Volumes 1, 2 & 3.

Nia King is a queer mixed-race (Black/Lebanese/Hungarian) journalist and media-maker based in Philadelphia, PA. She has been hosting and producing We Want the Airwaves podcast, on which she interviews queer and trans artists of color about their lives and work, since 2013. She has self-published three books of interviews from the podcast: Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives, edited by Jessica Glennon-Zukoff and Terra Mikalson (2014); Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Volume 2, edited by Elena Rose (2016); and Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Volume 3, edited Maliha Ahmed (2019).

Nia’s writing and comics have appeared at Colorlines.com, the East Bay Express, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. She has spoken at colleges and conferences across the US and Canada including Stanford University, Swarthmore College, Queen’s University, the Allied Media Conference, Facing Race, and the National Association for Ethnic Studies conference. She received a Best of the East Bay Award in 2016 and was featured in KQED’s #BayBrilliant (formerly Women to Watch) series in 2018.

About the Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event Series

The Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event Series is centered around queer, mixed-race writer, artist, filmmaker, and activist Nia King’s book series Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives Volumes 1, 2 & 3. In the books, King interviews fellow queer and trans artists of color about their work, their lives, and “making it” - both in terms of success and in terms of survival. Each event features a guest artist who will speak about their own practice and lead a group discussion on a topic from the book. Everyone is welcome to attend.

The Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event Series is organized by Stamps Gallery and presented in partnership with the U-M Spectrum Center with support from the Ann Arbor District Library. It is sponsored by the U-M Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Purchase copies of the Queer & Trans Artists of Color books here.

For more information about this event or the Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event Series contact, Stamps Gallery Outreach and Public Engagement Coordinator Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan at jenjkhan@umich.edu or (734)615-5322.

Download printable PDF schedule of events for this series: Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Series: January 18, February 8, and March 14

 

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:43 -0400 2020-03-14T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/QTAOC3.jpeg
Atreh Nowruzi (Fragrance of Spring) (March 14, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72577 72577-18018178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: Persian Student Association

Join the Persian Student Association in celebrating the Persian New Year and the start of Spring at our 22nd Annual Cultural Show, "Atreh Nowruzi" or "Fragrance of the New Year." Make sure to save to date and come see your favorite Michigan Persian students perform traditional and modern dances, skits, recite poetry and spoken word, and so much more! PSA is excited to collaborate with the Chinese Student Organization by having their dance group "rXn" as a guest act! Tickets are now available at the Michigan Union Ticket Office and online at this link: https://tinyurl.com/s66lbfn

Ticket Pricing: All Students - $5, Non-Students - $15

Seating: General

Doors open at 5:30 pm

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Performance Thu, 06 Feb 2020 09:36:39 -0500 2020-03-14T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-14T20:30:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts Persian Student Association Performance PSA Cultural Show Poster
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-15181816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 15, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70735 70735-17621675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:09 -0400 2020-03-15T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
CANCELLED: COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS IN THE CREATIVE ARTS (March 16, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72691 72691-18059638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS IN THE CREATIVE ARTS with PCAP-The Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan

VISUAL ART-CREATIVE WRITING-THEATER-MUSIC:

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?

BUSES 32, 32A, 32B, 32C

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:52:20 -0400 2020-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Community Workshops in Creative Arts
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 17, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-03-17T09:51:00-04:00 2020-03-17T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-15181817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 18, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
__________

sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-03-18T09:51:00-04:00 2020-03-18T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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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 art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Witness Lab Simulation: Student Presentations: Immigration Courts And Judges With Professor Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof's U-M Immigration Law Class (March 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73685 73685-18280821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:12 -0400 2020-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
[POSTPONED] History of Photography (March 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72660 72660-18035612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

***Update 3/10/20: This event has been postponed. It will be rescheduled at a later date.***

The Clements Library's photography collection is comprised of over 150,000 images with examples of virtually every popular photographic format in use in America from 1840 into the 20th century. In recent years, the photograph collection has become the library’s fastest growing. Join the Graphics Division as they showcase amazing photographic items from the collections. A wide range of images and photographic technology will be on display as Clements staff explain the evolution of techniques used throughout the decades.

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Presentation Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:06:25 -0400 2020-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Curator of Graphics Clayton Lewis shares a photo album.
Witness Lab Simulation: Salem Witch Trials with Professor Leonard Niehoff's U-M Law Seminar (March 18, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70550 70550-17604943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Professor Len Niehoff will lead a U-M Law School seminar discussion of the Salem Witch Trials with twelve students before a public audience. The March 11 session will focus on the history of the trials and the legal issues they raise. The March 18 session will include live performances of actual parts of the trials, along with conversation about the lessons they convey. Professor Niehoff has a forthcoming article on the witch trials and is working on a book about them as well. ​Come get a glimpse into both a law school classroom and a 1692 colonial witch trial!

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:04 -0400 2020-03-18T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-18T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
CANCELLED: Opening Reception: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 18, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69782 69782-17423602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Celebrate the opening day of the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. Gallery opens at 10:00 AM. Sales begin at 6:00 PM. Reception program begins at 7:00 PM, featuring guest speakers from the University of Michigan, the Michigan Department of Corrections, and artists from previous exhibitions.

Presented with support from U-M Residential College, U-M School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, U-M Stamps School of Art and Design, Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and Om of Medicine.

