Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Collection Ensemble (December 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 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 2020-12-01T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 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
Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women's Vote (December 1, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77531 77531-19879825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by AIGA in partnership with League of Women Voters

2020 marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in 1920. It was the first legislation for women’s voting rights. Not until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 were voting rights of ALL women protected and enforced, and intimidation tactics progressively eliminated.  The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote poster campaign, organized by AIGA in partnership with the League of Women Voters, commemorates this milestone. A core group of invited women of design submitted the first 65 non-partisan posters, to launch the initiative with their vision and voices. Through the posters, these women joined forces to collectively contribute to dialogue in design and society. This moment in history is an incredible opportunity to catalyze women in design, voting rights, citizenship, community, and diversity. The collection aspires to not only support present day voter participation, but to also serve as a backdrop for discourse and examination of the history of voting rights and women’s fight for equality.  The poster initiative continues at aiga.org/vote, where AIGA members can contribute posters to motivate the American public to register and turn out to vote in the 2020 general election, as well as local elections to come. Posters are available for free download online.

The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote exhibition at Stamps Gallery includes a selection of the 65 posters chosen by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery. The exhibition includes posters by Audrey Bennett, Johanna Björk, Karen Cheng, Emily Comfort, Jenny El-Shamy, Dinah Fried, Karin Fong, Anne M. Giangiulio, Annabelle Gould, Brockett Horne, Meena Khalili, nicole killian + shawné michaelain holloway, Karen Kurycki, Marty Maxwell Lane, Zuzana Licko, Ana Llorente, Beatriz Lozano, Kelly Salchow MacArthur, Rebeca Mendez, Lana Rigsby, Kaleena Sales, Renee Seward, Laurel Shoemaker, Nancy Sklolos,  Hannah Smotrich, Shanti Sparrow, Jennifer Sterling, Fearn de Vicq, Cymone Wilder, and Lynne Yun.

Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Exhibition Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:52:24 -0400 2020-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2020_gotv_header-02.jpg
Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations by Heidi Kumao (December 1, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77532 77532-19879848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to present Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations, a solo exhibition of narrative fabric works and experimental animations by Stamps Professor Heidi Kumao.

Using fabric cutouts and machine and hand stitching on industrial felt, Kumao gives physical form to the intangible dynamics underlying ordinary conversations and relationships from a feminist perspective. Intentionally minimal, each image distills an interaction, traumatic incident, or power imbalance into an accessible visual narrative. Recognizable objects such as chairs, roots, ladders, or spotlights set the stage for the story to unfold. Events are captured midstream, suspended in time like a felt film still.

The exhibition is inspired, in part, by the courage, testimony, and experiences of women (like Christine Blasey Ford) who publicly report assault, harassment, or misconduct. The #MeToo movement gave voice to thousands of women to tell their personal stories, but also exposed a hostile backlash meant to silence them. The title, “Real and Imagined,” is a deliberate contradiction; if one is true, the other must not be. In practice, however, both terms are used to reference a woman’s testimony and determine how it is publicly interpreted. Her account is accepted as truthful by many and simultaneously dismissed as imaginary by the court of public opinion: “her memory is wrong,” “she imagined it.”

The works in “Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations” make difficult conversations and relationships tangible by stripping them down to their essentials.

Wordless physical gestures highlight the psychological and emotional forces at play behind even the smallest of interactions.

Biography
Heidi Kumao has created award-winning experimental films, video installations, cinema machines, electronic clothing, and kinetic sculptures. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including shows at Art Science Museum Singapore, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), and Museu da Imagem e do Som (São Paulo). She has received fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:10 -0400 2020-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/HK-Real-and-Imagined-email-header-01.jpg
Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition (December 1, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77530 77530-19879802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition

Stamps Gallery is proud to kick-off the fall semester with Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition, which brings together powerful posters and playful videos made by the students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the stakeholders in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We found inspiration in the thoughtful words of renowned civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) who wrote, “My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” His powerful words are a reminder for all of us - present and future generations to stay hopeful, proactive, and resilient in our collective efforts to end racial discrimination and foster a true democracy.

In this spirit, Stamps Gallery invited the undergraduate and graduate students at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. How can we acknowledge our own biases, learn from each other, and listen to the voices of those that have been silenced? We are at a pivotal moment in our history as the pandemic radically transforms everyday life. Through this exhibition Stamps Gallery asks the UM community to come together as artists and audiences and envision models for inclusion that are grounded in equality, belonging and empathy.

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition includes work by Emily Albright, Adriana Alcala, Nathan Byrne, David Forsee, Eloise Jansenn, Rey Jeong, Sohyun Lim, Anika Love, Maggie McConnell, Willian Minzer, Judah Premble, Casey Rheault, Natalia Rocafuerte, Jenna Scheen, Ellie Schmidt, Abigail Seguin, LaKyla Thomas, Elijah Thompson, Benjamin Winans, and Molly Wu.

Artwork was selected through an open call by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery.

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Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition
Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition
September 15, 2020 – December 4, 2020

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition

Stamps Gallery is proud to kick-off the fall semester with Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition, which brings together powerful posters and playful videos made by the students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the stakeholders in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We found inspiration in the thoughtful words of renowned civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) who wrote, “My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” His powerful words are a reminder for all of us - present and future generations to stay hopeful, proactive, and resilient in our collective efforts to end racial discrimination and foster a true democracy.

In this spirit, Stamps Gallery invited the undergraduate and graduate students at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. How can we acknowledge our own biases, learn from each other, and listen to the voices of those that have been silenced? We are at a pivotal moment in our history as the pandemic radically transforms everyday life. Through this exhibition Stamps Gallery asks the UM community to come together as artists and audiences and envision models for inclusion that are grounded in equality, belonging and empathy.

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition includes work by Emily Albright, Adriana Alcala, Nathan Byrne, David Forsee, Eloise Jansenn, Rey Jeong, Sohyun Lim, Anika Love, Maggie McConnell, Willian Minzer, Judah Premble, Casey Rheault, Natalia Rocafuerte, Jenna Scheen, Ellie Schmidt, Abigail Seguin, LaKyla Thomas, Elijah Thompson, Benjamin Winans, and Molly Wu.

Artwork was selected through an open call by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery.


Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Auditions Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:10 -0400 2020-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Respond.jpg
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 2, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
IPD Online Trade Show: Reduce Isolation, Enhance Social Engagement in Pandemic (December 2, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79668 79668-20444312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Cast your vote December 1-8 for the top products that enable meaningful increases in social engagement while maintaining health and safety.

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the University of Michigan's STAMPS School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Catch the competitive buzz!

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

VOTE ONLINE:
http://myumi.ch/0W2N4

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Exhibition Wed, 02 Dec 2020 10:24:30 -0500 2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD ONLINE TRADE SHOW
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 2, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Collection Ensemble (December 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 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 2020-12-02T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 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
CREES Noon Lecture. Curating Covid: Material and Visual Cultures of the Pandemic (December 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79257 79257-20241311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

While there is so far no known cure for Covid and the disease continues to kill thousands daily around the globe, humanity has spent the better part of this year attempting to make do – some by doing their best to protect themselves and their loved ones as they continue to perform the work essential to their survival or deemed essential by society; others, by sheltering in place, reducing the radius of our daily activities, developing new routines. How will we know and remember all this? Who is the chronicler of Covid, who are its curators? What will be the sources, not of the political histories and for future medical research, but for narrating the pandemic as experience, for explaining its everyday reality to future generations?

This panel of brief presentations aims to prompt our collective thinking about a Covid archive, and how it will be constructed. Presenters from different disciplines and national backgrounds will be asked to share images or objects that bring our pandemic present into focus and allow us to explore together questions for the future: who is collecting what? What are the objects in which our daily experience materializes, and which might speak to the future? Where and how does the pandemic leave its traces in our visual cultures, and (how) do these differ depending on national contexts? The virus itself knows no borders, but can we discern transnational and global patterns in our responses in an increasingly fractured world?

SPEAKERS

Alexandra Arkhipova is senior research fellow and head of the Contemporary Folklore Monitoring Research Group at the School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in Moscow, Russia. She is also a professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities and the Russian School of Economics. She is a leading expert on political jokes, rumors, and legends, on the concept of money in traditional society, and on the folklore of protest. Her research group is currently engaged in a multi-year study of “infodemia,” the World Health Organization’s term for the spate of false and potentially dangerous misinformation that flows through and infects the public discourse much like a viral pandemic. Dr. Arkhipova’s book *Dangerous Soviet Things: Urban Legends and Fear in the USSR,* written with Anna Kirzyuk, won the Liberal Mission Foundation’s 2020 Prize for the best analysis of current events.

Sara Blair is Patricia S. Yaeger Collegiate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. Her publications include *How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images*; *Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century*; *Remaking Reality: U.S. Documentary Culture after 1945*, co-edited with Joseph Entin and Franny Nudelman; and *Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA*, co-authored with Eric Rosenberg. She has collaborated with curators at the DIA, the International Center of Photography, and the Addison Gallery of American Art, served as consultant to a range of photographic projects and exhibitions, and curated exhibitions at U-M’s Institute for the Humanities and the Middlebury Art Museum. Her current work focuses on the lives of the image as material object and aesthetic form from the advent of photography through the digital era.

Sarah Gensburger is a research professor in social sciences at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Working at the intersection of memory studies, public policies analysis and micro-history of the Holocaust, she is the author of eight books. The most recent ones are *Memory on my doorstep. Chronicles of the Bataclan Beighborhood (Paris, 2015-2016)*; and *Beyond Memory. Can we really learn from the past?* (co-written with S. Lefranc). For some time now, she has also been developing public history and sociology projects such as the podcast collection "It Happened Here." Starting in April 2020, Gensburger developed the collaborative project "#Windows in Lockdown" in collaboration with Marta Severo, professor of media studies, University Paris Nanterre.

Alexandra M. Lord is chair of the Medicine and Science Division at the National Museum of American History and a curator of the history of medicine. She received her A.B. from Vassar College and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the recipient of various fellowships, including most recently a Fulbright Fellowship, as well as awards for her book, *Condom Nation: The US Government’s Sex Education Campaign from World War I to the Internet*. She has spoken on the history of medicine in venues ranging from the History Channel to academic conferences, Planned Parenthood, and The PBS Newshour. Between 2016 and 2018, she was president of the National Council on Public History, the nation’s largest public history organization. Currently, she serves on the executive committee of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Landmarks Committee of the National Park Service.

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at http://myumi.ch/yK555.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:51:03 -0500 2020-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Curating COVID
Membership Meeting (December 2, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75618 75618-19546902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Membership Meeting, Secular Wingding Celebration

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Other Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:49:24 -0400 2020-12-02T18:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Other
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 3, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-03T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
IPD Online Trade Show: Reduce Isolation, Enhance Social Engagement in Pandemic (December 3, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79668 79668-20444313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Cast your vote December 1-8 for the top products that enable meaningful increases in social engagement while maintaining health and safety.

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the University of Michigan's STAMPS School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Catch the competitive buzz!

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

VOTE ONLINE:
http://myumi.ch/0W2N4

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Exhibition Wed, 02 Dec 2020 10:24:30 -0500 2020-12-03T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD ONLINE TRADE SHOW
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 3, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-03T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
In-Between the World and Dreams (December 3, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78990 78990-20168547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this multi-venue project led by the Institute for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the U-M Museum of Art, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama explores global exchange, commerce and the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.

Mahama's artistic practice illustrates, as he explains, how art education, art and cultural opportunities "allow for people to find new ways to acquire knowledge, not only of themselves, but their histories and the places and spaces in which they find themselves."

Enveloping the contours of a museum building or wall, the blankets of jute fibers are meant to contrast with the monumentality of the institutional buildings and spaces they cover, becoming remnants and traces that reference the hands of laborers, the imprints of colonialism and the interference of Britain and the U.S. in Ghanaian history.

The project marks the first outdoor exhibition of Mahama's work in the United States. It is responsive to the present moment, offering students and the broader community the opportunity to engage with the arts in a public space at a time when gatherings inside buildings and museums are limited.

Curator's Statement:

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s installations are cumulative moments of reckoning, mending, and recycling. Things fall apart, come undone. His constructions defy any notions of permanence and longevity. They are monuments to the in-between and the upending, begging the question, “What can we do?”

Mahama incorporates jute sacks—synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana where he lives and works—as a raw material. He works collaboratively with his community to complete the extensive sewing of the sacks required in preparation for his projects. For the U-M installations, he incorporates materials from his previous seminal works over the last decade as a retrospective.

The markings, stitching, and signs of wear on the jute remind us of the many changing hands and endless labor behind international trade—the human toll of capitalism, commodification, and globalization. The fabric itself acts as metaphor for Ghana’s complicated history defined by Dutch colonialism and the Gold Coast slave trade, British rule till 1957, and a future de-railed by military coups post-independence.

Rather than grand gestures, Mahama’s installations are humble acts of endurance. They are covert art take-overs, subverting architecture and disrupting the pristine fascia of our institutional buildings. They hold us accountable for past trespasses.

Mahama is committed to offering his own country the same cultural opportunities and experiences available to those in the West. Most recently he designed and opened the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Arts in his hometown of Tamale Ghana, contributing towards the expansion of his country’s contemporary art scene. An extension of his art practice, the centre brings Mahama’s many visionary sketches to life, creating classrooms in old airplanes, a swimming pool for children’s play, and public spaces for gatherings and the exchange of ideas.

In this pivotal year defined by Covid-19, worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter, climate change, and our U.S. Presidential election in the balance, Ibrahim Mahama’s work acknowledges failures and false promises, but also the opportunities that can reveal themselves in times of crisis.

Perhaps generations emerging from crisis can learn from the ghosts of the past and generate entirely new systems, not motivated by profit or self-interest, but by a deep commitment to the hard work ahead, our willingness to do it, and to the mutual space for dreams.

–Amanda Krugliak, arts curator, Institute for the Humanities and curator of In Between the World and Dreams

In-Between the World and Dreams is a multi-venue project led by the U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, in partnership with UMMA and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit.

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further the Institute for the Humanities Gallery’s longtime mission in support of art as social practice.

Oct. 1-23; large-scale public art installation, U-M Museum of Art building facade, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor

Oct. 1-23: sidewalk gallery, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor (viewing from the gallery window only)

Oct. 12-Dec. 5: Community Gallery installation, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit

Penny Stamps Speaker Series with Ibrahim Mahama

Oct. 23, 8pm, webcast at http://pennystampsevents.org/

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Exhibition Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:17:27 -0400 2020-12-03T09:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Exhibition In-Between the World and Dreams
Collection Ensemble (December 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 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 2020-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 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
Raqs Media Collective in Conversation with Gunalan Nadarajan (December 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79397 79397-20296431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Raqs Media Collective in Conversation with Gunalan Nadarajan, Dean, Stamps School of Art & Design
Co-presented with Expo Chicago

December 3, 2020 - 11am EST/10am CST/ 7.30pm IST

Following the world premiere of two new videos commissioned by Stamps Gallery, twentyfourbyseven*(6 mins , video, calligraphy, text, animation), 2020 and Why do they call the answer to a question, a solution?*(12 mins, video, spoken word), 2020, Raqs Media Collective reflect on the process of creating The Pandemic Circle after the predicament of quarantine and seclusion caused by the Covid-19 pandemic gripped contemporary life across the globe. The Pandemic Circle includes 31 Days(18 minutes, video, calligraphy, text), 2020, the first video in the series that was released in the summer of 2020. 

The renowned collective will be in conversation with Gunalan Nadarajan, curator and Dean of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Description of NEW Films in the Pandemic Circle  

twentyfourbyseven(6 mins , video, calligraphy, text, animation), 2020

Walking a tightrope between knowing and feeling in elongated pandemic days and nights. There is an awareness of the awareness of how the nervous system responds to the nervousness of this time. There is now the out-of-body sensation of looking back on each moment as it passes, twentyfourbyseven.

Why do they call the answer to a question, a solution?(12 mins, video, spoken word), 2020

The third video in this Pandemic Circle turns into an enquiry into the very form of thinking. It moves between lesions, joys, epiphanies, and terror. The image and voice rewire spaces left unattended by various 20th century impasses. The film reflects on exhaustion and inventiveness, love and dignity, deep pasts and faint futures, and the ruptures that modulate the share of “overcoming” and “overturning” in our individual selves, and collective life. The video enters troubled waters to search for news way to look at horizons.

For more information, please contact:
Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Outreach & Public engagement Coordinator, Stamps Gallery
Kate Sierzputowski, Strategic Initiatives & Programming Coordinator, Expo Chicago

 

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://program.expochicago.com

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:15:07 -0500 2020-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/RAQS-Wide.jpg
CultureSource presents "Beyond Images: Representational Justice in the Arts" (December 3, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79563 79563-20382965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

egister here to participate. .