6:00 pm: Sales of art begin in the gallery
7:00 pm: Program begins in the East Room upstairs, Pierpont Commons

Artwork credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Reception / Open House Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:53:52 -0400 2020-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Reception / Open House 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Editing Team Meeting: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (March 18, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71007 71007-17766511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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Meeting Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:41:45 -0500 2020-03-18T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Sister Helen
CANCELLED - Latin American Film Series (March 18, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73228 73228-18179649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

All film screenings will take place in the Modern Languages Building, Room 1220 (Lec. Room 1) at 7:00pm.

These film screenings are free and open to the public, and each will be followed by a discussion. All films will have English subtitles.

February 26
Delicate Balance (Frágil equilibrio)
Guillermo García López / Chile, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Japan (2016)
*Spanish, English, French, and Japanese*

March 11
Ixcanul, Volcán
Jayro Bustamante / France, Guatemala (2015)

March 18
La soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy (2016)

March 24
El abrazo de la serpiente
Ciro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela (2015)

March 25
Pájaros de verano
Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego / Colombia, Mexico, Denmark (2018)

March 31
El lugar más pequeño
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico, El Salvador (2012)

April 1
Tempestad (w/ Q&A)
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico (2016)

Co-sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Institute for the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Rackham Graduate School. The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Film Screening Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:14:58 -0400 2020-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening Latin American Film Series Schedule
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 19, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-03-19T09:51:00-04:00 2020-03-19T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 19, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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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 art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Site-Specific Installations and Photography Projects, Detroit and Beyond (March 19, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72748 72748-18070556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Mr. Hocking will present a chronological slide-lecture based on his site-specific sculptural and photographic practice covering over 20 years of projects created in Detroit and throughout the world. Inspired by subjects ranging from ancient mythologies to current events, his artworks focus on transformation, ephemerality, chance, and the cycles of nature and often use found materials and neglected locations.

Scott Hocking was born in Redford Township, MI in 1975, and has lived and worked in Detroit proper since 1996 creating site-specific installations, sculptures and photography projects. Exhibitions include Van Abbemuseum, Kunst-Werke Institute, Kunsthalle Wien, French Triennial Lille 3000, MCA Chicago, Smart Museum of Art, School of the Art Institute, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, PAFA Museum, The Mattress Factory, D.I.A., Cranbrook, MOCAD, MSU’s Broad Museum, and UM Institute for the Humanities. Awards include a Kresge Artist Fellowship, a Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Grant, an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, and residential grants in France, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Brazil, and throughout the US. He is represented by David Klein Gallery, Detroit.

This is the fourth of a six-lecture series. The subject is The Power of Art. The next lecture will be March 26, 2020. The title is: Recalling the Past, Imagining the Future – Art and the Resurgence of Detroit

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:20:48 -0500 2020-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Cancelled! Museum Studies Program - Museums at Noon (March 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72722 72722-18064020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Presentation by Jeremy York (PhD candidate, Information)

The speaker will discuss the importance of and challenges in preserving contextual information about museum objects. He will describe projects that he worked on at the Detroit Institute of Arts library to make digitized photographs from historical exhibitions and track works that reference items owned by the DIA.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:18:10 -0400 2020-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Detroit Institute of Arts
Witness Lab Simulation: Community High School Mock Trial (March 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73686 73686-18280822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our Witness Lab page for an ever-evolving list of opportunities to see the Witness Lab project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:12 -0400 2020-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Live Event Canceled - Shaka Senghor: Writing My Wrongs (March 19, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70394 70394-17594441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Live event canceled: To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all live events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

As a result, live Penny Stamps Speaker Series events will not take place as scheduled. When possible, our weekly presentations will be available online: video presentations will be announced via email and on the Stamps website (https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps).

Shaka Senghor is a leading voice in criminal justice reform. His memoir, Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison, was released in March 2016 and debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list as well as The Washington Post Best Seller list. Writing My Wrongs chronicles Senghor’s personal experience with the criminal justice system after being sent to prison at age 19 on second-degree murder charges. An unforgettable tale of forgiveness and second chances, Senghor’s book reminds us that our worst deeds don’t define who we are or what we can contribute to the world. Senghor’s story has inspired thousands and serves as a compelling testament to the power of hope, compassion, and unconditional love.

Senghor is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2016 EBONY Power 100 list and the 2016 NAACP Great Expectations Award. Senghor was also a 2014 TED Prize finalist for The Atonement Project (a program that aims to promote healing and understanding between victims of violence and violent offenders), is a former MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow, and is a current fellow in the inaugural class of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Community Leadership Network. He shares his story of redemption around the world through his company, Shaka Senghor Inc., dedicated to shifting societal narratives through storytelling with deep social impact.

Supported by the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan, presenting the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, on view at the Duderstadt Center Gallery March 18–April 1, 2020.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:44 -0400 2020-03-19T17:10:00-04:00 2020-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Senghor.jpg
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Jenny Zhang, Fiction Reading (March 19, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70551 70551-17604944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jenny Zhang’s story collection, Sour Heart (Lenny, 2017), centers on immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life at the poverty line in 1990s New York City. It examines the many ways that family and history can weigh us down and also lift us up. From the young woman coming to terms with her grandmother’s role in the Cultural Revolution to the daughter struggling to understand where her family ends and she begins, to the girl discovering the power of her body to inspire and destroy, these seven stories illuminate the complex and messy inner lives of girls struggling to define themselves.