A conversation with Simone Eccleston, Director of Hip Hop and Contemporary Music at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

What does it take to work toward representational justice? And how do artists and arts workers carry forward this work? Inspired by the Vision & Justice volume of Aperture magazine, join us for an hour-long conversation with Simone Eccleston as we hear her insights and perspective on her role bringing hip hop and contemporary music to one of the largest arts institutions in the nation, and how investment in representation requires infrastructure and imagination for justice.

With responses from Yuval Sharon, Michigan Opera Theatre, Christina Olsen, UMMA (University of Michigan Museum of Art).

Moderated by: Omari Rush, CultureSource

This program is presented by CultureSource of Southeast Michigan with support from MASCO. For information about the online residency "Representational Justice and Hip Hop Culture with Simon Eccleston," please visit www.culturesource.org.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:15:24 -0500 2020-12-03T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
History of Color Printing (December 3, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79353 79353-20280661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Our lives are lived mainly on screen now. Many of us spend upwards of 10 hours a day staring at fields of RGB pixels that look like hand-held versions of giant, flat cornfields. Hours and hours of driving through flat, monotonous, tall, green corn stalks is not that different from hours and hours of Zoom meetings.

Artist Clifton Meador presents some of the history of color printing — since media archeology is a useful way of reframing current technology — and offers some practical approaches to making color for hand printmaking processes, such as risography.

Of course, the irony of delivering this content via the screen is acute, but Meador also offers participants a PDF of a booklet that delivers similar content.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:55:01 -0500 2020-12-03T19:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Lecture / Discussion Detail from a page spread in Acheiropoeita, an Artist’s Book by Clifton Meador, forthcoming
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 4, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-04T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
IPD Online Trade Show: Reduce Isolation, Enhance Social Engagement in Pandemic (December 4, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79668 79668-20444314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Cast your vote December 1-8 for the top products that enable meaningful increases in social engagement while maintaining health and safety.

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the University of Michigan's STAMPS School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Catch the competitive buzz!

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

VOTE ONLINE:
http://myumi.ch/0W2N4

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Exhibition Wed, 02 Dec 2020 10:24:30 -0500 2020-12-04T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD ONLINE TRADE SHOW
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 4, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-04T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
In-Between the World and Dreams (December 4, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78990 78990-20168548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this multi-venue project led by the Institute for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the U-M Museum of Art, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama explores global exchange, commerce and the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.

Mahama's artistic practice illustrates, as he explains, how art education, art and cultural opportunities "allow for people to find new ways to acquire knowledge, not only of themselves, but their histories and the places and spaces in which they find themselves."

Enveloping the contours of a museum building or wall, the blankets of jute fibers are meant to contrast with the monumentality of the institutional buildings and spaces they cover, becoming remnants and traces that reference the hands of laborers, the imprints of colonialism and the interference of Britain and the U.S. in Ghanaian history.

The project marks the first outdoor exhibition of Mahama's work in the United States. It is responsive to the present moment, offering students and the broader community the opportunity to engage with the arts in a public space at a time when gatherings inside buildings and museums are limited.

Curator's Statement:

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s installations are cumulative moments of reckoning, mending, and recycling. Things fall apart, come undone. His constructions defy any notions of permanence and longevity. They are monuments to the in-between and the upending, begging the question, “What can we do?”

Mahama incorporates jute sacks—synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana where he lives and works—as a raw material. He works collaboratively with his community to complete the extensive sewing of the sacks required in preparation for his projects. For the U-M installations, he incorporates materials from his previous seminal works over the last decade as a retrospective.

The markings, stitching, and signs of wear on the jute remind us of the many changing hands and endless labor behind international trade—the human toll of capitalism, commodification, and globalization. The fabric itself acts as metaphor for Ghana’s complicated history defined by Dutch colonialism and the Gold Coast slave trade, British rule till 1957, and a future de-railed by military coups post-independence.

Rather than grand gestures, Mahama’s installations are humble acts of endurance. They are covert art take-overs, subverting architecture and disrupting the pristine fascia of our institutional buildings. They hold us accountable for past trespasses.

Mahama is committed to offering his own country the same cultural opportunities and experiences available to those in the West. Most recently he designed and opened the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Arts in his hometown of Tamale Ghana, contributing towards the expansion of his country’s contemporary art scene. An extension of his art practice, the centre brings Mahama’s many visionary sketches to life, creating classrooms in old airplanes, a swimming pool for children’s play, and public spaces for gatherings and the exchange of ideas.

In this pivotal year defined by Covid-19, worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter, climate change, and our U.S. Presidential election in the balance, Ibrahim Mahama’s work acknowledges failures and false promises, but also the opportunities that can reveal themselves in times of crisis.

Perhaps generations emerging from crisis can learn from the ghosts of the past and generate entirely new systems, not motivated by profit or self-interest, but by a deep commitment to the hard work ahead, our willingness to do it, and to the mutual space for dreams.

–Amanda Krugliak, arts curator, Institute for the Humanities and curator of In Between the World and Dreams

In-Between the World and Dreams is a multi-venue project led by the U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, in partnership with UMMA and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit.

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further the Institute for the Humanities Gallery’s longtime mission in support of art as social practice.

Oct. 1-23; large-scale public art installation, U-M Museum of Art building facade, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor

Oct. 1-23: sidewalk gallery, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor (viewing from the gallery window only)

Oct. 12-Dec. 5: Community Gallery installation, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit

Penny Stamps Speaker Series with Ibrahim Mahama

Oct. 23, 8pm, webcast at http://pennystampsevents.org/

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Exhibition Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:17:27 -0400 2020-12-04T09:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Exhibition In-Between the World and Dreams
Collection Ensemble (December 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 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 2020-12-04T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 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
Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women's Vote (December 4, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77531 77531-19879826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by AIGA in partnership with League of Women Voters

2020 marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in 1920. It was the first legislation for women’s voting rights. Not until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 were voting rights of ALL women protected and enforced, and intimidation tactics progressively eliminated.  The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote poster campaign, organized by AIGA in partnership with the League of Women Voters, commemorates this milestone. A core group of invited women of design submitted the first 65 non-partisan posters, to launch the initiative with their vision and voices. Through the posters, these women joined forces to collectively contribute to dialogue in design and society. This moment in history is an incredible opportunity to catalyze women in design, voting rights, citizenship, community, and diversity. The collection aspires to not only support present day voter participation, but to also serve as a backdrop for discourse and examination of the history of voting rights and women’s fight for equality.  The poster initiative continues at aiga.org/vote, where AIGA members can contribute posters to motivate the American public to register and turn out to vote in the 2020 general election, as well as local elections to come. Posters are available for free download online.

The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote exhibition at Stamps Gallery includes a selection of the 65 posters chosen by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery. The exhibition includes posters by Audrey Bennett, Johanna Björk, Karen Cheng, Emily Comfort, Jenny El-Shamy, Dinah Fried, Karin Fong, Anne M. Giangiulio, Annabelle Gould, Brockett Horne, Meena Khalili, nicole killian + shawné michaelain holloway, Karen Kurycki, Marty Maxwell Lane, Zuzana Licko, Ana Llorente, Beatriz Lozano, Kelly Salchow MacArthur, Rebeca Mendez, Lana Rigsby, Kaleena Sales, Renee Seward, Laurel Shoemaker, Nancy Sklolos,  Hannah Smotrich, Shanti Sparrow, Jennifer Sterling, Fearn de Vicq, Cymone Wilder, and Lynne Yun.

Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Exhibition Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:52:24 -0400 2020-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2020_gotv_header-02.jpg
Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations by Heidi Kumao (December 4, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77532 77532-19879849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to present Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations, a solo exhibition of narrative fabric works and experimental animations by Stamps Professor Heidi Kumao.

Using fabric cutouts and machine and hand stitching on industrial felt, Kumao gives physical form to the intangible dynamics underlying ordinary conversations and relationships from a feminist perspective. Intentionally minimal, each image distills an interaction, traumatic incident, or power imbalance into an accessible visual narrative. Recognizable objects such as chairs, roots, ladders, or spotlights set the stage for the story to unfold. Events are captured midstream, suspended in time like a felt film still.

The exhibition is inspired, in part, by the courage, testimony, and experiences of women (like Christine Blasey Ford) who publicly report assault, harassment, or misconduct. The #MeToo movement gave voice to thousands of women to tell their personal stories, but also exposed a hostile backlash meant to silence them. The title, “Real and Imagined,” is a deliberate contradiction; if one is true, the other must not be. In practice, however, both terms are used to reference a woman’s testimony and determine how it is publicly interpreted. Her account is accepted as truthful by many and simultaneously dismissed as imaginary by the court of public opinion: “her memory is wrong,” “she imagined it.”

The works in “Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations” make difficult conversations and relationships tangible by stripping them down to their essentials.

Wordless physical gestures highlight the psychological and emotional forces at play behind even the smallest of interactions.

Biography
Heidi Kumao has created award-winning experimental films, video installations, cinema machines, electronic clothing, and kinetic sculptures. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including shows at Art Science Museum Singapore, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), and Museu da Imagem e do Som (São Paulo). She has received fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:10 -0400 2020-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/HK-Real-and-Imagined-email-header-01.jpg
Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition (December 4, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77530 77530-19879803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition

Stamps Gallery is proud to kick-off the fall semester with Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition, which brings together powerful posters and playful videos made by the students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the stakeholders in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We found inspiration in the thoughtful words of renowned civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) who wrote, “My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” His powerful words are a reminder for all of us - present and future generations to stay hopeful, proactive, and resilient in our collective efforts to end racial discrimination and foster a true democracy.

In this spirit, Stamps Gallery invited the undergraduate and graduate students at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. How can we acknowledge our own biases, learn from each other, and listen to the voices of those that have been silenced? We are at a pivotal moment in our history as the pandemic radically transforms everyday life. Through this exhibition Stamps Gallery asks the UM community to come together as artists and audiences and envision models for inclusion that are grounded in equality, belonging and empathy.

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition includes work by Emily Albright, Adriana Alcala, Nathan Byrne, David Forsee, Eloise Jansenn, Rey Jeong, Sohyun Lim, Anika Love, Maggie McConnell, Willian Minzer, Judah Premble, Casey Rheault, Natalia Rocafuerte, Jenna Scheen, Ellie Schmidt, Abigail Seguin, LaKyla Thomas, Elijah Thompson, Benjamin Winans, and Molly Wu.

Artwork was selected through an open call by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery.

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Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition
Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition
September 15, 2020 – December 4, 2020

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition

Stamps Gallery is proud to kick-off the fall semester with Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition, which brings together powerful posters and playful videos made by the students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the stakeholders in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We found inspiration in the thoughtful words of renowned civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) who wrote, “My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” His powerful words are a reminder for all of us - present and future generations to stay hopeful, proactive, and resilient in our collective efforts to end racial discrimination and foster a true democracy.

In this spirit, Stamps Gallery invited the undergraduate and graduate students at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. How can we acknowledge our own biases, learn from each other, and listen to the voices of those that have been silenced? We are at a pivotal moment in our history as the pandemic radically transforms everyday life. Through this exhibition Stamps Gallery asks the UM community to come together as artists and audiences and envision models for inclusion that are grounded in equality, belonging and empathy.

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition includes work by Emily Albright, Adriana Alcala, Nathan Byrne, David Forsee, Eloise Jansenn, Rey Jeong, Sohyun Lim, Anika Love, Maggie McConnell, Willian Minzer, Judah Premble, Casey Rheault, Natalia Rocafuerte, Jenna Scheen, Ellie Schmidt, Abigail Seguin, LaKyla Thomas, Elijah Thompson, Benjamin Winans, and Molly Wu.

Artwork was selected through an open call by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery.


Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Auditions Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:10 -0400 2020-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Respond.jpg
(December 4, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78973 78973-20164570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Other Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:15:42 -0500 2020-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T22:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Amy Cutler: Telling Stories (December 4, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77328 77328-19840083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Amy Cutler is an internationally acclaimed artist best known for her enigmatic depictions of women performing strange, cryptic tasks: carrying goats on their backs in Above the Fjord, sewing tigers in Tiger Mending, dancing with chairs on their heads in Dinner Party. Rendered simply, though with exquisite detail, Cutler’s style is reminiscent of European folk art; however, the narratives are left unexplained and the white backgrounds of her drawings provide little context or clues to the meanings. The fantasy world she creates is sometimes humorous and other times ominous.

Cutler is known for exquisitely detailed narrative works of art created through a pastiche of personal memories, political observations, and cultural insights. One-person exhibitions of works by the artist have taken place at SITE Santa Fe; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; and many other galleries and museums in the U.S. and Europe.

Works by Amy Cutler are featured in distinguished private and public collections, including, among others, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Morgan Library and Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

In conjunction with the Toledo Museum of Art’s exhibition, Telling Stories: Resilience and Struggle in Contemporary Narrative Drawing, on view from November 21, 2020 - February 14, 2021.

How to Watch

All speaker series events will be webcast on Fridays at 8 pm EST at http://pennystampsevents.org and at https://www.dptv.org/programs/arts-culture/penny-stamps-series/ starting Friday, September 18. You can also watch the talks and join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PennyStampsSeries/.

Notice of uncensored content

In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:15:10 -0400 2020-12-04T20:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 5, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 5, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-05T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-05T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
IPD Online Trade Show: Reduce Isolation, Enhance Social Engagement in Pandemic (December 5, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79668 79668-20444315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 5, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Cast your vote December 1-8 for the top products that enable meaningful increases in social engagement while maintaining health and safety.

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the University of Michigan's STAMPS School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Catch the competitive buzz!

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

VOTE ONLINE:
http://myumi.ch/0W2N4

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Exhibition Wed, 02 Dec 2020 10:24:30 -0500 2020-12-05T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-05T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD ONLINE TRADE SHOW
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 5, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 5, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-05T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-05T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
In-Between the World and Dreams (December 5, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78990 78990-20168549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 5, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this multi-venue project led by the Institute for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the U-M Museum of Art, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama explores global exchange, commerce and the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.

Mahama's artistic practice illustrates, as he explains, how art education, art and cultural opportunities "allow for people to find new ways to acquire knowledge, not only of themselves, but their histories and the places and spaces in which they find themselves."

Enveloping the contours of a museum building or wall, the blankets of jute fibers are meant to contrast with the monumentality of the institutional buildings and spaces they cover, becoming remnants and traces that reference the hands of laborers, the imprints of colonialism and the interference of Britain and the U.S. in Ghanaian history.

The project marks the first outdoor exhibition of Mahama's work in the United States. It is responsive to the present moment, offering students and the broader community the opportunity to engage with the arts in a public space at a time when gatherings inside buildings and museums are limited.

Curator's Statement:

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s installations are cumulative moments of reckoning, mending, and recycling. Things fall apart, come undone. His constructions defy any notions of permanence and longevity. They are monuments to the in-between and the upending, begging the question, “What can we do?”

Mahama incorporates jute sacks—synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana where he lives and works—as a raw material. He works collaboratively with his community to complete the extensive sewing of the sacks required in preparation for his projects. For the U-M installations, he incorporates materials from his previous seminal works over the last decade as a retrospective.

The markings, stitching, and signs of wear on the jute remind us of the many changing hands and endless labor behind international trade—the human toll of capitalism, commodification, and globalization. The fabric itself acts as metaphor for Ghana’s complicated history defined by Dutch colonialism and the Gold Coast slave trade, British rule till 1957, and a future de-railed by military coups post-independence.

Rather than grand gestures, Mahama’s installations are humble acts of endurance. They are covert art take-overs, subverting architecture and disrupting the pristine fascia of our institutional buildings. They hold us accountable for past trespasses.

Mahama is committed to offering his own country the same cultural opportunities and experiences available to those in the West. Most recently he designed and opened the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Arts in his hometown of Tamale Ghana, contributing towards the expansion of his country’s contemporary art scene. An extension of his art practice, the centre brings Mahama’s many visionary sketches to life, creating classrooms in old airplanes, a swimming pool for children’s play, and public spaces for gatherings and the exchange of ideas.

In this pivotal year defined by Covid-19, worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter, climate change, and our U.S. Presidential election in the balance, Ibrahim Mahama’s work acknowledges failures and false promises, but also the opportunities that can reveal themselves in times of crisis.

Perhaps generations emerging from crisis can learn from the ghosts of the past and generate entirely new systems, not motivated by profit or self-interest, but by a deep commitment to the hard work ahead, our willingness to do it, and to the mutual space for dreams.

–Amanda Krugliak, arts curator, Institute for the Humanities and curator of In Between the World and Dreams

In-Between the World and Dreams is a multi-venue project led by the U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, in partnership with UMMA and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit.

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further the Institute for the Humanities Gallery’s longtime mission in support of art as social practice.