Zhang is also the author of the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find. Her second collection of poetry, My Baby First Birthday, is forthcoming from Tin House. She is the recipient of the Pen/Bingham Award for Debut Fiction and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.   

This event is free and open to the public. Onsite book sales will be provided by Literati Bookstore.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the  Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that 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 are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event. 
 
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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Presentation Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:17:06 -0400 2020-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 20, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-03-20T09:51:00-04:00 2020-03-20T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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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 art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Canceled - 2020 Stamps MDes Public Talk (March 20, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72198 72198-17957206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

This live event has been canceled to limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19.

Five designers explore different perspectives that address equity and access: in our collective civic life, in the curricula we teach, in the education of our educators, in the planning of our communities, and in the futures we co-create.

In this public talk, the graduating class of the Stamps MDes in Integrative Design program will discuss ways design (and designers) can support teachers, community organizers, and education experts to facilitate learning and public awareness to help build a more just and integrated society. Food and refreshments provided.

This event includes five public talks by Gowri Balasubramaniam, Colleen Clark, Megan Freund, Jenn Low, and Ashley Moon.

 

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:31 -0400 2020-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Presentation https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/2020-MDes-1000x501-01.jpg
Mark Webster Reading Series (March 20, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70552 70552-17604945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

​One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

This week's reading features Sarah Duffett and Michael M. Weinstein. 

Sarah Duffett is a writer from New England and the cohost of the Webster Reading Series. She currently lives in Ann Arbor. 

Michael M. Weinstein is a poet, teacher, translator, and cohost of the Webster Reading Series. Originally from New York, he now lives in Ann Arbor. 

This event is free and open to the public.
For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu -- we are eager to help ensure that 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 are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event. 
 
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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Presentation Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:17:07 -0400 2020-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 21, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-03-21T09:51:00-04:00 2020-03-21T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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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 art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Storytime at the Museum: Canada (March 21, 2020 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70553 70553-17604946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 11:15am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytime at the Museum promotes art enjoyment for our youngest patrons. Join us as we travel around the world and look at art from different countries. We read a story in the galleries and include a fun, age-appropriate, hands-on activity related to it. Parents must accompany children. Siblings are welcome to join the group. Meet in front of the UMMA Shop.

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

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:04 -0400 2020-03-21T11:15:00-04:00 2020-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
Online Event: Envision: The Michigan Artists Initiative Launch + Information Session (March 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71061 71061-17770764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all events with estimated attendance of over 100 people. 

This event will be held online: please check this page for additional information as it becomes available.

Calling all artists from Michigan! Join us at the Ann Arbor Art Center for a launch and information session on how you can participate in Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative Award Program. For more information on the Envision project, visit: https://stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/detail/envision

 

 

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/envision-the-michigan-artists-initiative-launch-information-session-tickets-86601821379

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:15:48 -0400 2020-03-21T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Workshop / Seminar https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/envision-wordmark.png
CANCELLED: Family Day, of the 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73419 73419-18217163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Artist Panel begins at 11:00am, followed by Family/Linkage Luncheon, at 12:30pm, followed by the annual reading of the Lit Review at 2:00pm, followed by a reception and the Out of the Blue Choir at 4:00pm.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:55:23 -0400 2020-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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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 art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
UMMA Pop Up: Jacob Warren - Solo Bass (March 22, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71629 71629-17846974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jacob Warren is a multi-style bassist originally from Ann Arbor, MI. Jacob's background and interests include a wide variety of acoustic styles, such as classical, traditional and contemporary folk, jazz, bluegrass, newgrass, Swedish, and many others. He obtained his Bachelor's in Music Performance at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. He also holds a Masters of Music in Improvisation and Chamber Music from the University of Michigan. This program will feature an eclectic mix of solo double bass arrangements from many different genres.

You can find him on Instagram and Facebook.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:10 -0400 2020-03-22T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square (March 22, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70153 70153-17540893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Office of the President, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:16:50 -0400 2020-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Witness Lab Event: Artist Reflections with Courtney McClellan: Artist as Researcher (March 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70554 70554-17604947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Witness Lab is a project of Roman Witt Artist-in-Residence, Courtney McClellan. It is part museum exhibit, part performance art, part research project, which seeks to illuminate the intersection of performance and the law in new ways. Join McClellan for a discussion of her exploration of the act of witnessing as it relates to her art practice. Additionally, she will share motivations for creating Witness Lab and current findings from work in progress. 

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:04 -0400 2020-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T16:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Dancing Justice (March 22, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70557 70557-17604950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Daring Dances Student Fellows present global dance exploration of social issues in this evening performance. The Daring Dances project, led by U-M dance professor Clare Croft, embraces how dance invites us into difficult conversations. This project includes a Student Fellowship program to support U-M students with interests in dance and social justice.

Ambiance Dance Team, a U-M Student organization, is a collective of dancers interested in fostering a social, artistic and diverse community. Their latest work, Deviation, acknowledges the struggle and strength of young women making their mark in a male dominated world.

Arabesque Dance Troupe, a U-M Student organization, brings focus to Middle Eastern and North African Culture through artmaking. “Arab Expressions” brings these art forms together for a yearly celebration. Arabesque will perform an excerpt from this concert, highlighting their history, culture and experiences. 

Iraqi Student Association (ISA) aims to promote and raise awareness of Iraqi and Middle Eastern culture. The association strives to bring the Iraqi community together while educating the student population at the University of Michigan on topics within the Iraqi and Middle Eastern society. ISA will invite the audience to join in learning “Chobi”, a traditional dance performed at public events and weddings. *Audience Participation Optional 

Queer Artist Collective, an organization founded by dance majors Alana ​Packo and Rose Janusiak, aims to create a space where Queer artists from any craft can establish community. Their latest work, “An Exploration of Intimacy in Queer Friendship," asks the question how can two people of the same sexuality develop a friendship of deep intimacy despite the prospect of attraction?  

This program is funded by University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre and Dance, with support from the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:05 -0400 2020-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Witness Lab Simulation: Oral Arguments with Professor Timothy Pinto's U-M Law Class (March 23, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73687 73687-18280823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 10:30am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our Witness Lab page for an ever-evolving list of opportunities to see the Witness Lab project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:13 -0400 2020-03-23T10:30:00-04:00 2020-03-23T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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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 art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-23T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Witness Lab Simulation: ​Melanie Manos' U-M Interarts Performance Class (March 23, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73688 73688-18280824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our Witness Lab page for an ever-evolving list of opportunities to see the Witness Lab project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:13 -0400 2020-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-23T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
CANCELLED - ASC Event. Pan-African Pulp in Five Parts: A Panel Discussion (March 23, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73202 73202-18157929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: African Studies Center

Meleko Mokgosi's monumental installation Pan-African Pulp presents a complex and multi-layered reflection on histories of Pan-Africanism, Black Consciousness, and Southern African resistance movements. Made up of five parts, it engages with its audience in various ways, encouraging visitors to access this rich history through the medium of history painting, through popular posters, through comic books, academic literature or stories written in Mokgosi's mother tongue - Setswana. Multiple interpretations and readings are not only possible but are explicitly encouraged by the artist, whose work is saturated with archival research, theory and deep thinking about the history of artmaking and the powerful role artworks have (and continue to have) as sites of resistance and activism.

Taking Pan-African Pulp as their starting point, five different speakers from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University will bring their unique points of view to the table, offering up new and perhaps unexpected interpretations, exploring how one artwork may act as a prism for diverse readings.

The program will take place in the Mokgosi installation on the first floor between the UMMA Shop and Cafe.
Speakers include:

Bénédicte Boisseron, from the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS), will respond to the mural examining the complexity of blackness;

Julian Chambliss, Val Berryman Curator of History, MSU Museum, on the historical posters from internationalist and Pan-African movements from around the world;​

Anita Gonzalez, from the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the stories from Setswana oral tradition.

Annette Joseph-Gabriel, from the U-M Department for Romance Languages and Literatures, the 1969 Algiers Pan-African manifesto annotated by the artist;

Randall Scott, from the MSU Comic Art Collection, the large-scale panels inspired by African photo novels of the 1960s and ’70s.

The discussion will be moderated by Laura De Becker, UMMA’s Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art.

This program is organized in partnership with the U-M African Studies Center.

Lead support is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:41:58 -0400 2020-03-23T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Pan-African Pulp in Five Parts, a panel discussion with Bénédicte Boisseron, Julian Chambliss, Anita Gonzalez, Annette Joseph-Gabriel, and Randall Scott. (March 23, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70558 70558-17604951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Meleko Mokgosi's monumental installation Pan-African Pulp presents a complex and multi-layered reflection on histories of Pan-Africanism, Black Consciousness, and Southern African resistance movements. Made up of five parts, it engages with its audience in various ways, encouraging visitors to access this rich history through the medium of history painting, through popular posters, through comic books, academic literature or stories written in Mokgosi's mother tongue - Setswana. Multiple interpretations and readings are not only possible but are explicitly encouraged by the artist, whose work is saturated with archival research, theory and deep thinking about the history of artmaking and the powerful role artworks have (and continue to have) as sites of resistance and activism.

Taking Pan-African Pulp as their starting point, five different speakers from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University will bring their unique points of view to the table, offering up new and perhaps unexpected interpretations, exploring how one artwork may act as a prism for diverse readings. 

The program will take place in the Mokgosi installation on the first floor between the UMMA Shop and Cafe.  Speakers include:

Bénédicte Boisseron, from the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS), will respond to the mural examining the complexity of blackness;

Julian Chambliss, Professor of English, Val Berryman Curator of History, MSU Museum, on the historical posters from internationalist and Pan-African movements from around the world;​

Anita Gonzalez, from the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the stories from Setswana oral tradition.

Annette Joseph-Gabriel, from the U-M Department for Romance Languages and Literatures, the 1969 Algiers Pan-African manifesto annotated by the artist;

Randall Scott, from the MSU Comic Art Collection, the large-scale panels inspired by African photo novels of the 1960s and ’70s.

The discussion will be moderated by Laura De Becker, UMMA’s Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art.

This program is organized in partnership with the U-M African Studies Center.

Lead support is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:05 -0400 2020-03-23T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
CANCELLED: COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS IN THE CREATIVE ARTS (March 23, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72691 72691-18059639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS IN THE CREATIVE ARTS with PCAP-The Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan

VISUAL ART-CREATIVE WRITING-THEATER-MUSIC:

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?