Oct. 1-23; large-scale public art installation, U-M Museum of Art building facade, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor

Oct. 1-23: sidewalk gallery, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor (viewing from the gallery window only)

Oct. 12-Dec. 5: Community Gallery installation, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit

Penny Stamps Speaker Series with Ibrahim Mahama

Oct. 23, 8pm, webcast at http://pennystampsevents.org/

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Exhibition Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:17:27 -0400 2020-12-05T09:00:00-05:00 2020-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Exhibition In-Between the World and Dreams
Collection Ensemble (December 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 5, 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 2020-12-05T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 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
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 6, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 6, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-06T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-06T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
IPD Online Trade Show: Reduce Isolation, Enhance Social Engagement in Pandemic (December 6, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79668 79668-20444316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 6, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Cast your vote December 1-8 for the top products that enable meaningful increases in social engagement while maintaining health and safety.

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the University of Michigan's STAMPS School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Catch the competitive buzz!

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

VOTE ONLINE:
http://myumi.ch/0W2N4

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Exhibition Wed, 02 Dec 2020 10:24:30 -0500 2020-12-06T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-06T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD ONLINE TRADE SHOW
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 6, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 6, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-06T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-06T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Collection Ensemble (December 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 6, 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 2020-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 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
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 7, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-07T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
IPD Online Trade Show: Reduce Isolation, Enhance Social Engagement in Pandemic (December 7, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79668 79668-20444317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Cast your vote December 1-8 for the top products that enable meaningful increases in social engagement while maintaining health and safety.

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the University of Michigan's STAMPS School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Catch the competitive buzz!

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

VOTE ONLINE:
http://myumi.ch/0W2N4

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Exhibition Wed, 02 Dec 2020 10:24:30 -0500 2020-12-07T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD ONLINE TRADE SHOW
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 7, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-07T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-08T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Classes End (December 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75619 75619-19546903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Classes End

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Other Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:51:28 -0400 2020-12-08T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T23:59:00-05:00 Prison Creative Arts Project, The Other
IPD Online Trade Show: Reduce Isolation, Enhance Social Engagement in Pandemic (December 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79668 79668-20444318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Cast your vote December 1-8 for the top products that enable meaningful increases in social engagement while maintaining health and safety.

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the University of Michigan's STAMPS School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Catch the competitive buzz!

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

VOTE ONLINE:
http://myumi.ch/0W2N4

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Exhibition Wed, 02 Dec 2020 10:24:30 -0500 2020-12-08T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD ONLINE TRADE SHOW
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-08T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Collection Ensemble (December 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 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 2020-12-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 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
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 9, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-09T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 9, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-09T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Collection Ensemble (December 9, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 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 2020-12-09T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 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
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 10, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-10T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 10, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-10T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Collection Ensemble (December 10, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 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 2020-12-10T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 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
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 11, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 11, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-11T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-11T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 11, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 11, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-11T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-11T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Collection Ensemble (December 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 11, 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 2020-12-11T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-11T17:00:00-05:00 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
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 12, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 12, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-12T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-12T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 12, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 12, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-12T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-12T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Collection Ensemble (December 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 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 2020-12-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-12T17:00:00-05:00 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
Virtual Art Studio: Winter Watercolors (December 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78959 78959-20162587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ehd3wexfde06755a.

For families and students looking to take a break from final exams, join UMMA Programs Assistant and U-M Stamps School of Art & Design Student Emily Considine for a virtual art studio about watercolor, painting winter, and seasonal moods. Learn new painting techniques, take a virtual tour of some of the watercolor pieces in the UMMA collection, and create your own winter-themed watercolor works to show off at home.

Materials needed:
2 sheets of watercolor paper (alternatively, construction or another thick-weight paper) Assorted paint brushes (alternatively, sponges, Q-tips, toothpicks, or a toothbrush) A watercolor palette (you can also make your own at home in advance) Water and a container to hold it, like Tupperware, an empty jar, or a paper plate
Optional materials:
Paper towels Scissors or an X-acto knife Scotch or painter’s tape

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

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 12 Dec 2020 12:15:25 -0500 2020-12-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-12T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 13, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 13, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-13T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-13T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 13, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 13, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-13T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-13T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Collection Ensemble (December 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 13, 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 2020-12-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 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
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 14, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 14, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-14T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-14T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 14, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 14, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-14T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-14T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Negotiating Offense of Rhodesian Proportion (December 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79755 79755-20484061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

The essay on which this talk is based explores the multiple positions of offense across
racial and artistic lines in Cape Town's Rhodes Must Fall Campaign of 2015, raising questions about how offense might best be negotiated.

Email rachelsu@umich.edu for Zoom link info.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:06:20 -0500 2020-12-14T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-14T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Livestream / Virtual Negotiating Offense of Rhodesian Proportion
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 15, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-15T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 15, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-15T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Collection Ensemble (December 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 15, 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 2020-12-15T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-15T17:00:00-05:00 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
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 16, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-16T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 16, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-16T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Collection Ensemble (December 16, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 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 2020-12-16T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 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
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 17, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 17, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-17T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-17T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 17, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 17, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-17T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-17T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Collection Ensemble (December 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2020-12-17T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-17T17:00:00-05:00 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
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 18, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 18, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-18T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-18T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 18, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 18, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-18T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-18T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
The Clements Bookworm: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists (December 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78709 78709-20107418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a virtual conversation with Martha Kennedy, author of *Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists* (2018), winner of the 2019 Eisner Award for the Best Comics-Related Book. She is curator of popular and applied graphic art in the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress.

Kennedy will be in conversation with Phoebe Gloeckner, Associate Professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design.

This episode was generously sponsored by Robert and Jean Julier.

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Dec 2020 17:15:02 -0500 2020-12-18T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-18T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
Collection Ensemble (December 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 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 2020-12-18T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-18T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 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 2020-12-19T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-19T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 20, 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 2020-12-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-20T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 22, 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 2020-12-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-22T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 23, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 23, 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 2020-12-23T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-23T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2020-12-24T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-24T15:00:00-05:00 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 (December 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 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 2020-12-26T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-26T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 27, 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 2020-12-27T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-27T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 29, 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 2020-12-29T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-29T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 30, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 30, 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 2020-12-30T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-30T17:00:00-05:00 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 (December 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 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 2020-12-31T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-31T17:00:00-05:00 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
Monday Painters (January 11, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79820 79820-20501765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 11, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Monday Painters is a flexible art group. Each week a DVD is shown about art that lasts half an hour. This group has become like family and all are welcome to join in for fun, learning, growing, and gentle critiquing.

Barb Anderson, instructor, has studied art for over thirty years and prior to that taught special education. She hopes to welcome new members to Monday Painters.

This study group will meet Mondays beginning January 11 through August 30. There is NO CLASS on January 4, January 18, May 31, and July 5.
Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 29 Dec 2020 09:30:02 -0500 2021-01-11T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Finding Funding: Identifying Opportunities & Scoping the Grants Landscape (January 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79630 79630-20436378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

This workshop will help investigators at all levels to be proactive in using tools to identify federal, state, and foundation research funding. Topics covered will include efficient searching of funding databases and setting up funding alerts through examining the special features of Foundation Directory Online and Pivot. The workshop will also direct researchers to units at the University of Michigan that will support their grantseeking endeavors.

Speakers: Judy Smith, Informationist, Taubman Health Sciences Library; Paul Barrow, Librarian, U-M Library.

This event is open to anyone in the U-M research community.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:05:07 -0500 2021-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location OVPR Office of Research Development Workshop / Seminar RD
The Clements Bookworm: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion (January 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80391 80391-20713708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Still-life paintings of food look innocent at first sight, but were depictions of food merely delicious and pretty pictures to admire? Shana Klein's new book, "The Fruits of Empire," argues otherwise. This book talk will address Klein's research on representations of food to understand how they reflected and shaped conversations about race and national expansion in the United States. She will discuss the paintings, photographs, and silverware objects in the book and ask: Who do images of food serve? And at whose expense? The results are not always delicious.

Dr. Klein, Assistant Professor of Art History at Kent State University, is trained in the history of American art, with sub-specialties in African-American and Native-American art.

This episode was generously sponsored by Duane and Marilyn Kirking.

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:05:33 -0500 2021-01-15T10:00:00-05:00 2021-01-15T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual "The Fruits of Empire" Book Cover
Public Monuments and Our Histories: Reframing the Memories of Our Nation (January 18, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80466 80466-20724373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Public monuments, public spaces, and museums shape the shared understanding of our nation’s history. From the removal of Jim Crow-era statues of Confederate leaders in cities across the country to the opening of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, AL, a dramatic shift in our perceptions and ideas about the complex heritage of our monuments and museums has occurred over the last five years. More recently, the country has considered the role of monuments and the narratives they perpetuate with much greater focus and intensity in light of the protest movements for social justice and against systemic racism that swept the nation in the summer of 2020. In honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, join us for an important discussion with four national experts on the power that monuments and public spaces assert in creating our nation’s stories. Mitch Landrieu, former Mayor of New Orleans; Earl Lewis, founding director of University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions; and Kristin Hass, Associate Professor of American Culture, will discuss the crucial role practice and policy play today in shaping our nation’s legacies, in a conversation moderated by Christina Olsen, director of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art.

From the speakers' bios:

Kristin Ann Hass is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and the Faculty Coordinator of the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She has written two books, Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall, a study of militarism, race, war memorials and U.S. nationalism and Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, an exploration of public memorial practices and the legacies of the Vietnam War. She is at work on her next book, Blunt Instruments: A short field guide to a long history of everyday racist infrastructure in the United States. She lectures, teaches, and writes about nationalism, memory, publics, memorialization, militarization, visual culture and material culture studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies and has worked in a number of historical museums, including the National Museum of American History. She was also the co-founder and Associate Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, a national consortium of educators and activists dedicated to campus-community collaborations.

Mitch Landrieu was the 61st Mayor of New Orleans (2010-2018). When he took office, the city was still recovering from Hurricane Katrina and in the midst of the BP Oil Spill.  Under Landrieu's leadership, New Orleans is widely recognized as one of the nation’s great comeback stories.

In 2015, Landrieu was named “Public Official of the Year” by Governing, and in 2016 was voted “America’s top turnaround mayor” in a Politico survey of mayors. He gained national prominence for his powerful decision to take down four Confederate monuments in New Orleans, which also earned him the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. In his New York Times best-selling book, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, Landrieu recounts his personal journey confronting racism, and tackles the broader history of slavery, race relations, and institutional inequalities that still plague America.

He recently launched the E Pluribus Unum Fund, which will work to bring people together across the South around the issues of race, equity, economic opportunity and violence. Prior to serving as Mayor, Landrieu served two terms as lieutenant governor and 16 years in the state legislature. He also served as President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Noted social historian, award-winning author, and educational leader, Earl Lewis, is the founding director of the University of Michigan Center for Social Solutions. Also the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies, and public policy, Lewis is president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2013-18), one of the premier philanthropies supporting the arts, humanities, and higher education. At Michigan, Lewis and colleagues in the center are addressing four core areas of social concern: diversity and race, slavery and its aftermath, water and security, and the dignity of labor in an automated world. Prior to returning to Michigan and before leading the Mellon Foundation, he served as the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Emory University as well as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies (2004-2012). Lewis was previously on the faculty at the University of Michigan (1989-2004) and the University of California at Berkeley (1984-1989). In addition to professorial roles and titles (Robin D.G. Kelley and Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor), he served Michigan as Vice Provost and Dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies (1998-2004).

As a scholar and leader in higher education and philanthropy, he has examined and addressed critical questions for our society including the role of race in American history, diversity, equity and inclusion, graduate education, humanities scholarship, and universities and their larger communities. A frequent lecturer, he has authored or edited nine books, scores of essays, articles and comments, and along with Robin D.G. Kelley served as general editor of the eleven-volume Young Oxford History of African Americans. He currently partners with Nancy Cantor in editing the Our Compelling Interests book series. That effort, published in partnership with Princeton University Press, investigates how diversity pairs with democracy to enhance the likelihood of shared prosperity. A member of numerous boards of directors or trustees, he was an Obama administration appointee to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, and is outgoing chair of the board of regents at Concordia College-Moorhead, vice chair of the board of the Educational Testing Service, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians.

Christina Olsen is the director of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art and co-director of the University of Michigan Arts Initiative. Before coming to Michigan she served as the Class of 1956 Director at the Williams College Museum of Art. Olsen has more than 25 years of leadership experience in museums and foundations, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum and Getty Foundation, and the Portland Art Museum. She is a national leader in debates about the changing role of campus art museums and their relationships with the public and campus, and has lectured frequently on the topic. Olsen has curated and produced many exhibitions and programs, including most recently Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s, at the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art. Olsen is on the board of the Association of Art Museum Directors and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Williams College. She received a BA in history of art, with honors, from the University of Chicago, and an MA and PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.  

This event is a collaboration of UMMA, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and the Democracy & Debate Theme Semester.

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Other Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:15:44 -0500 2021-01-18T13:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T14:20:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Story, Word, Sound, Sway (January 19, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80761 80761-20785423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is on view at Stamps Gallery January 18, 2021 – February 28, 2021. The gallery is currently open Tuesdays and Fridays from 2pm to 7pm to U-M faculty, staff, and students with valid MCards only. Learn more about COVID health and safety restrictions prior to your visit:  https://stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/stamps_gallery
The work in the exhibition can also be viewed online: http://stamps.umich.edu/calendar/event-detail/story_word_sound_sway

Artists: Carisa Bledsoe (BFA Interarts ’14), Schroeder Cherry (BFA ’76), Elshafei Dafalla (MFA ’08), Masimba Hwati (MFA ’19), Caleb Moss (BFA ’13), Senghor Reid (BFA ’99), Valencia Robin (MFA ’08), Yvette Rock (MFA ’99), Wes Taylor (BFA ’04), Levester Williams (BFA ’13), and Elizabeth Youngblood (BFA ’73)

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is an exhibition of work by eleven Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni using performance, movement, text, sound, and design to interrogate systems of oppression and interrupt the status quo. It explores themes of alternative histories, archives, Black identity, collective memory, storytelling; meshing performance and performativity, and the interplay of the oral and aural in one’s experience of the world. An undercurrent of movement explored in multiple variations thread the works together, realized through a variety of methods including painterly gesture, repetitive mark-making, performance with an audience or without, spoken word, ambient sound, and reimagined instruments. The exhibition aspires to pull at the loosened threads of a social fabric in crisis, revealing larger complex histories and art discourses, nationally and internationally, framed through the experiences and trajectories of Stamps alumni during their time in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include interviews with each of the alumni artists conducted by current Stamps’ student and exhibition co-curator Moteniola Ogundipe.

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is co-curated by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Moteniola Ogundipe.

 

Image: Levester Williams, “Shift, Sift, Swoosh Bods,” 2018, (detail, video still) HD video, color, four audio channels; 17 minutes 33 seconds (full length).

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-01-19T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-19T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Shift-Sift-Swoosh-Bods_still_04.jpg
Perspectives on Water: Land Rights, Accessibility, and Histories (January 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80980 80980-20826873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery Director Srimoyee Mitra will moderate Perspectives on Water: Land Rights, Accessibility & Histories on January 21, 2021 at noon EST. This free, virtual panel discussion is part of the Alternate Assembly: Environmental Impact in the Era of Pandemic, organized by EXPO CHICAGO.

Panelists include Oscar Tuazon, Carolina Caycedo, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta.

This panel invites artists who have initiated further investigations into the histories of water in terms of land rights and clean water accessibility in lakes, rivers, and oceans, to explore the cultural ways in which water bridges communities both locally and globally. Highlighting the often-unseen political history that water and its major infrastructures has, this discussion will question how different sociopolitical backgrounds affect one’s relationship to sustainability. The conversation, moderated by past Curatorial Forum participant Srimoyee Mitra, will address the long lineage art has played within narratives surrounding environmental activism.

Dialogues | Perspectives on Water: Land Rights, Accessibility, and Histories | program.expochicago.com

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://program.expochicago.com/perspectives-on-water-land-rights-accessibility-and-histories/

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:15:08 -0500 2021-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/AltAssembly.png
Story, Word, Sound, Sway (January 22, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80761 80761-20785424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is on view at Stamps Gallery January 18, 2021 – February 28, 2021. The gallery is currently open Tuesdays and Fridays from 2pm to 7pm to U-M faculty, staff, and students with valid MCards only. Learn more about COVID health and safety restrictions prior to your visit:  https://stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/stamps_gallery
The work in the exhibition can also be viewed online: http://stamps.umich.edu/calendar/event-detail/story_word_sound_sway

Artists: Carisa Bledsoe (BFA Interarts ’14), Schroeder Cherry (BFA ’76), Elshafei Dafalla (MFA ’08), Masimba Hwati (MFA ’19), Caleb Moss (BFA ’13), Senghor Reid (BFA ’99), Valencia Robin (MFA ’08), Yvette Rock (MFA ’99), Wes Taylor (BFA ’04), Levester Williams (BFA ’13), and Elizabeth Youngblood (BFA ’73)

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is an exhibition of work by eleven Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni using performance, movement, text, sound, and design to interrogate systems of oppression and interrupt the status quo. It explores themes of alternative histories, archives, Black identity, collective memory, storytelling; meshing performance and performativity, and the interplay of the oral and aural in one’s experience of the world. An undercurrent of movement explored in multiple variations thread the works together, realized through a variety of methods including painterly gesture, repetitive mark-making, performance with an audience or without, spoken word, ambient sound, and reimagined instruments. The exhibition aspires to pull at the loosened threads of a social fabric in crisis, revealing larger complex histories and art discourses, nationally and internationally, framed through the experiences and trajectories of Stamps alumni during their time in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include interviews with each of the alumni artists conducted by current Stamps’ student and exhibition co-curator Moteniola Ogundipe.