BUSES 32, 32A, 32B, 32C

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:52:20 -0400 2020-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-23T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Community Workshops in Creative Arts
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 24, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-03-24T09:51:00-04:00 2020-03-24T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 24, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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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 art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Witness Lab Simulation: Oral Arguments with Professor Timothy Pinto's U-M Law Class (March 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73689 73689-18280825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our Witness Lab page for an ever-evolving list of opportunities to see the Witness Lab project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:13 -0400 2020-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Witness Lab Event: Supreme Court 101 with Chief Justice Bridget McCormack (March 24, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70559 70559-17604952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Chief Justice Bridget McCormack teaches the basics of the Michigan Supreme Court. Using famous Michigan cases, McCormack will illuminate today’s important judicial decisions. Attend one or both.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:05 -0400 2020-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
CANCELLED - Latin American Film Series (March 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73228 73228-18179650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

All film screenings will take place in the Modern Languages Building, Room 1220 (Lec. Room 1) at 7:00pm.

These film screenings are free and open to the public, and each will be followed by a discussion. All films will have English subtitles.

February 26
Delicate Balance (Frágil equilibrio)
Guillermo García López / Chile, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Japan (2016)
*Spanish, English, French, and Japanese*

March 11
Ixcanul, Volcán
Jayro Bustamante / France, Guatemala (2015)

March 18
La soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy (2016)

March 24
El abrazo de la serpiente
Ciro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela (2015)

March 25
Pájaros de verano
Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego / Colombia, Mexico, Denmark (2018)

March 31
El lugar más pequeño
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico, El Salvador (2012)

April 1
Tempestad (w/ Q&A)
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico (2016)

Co-sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Institute for the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Rackham Graduate School. The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Film Screening Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:14:58 -0400 2020-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening Latin American Film Series Schedule
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 25, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-03-25T09:51:00-04:00 2020-03-25T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 25, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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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 art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-25T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Witness Lab Simulation: Performance in Trial Advocacy with Judge Timothy Connors and Margaret Connors (March 25, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70560 70560-17604953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Judge Timothy Connors and Margaret Connors will teach vital lessons from their lauded U-M trial advocacy class. Law students and viewers will consider the importance of performance and movement when mediating a case. Traditional courtroom negotiations will be addressed, as well as alternative forms of adjudication.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:05 -0400 2020-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-25T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Ann Arbor Film Festival presents: 58th AAFF Music Videos in Competition (March 25, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70561 70561-17604954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The Ann Arbor Film Festival returns for its 58th year March 24 - 29, 2020.  Thousands of influential filmmakers and artists have showcased work at the AAFF, including Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Gus Van Sant, Barbara Hammer, Lawrence Kasdan, Devo, and George Lucas. The longest-running avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America, it presents films of all lengths and genres, including experimental, animation, documentary, fiction, and performance-based works. The festival serves as one of a handful of Academy Award®-qualifying festivals in the United States.    This year, the AAFF is featuring a Music Videos in Competition program. These contemporary music videos include beard-based lifeforms, an unexpected visitor, a journey forward, a setar player, a future so remote it looks like the past, an exorcism attempt, power dynamics and sexual abuse, a Jungian alternate universe wormhole, another dimension, mesmerizing voices, disturbing arte-facts brought to light, a blackhole, and a haunted car ride with Kim Gordon.

This program is free and open to the public and co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Film Screening Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:06 -0400 2020-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
CANCELLED: PCAP Membership Meeting Winter 2020 (March 25, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68904 68904-17905462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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Meeting Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:56:05 -0400 2020-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Hands
CANCELLED - Latin American Film Series (March 25, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73228 73228-18179651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

All film screenings will take place in the Modern Languages Building, Room 1220 (Lec. Room 1) at 7:00pm.

These film screenings are free and open to the public, and each will be followed by a discussion. All films will have English subtitles.

February 26
Delicate Balance (Frágil equilibrio)
Guillermo García López / Chile, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Japan (2016)
*Spanish, English, French, and Japanese*

March 11
Ixcanul, Volcán
Jayro Bustamante / France, Guatemala (2015)

March 18
La soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy (2016)

March 24
El abrazo de la serpiente
Ciro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela (2015)

March 25
Pájaros de verano
Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego / Colombia, Mexico, Denmark (2018)

March 31
El lugar más pequeño
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico, El Salvador (2012)

April 1
Tempestad (w/ Q&A)
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico (2016)

Co-sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Institute for the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Rackham Graduate School. The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Film Screening Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:14:58 -0400 2020-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening Latin American Film Series Schedule
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 26, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-03-26T09:51:00-04:00 2020-03-26T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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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 art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Recalling the Past, Imagining the Future – Art and the Resurgence of Detroit (March 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72751 72751-18070560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

From its high point of affluence and influence and a population of nearly two million in the 1950s, Detroit suffered decades of devastating civil unrest, economic crisis, governmental corruption, and the loss of nearly two-thirds of its population. Today - from bankruptcy and blighted neighborhoods - a new Detroit is arising, enlivened by the creativity of artists whose work is transforming the city, inspiring its residents, and bringing about a sense of renewal and hope.

Dr. Marion “Mame” Jackson, Professor Emerita, Art History, Wayne State University and The University of Michigan, focuses on relationships between art and community and art’s role in preserving culture and nourishing spirit. She has spent years in the Canadian Arctic and Brazil studying art of ordinary people and its power to express culture and empower imagination. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for Humanities, Fulbright, and the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada.

This is the fifth of a six-lecture series. The subject is The Power of Art. The next lecture will be April 2, 2020. The title is: From the Grove to the Gallery: A Personal Journey with African Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:37:22 -0500 2020-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Cancelled! Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (March 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73257 73257-18184059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

The speaker will present how the Adult Learning Division at the Art Institute of Chicago engages college and professional groups within various disciplines. She will discuss how the division approaches art education with these different audiences and her own work there to assist in creating a program for interdisciplinary students and professionals.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:25:01 -0400 2020-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Art Institute of Chicago
Witness Lab Simulation: Oral Arguments with Professor Timothy Pinto's U-M Law Class (March 26, 2020 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73690 73690-18280826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 12:45pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:13 -0400 2020-03-26T12:45:00-04:00 2020-03-26T14:15:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Live Event Canceled - Martha Colburn: Rip it Up (March 26, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70395 70395-17594442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Live event canceled: To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all live events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

As a result, live Penny Stamps Speaker Series events will not take place as scheduled. When possible, our weekly presentations will be available online: video presentations will be announced via email and on the Stamps website (https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps).

Filmmaker, artist, and animator Martha Colburn’s films examine the complex dynamics of contemporary life, politics, and society. Colburn works for years on a single project, and her films result from intensive research and meticulously rendered stop-motion animations. Through photography, collage, painting, and puppetry, Colburn uses handmade aesthetics to create touching, personal, and unforgettable narratives. Her film Metamorfoza was included in the 2017 B3 Biennale of the Moving Image in Frankfurt, Germany. Colburn is a Creative Capital grant recipient for Western Wild…or how I found Wanderlust and met Old Shatterhand, a densely textured documentary about the making of a film about the famed German author Karl May. She is a frequent featured artist at the Sundance Film Festival, where she initiated the “New Frontiers” film and video installation program in 2007 with her film Meet Me in Wichita. Colburn was also a featured artist at the opening of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, with a live performance of films and music. Her work is in the collections at MOMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and her film Triumph of the Wild is permanently on show at the Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany.

Co-presented with the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

 

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:44 -0400 2020-03-26T17:10:00-04:00 2020-03-26T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Colburn.jpg
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Kathleen Graber, Poetry Reading (March 26, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70562 70562-17604955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Kathleen Graber’s poetry collection, The River Twice (Princeton University Press, 2019), is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change. She presents a fluid world in which so much―including space and time, the subterranean realm of dreams, and language itself―seems protean. Graber is also the author of two previous books of  poetry, Correspondence and The Eternal City, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

This event is free and open to the public. Onsite book sales will be provided by Literati Bookstore.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the  Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that 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 are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event. 
 
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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Presentation Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:17:08 -0400 2020-03-26T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-26T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
CANCELLED: Crisis and Solidarity: Celebrating 25 years of the Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 26, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72232 72232-17963870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Walgreen Drama Center

Crisis and Solidarity

Artist and co-founder of the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, Janie Paul discusses the significance of art making for incarcerated people, and why it is important to pay attention to their work. She explains the philosophy of the Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners as radical kindness and explains how and why this long-standing project has been so effective.

Reception to follow.

Photo credit:
Rafael DeJesus, Orange Nation
Acrylic on canvas, 2016

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Presentation Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:57:02 -0400 2020-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Presentation Rafael DeJesus, Orange Nation, Acrylic on canvas, 2016
Silent (March 26, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73815 73815-18322366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Blank Space Workshop

“Silent” explores the life of silent movie star Fatty Arbuckle and his not one, not two, but three murder trials. Based on a true story about Hollywood’s first scandal, this dark comedy explores “celebrity treatment” as well as the circumstantial evidence that made Arbuckle a suspect in the first place.

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Performance Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:11:49 -0400 2020-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Blank Space Workshop Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Silent (March 26, 2020 11:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73815 73815-18322367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 11:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Blank Space Workshop

“Silent” explores the life of silent movie star Fatty Arbuckle and his not one, not two, but three murder trials. Based on a true story about Hollywood’s first scandal, this dark comedy explores “celebrity treatment” as well as the circumstantial evidence that made Arbuckle a suspect in the first place.

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Performance Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:11:49 -0400 2020-03-26T23:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T23:59:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Blank Space Workshop Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 27, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-03-27T09:51:00-04:00 2020-03-27T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 27, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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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 art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-27T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-27T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-27T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-27T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-27T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-27T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-27T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Mindfulness in the Museum (March 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70549 70549-17604942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Join Docent Laura Seligman for a contemplative gallery experience. You will have the opportunity to personally engage with one work of art for an extended period of time, followed by brief discussion. Tour will begin promptly. Please meet outside the Museum Shop. No prior meditation experience is necessary. Laura Seligman is a visual artist and has been practicing mindful meditation for decades. 

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:04 -0400 2020-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 27, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

In light of cancelling the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, we have put together an online preview for the exhibition.