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is co-curated by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Moteniola Ogundipe.

 

Image: Levester Williams, “Shift, Sift, Swoosh Bods,” 2018, (detail, video still) HD video, color, four audio channels; 17 minutes 33 seconds (full length).

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-01-22T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Shift-Sift-Swoosh-Bods_still_04.jpg
Extending Apologies: Memorializing the World War II Japanese American Incarceration at the Tanforan Assembly Center (January 22, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80716 80716-20777530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

Abstract: “Extending Apologies”, focuses on the future memorial for the Tanforan Assembly Center –a former Japanese American Incarceration Camp in San Francisco, California– and the demand of victims and their families to extend the official apology, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, beyond mere words. A series of on-site historic plaques and an exhibition of Dorothea Lange’s incarceration photographs at a nearby train station serve as background to study the development of the new memorial. The design and iconography of the future Tanforan memorial –a figurative bronze surrounded by a landscaped memorial plaza– are analyzed alongside the motivations of the main actors that have shaped it: a group of memory activists, a transit agency, and a shopping mall developer. “Extending Apologies” argues that these past and future commemorative interventions reveal the tensions between an unsettled memorial landscape and the Japanese American community’s ongoing demands for apology.

Bio: Valentina Rozas-Krause received her Ph.D. in Architecture (History, Theory & Society) from the University of California, Berkeley. She is an architect with a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her field of study encompasses architecture, urbanism, and landscape from the nineteenth century to the present, with particular research and teaching interests in memory, postcolonialism, preservation, public space, social justice, and gender. Valentina has published two books. The first, Ni Tan Elefante, Ni Tan Blanco (Ril, 2014), is an urban, architectural, and political history of the National Stadium in Chile. The second is the co-edited volume Disputar la Ciudad (Bifurcaciones, 2018) which deals with spatial strategies of oppression, resistance, memory and reparation within varying urban contexts. These join peer-reviewed articles in History & Memory, e-flux, Latin American Perspectives, Anos 90, ARQ, Revista 180, Cuadernos de Antropología Social, and Bifurcaciones alongside a chapter in the edited volume Neocolonialism and Built Heritage (Routledge, 2020). Her research has been supported by numerous fellowships and grants, including a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, a Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, a John L. Simpson Research Fellowship in International and Comparative Studies from UC Berkeley, a DAAD Dissertation Research Grant, and a Becas Chile Grant. Valentina is currently working on a book project titled Memorials and the Cult of Apology, which examines how contemporary memorials aim to atone for past injustices. In effect, apologies are being materialized into memorials, a phenomenon of global importance, which presents a major shift in national self-representation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:03:18 -0500 2021-01-22T14:30:00-05:00 2021-01-22T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Lecture / Discussion Members of the Tanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committee and artist Sandra Shaw posing with the clay model of the Tanforan Memorial at the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank, CA, 2018. Source: Valentina Rozas-Krause
The Virtual Mark Webster Reading Series (January 22, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75953 75953-19627788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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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. Tune in to enjoy work from the next generation of authors.

This week's reading features Kashona Notah [Fiction] and Nathan Kweku John [Poetry]. 

Organized by the MFA in Creative Writing Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts David Freeman (dfrman@umich.edu) or Lauren Morrow (lmmorrow@umich.edu).

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Presentation Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:15:41 -0500 2021-01-22T19:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Ayana Evans, Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series: Persona as Social Justice (January 22, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81000 81000-20832756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Ayana Evans will talk about her trajectory of her work, including her new work of performance art for video "You Better Be Good to Me” (with performances by students from SMTD, the UM Cheer Team, and Detroit artists, and costumes by Dressing Up and Down students). "You Better Be Good to Me” will premiere as part of the program.

Ayana Evans is a NYC based performance artist who grew up on the south side of Chicago. The sensibilities of both locations heavily influence her work with the body, race relations, and gender bias.  Roberta Fallon, co-founder of Artblog, describes Ms. Evans as, “one part Wonder Woman, one part agent provocateur.” And writer Seph Rodney of Hyperallergic and the New York Times wrote: “I have seen [this] artist actually stop traffic on the Bowery in downtown Manhattan in 2016, where, in a floor-length lace gown, a dollar-store tiara and full makeup, she placed a chair in the street to do chair dips.”

Evans began her career as a painter earning her MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and her BA in Visual Arts from Brown University. During the summer of 2016 Evans completed her installment of the residency, "Back in Five Minutes" at El Museo Del Barrio in NYC. The next year she completed a endurance-based 10-hour, citywide performance and 100-person performative dinner party at the Barnes Foundation in 2017 for "A Person of the Crowd,” a major performance art survey featuring artists such as, Marina Abramovic, Tania Bruguera, and William Pope L. in Philadelphia, PA. Her international work includes participation in: FIAP performance festival in Martinique, The Pineapple Show at Tiwani Contemporary in London, and Ghana's Chale Wote festival, which drew 30,000 people. Evans has received numerous fellowships and awards including: Studio Immersion Fellowship Program at EFA’s Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (2018); Artists Alliance Inc (2018); Franklin Furnace Fund for performance art (2017-2018); New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow for Interdisciplinary Arts (2018); and an artist in resident for Art on the Vine at Martha's Vineyard (2019). In addition to her numerous guerilla street performances, Evans has performed at the Queens Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Newark Museum, and the Bronx Museum. During 2018 and 2019 Evans had three solo exhibitions with Medium Tings Gallery (Brooklyn), Cuchifritos Gallery (NYC) and the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop with New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) at Governors Island, NY. She has been featured in The New York Times, Bomb Magazine, ArtNet, The Cut, Hyperallergic, and CNN. Evans is currently an adjunct professor at Brown University.

During the Fall 2020 semester, Evans created a new work of performance art for video as part of the Stamps School’s Witt Visiting Artist program. A video of the performance "You Better Be Good to Me,” will premiere as part of the program.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

 

Supported by the U-M Arts Initiative. This talk is part of the 2021 U-M Reverend Martin Luther King Junior Symposium. The Penny Stamps 2020-2021 Distinguished Speaker Series is brought to you with the support of our streaming partners, Detroit Public Television and PBS Books.

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Performance Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:15:43 -0500 2021-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Ayana Evans: Persona as Social Justice (January 22, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80895 80895-20818971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Ayana Evans is a NYC based performance artist who grew up on the south side of Chicago. The sensibilities of both locations heavily influence her work with the body, race relations, and gender bias. 

Roberta Fallon, co-founder of Artblog, describes Ms. Evans as, “one part Wonder Woman, one part agent provocateur.” And writer Seph Rodney of Hyperallergic and the New York Times wrote: “I have seen [this] artist actually stop traffic on the Bowery in downtown Manhattan in 2016, where, in a floor-length lace gown, a dollar-store tiara and full makeup, she placed a chair in the street to do chair dips.”

Evans began her career as a painter earning her MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and her BA in Visual Arts from Brown University. During the summer of 2016 Evans completed her installment of the residency, "Back in Five Minutes" at El Museo Del Barrio in NYC. The next year she completed a endurance-based 10-hour, citywide performance and 100-person performative dinner party at the Barnes Foundation in 2017 for "A Person of the Crowd,” a major performance art survey featuring artists such as, Marina Abramovic, Tania Bruguera, and William Pope L. in Philadelphia, PA. Her international work includes participation in: FIAP performance festival in Martinique, The Pineapple Show at Tiwani Contemporary in London, and Ghana's Chale Wote festival, which drew 30,000 people. Evans has received numerous fellowships and awards including: Studio Immersion Fellowship Program at EFA’s Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (2018); Artists Alliance Inc (2018); Franklin Furnace Fund for performance art (2017-2018); New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow for Interdisciplinary Arts (2018); and an artist in resident for Art on the Vine at Martha's Vineyard (2019). In addition to her numerous guerilla street performances, Evans has performed at the Queens Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Newark Museum, and the Bronx Museum. During 2018 and 2019 Evans had three solo exhibitions with Medium Tings Gallery (Brooklyn), Cuchifritos Gallery (NYC) and the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop with New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) at Governors Island, NY. She has been featured in The New York Times, Bomb Magazine, ArtNet, The Cut, Hyperallergic, and CNN. Evans is currently an adjunct professor at Brown University.

During the Fall 2020 semester, Evans created a new work of performance art for video as part of the Stamps School’s Witt Visiting Artist program. A video of the performance "You Better Be Good to Me,” will premiere as part of the program.

Supported by the U-M Arts Initiative. This talk is part of the 2021 U-M Reverend Martin Luther King Junior Symposium.

Related EventIs Acceptance the Future of Art?
Monday, January 25, 5:30 pm

Join Ayana Evans for a live, virtual discussion with Reginald Jackson, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan and scholar of critical race theory’s relationship to gender. This program is part of the U-M Arts Initiative series, The Future of Art: Register here to receive information on how to join: https://umich.formstack.com/forms/jan25_futureofart

How to WatchAll events will be webcast on Fridays at 8pm (ET) at http://pennystampsevents.org and https://dptv.org/pennystamps. Join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

Subscribe to receive weekly email reminders for Penny Stamps Speaker Series events.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

 

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:15:07 -0500 2021-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Evans-Ayana.jpg
Facilitator Training (January 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79743 79743-20483903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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Meeting Mon, 07 Dec 2020 08:52:03 -0500 2021-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 2021-01-24T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting
Ayana Evans, Live discussion and Q&A: Is Acceptance the Future of Art? (January 25, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81001 81001-20832757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

egister here to receive Zoom information.

Join Ayana Evans, described as “one part Wonder Woman, one part agent provocateur” (Roberta Fallon, co-founder of Artblog) for a live, virtual discussion with Reginald Jackson, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan and scholar of critical race theory’s relationship to gender.

In conjunction with her presentation as part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series premiering January 22, Ayana Evans will talk with Reginald Jackson about her work, a body of performances that comments on the effort she must put in to be taken seriously as a Black woman – often with humor and impromptu community-creation. They will also discuss issues facing art-makers today: her mid-career shift to performance, and the potential for art to promote self acceptance and wider acceptance of all selves.

 

The Future of Art Series is hosted by the U-M Arts Initiative as part of a two-year startup phase. 
 






 

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Performance Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:15:46 -0500 2021-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 2021-01-25T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Is Acceptance the Future of Art? (January 25, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80550 80550-20738205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Join Ayana Evans, described as “one part Wonder Woman, one part agent provocateur” (Roberta Fallon, co-founder of Artblog) for a live, virtual discussion with Reginald Jackson, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan and scholar of critical race theory’s relationship to gender.

In conjunction with her presentation as part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series premiering January 22, Ayana Evans will talk with Reginald Jackson about her work, a body of performances that comments on the effort she must put in to be taken seriously as a Black woman – often with humor and impromptu community-creation. They will also discuss issues facing art-makers today: her mid-career shift to performance, and the potential for art to promote self acceptance and wider acceptance of all selves.

Monday, January 25, 5:30-6:30 pm EST

Register here to receive Zoom information:
https://umich.formstack.com/forms/jan25_futureofart

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:36:32 -0500 2021-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 2021-01-25T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Lecture / Discussion Ayana Evans and Reginald Jackson
Story, Word, Sound, Sway (January 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80761 80761-20785425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is on view at Stamps Gallery January 18, 2021 – February 28, 2021. The gallery is currently open Tuesdays and Fridays from 2pm to 7pm to U-M faculty, staff, and students with valid MCards only. Learn more about COVID health and safety restrictions prior to your visit:  https://stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/stamps_gallery
The work in the exhibition can also be viewed online: http://stamps.umich.edu/calendar/event-detail/story_word_sound_sway

Artists: Carisa Bledsoe (BFA Interarts ’14), Schroeder Cherry (BFA ’76), Elshafei Dafalla (MFA ’08), Masimba Hwati (MFA ’19), Caleb Moss (BFA ’13), Senghor Reid (BFA ’99), Valencia Robin (MFA ’08), Yvette Rock (MFA ’99), Wes Taylor (BFA ’04), Levester Williams (BFA ’13), and Elizabeth Youngblood (BFA ’73)

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is an exhibition of work by eleven Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni using performance, movement, text, sound, and design to interrogate systems of oppression and interrupt the status quo. It explores themes of alternative histories, archives, Black identity, collective memory, storytelling; meshing performance and performativity, and the interplay of the oral and aural in one’s experience of the world. An undercurrent of movement explored in multiple variations thread the works together, realized through a variety of methods including painterly gesture, repetitive mark-making, performance with an audience or without, spoken word, ambient sound, and reimagined instruments. The exhibition aspires to pull at the loosened threads of a social fabric in crisis, revealing larger complex histories and art discourses, nationally and internationally, framed through the experiences and trajectories of Stamps alumni during their time in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include interviews with each of the alumni artists conducted by current Stamps’ student and exhibition co-curator Moteniola Ogundipe.

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is co-curated by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Moteniola Ogundipe.

 

Image: Levester Williams, “Shift, Sift, Swoosh Bods,” 2018, (detail, video still) HD video, color, four audio channels; 17 minutes 33 seconds (full length).

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-01-26T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Shift-Sift-Swoosh-Bods_still_04.jpg
African Diasporic Modernism: Tropicality in the Works of Wifredo Lam and Josephine Baker (January 27, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80706 80706-20775568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day 2021.

Summary: This talk explores aspects of my book, Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism (Duke University Press, February 2021). It offers an investigation of how Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century were responding to the colonial and hegemonic regimes through visual and performative tropicalist representation. It privileges the land and how a sense of place is critical in the identity formation of early twentieth-century artists as well as their creative processes. By proposing an alternative understanding of the tropics, this talk demonstrates how Wifredo Lam and Josephine Baker effectively contributed to the development of Black modernity, and even Black sonic modernity. They employed what I call “tropical aesthetics” in an effort to enact the naming of place. Tropical aesthetics allows for a critical imaging and reclaiming of space and proves how through art one can reify social geographies in order to have a sense of place, a rootedness that is desired in order to attain some semblance of sovereignty.

Bio: Samantha A. Noël is an Associate Professor of Art History at Wayne State University. She received her B.A. in Fine Art from Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y., and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from Duke University. Her research interests revolve around the history of art, visual culture and performance of the Black Diaspora. She has published on black modern and contemporary art and performance in journals such as Small Axe, Third Text, and Art Journal. Noël’s book, Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism (Duke University Press, forthcoming 2021), offers a thorough investigation of how Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century were responding to colonial and hegemonic regimes through visual and performative tropicalist representation. It privileges the land and how a sense of place is critical in the identity formation of early twentieth-century artists as well as their creative processes. Noël is working on a new book tentatively titled Diasporic Art in the Age of Black Power. This book seeks to examine the impact of the Black Power Movement on visual art as it emerged in the political, historical, and social contexts of the United States of America and the Anglophone Caribbean in the 1960s and 1970s. Currently, Noël is the 2020-2021 Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellow at The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Her research has also been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Moreau Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. Noël has also received a number of grants and fellowships from Wayne State University.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:33:09 -0500 2021-01-27T16:30:00-05:00 2021-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Lecture / Discussion Josephine Baker
Membership meeting (January 27, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79744 79744-20483904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Members meet to plan and facilitate correspondence workshops and PCAP events

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Meeting Mon, 07 Dec 2020 08:55:08 -0500 2021-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 2021-01-27T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting
Story, Word, Sound, Sway: In Performance & Conversation with Carisa Bledsoe & Schroeder Cherry (January 28, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80398 80398-20715668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join Stamps Gallery for back-to-back virtual performances by artists and Stamps School of Art & Design alumni Carisa Bledsoe (BFA Interarts ‘14) and Schroeder Cherry (BFA ‘76). The performances are part of the exhibition Story, Word, Sound, Sway, featuring artists using performance, movement, text, sound, and design to interrogate systems of oppression and interrupt the status quo.

Bledsoe (she/her/they) will present a new iteration of their performance “What the Tide Brought In,’’ first performed at the Yellow Barn in Ann Arbor in 2014 shortly before Bledsoe graduated from U-M. Since its inception, “What the Tide Brought In” has been performed at venues across the US and France, morphing each time to address the site specificity of the venue and moment in time.

Cherry (he/him/his) will be in performance with his handmade puppets that have made appearances at the Studio Museum of Harlem, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Museum amongst other notable venues. Cherry’s performances have been enchanting and educating audiences of all ages since the 1970s when Cherry first started performing while an apprentice to a puppet master in Chicago during college. Performances will be followed by a conversation with the artists in dialogue with exhibition curators Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Moteniola Ogundipe, a current Stamps student. The conversation will be accompanied by a live Q&A.

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is on view at Stamps Gallery from January 18 - February 28, 2021. For more information, visit: Story, Word, Sound, Sway, or contact Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan at jenjkhan@umich.edu.

Accessibility

Stamps events are free and open to the public, and we are committed to making them accessible to all attendees. This event will be online using the Zoom platform with an auto-generated Live Transcript available. If you anticipate needing any additional accommodations to participate, please email jenjkhan@umich.edu at least one week in advance of the scheduled event so we can arrange for your accommodation or an effective alternative. After receiving your request, our team will follow up with you directly.

Image: Carisa Bledsoe (left), Schroeder Cherry (right). Photos courtesy of the artists.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkcO-orTorHtXCEJjZ0JrjHcPZXPqiGiJ3

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Performance Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:15:10 -0500 2021-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Performance https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/Bledsoe_and_Cherry_Stamps_Gallery_Performance.jpg
EEB Virtual Seminar: The art and design of biological illustration: reflections of an EEB artist (January 28, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80438 80438-20721835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

John presents a talk about his experiences as the artist for the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology and Herbarium

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 15 Jan 2021 13:15:22 -0500 2021-01-28T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual An illustration by John Megahan that he created for the Green Life Sciences Symposium featuring grassy hills, flowers, bees, mushrooms, deer, cityscape in the background, a crop dusting airplane over a farm field, weeds and more
Performing the Moment | Performing the Movement (January 28, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80072 80072-20554879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: http://myumi.ch/0WyWG

Damon Locks will perform and speak about his work with Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project (PNAP) and the Black Monument Ensemble. The Prison and Neighborhood Art Project provides arts and humanities courses to men at the Stateville Maximum Security Prison, where Damon Locks works as an artist educator. In the Black Monument Ensemble, Damon Locks uses music and sound to connect the past and future of the civil rights movement.

Damon Locks is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he received his BFA in fine arts. Since 2014 he has been working with Prisons and Neighborhood Arts Project at Stateville Correctional Center teaching art. He is a recipient of the Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Achievement Award in the Arts and the 2016 MAKER Grant. He operated as an Artist Mentor in the Chicago Artist Coalition program FIELD/WORK. In 2017 he became a Soros Justice Media Fellow. In 2019, he became a 3Arts Awardee. Currently, he works as an artist in residence as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Arts' SPACE Program, introducing civically engaged art into the curriculum at the high school, Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy.

In this new virtual series, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. Sessions will take place over Zoom and require advance registration. You can read about the panelists, register for these events, find recommended reading and resources and/or request recordings of past events at https://lsa.umich.edu/world-performance.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Presentation Wed, 16 Dec 2020 08:18:25 -0500 2021-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 2021-01-28T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Damon Locks
Story, Word, Sound, Sway (January 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80761 80761-20785426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is on view at Stamps Gallery January 18, 2021 – February 28, 2021. The gallery is currently open Tuesdays and Fridays from 2pm to 7pm to U-M faculty, staff, and students with valid MCards only. Learn more about COVID health and safety restrictions prior to your visit:  https://stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/stamps_gallery
The work in the exhibition can also be viewed online: http://stamps.umich.edu/calendar/event-detail/story_word_sound_sway

Artists: Carisa Bledsoe (BFA Interarts ’14), Schroeder Cherry (BFA ’76), Elshafei Dafalla (MFA ’08), Masimba Hwati (MFA ’19), Caleb Moss (BFA ’13), Senghor Reid (BFA ’99), Valencia Robin (MFA ’08), Yvette Rock (MFA ’99), Wes Taylor (BFA ’04), Levester Williams (BFA ’13), and Elizabeth Youngblood (BFA ’73)

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is an exhibition of work by eleven Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni using performance, movement, text, sound, and design to interrogate systems of oppression and interrupt the status quo. It explores themes of alternative histories, archives, Black identity, collective memory, storytelling; meshing performance and performativity, and the interplay of the oral and aural in one’s experience of the world. An undercurrent of movement explored in multiple variations thread the works together, realized through a variety of methods including painterly gesture, repetitive mark-making, performance with an audience or without, spoken word, ambient sound, and reimagined instruments. The exhibition aspires to pull at the loosened threads of a social fabric in crisis, revealing larger complex histories and art discourses, nationally and internationally, framed through the experiences and trajectories of Stamps alumni during their time in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include interviews with each of the alumni artists conducted by current Stamps’ student and exhibition co-curator Moteniola Ogundipe.

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is co-curated by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Moteniola Ogundipe.

 

Image: Levester Williams, “Shift, Sift, Swoosh Bods,” 2018, (detail, video still) HD video, color, four audio channels; 17 minutes 33 seconds (full length).

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-01-29T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Shift-Sift-Swoosh-Bods_still_04.jpg
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Eric Foner: In Conversation (January 29, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80896 80896-20818972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Pausing for a moment of post inaugural reflection, following one of our nation’s most contentious presidential elections, this conversation brings together filmmaker, scholar, journalist and cultural critic, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with prominent historian Eric Foner to contemplate how a divided nation comes together. The two will discuss Reconstruction, the all-too-brief period following the Civil War when the United States made its first effort to become an interracial democracy. The period saw the Constitution rewritten to incorporate the ideal of racial equality, but ended as a result of a violent backlash that erased many of the gains that had been made, with consequences we still confront as a nation. The program will also preview Gates' most recent project, The Black Church, which will premiere on PBS in February.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Professor Gates is an author and filmmaker whose work includes Reconstruction: America after the Civil War, winner of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and the related books, Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow, with Tonya Bolden, and 2019 New York Times Notable Book, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. Gates’ groundbreaking genealogy series, Finding Your Roots, is now in its sixth season on PBS and has been called “one of the deepest and wisest series ever on television,” leveraging “the inherent entertainment capacity of the medium to educate millions of Americans about the histories and cultures of our nation and the world.” Gates is the recipient of an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, an NAACP image award, an MacArthur Foundation “genius award,” and in 1998 he was the first African American to receive the National Humanities Medal. Gates was named to Time’s 25 Most Influential Americans list in 1997, to Ebony’s Power 150 list in 2009, and to Ebony’s Power 100 list in 2010 and 2012.

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, is one of this country's most prominent historians. Professor Foner's publications have concentrated on the intersections of intellectual, political and social history, and the history of American race relations. One of his best-known books includes Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Parkman Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. His latest book is The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution . Foner has also been the co-curator, with Olivia Mahoney, of two prize-winning exhibitions on American history: A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln, which opened at the Chicago Historical Society in 1990, and America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War, which opened at the Virginia Historical Society in 1995 and traveled to several other locations.

Lynette Clemetson is the Director of Wallace House, Knight-Wallace Fellowships and the Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan. A longtime journalist, she was a correspondent for Newsweek magazine in the U.S. and Asia, a national correspondent for The New York Times, and senior director of strategy and new initiatives at NPR. Wallace House works to sustain and elevate the careers of journalists, foster civic engagement, and uphold the role of a free press in democratic society.

This event is part of the Democracy & Debate theme semester with support from Wallace House and the Ford School of Public Policy. It is also part of the 2021 U-M Reverend Martin Luther King Junior Symposium. Our 2020-2021 Series is brought to you with the support of our streaming partners, Detroit Public Television and PBS Books.

How to WatchAll events will be webcast on Fridays at 8pm (ET) at http://pennystampsevents.org and https://dptv.org/pennystamps. Join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

Subscribe to receive weekly email reminders for Penny Stamps Speaker Series events.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

 

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 10:04:10 -0500 2021-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Gates-Henry-Louis.jpg
Story, Word, Sound, Sway (February 2, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80761 80761-20785427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is on view at Stamps Gallery January 18, 2021 – February 28, 2021. The gallery is currently open Tuesdays and Fridays from 2pm to 7pm to U-M faculty, staff, and students with valid MCards only. Learn more about COVID health and safety restrictions prior to your visit:  https://stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/stamps_gallery
The work in the exhibition can also be viewed online: http://stamps.umich.edu/calendar/event-detail/story_word_sound_sway

Artists: Carisa Bledsoe (BFA Interarts ’14), Schroeder Cherry (BFA ’76), Elshafei Dafalla (MFA ’08), Masimba Hwati (MFA ’19), Caleb Moss (BFA ’13), Senghor Reid (BFA ’99), Valencia Robin (MFA ’08), Yvette Rock (MFA ’99), Wes Taylor (BFA ’04), Levester Williams (BFA ’13), and Elizabeth Youngblood (BFA ’73)

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is an exhibition of work by eleven Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni using performance, movement, text, sound, and design to interrogate systems of oppression and interrupt the status quo. It explores themes of alternative histories, archives, Black identity, collective memory, storytelling; meshing performance and performativity, and the interplay of the oral and aural in one’s experience of the world. An undercurrent of movement explored in multiple variations thread the works together, realized through a variety of methods including painterly gesture, repetitive mark-making, performance with an audience or without, spoken word, ambient sound, and reimagined instruments. The exhibition aspires to pull at the loosened threads of a social fabric in crisis, revealing larger complex histories and art discourses, nationally and internationally, framed through the experiences and trajectories of Stamps alumni during their time in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include interviews with each of the alumni artists conducted by current Stamps’ student and exhibition co-curator Moteniola Ogundipe.

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is co-curated by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Moteniola Ogundipe.

 

Image: Levester Williams, “Shift, Sift, Swoosh Bods,” 2018, (detail, video still) HD video, color, four audio channels; 17 minutes 33 seconds (full length).

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-02-02T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-02T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Shift-Sift-Swoosh-Bods_still_04.jpg
Student Q&A with Jaume Plensa (February 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81002 81002-20832758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Internationally celebrated Spanish artist Jaume Plensa is one of the world’s foremost sculptors in the public realm. His monumental sculpture Behind the Walls was recently installed outside the front doors of the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Register to join this conversation with Mr. Plensa, Christina Olsen, Director of UMMA, and a Q&A with U-M students.

This program is for U-M students. Students who register will receive a link and password see the as-yet-unreleased documentary Jaume Plensa: Can You Hear Me? in advance of the February 5 Q&A. 

This program will be recorded and shared via webcast following public screening of the new documentary, Jaume Plensa: Can You Hear Me?, on Friday, February 19, at 8 p.m.

 

Programs featuring Jaume Plensa are presented in partnership with the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. Behind the Walls is a Museum purchase made possible by the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family. 

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:15:58 -0500 2021-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T13:15:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Story, Word, Sound, Sway (February 5, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80761 80761-20785428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is on view at Stamps Gallery January 18, 2021 – February 28, 2021. The gallery is currently open Tuesdays and Fridays from 2pm to 7pm to U-M faculty, staff, and students with valid MCards only. Learn more about COVID health and safety restrictions prior to your visit:  https://stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/stamps_gallery
The work in the exhibition can also be viewed online: http://stamps.umich.edu/calendar/event-detail/story_word_sound_sway

Artists: Carisa Bledsoe (BFA Interarts ’14), Schroeder Cherry (BFA ’76), Elshafei Dafalla (MFA ’08), Masimba Hwati (MFA ’19), Caleb Moss (BFA ’13), Senghor Reid (BFA ’99), Valencia Robin (MFA ’08), Yvette Rock (MFA ’99), Wes Taylor (BFA ’04), Levester Williams (BFA ’13), and Elizabeth Youngblood (BFA ’73)

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is an exhibition of work by eleven Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni using performance, movement, text, sound, and design to interrogate systems of oppression and interrupt the status quo. It explores themes of alternative histories, archives, Black identity, collective memory, storytelling; meshing performance and performativity, and the interplay of the oral and aural in one’s experience of the world. An undercurrent of movement explored in multiple variations thread the works together, realized through a variety of methods including painterly gesture, repetitive mark-making, performance with an audience or without, spoken word, ambient sound, and reimagined instruments. The exhibition aspires to pull at the loosened threads of a social fabric in crisis, revealing larger complex histories and art discourses, nationally and internationally, framed through the experiences and trajectories of Stamps alumni during their time in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include interviews with each of the alumni artists conducted by current Stamps’ student and exhibition co-curator Moteniola Ogundipe.

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is co-curated by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Moteniola Ogundipe.

 

Image: Levester Williams, “Shift, Sift, Swoosh Bods,” 2018, (detail, video still) HD video, color, four audio channels; 17 minutes 33 seconds (full length).

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-02-05T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Shift-Sift-Swoosh-Bods_still_04.jpg
The Virtual Mark Webster Reading Series (February 5, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75954 75954-19627789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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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. Tune in to enjoy work from the next generation of authors.

This week's reading features Laurie Thomas [Fiction] and Ayokunle Falomo [Poetry]. 

Organized by the MFA in Creative Writing Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts David Freeman (dfrman@umich.edu) or Lauren Morrow (lmmorrow@umich.edu).

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Presentation Sat, 06 Feb 2021 00:15:57 -0500 2021-02-05T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Pedro Reyes: At Home in Coyoacán (February 5, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80897 80897-20818973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Mexican artist Pedro Reyes has won international attention for large-scale projects that address current social and political issues. Through a varied practice utilizing sculpture, performance, video, and activism, Reyes explores the power of individual and collective organization to incite change through communication, creativity, happiness, and humor. He designs ongoing projects that propose playful solutions to social problems. From turning guns into musical instruments, to hosting a People’s United Nations to address pressing concerns, to offering ecologically-friendly grasshopper burgers from a food cart, Reyes transforms existing problems into ideas for a better world. In the artist’s hands, complex subjects like political and economic philosophies are reframed in ways that are easy to understand, such as a puppet play featuring Karl Marx and Adam Smith fighting over how to share cookies.

In 2008, Reyes initiated the ongoing Palas por Pistolas where 1,527 guns were collected in Mexico through a voluntary donation campaign to produce the same number of shovels to plant 1,527 trees. This led to Disarm (2012), where 6,700 destroyed weapons were transformed into a series of musical instruments. In 2011, Reyes initiated Sanatorium, a transient clinic that provides short unexpected treatments mixing art and psychology. Originally commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Sanatorium went on to many international iterations. In 2013, he presented the first edition of pUN: The People’s United Nations at Queens Museum in New York City. pUN is an experimental conference in which regular citizens act as delegates for each of the countries in the UN and seek to apply techniques and resources from social psychology, theater, art, and conflict resolution to geopolitics. In 2015, he received the U.S. State Department Medal for the Arts and the Ford Foundation Fellowship.

Reyes has had solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2014); The Power Plant, Toronto (2014); the Jumex Museum, Mexico City (2014); the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York (2013); Labor, Mexico City (2012, 2010); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2011); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2011); CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan (2009); Bass Museum, Miami (2008); and San Francisco Art Institute (2008). He has also participated in Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; In the Spirit of Utopia, Whitechapel Gallery, London; and The Carnegie International, Pittsburgh.

Our 2020-2021 Series is brought to you with the support of our streaming partners, Detroit Public Television and PBS Books.

How to WatchAll events will be webcast on Fridays at 8pm (ET) at http://pennystampsevents.org and https://dptv.org/pennystamps. Join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

Subscribe to receive weekly email reminders for Penny Stamps Speaker Series events.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 10:06:59 -0500 2021-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Pedro-Reyes.jpg
Beastly Badges: the art of adaptive political cultures in nomadic regimes" (February 8, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81756 81756-20951377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

Summary: Nomadic polities are conventionally treated as loose and fragile regimes, adept at far-reaching conquests yet inept at managing the resulting large realms or extensive constituencies. In order to provide a more constructive and robust narrative of nomadic regimes, this talk elucidates strategies of political culture developed by the Xiongnu Empire of Inner Asia (ca. 200 bce- 100 ce), as manifested in the array of belt ornaments that served as badges of personal prestige and emblems of political participation in the steppe empire. Just as adaptations of long-standing traditions of steppe art in the early era served to bolster claims of legitimacy over the entirety of Inner Asia, so did significant alterations that emphasized exotic components allow the imperial nomads of the later era to adapt their political culture not only in response to challenges of interior politics but also to capitalize on the expanding resources of cross-continental exchanges via the Silk Roads.

About: Bryan Miller is a Lecturer in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan. He specializes in the archaeology of empires in East Asia, with particular focus on nomadic regimes of Inner Asia. His research includes investigations of hybrid art and practices in the course of culture contact, as well as the interface between local elites and ruling factions, and he is currently completing a book on the Xiongnu nomadic empire.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:10:07 -0500 2021-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Livestream / Virtual Xiongu bronze belt plate
The Future of Art "Art and Activism: Designing the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia" (February 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81591 81591-20929543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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The University of Virginia—designed by Thomas Jefferson and now recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site—was built and maintained by 4,000 or more enslaved men, women, and children. UVA’s powerful new Memorial to Enslaved Laborers honors the lives, labors, and resistance of the enslaved people who lived and worked at UVA at some point between 1817 and 1865.

This interview with members of the memorial’s design team will explore the history, form, and process behind the creation of the memorial. Panelists: Mabel Wilson, Meejin Yoon, Eric Höweler, and Eto Otitigbe, with U-M's Kristin Hass as interviewer. 

~   Eric Höweler, AIA, LEED AP,  is an associate professor in architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he teaches lecture courses and design studios with a focus on building technologies/integration. He is a co-founding principal of  Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP, a research-driven, multidisciplinary design studio working between architecture, art, and media. HYA has a reputation for work that is technologically and formally innovative, and deeply informed by human experience, and a sensitivity to tectonics. 

Eto Otitigbe is a polymedia artist whose interdisciplinary practice investigates the intersections of race, power, and technology. With history as the foundation for exploration, Otitigbe sets alternative narratives into motion; creating spaces for people to experience a unique mixture of concepts. Otitigbe lives and works in Brooklyn, NY where is an Assistant Professor and Head of Sculpture in the Art Department of Brooklyn College.

Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, a professor in African American and African diasporic studies, director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies, and co-director of the Global Africa Lab at Columbia University. She is trained in architecture and American studies, two fields that inform her work. Through her transdisciplinary practice Studio &, Wilson makes visible and legible the ways that anti-black racism shapes the built environment along with the ways that blackness creates spaces of imagination, refusal, and desire. 

J. Meejin Yoon, AIA FAAR, is an architect, designer, and educator, whose projects and research investigate the intersections between architecture, technology, and the public realm. Prior to joining the faculty at AAP, Yoon was at MIT for 17 years and served as the head of the Department of Architecture from 2014–18. Yoon is cofounding principal of Höweler and Yoon Architecture. 

Kristin Hass is associate professor of American culture and faculty coordinator for the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1998) and Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall (2013). Her fields of study include visual culture, material culture, museum studies, memory, and 20th-century cultural history.

This is the first in a series of annual Art and Activism lectures as part of High Stakes Art, a project designed to enhance exhibitions and programming at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. High Stakes Art and this lecture are made possible by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Presented by the Institute for the Humanities and the U-M Arts Initiative.

The Future of Art Series is hosted by the U-M Arts Initiative as part of a two-year startup phase. 

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:16:07 -0500 2021-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T17:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
The Future of Art: "Art and Activism: Designing the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia" (February 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80887 80887-20816995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The University of Virginia—designed by Thomas Jefferson and now recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site—was built and maintained by 4000 or more enslaved men, women, and children. UVA’s powerful new Memorial to Enslaved Laborers honors the lives, labors, and resistance of the enslaved people who lived and worked at UVA at some point between 1817 and 1865. This interview with members of the memorial’s design team will explore the history, form, and process behind the creation of the memorial. Panelists: Mabel Wilson, Meejin Yoon, Eric Höweler, and Eto Otitigbe, with U-M's Kristin Hass as the interviewer.

This virtual event takes place Monday, February 8, 2021 4-5:30pm E.S.T. (Click at the bottom of this page where it says "Event Link" to register.)

About the Participants

*Eric Höweler*, AIA, LEED AP, is an Associate Professor in Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he teaches lecture courses and design studios with a focus on building technologies/integration since 2008. Höweler has published essays and articles in Perspecta, Archis, Thresholds, The Architect’s Newspaper, Architectural Lighting, and Praxis.

Höweler is Co-founding Principal of Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP, a research-driven, multidisciplinary design studio working between architecture, art, and media. HYA has a reputation for work that is technologically and formally innovative, and deeply informed by human experience and a sensitivity to tectonics. Höweler + Yoon’s work has been exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the 2006 Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt in New York, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and has been published and reviewed in publications including Architect, Architectural Record, Metropolitan, Domus, Interior Design magazine, Architectural Lighting, and I.D. Magazine, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Financial Times.

*Eto Otitigbe* is a polymedia artist whose interdisciplinary practice investigates the intersections of race, power, and technology. With history as the foundation for exploration, Otitigbe sets alternative narratives into motion; creating spaces for people to experience a unique mixture of concepts. He is the Director of the Turnbull Townhouse Gallery in New York. Otitigbe lives and works in Brooklyn, NY where is an Assistant Professor and Head of Sculpture in the Art Department of Brooklyn College.

Otitigbe's work has been in national and international exhibitions such as Topophilia, as part of the Meetings Festival in Denmark; Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial, organized by the Bronx Museum and Wave Hill. He has participated in residencies at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, Austin, TX; 701 CCA, Columbia, SC; Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; and Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO. Otitigbe received public commissions for FLOW at Randall’s Island Park and the Emerging Artist Fellowship at Socrates Sculpture Park. In 2015 Otitigbe was awarded a CEC Artslink Project Award for travel to Egypt.

*Mabel O. Wilson* is the Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, a professor in African American and African diasporic studies, director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies, and co-director of the Global Africa Lab at Columbia University. She is trained in architecture and American studies, two fields that inform her work. Through her transdisciplinary practice Studio &, Wilson makes visible and legible the ways that anti-black racism shapes the built environment along with the ways that blackness creates spaces of imagination, refusal, and desire.

Wilson is the author of Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016) and Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (2012), co-editor of Race and Modern Architecture, and currently at work on a book entitled Building Race and Nation: Slavery and Dispossessions Influence on American Civic Architecture. Her scholarly essays have appeared in numerous journals and books on art and architecture, black studies, critical geography, urbanism, memory studies.

*J. Meejin Yoon*, AIA FAAR, is dean of AAP/Architecture, Art, Planning at Cornell University. She is co-founding principle of Höweler and Yoon Architecture; her projects and research investigate the intersections between architecture, technology, and the public realm. Prior to joining the faculty at AAP, Yoon was at MIT for 17 years and served as the head of the Department of Architecture from 2014–18.

Yoon's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, and the National Art Center in Japan. Publications by Yoon include Expanded Practice (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009), Public Works (MAP Book Publishers, 2008), and Absence (Printed Matter and the Whitney Museum of Art, 2003).

*Kristin Hass* is Associate Professor of American culture and faculty coordinator for the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1998) and Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall (2013). Her fields of study include visual culture, material culture, museum studies, memory, and 20th-century cultural history.

*This is the first in a series of annual Art and Activism lectures as part of High Stakes Art, a project designed to enhance exhibitions and programming at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. High Stakes Art is made possible by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Presented by the Institute for the Humanities and the U-M Arts Initiative.*

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:29:45 -0500 2021-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Memorial to Enslaved Laborers
Story, Word, Sound, Sway (February 9, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80761 80761-20785429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is on view at Stamps Gallery January 18, 2021 – February 28, 2021. The gallery is currently open Tuesdays and Fridays from 2pm to 7pm to U-M faculty, staff, and students with valid MCards only. Learn more about COVID health and safety restrictions prior to your visit:  https://stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/stamps_gallery
The work in the exhibition can also be viewed online: http://stamps.umich.edu/calendar/event-detail/story_word_sound_sway

Artists: Carisa Bledsoe (BFA Interarts ’14), Schroeder Cherry (BFA ’76), Elshafei Dafalla (MFA ’08), Masimba Hwati (MFA ’19), Caleb Moss (BFA ’13), Senghor Reid (BFA ’99), Valencia Robin (MFA ’08), Yvette Rock (MFA ’99), Wes Taylor (BFA ’04), Levester Williams (BFA ’13), and Elizabeth Youngblood (BFA ’73)

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is an exhibition of work by eleven Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni using performance, movement, text, sound, and design to interrogate systems of oppression and interrupt the status quo. It explores themes of alternative histories, archives, Black identity, collective memory, storytelling; meshing performance and performativity, and the interplay of the oral and aural in one’s experience of the world. An undercurrent of movement explored in multiple variations thread the works together, realized through a variety of methods including painterly gesture, repetitive mark-making, performance with an audience or without, spoken word, ambient sound, and reimagined instruments. The exhibition aspires to pull at the loosened threads of a social fabric in crisis, revealing larger complex histories and art discourses, nationally and internationally, framed through the experiences and trajectories of Stamps alumni during their time in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include interviews with each of the alumni artists conducted by current Stamps’ student and exhibition co-curator Moteniola Ogundipe.

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is co-curated by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Moteniola Ogundipe.

 

Image: Levester Williams, “Shift, Sift, Swoosh Bods,” 2018, (detail, video still) HD video, color, four audio channels; 17 minutes 33 seconds (full length).

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-02-09T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Shift-Sift-Swoosh-Bods_still_04.jpg
Membership meeting (February 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79744 79744-20483905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Members meet to plan and facilitate correspondence workshops and PCAP events

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Meeting Mon, 07 Dec 2020 08:55:08 -0500 2021-02-10T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-10T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting
Make a Pop-up Valentine Card (February 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81583 81583-20927571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This workshop is simple enough for a beginner, and you should be able to create a card with supplies you already have at home! We'll watch a demo of how to create the card, and then you'll have a chance to practice on your own with support from the instructor. No experience is required, and we welcome children and adults.

Supplies needed: Basic computer paper or card stock, old magazines or pretty paper, a glue stick, and a pair of scissors. The project will be easier if you also have a ruler and a bone folder, and a knife for cutting paper would also be useful. You can draw your own heart for the project, but a heart shaped cookie cutter or other heart shaped object to use as a stencil would be helpful.

Presented by the University of Michigan Library as part of a Book Arts Studio series.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:31:29 -0500 2021-02-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar Valentine card with a pop-up heart in the center
How We Do, a discussion & workshop with artist Chitra Ganesh (February 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80789 80789-20793300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Chitra Ganesh, a Brooklyn-based contemporary artist of South Asian origin, creates installations, comics, animation, sculpture, and mixed media works on paper. Her process often engages historical and mythic texts as inspiration and points of departure to create new representations of culture, femininity, sexuality, and power, and to bring queer femme perspectives typically absent from canons of literature and art. 

How does Ganesh employ research to approach these large ideas, identities, and histories in her research and creative process? Join this discussion + workshop to learn directly from Ganesh about her artistic practice, and to apply a little of her approach to your own creative projects (whether they be artistic, conceptual, entrepreneurial, or otherwise). Browse her website and Instagram.

During the workshop

Participants are invited to think of something that inspires them and/or they have questions about:

- a film - a book, poem, comic or graphic novel, or other form of writing - a common historical narrative - a person (past or present) - something from Tik Tok - a meme - a video

Through discussion, writing, doodling, drawing, and other exercises, this workshop will offer the space to explore and expand the ways in which creative projects can offer critiques of society, ideas about history and identity, and new imaginings of what is possible.

Sultana’s Dream and recent work

Recently acquired by UMMA and featured in the upcoming exhibition Oh honey...A queer reading of the collection, Ganesh’s series of prints Sultana’s Dream takes its inspiration from a 1905 text by the same name written by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, a trailblazer for women's rights in South Asia. In Ganesh's words, Sultana’s Dream is a moving blueprint for an urban utopia that centers concepts such as collective knowledge production, fair governance, radical farming, scientific inquiry, safe space for refugees, and a work-life balance that includes down time and dreaming, all with women--as thinkers, leaders, rebels, and visionaries--at the helm. A video installation titled How We Do accompanied two exhibitions of Sultana’s Dream in New York and Bangladesh. In the installation, Ganesh mixed how-to videos and media reports found online with clips she solicited from friends and members of her broader queer and trans communities, seeking to build a body of collective knowledge and skill-sharing techniques, which she proposes are an essential aspect of an equitable future.

In her most recent work, A city will tell you her secrets if you ask, this year’s QUEERPOWER public art installation at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art in NYC, Ganesh celebrates queer, trans, and BIPOC histories of downtown Manhattan while commemorating the deaths of trans people murdered in 2020 and LGBTQ activists lost to COVID. 

Related events

Chitra Ganesh: On Utopia and Dissent. Friday, March 12, 8 p.m.  presented by UMMA and the Penny Stamps Speaker Series

Chitra Ganesh programs are organized in partnership with the Penny Stamps Speaker Series and the Spectrum Center in conjunction with the upcoming UMMA exhibition Oh honey...a queer reading of the collection. 

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:16:06 -0500 2021-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T13:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
NCF 'Keywords' Discussion (February 12, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81348 81348-20887817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This open-ended discussion forum will center around various “keywords” of your choosing. We invite you all to contribute a keyword or theme that you are currently thinking about in relation to your own research. Our goal with this virtual event is to think collectively, form connections, and inspire creative directions.

You do not need to come prepared with a presentation, but merely an idea, thought, or question centered around your chosen word. Equally, there is no requirement that you come prepared to discuss a specific keyword if you would prefer to attend as a listener/respondent.

For inspiration, you might turn to the Victorian Literature and Culture 'Keywords' double-issue containing hundreds of mini-essays on keywords.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:24:22 -0500 2021-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Typesetting in wood
Story, Word, Sound, Sway (February 12, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80761 80761-20785430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is on view at Stamps Gallery January 18, 2021 – February 28, 2021. The gallery is currently open Tuesdays and Fridays from 2pm to 7pm to U-M faculty, staff, and students with valid MCards only. Learn more about COVID health and safety restrictions prior to your visit:  https://stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/stamps_gallery
The work in the exhibition can also be viewed online: http://stamps.umich.edu/calendar/event-detail/story_word_sound_sway

Artists: Carisa Bledsoe (BFA Interarts ’14), Schroeder Cherry (BFA ’76), Elshafei Dafalla (MFA ’08), Masimba Hwati (MFA ’19), Caleb Moss (BFA ’13), Senghor Reid (BFA ’99), Valencia Robin (MFA ’08), Yvette Rock (MFA ’99), Wes Taylor (BFA ’04), Levester Williams (BFA ’13), and Elizabeth Youngblood (BFA ’73)

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is an exhibition of work by eleven Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni using performance, movement, text, sound, and design to interrogate systems of oppression and interrupt the status quo. It explores themes of alternative histories, archives, Black identity, collective memory, storytelling; meshing performance and performativity, and the interplay of the oral and aural in one’s experience of the world. An undercurrent of movement explored in multiple variations thread the works together, realized through a variety of methods including painterly gesture, repetitive mark-making, performance with an audience or without, spoken word, ambient sound, and reimagined instruments. The exhibition aspires to pull at the loosened threads of a social fabric in crisis, revealing larger complex histories and art discourses, nationally and internationally, framed through the experiences and trajectories of Stamps alumni during their time in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include interviews with each of the alumni artists conducted by current Stamps’ student and exhibition co-curator Moteniola Ogundipe.

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is co-curated by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Moteniola Ogundipe.

 

Image: Levester Williams, “Shift, Sift, Swoosh Bods,” 2018, (detail, video still) HD video, color, four audio channels; 17 minutes 33 seconds (full length).

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-02-12T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Shift-Sift-Swoosh-Bods_still_04.jpg
Candy Chang: Transforming Our Cities (February 12, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80898 80898-20818974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Through the activation of public spaces around the world, Taiwanese-American artist Candy Chang creates work that examines the dynamics between society and the psyche, the threshold between isolation and community, and the ways shared places can cultivate reflection, perspective, and kinship. She is interested in the relationship between public space and mental health, the tension between individual liberty and social cohesion, and a city that exposes and fosters the complexity of the individual and collective psyche. With a background in urban planning, Chang worked with communities in Nairobi, New York, Helsinki, New Orleans, Vancouver, and Johannesburg, where she observed universal challenges of the democratic commons. She created interactive experiments in the public realm to explore more inclusive forms of community dialogue. After struggling with grief and depression, she channeled her emotional questions into her public work. Thanks to passionate people around the world, her participatory public art project Before I Die has been created in over 2,000 cities and over 70 countries, including China, Iraq, Argentina, Russia, Haiti, Kazakhstan, and South Africa. Her work has been exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale, New Museum, Tate Modern, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. She is a recipient of the TED Senior Fellowship, Tulane University Urban Innovation Fellowship, Tony Goldman Visionary Artist Award, and Art Production Fund Artist Residency. She was named one of the Top 100 Leaders in Public Interest Design by Impact Design Hub, a “Live Your Best Life” Local Hero by Oprah Magazine, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She has been the keynote speaker at events including the Creativity World Forum, American Planning Association National Conference, and the Global Health Summit. She received a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Columbia University, as well as a BS in Architecture and a BFA in Graphic Design from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

This Speaker Series event is an online premiere of a live event from our archives, which the artist has graciously granted permission for in light of the ongoing circumstances of isolation. The event took place in 2014 with support from Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Arts Engine, and the Institute for the Humanities. Our 2020-2021 Series is brought to you with the support of our streaming partners, Detroit Public Television and PBS Books.

How to WatchAll events will be webcast on Fridays at 8pm (ET) at http://pennystampsevents.org and https://dptv.org/pennystamps. Join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

Subscribe to receive weekly email reminders for Penny Stamps Speaker Series events.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

 

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:15:08 -0500 2021-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Chang-Candy.jpg
To/From: UMMA Love Poems (February 14, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81525 81525-20905717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 14, 2021 12:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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During the week of Feb 14, if you write UMMA a love poem and send it to our Instagram DM's; we'll respond with a custom love poem about you. Whether it's a haiku, a sonnet, or a piece of freeverse prose that bucks the rules of language, write whatever your heart desires and feel that love in return when our curators and staff draft a poem inspired by you!    Follow @UMMAMuseum on Instagram and send your poem to us as a message to enter: https://www.instagram.com/ummamuseum/   xoxo, UMMA   p.s. We believe in spreading the love, so we may share all of or a portion of your submitted poem publicly.  

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Other Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:16:27 -0500 2021-02-14T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-14T00:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
UMMA Jukebox (February 15, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81337 81337-20887794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 12:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Welcome to UMMA Jukebox! A community collaborative playlist in conjunction with our two newest works on display!

Do you listen to music while you study? When you go about your chores? Does certain music help you focus more while others help you relax? Dig into these two new works, Sophie/Elsie and Behind the Walls, with some accompanying music contributed by UMMA staff and the greater UM community. You can listen to the Spotify playlists to help you reflect on these art works and perhaps view them in a different perspective. For example, how do you feel about Sophie/Elsie when listening to classical music, say Stravinsky, versus "Like a Girl" by Lizzo? 

If looking at these works makes you think of a song, contribute to our growing playlist by following this link.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:15:49 -0500 2021-02-15T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T23:55:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
For Your Eyes Only (February 15, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-15T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Group Chat: Who Run the World? (Girls) (February 15, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81449 81449-20895778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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In honor of the first woman Vice President, Kamala Harris, join curator Laura De Becker for a tour of three works in UMMA's collection that depict and celebrate strong women.

This is one of five themed tours offered as part of UMMA + Chill during the month of February. Each theme will be accompanied by a customized beverage suggestion created by local mixologists. Availability is first-come first serve and may be full. Click here to see all of the Group Chat events.

Registration opens on February 3 at 9am. You may invite as many friends and family members to join as you'd like, but please have your list of guests ready to provide upon registration. We need their names and email addresses to send them their private log-in information. 

A list of beverage ingredients for each tour will be provided in advance so you can acquire items prior to your scheduled tour. 

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Presentation Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:16:23 -0500 2021-02-15T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
For Your Eyes Only (February 16, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-16T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-16T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Story, Word, Sound, Sway (February 16, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80761 80761-20785431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is on view at Stamps Gallery January 18, 2021 – February 28, 2021. The gallery is currently open Tuesdays and Fridays from 2pm to 7pm to U-M faculty, staff, and students with valid MCards only. Learn more about COVID health and safety restrictions prior to your visit:  https://stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/stamps_gallery
The work in the exhibition can also be viewed online: http://stamps.umich.edu/calendar/event-detail/story_word_sound_sway

Artists: Carisa Bledsoe (BFA Interarts ’14), Schroeder Cherry (BFA ’76), Elshafei Dafalla (MFA ’08), Masimba Hwati (MFA ’19), Caleb Moss (BFA ’13), Senghor Reid (BFA ’99), Valencia Robin (MFA ’08), Yvette Rock (MFA ’99), Wes Taylor (BFA ’04), Levester Williams (BFA ’13), and Elizabeth Youngblood (BFA ’73)

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is an exhibition of work by eleven Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni using performance, movement, text, sound, and design to interrogate systems of oppression and interrupt the status quo. It explores themes of alternative histories, archives, Black identity, collective memory, storytelling; meshing performance and performativity, and the interplay of the oral and aural in one’s experience of the world. An undercurrent of movement explored in multiple variations thread the works together, realized through a variety of methods including painterly gesture, repetitive mark-making, performance with an audience or without, spoken word, ambient sound, and reimagined instruments. The exhibition aspires to pull at the loosened threads of a social fabric in crisis, revealing larger complex histories and art discourses, nationally and internationally, framed through the experiences and trajectories of Stamps alumni during their time in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include interviews with each of the alumni artists conducted by current Stamps’ student and exhibition co-curator Moteniola Ogundipe.

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is co-curated by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Moteniola Ogundipe.

 

Image: Levester Williams, “Shift, Sift, Swoosh Bods,” 2018, (detail, video still) HD video, color, four audio channels; 17 minutes 33 seconds (full length).

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-02-16T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-16T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Shift-Sift-Swoosh-Bods_still_04.jpg
Portraits of Lincoln (A Public Lecture of the Residential College & Program in the Environment Course Children Under Fire) (February 16, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81932 81932-20990913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for Portraits of Lincoln on Tuesday, February 16, from 2:30-3:30pm to learn about the consequences of early reading, the boyhood of Lincoln, and the politics of education and self-improvement of one of our most revered presidents. We'll be hearing from:

>>> Dave Choberka, Ph.D. Andrew W. Mellon Curator for University Learning and Programs at the University of Michigan Museum of Art;

>>> Julia Mickenberg, Professor of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

>>> Liz Goodenough, RC lecturer in Arts & Ideas in the Humanities

In course Children Under Fire: Narratives of Sustainability (RCHUMS 337 / ENVIRON 337) taught by Liz Goodenough, students learn that literature for and about children, from the earliest folk tales, has always addressed life and death. In diverse genres, from horror story to high adventure, from rags to riches, young heroes sustain themselves in the face of adult decisions regarding scarcity (food and water), violence, illness, and abuse. This environmental humanities seminar examines how early reading mediated crises challenging the future lives of US Presidents and First Ladies--from Andrew Jackson and James Garfield to Eleanor Roosevelt and Barack Obama.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:51:36 -0500 2021-02-16T14:30:00-05:00 2021-02-16T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Lecture / Discussion Portraits of Lincoln
For Your Eyes Only (February 17, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-17T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Cold Weather, Hot Takes: Cooking Through the Pandemic  with David Tamarkin, Digital Director of Epicurious (February 17, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81592 81592-20929544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

egister.

For many, the Covid-19 pandemic has meant getting deeply reacquainted with our kitchens and  pushing the limits of home cooking creativity. David Tamarkin, Digital Director of Epicurious and author of Cook90: The 30-Day Plan for Faster, Healthier, Happier Meals, is an outspoken champion of home cooking and launched "Cooking Through It" on Epi as a response to the pandemic. Tamarkin will reflect on how food media has responded to the pandemic, share tips on how to keep home cooking fun and fresh as we soldier on, explore the intersection of home cooking and sustainability, and dish on all the hot (and not-so-hot) pandemic food trends. Hosted by Jim Leija, UMMA Deputy Director for Public Experience and Learning.  

Tamarkin joined Epicurious as its chief editor in 2015. His words and recipes have appeared in publications such as Bon Appetit, Healthyish, Gourmet, Cooking Light, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Food Network Magazine, The Guardian, Wine & Spirits, Time Out New York, and Time Out Chicago, where for many years he was the food editor. David is the creator of COOK90 and the author of COOK90: The 30-Day Plan for Faster, Healthier, Happier Meals, which the New York Times called "excellent." He's also the co-author of More Mexican Every Day and the publisher of the short-lived, experimental cooking magazine Middlewest. Find him on twitter @DavidTamarkin.  

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Other Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:16:25 -0500 2021-02-17T12:30:00-05:00 2021-02-17T13:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
For Your Eyes Only (February 18, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-18T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
CCPS Lecture. Free Improvisation and Jazz Avant-Garde in Poland: From Tomasz Stańko to Mikołaj Trzaska (February 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80117 80117-20564736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Maciej Lewenstein will present a historical review of free improvisation and jazz avant-garde, starting from the 1960s, as well as the early attempts to play free jazz by Tomasz Stańko or Leszek Żᶕdło. He will comment on the fusion-dominated 1970s and 1980s, then focus on the yass movement of the 1990s. The important role of the late Andrzej “Major” Przybielski will be stressed. He will sketch the present free improvisation scene in Poland, and describe a few of the leading figures of this scene: Mikołaj Trzaska, Rafał Mazur, Jerzy Mazzoll, Wacław Zimpel, Piotr Mełech, Paulina Owczarek, and more. The lecture will be illustrated with numerous musical examples. Maciej Lewenstein will also spend some time discussing the general condition of the Polish avant-garde: jazz clubs, concerts and festivals, as well as record labels.

Maciej Lewenstein graduated at Warsaw University in 1978 and joined the Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He finished his PhD in Essen in 1983 and habilitated in 1986 in Warsaw. He was postdoc at Universitaet Essen, at Harvard University, at Commisariat a l'Énergie Atomique in Saclay, and at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder. He was on faculty in Saclay (1995-98) and Leibniz University Hannover (1998-2005). In 2005, he moved to Catalonia as ICREA Professor to lead the quantum optics theory program at the Institut de Ciències Fotòniques in Castelldefels. His interests include quantum optics, quantum physics, quantum information, many body theory, and more. His other passion is jazz, and he is the author of *Polish Jazz Recordings and Beyond*.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required at Register at http://myumi.ch/nboXz.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:56:23 -0500 2021-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Maciej Lewenstein
Stamps @ Home: A Conversation with Artists from the Exhibition Story, Word, Sound, Sway (February 18, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81053 81053-20840654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 6 pm to hear from four Stamps School alumni artists featured in the exhibition Story, Word, Sound, Sway, on view online and at Stamps Gallery January 18, 2021 – February 28, 2021.

Panelists include:

- Senghor Reid (BFA ’99)
- Yvette Rock (MFA ’99)
- Wes Taylor (BFA ’04)
- Elizabeth Youngblood (BFA ’73)

Reid, Rock, Taylor, and Youngblood will discuss the ways their creative work challenges the status quo and the role that artists play in breaking down the walls of oppression and injustice. The Stamps Gallery exhibition Story, Word, Sound, Sway explores subjects of alternative histories, Black identity, and storytelling; meshing performance and performativity, and the interplay of the oral and aural in one’s experience of the world.

This event is co-presented with Stamps Gallery, co-sponsored by the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

Stamps events are free and open to the public, and we are committed to making them accessible to all attendees. This event will be online using the Zoom platform with an auto-generated Live Transcript available. If you anticipate needing any additional accommodations to participate, please email Melissa Herter at arnettm@umich.edu at least one week in advance of the scheduled event so we can arrange for your accommodation or an effective alternative. After receiving your request, our team will follow up with you directly.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcuCvrj8rGNJ6_P8Fme6jtYBQtCxCmwt2

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Feb 2021 12:15:08 -0500 2021-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/1000x501-Stamps_at_home-web-image.jpg
Modeling the Message (February 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81582 81582-20927570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Book artist Alisa Banks will discuss the relationship between content and form in creating artists’ books.

For example, her work When is now?, a recent acquisition of the U-M Library, is comprised of a circular wooden box that, when opened, contains what appears to be the top of a person’s head. As you peer into the box, only the person’s hair is visible, nestled in the bottom of the container. A poem encircles the lid. Banks will walk us through a selection of her works and the decisions that went into their eventual forms.

Presented by the University of Michigan Library as part of a Book Arts Studio series.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:28:06 -0500 2021-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Lecture / Discussion When is now?, an artist book by Alisa Banks.
The Adjacent Possible (February 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81593 81593-20929545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

ebruary 18, 8 p.m. EST.

The Adjacent Possible mixes music performance, storytelling, and technology that converts the audience into an orchestra. The project culminates in the recording of an orchestral piece - the first and last ever to be performed. No musical experience required. We don’t use your video or audio so there is no need to get dressed up for us :-)

You will want to have:
A laptop or desktop (the experience is not yet available on mobile) Headphones: the best you have. You will not need a microphone A solid internet connection… with Zoom installed
...and a quiet place to get lost together.

This event is hosted by the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would assist your full participation in this event, please please email Briannon Cierpilowski: briannon@umich.edu, to share your accommodation requirements.

UMMA performances of The Adjacent Possible are in conjunction with the current exclusive series being presented by CSUF Grand Central Art Center.

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Performance Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:16:28 -0500 2021-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
For Your Eyes Only (February 19, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-19T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Critical Conversations presents: Archives with Hadji Bakara, Jennifer Friess, Patricia Garcia, June Howard, and John Whittier-Ferguson (February 19, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81075 81075-20842635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Come join UMMA Associate Curator of Photography Jennifer Friess along with U-M faculty and graduate students for this lunchtime discussion.

Critical Conversations is an interdepartmental lunchtime discussion series that invites University of Michigan faculty and occasionally visitors to present flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme.

Organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s office, Critical Conversations aims to build community among faculty and graduate students by creating an informal space to think through questions that matter.

Additional support for Critical Conversations has generously been provided by Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops, including the Transnational Contemporary Literature Workshop and the Exploring Historical Legacies and Memory Workshop, and departmental units including American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, Comparative Literature, History of Art, Film Television and Media, Judaic Studies, and Women’s Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:16:25 -0500 2021-02-19T12:30:00-05:00 2021-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Outdoor Tour: Behind the Walls and Sophie / Elsie (February 19, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81333 81333-20887790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Meet UMMA’s newest faces! Jaume Plensa’s Behind the Walls and Mary Sibande’s Sophie / Elsie provide a visible public presence at a time when in-person engagement with the arts and indoor events are limited. Explore these sculptures with museum guides, who will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for these riveting and intriguing works. 

This is an outdoor activity and all are welcome. Please wear a mask and follow COVID safety protocol. Entrance to the Museum building is restricted.

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Presentation Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:16:25 -0500 2021-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Story, Word, Sound, Sway (February 19, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80761 80761-20785432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is on view at Stamps Gallery January 18, 2021 – February 28, 2021. The gallery is currently open Tuesdays and Fridays from 2pm to 7pm to U-M faculty, staff, and students with valid MCards only. Learn more about COVID health and safety restrictions prior to your visit:  https://stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/stamps_gallery
The work in the exhibition can also be viewed online: http://stamps.umich.edu/calendar/event-detail/story_word_sound_sway

Artists: Carisa Bledsoe (BFA Interarts ’14), Schroeder Cherry (BFA ’76), Elshafei Dafalla (MFA ’08), Masimba Hwati (MFA ’19), Caleb Moss (BFA ’13), Senghor Reid (BFA ’99), Valencia Robin (MFA ’08), Yvette Rock (MFA ’99), Wes Taylor (BFA ’04), Levester Williams (BFA ’13), and Elizabeth Youngblood (BFA ’73)

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is an exhibition of work by eleven Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni using performance, movement, text, sound, and design to interrogate systems of oppression and interrupt the status quo. It explores themes of alternative histories, archives, Black identity, collective memory, storytelling; meshing performance and performativity, and the interplay of the oral and aural in one’s experience of the world. An undercurrent of movement explored in multiple variations thread the works together, realized through a variety of methods including painterly gesture, repetitive mark-making, performance with an audience or without, spoken word, ambient sound, and reimagined instruments. The exhibition aspires to pull at the loosened threads of a social fabric in crisis, revealing larger complex histories and art discourses, nationally and internationally, framed through the experiences and trajectories of Stamps alumni during their time in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include interviews with each of the alumni artists conducted by current Stamps’ student and exhibition co-curator Moteniola Ogundipe.

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is co-curated by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Moteniola Ogundipe.

 

Image: Levester Williams, “Shift, Sift, Swoosh Bods,” 2018, (detail, video still) HD video, color, four audio channels; 17 minutes 33 seconds (full length).

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Shift-Sift-Swoosh-Bods_still_04.jpg
Group Chat: Let's Celebrate! Everyday Photographs from the Before Times (February 19, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81445 81445-20895774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Remember celebrating together? Taking cheeky photos with friends and awkward photographs with family to commemorate personal milestones is a significant part of how we gather. Join curator Jennifer Friess for a virtual tour (unironically, from her home via Zoom) of twentieth-century amateur photographs picturing parties, gatherings, and celebrations from UMMA’s collection. We will explore the special moments that bring us together and the role of photography in making memories.

This is one of five themed tours offered as part of UMMA + Chill during the month of February. Each theme will be accompanied by a customized beverage suggestion created by local mixologists. Availability is first-come first serve and may be full. Click here to see all of the Group Chat events.

Registration opens on February 3 at 9am. You may invite as many friends and family members to join as you'd like, but please have your list of guests ready to provide upon registration. We need their names and email addresses to send them their private log-in information. 

A list of beverage ingredients for each tour will be provided in advance so you can acquire items prior to your scheduled tour. 

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Presentation Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:16:23 -0500 2021-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Group Chat: Caustic + Bitters (February 19, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81447 81447-20895776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Artists integrate humour in their works of art in ways that can be twisted, dark, political, silly, nonsensical, weird and dry. In this tour, you will join Isabelle Marie Anne Gillet, UMMA’s Stenn Fellow in Public and Digital Humanities and Museum Pedagogy, to explore and discuss how artists use humor as a tool to undermine the superficial meaning of what is depicted and subvert or even confuse expectations. We might even laugh.

This is one of five themed tours offered as part of UMMA + Chill during the month of February. Each theme will be accompanied by a customized beverage suggestion created by local mixologists. Availability is first-come first serve and may be full. Click here to see all of the Group Chat events.

Registration opens on February 3 at 9am. You may invite as many friends and family members to join as you'd like, but please have your list of guests ready to provide upon registration. We need their names and email addresses to send them their private log-in information. 

A list of beverage ingredients for each tour will be provided in advance so you can acquire items prior to your scheduled tour.   

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Presentation Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:16:23 -0500 2021-02-19T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T19:45:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Jaume Plensa: Can You Hear Me? (February 19, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80899 80899-20818975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

“Can You Hear Me?” is a documentary film that follows internationally celebrated Spanish artist Jaume Plensa for a year and a half, offering audiences an unfiltered look into his artistic process. Directed by Pedro Ballesteros, the film presents Plensa’s story across seven chapters, moving between moments from the studio and the production of some of Plensa’s most ambitious public projects, including the recent large-scale works installed at Rockefeller Center and Hudson Yards in New York. 

Plensa is one of the world’s foremost sculptors in the public realm with award-winning projects spanning the globe in such cities as Calgary, Chicago, San Diego, Montréal, London, Paris, Dubai, Bangkok, Shanghai, and Tokyo. His monumental sculpture Behind the Walls was recently installed outside the front doors of the University of Michigan Museum of Art. 

Most well known in the U.S. for his iconic Crown Fountain (2000-2005) at Millenium Park in Chicago, the artist has spent the last 35 years producing a multifaceted body of sculpture that speaks to the capacity and beauty of humanity, often bringing people together through the activation of public spaces. Conventional sculptural materials like glass, steel, and bronze blend with unconventional media such as water, light and sound to create hybrid works of intricate energy, psychological weight, and symbolic richness.

The winner of many national and international awards including the Honorary Doctorate from Univeristat Aut’onoma de Barcelona in 2018 and the 2013 Velazquez Prize awarded by the Spanish Cultural Ministry, Jaume Plensa has had solo museum exhibitions at the MACBA: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid Spain; MAMC–Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Étienne, France; Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Brühl, Germany; The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England; and Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas. He lives and works in Barcelona.

Behind the Walls is a University of Michigan Museum of Art purchase made possible by the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family.

A screening of the documentary will be followed with a conversation between the artist and Christina Olsen, Director of UMMA, and U-M students. The documentary will be available for a 3 week limited engagement through special arrangement with the filmmaker.

This event is presented in partnership with UMMA. Our 2020-2021 Series is brought to you with the support of our streaming partners, Detroit Public Television and PBS Books.

How to WatchAll events will be webcast on Fridays at 8pm (ET) at http://pennystampsevents.org and https://dptv.org/pennystamps. Join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

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Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

 

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 10:02:29 -0500 2021-02-19T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Plensa-Jaume-v2.jpg
Jaume Plensa: Can You Hear Me? (February 19, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81221 81221-20873995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

“Can You Hear Me?” is a documentary film that follows internationally celebrated Spanish artist Jaume Plensa for a year and a half, offering audiences an unfiltered look into his artistic process. Directed by Pedro Ballesteros, the film presents Plensa’s story across seven chapters, moving between moments from the studio and the production of some of Plensa’s most ambitious public projects, including the recent large-scale works installed at Rockefeller Center and Hudson Yards in New York. 

Plensa is one of the world’s foremost sculptors in the public realm with award-winning projects spanning the globe in such cities as Calgary, Chicago, San Diego, Montréal, London, Paris, Dubai, Bangkok, Shanghai, and Tokyo.  His monumental sculpture Behind the Walls was recently installed outside the front doors of the University of Michigan Museum of Art. 

Most well known in the U.S. for his iconic Crown Fountain (2000-2005) at Millenium Park in Chicago, the artist has spent the last 35 years producing a multifaceted body of sculpture that speaks to the capacity and beauty of humanity, often bringing people together through the activation of public spaces. Conventional sculptural materials like glass, steel, and bronze blend with unconventional media such as water, light and sound to create hybrid works of intricate energy, psychological weight, and symbolic richness.

The winner of many national and international awards including the Honorary Doctorate from Univeristat Aut’onoma de Barcelona in 2018 and the 2013 Velazquez Prize awarded by the Spanish Cultural Ministry, Jaume Plensa has had solo museum exhibitions at the MACBA: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid Spain; MAMC–Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Étienne, France; Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Brühl, Germany; The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England; and Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas. He lives and works in Barcelona.

A screening of the documentary will be followed with a conversation between the artist and Christina Olsen, Director of UMMA, and U-M students. The documentary will be available for a 3 week limited engagement through special arrangement with the filmmaker. 

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.  

Behind the Walls is a University of Michigan Museum of Art purchase made possible by the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:16:21 -0500 2021-02-19T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T21:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
For Your Eyes Only (February 20, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-20T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-20T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Outdoor Tour: Behind the Walls and Sophie / Elsie (February 20, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81339 81339-20887796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Meet UMMA’s newest faces! Jaume Plensa’s Behind the Walls and Mary Sibande’s Sophie / Elsie provide a visible public presence at a time when in-person engagement with the arts and indoor events are limited. Explore these sculptures with museum guides, who will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for these riveting and intriguing works. 

Reminder: Only U-M community members (students, staff, and faculty holding an MCard) are allowed inside the museum building during open hours.

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Presentation Thu, 28 Jan 2021 06:15:48 -0500 2021-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2021-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Group Chat: Who Run the World? (Girls) (February 20, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81450 81450-20895779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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In honor of the first woman Vice President, Kamala Harris, join curator Laura De Becker for a tour of three works in UMMA's collection that depict and celebrate strong women.

This is one of five themed tours offered as part of UMMA + Chill during the month of February. Each theme will be accompanied by a customized beverage suggestion created by local mixologists. 

Availability for this event is first-come first serve and may be full. Click here to check availability of this and other Group Chat events.

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Presentation Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:16:25 -0500 2021-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Group Chat: From Edo to Tokyo: Then and Now (February 20, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81451 81451-20895780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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 All eyes are on Tokyo for year 2021! Can the Olympics and Paralympics finally happen without a live audience? Don't worry even if you cannot visit the world's coolest city just yet. UMMA curator and Tokyo native Natsu Oyobe will take you to a tour of Tokyo through historical and modern prints featured in UMMA's Gallery of Japanese Art.

This is one of five themed tours offered as part of UMMA + Chill during the month of February. Each theme will be accompanied by a customized beverage suggestion created by local mixologists. 

Availability for this event is first-come first serve and may be full. Click here to check availability of this and other Group Chat events.

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Presentation Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:16:26 -0500 2021-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-20T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
For Your Eyes Only (February 21, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-21T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
The Adjacent Possible (February 21, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81594 81594-20929546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

ebruary 18, 8 p.m. EST.

The Adjacent Possible mixes music performance, storytelling, and technology that converts the audience into an orchestra. The project culminates in the recording of an orchestral piece - the first and last ever to be performed. No musical experience required. We don’t use your video or audio so there is no need to get dressed up for us :-)

You will want to have:
A laptop or desktop (the experience is not yet available on mobile) Headphones: the best you have. You will not need a microphone A solid internet connection… with Zoom installed
...and a quiet place to get lost together.

This event is hosted by the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would assist your full participation in this event, please please email Briannon Cierpilowski: briannon@umich.edu, to share your accommodation requirements.

UMMA performances of The Adjacent Possible are in conjunction with the current exclusive series being presented by CSUF Grand Central Art Center.

More information available at .

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Performance Sun, 21 Feb 2021 18:16:25 -0500 2021-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Outdoor Tour: Behind the Walls and Sophie / Elsie (February 21, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81332 81332-20887789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Meet UMMA’s newest faces! Jaume Plensa’s Behind the Walls and Mary Sibande’s Sophie / Elsie provide a visible public presence at a time when in-person engagement with the arts and indoor events are limited. Explore these sculptures with museum guides, who will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for these riveting and intriguing works. 

This is an outdoor activity and all are welcome. Please wear a mask and follow COVID safety protocol. Entrance to the Museum building is restricted.

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Presentation Sun, 21 Feb 2021 18:16:22 -0500 2021-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Group Chat: From Edo to Tokyo: Then and Now (February 21, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81452 81452-20895781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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 All eyes are on Tokyo for year 2021! Can the Olympics and Paralympics finally happen without a live audience? Don't worry even if you cannot visit the world's coolest city just yet. UMMA curator and Tokyo native Natsu Oyobe will take you to a tour of Tokyo through historical and modern prints featured in UMMA's Gallery of Japanese Art.

This is one of five themed tours offered as part of UMMA + Chill during the month of February. Each theme will be accompanied by a customized beverage suggestion created by local mixologists. 

Availability for this event is first-come first serve and may be full. Click here to check availability of this and other Group Chat events.

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Presentation Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:16:21 -0500 2021-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
For Your Eyes Only (February 22, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-22T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Cold Weather Hot Takes: We Heard Ann Arbor Used To Be Cooler (February 22, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81523 81523-20905715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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This program takes place on Zoom. Please register to receive the link.

Jacob Gorski from the Ann Arbor District Library and Sean Kramer from UMMA chat about their discoveries while digging into Ann Arbor’s queer history for their respective projects, the AADL podcast, The Gayest Generation, and the UMMA exhibition, Oh, honey… A queer reading of the collection. Jacob, a transplant from Saginaw, Michigan, and Sean, a native of middle-of-nowhere Kansas, have both lived in Ann Arbor for several years now and both had expectations about what they heard was a hip, artsy college town where coffee shops, bookstores, bars, and restaurants abound. They’ll discuss their earliest encounters with Ann Arbor—from walking to the food co-op to Google searching “gay bar near me”—and how their perceptions have changed over the years just as the city has. Audience members are invited to share their own hot takes on Ann Arbor’s past and present.

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Other Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:16:22 -0500 2021-02-22T12:30:00-05:00 2021-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Future of Art Institutions: Rebuild or Repair? (February 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81750 81750-20951371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Arts institutions, such as museums, were founded on colonialist ideas – white Europeans collected the rest of the world during their conquests and travels, establishing places to promote one set of cultural ideals at the expense of others. Though they have reexamined their origins, shifting their missions toward education and visitor experience, museums and other arts institutions carry the baggage of their historic trajectory. For our arts institutions to be truly useful to future audiences, our panelists ask, can we rethink and repair these institutions to make them more relevant? Or, should we knock them all down and rebuild new institutions?

Moderated by Tina Olsen, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Panelists:

Maurita Poole is director and curator of the museum at Clark Atlanta University, an HBCU, whose collection focuses on Black artists of the mid-20th century. Her PhD from Emory University is in anthropology; she has worked as a curator at Williams College Museum of Art, The Walters Art Museum, The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.

Terence Washington is program director at NXTHVN, a model to advance the careers of artists and curators of color through mentorship and professional development. He worked in the Education Department at the National Gallery of Art after receiving his master’s degree in art history from Williams College.

Anya Sirota is Associate Professor of Architecture Associate Dean of Academic Initiatives at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Through her design firm, Akoaki, she explores the intersection of design and social enterprise to rethink the urban landscape. She received her Master in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

The Future of Art Series is hosted by the U-M Arts Initiative as part of a two-year startup phase.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Feb 2021 18:16:20 -0500 2021-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T17:10:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Future of Art Institutions: Repair or Rebuild? (February 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81575 81575-20927563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Arts institutions, such as museums, were founded on colonialist ideas – white Europeans collected the rest of the world during their conquests and travels, establishing places to promote one set of cultural ideals at the expense of others. Though many have reexamined their history and practices, shifting their missions toward education and visitor experience, museums and other arts institutions carry the baggage of these historic origins. For our arts institutions to matter and fulfill their mission to BiPOC and future publics can we rethink and repair them? Or, should we knock them all down and rebuild new institutions? Or something in between? Our panel considers these questions in a wide-ranging discussion on the future of art institutions.

Moderated by Christina Olsen, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art; with Maurita Poole, Director and curator of the museum at Clark Atlanta University; Terence Washington, Program Director at NXTHVN, a model to advance the careers of artists and curators of color through mentorship and professional development; and Anya Sirota, Associate Dean of Academic Initiatives at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Monday, February 22, 4:00-5:10.

Register to receive Zoom information:
https://umich.formstack.com/forms/feb22_futureofart

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:52:23 -0500 2021-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T17:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Lecture / Discussion Maurita Poole, Terence Washington, Anya Sirota
For Your Eyes Only (February 23, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-23T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Story, Word, Sound, Sway (February 23, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80761 80761-20785433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is on view at Stamps Gallery January 18, 2021 – February 28, 2021. The gallery is currently open Tuesdays and Fridays from 2pm to 7pm to U-M faculty, staff, and students with valid MCards only. Learn more about COVID health and safety restrictions prior to your visit:  https://stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/stamps_gallery
The work in the exhibition can also be viewed online: http://stamps.umich.edu/calendar/event-detail/story_word_sound_sway

Artists: Carisa Bledsoe (BFA Interarts ’14), Schroeder Cherry (BFA ’76), Elshafei Dafalla (MFA ’08), Masimba Hwati (MFA ’19), Caleb Moss (BFA ’13), Senghor Reid (BFA ’99), Valencia Robin (MFA ’08), Yvette Rock (MFA ’99), Wes Taylor (BFA ’04), Levester Williams (BFA ’13), and Elizabeth Youngblood (BFA ’73)

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is an exhibition of work by eleven Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni using performance, movement, text, sound, and design to interrogate systems of oppression and interrupt the status quo. It explores themes of alternative histories, archives, Black identity, collective memory, storytelling; meshing performance and performativity, and the interplay of the oral and aural in one’s experience of the world. An undercurrent of movement explored in multiple variations thread the works together, realized through a variety of methods including painterly gesture, repetitive mark-making, performance with an audience or without, spoken word, ambient sound, and reimagined instruments. The exhibition aspires to pull at the loosened threads of a social fabric in crisis, revealing larger complex histories and art discourses, nationally and internationally, framed through the experiences and trajectories of Stamps alumni during their time in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include interviews with each of the alumni artists conducted by current Stamps’ student and exhibition co-curator Moteniola Ogundipe.

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is co-curated by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Moteniola Ogundipe.

 

Image: Levester Williams, “Shift, Sift, Swoosh Bods,” 2018, (detail, video still) HD video, color, four audio channels; 17 minutes 33 seconds (full length).

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-02-23T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Shift-Sift-Swoosh-Bods_still_04.jpg
For Your Eyes Only (February 24, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-24T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Mindfulness in the Museum (February 24, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81526 81526-20905718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Have you ever wished you could have a more meaningful connection with art at UMMA? In this virtual experience, we will explore a more contemplative approach to looking at art with a variety of guided mindfulness practices. As we rest our attention on our breath, the body and heart relax while the mind quiets. We can experience what’s before with more spaciousness and also learn to trust our own experience. Led by meditation teacher and UMMA docent Laura Seligman. Beginner and experienced meditators welcome.

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Presentation Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:15:59 -0500 2021-02-24T11:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
For Your Eyes Only (February 25, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-25T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Cold Weather Hot Takes: The Faculty of Laughter (February 25, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81524 81524-20905716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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UMMA’s collection includes a silkscreen by Paul Rand titled Joseph Addison Poser-Laughter. Let’s use a line from Addison—“Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter”—as a runway, of sorts, for some poetic flights. Our description of the Rand silkscreen compares its central figure to Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat. Let’s write and share a few poems in the tradition of Lewis Carroll.

We especially have Carroll’s “Mad Gardener’s Song” form in mind, an example of which goes like this: “He thought he saw an Argument / That proved he was the Pope: / He looked again, and found it was / A Bar of Mottled Soap. / ‘A fact so dread,’ he faintly said, / ‘Extinguishes all hope!’”

These poems are easy to write, and great fun to hear out loud.

 

Cody Walker directs the U-M English Department’s Undergraduate Creative Writing Program and co-directs the Bear River Writers’ Conference. He’s the author of three poetry collections, including The Self-Styled No-Child (Waywiser Press, 2016). His work appears in The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and The Best American Poetry. 

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Other Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:16:00 -