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

Join us for our online programming which includes:
Preview for exhibit images that we have permission from artists to share.
Audio tour featuring two PCAP artists who have come home
Digital Guest Book for public to write messages for PCAP artists
Digital Critique Letter submission to provide individualized feedback for PCAP artists
Public Webinar for Q&A and to help viewers navigate online components
Artist Statements (available 3/31)
Messages left through the Digital Guest Book will be received, in print, by ALL artists featured in this preview. Please share this with your communities.
Thank you for supporting PCAP!

What are the Webinars for?
Demonstrate components of Online Image Preview for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners.
Highlight PCAP Artists and Artwork
Q&A

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-03-27T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 28, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-03-28T09:51:00-04:00 2020-03-28T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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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 art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-28T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
48th Annual Dance for Mother Earth Powwow - March 28 & 29, 2020 (March 28, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70563 70563-17604956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 10:30am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Native American students and faculty at the University of Michigan have been bringing the annual powwow to the Ann Arbor area since 1972. At this year’s 48th Annual Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, Isabel Engel, the Andrew W. Mellon Academic Teaching Fellow at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, will share images from and information about UMMA’s new Power Family Program for Inuit Art.  This collection of sculptures and prints from Kinngait (Cape Dorset), in the Nunavut region of Canada, will foster rich inquiry and discussion. Learn about the current installation, Reflections: An Ordinary Day, the art and the artists, and plans for the future of the program. Engel's presentation will take place 3:30-4:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 28.

The powwow is one of the largest in North America and is a time for "celebration for and by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Native American communities alike," according to the Native American Student Association, which coordinates the event. The two-day event begins Saturday and features vendors, traditional music, dancing, and ceremonial outfits. 

   

The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow is hosted by the University of Michigan Native American Student Association (NASA) with assistance by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) and the EMU Native American Student Organization (NASO).

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

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:06 -0400 2020-03-28T10:30:00-04:00 2020-03-28T22:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

In light of cancelling the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, we have put together an online preview for the exhibition.

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

Join us for our online programming which includes:
Preview for exhibit images that we have permission from artists to share.
Audio tour featuring two PCAP artists who have come home
Digital Guest Book for public to write messages for PCAP artists
Digital Critique Letter submission to provide individualized feedback for PCAP artists
Public Webinar for Q&A and to help viewers navigate online components
Artist Statements (available 3/31)
Messages left through the Digital Guest Book will be received, in print, by ALL artists featured in this preview. Please share this with your communities.
Thank you for supporting PCAP!

What are the Webinars for?
Demonstrate components of Online Image Preview for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners.
Highlight PCAP Artists and Artwork
Q&A

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Mindfulness in the Museum (March 28, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70564 70564-17604957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Join Docent Laura Seligman for a contemplative gallery experience. You will have the opportunity to personally engage with one work of art for an extended period of time, followed by brief discussion. Tour will begin promptly. Please meet outside the Museum Shop. No prior meditation experience is necessary. Laura Seligman is a visual artist and has been practicing mindful meditation for decades. 

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:06 -0400 2020-03-28T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T16:15:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 28, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

In light of cancelling the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, we have put together an online preview for the exhibition.

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

Join us for our online programming which includes:
Preview for exhibit images that we have permission from artists to share.
Audio tour featuring two PCAP artists who have come home
Digital Guest Book for public to write messages for PCAP artists
Digital Critique Letter submission to provide individualized feedback for PCAP artists
Public Webinar for Q&A and to help viewers navigate online components
Artist Statements (available 3/31)
Messages left through the Digital Guest Book will be received, in print, by ALL artists featured in this preview. Please share this with your communities.
Thank you for supporting PCAP!

What are the Webinars for?
Demonstrate components of Online Image Preview for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners.
Highlight PCAP Artists and Artwork
Q&A

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-03-28T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-28T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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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 art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints, drawings, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists, their communities, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. In hosting mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops, the artist investigates who performs the role of witness in our society and how that understanding may map onto the narrower legal definition of the role. The installation will host legal simulations from participating groups, including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
UMMA Pop Up: Jury Duty (March 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71346 71346-17819204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jury Duty is a jazz quartet consisting of U-M School of Music, Theatre and Dance (SMTD) sophomores Eric Banitt, Mitchell Dangler, Reuben Stump, and Ian Thompson. The group began playing together in preparation for their annual performance examinations in the jazz department. These examinations are called "juries," birthing the group's name. After adequately preparing for their freshman year jury, Jury Duty began writing and performing their original compositions in dorm rooms, houses, and other venues around Ann Arbor.

A yooper hailing from Marquette, Michigan, Eric Banitt is a jazz piano major. With his roots in classical music, Eric also plays the trumpet and violin. Mitch Dangler is a sophomore from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Mitch plays the drum-set, and if you’re lucky he’ll whip out a couple of spoons. Reuben Stump is from Lansing, Michigan, and has been playing the bass for over 4 years. Reuben grew up performing and listening to the Great American Songbook. Ian Thompson is from Troy, Michigan and has been playing guitar for 5 years. Ian's roots are in classical and rock music, having studied the piano and trumpet before switching to guitar.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:10 -0400 2020-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 29, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

In light of cancelling the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, we have put together an online preview for the exhibition.

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

Join us for our online programming which includes:
Preview for exhibit images that we have permission from artists to share.
Audio tour featuring two PCAP artists who have come home
Digital Guest Book for public to write messages for PCAP artists
Digital Critique Letter submission to provide individualized feedback for PCAP artists
Public Webinar for Q&A and to help viewers navigate online components
Artist Statements (available 3/31)
Messages left through the Digital Guest Book will be received, in print, by ALL artists featured in this preview. Please share this with your communities.
Thank you for supporting PCAP!

What are the Webinars for?
Demonstrate components of Online Image Preview for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners.
Highlight PCAP Artists and Artwork
Q&A

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

In light of cancelling the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, we have put together an online preview for the exhibition.

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

Join us for our online programming which includes:
Preview for exhibit images that we have permission from artists to share.
Audio tour featuring two PCAP artists who have come home
Digital Guest Book for public to write messages for PCAP artists
Digital Critique Letter submission to provide individualized feedback for PCAP artists
Public Webinar for Q&A and to help viewers navigate online components
Artist Statements (available 3/31)
Messages left through the Digital Guest Book will be received, in print, by ALL artists featured in this preview. Please share this with your communities.
Thank you for supporting PCAP!

What are the Webinars for?
Demonstrate components of Online Image Preview for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners.
Highlight PCAP Artists and Artwork
Q&A

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
Michelle Penãloza Poetry Reading (March 30, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73219 73219-18179626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 10:30am
Location:
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Free and open to the first 200 participants to login at this link: https://bluejeans.com/199159640 Meeting ID 199 159 640

On Monday, March 30, 2020, in commemoration of March as Women’s History Month and the University of Michigan’s observance of Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, author Michelle Peñaloza will discuss and read from her new book of poems, Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, Winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize. The 10:30AM-11:30AM EDT poetry reading and discussion is in conjunction with the Women’s Studies/American Culture/Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies 363 course entitled “Asian/Pacific Islander American Women”. It will be hosted online, using Blue Jeans, the University of Michigan Video Meeting app and website. You do not need the app to join the meeting (although the connection may be more stable with the app.

Michelle Peñaloza is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize (Inlandia Books, 2019). She is also the author of two chapbooks, landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias, 2015), and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (Organic Weapon Arts, 2015). The recipient of fellowships and awards from the University of Oregon, Kundiman, Hugo House and The Key West Literary Seminar, Michelle has also received support from Lemon Tree House, Caldera, 4Culture, Literary Arts, VONA/Voices, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, among others. The proud daughter of Filipino immigrants, Michelle was born in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Nashville, Tenessee. She now lives in rural Northern California. www.michellepenaloza.com

Sponsors:
Arts at Michigan (Course Connections Grant), Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies, Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, Department of Women’s Studies, Filipino American Students Association (FASA), & United Asian American Organizations (UAAO)

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Performance Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:50:10 -0400 2020-03-30T10:30:00-04:00 2020-03-30T11:30:00-04:00 Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Performance Michelle Peñaloza Book
CANCELED LOOK 101: Seeing Art in an Instagram World (March 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70170 70170-17540926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Geared toward undergraduate students and focusing on the current exhibitions at the Institute for the Humanities, this contemporary series of discussions offers a fresh take on the basics of looking and evaluating art in the gallery and how it’s organized, making the connection from the traditional “white cube gallery” to iGen visual worlds like Facebook and Instagram.Today: The Art of Abigail DeVille with Institute for the Humanities curator Amanda Krugliak.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:40 -0400 2020-03-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Abigail DeVille Instagram
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17594467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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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 art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 30, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

In light of cancelling the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, we have put together an online preview for the exhibition.

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

Join us for our online programming which includes:
Preview for exhibit images that we have permission from artists to share.
Audio tour featuring two PCAP artists who have come home
Digital Guest Book for public to write messages for PCAP artists
Digital Critique Letter submission to provide individualized feedback for PCAP artists
Public Webinar for Q&A and to help viewers navigate online components
Artist Statements (available 3/31)
Messages left through the Digital Guest Book will be received, in print, by ALL artists featured in this preview. Please share this with your communities.
Thank you for supporting PCAP!

What are the Webinars for?
Demonstrate components of Online Image Preview for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners.
Highlight PCAP Artists and Artwork
Q&A

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-03-30T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
Witness Lab Simulation: ​Melanie Manos' U-M Interarts Performance Class (March 30, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73776 73776-18315748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our Witness Lab page for an ever-evolving list of opportunities to see the Witness Lab project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:14 -0400 2020-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
CANCELLED: COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS IN THE CREATIVE ARTS (March 30, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72691 72691-18059640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS IN THE CREATIVE ARTS with PCAP-The Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan

VISUAL ART-CREATIVE WRITING-THEATER-MUSIC:

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?

BUSES 32, 32A, 32B, 32C

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:52:20 -0400 2020-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Community Workshops in Creative Arts
Witness Lab Simulation: Professor Tzveta Kassabova's U-M Advanced Movement Class (March 31, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73777 73777-18315749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:14 -0400 2020-03-31T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 31, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Following guidance from University administrators and public health officials in response to COVID-19, Stamps Gallery is closed until further notice, and all scheduled in-person events and exhibitions have been canceled.
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sometimes something, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, will bring together culminating projects by second-year graduate students, Sally Clegg, Kim Karlsrud, Erin McKenna, and Abhishek Narula.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-03-31T09:51:00-04:00 2020-03-31T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 31, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17594470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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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 art making inside prisons.

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (March 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (March 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (March 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg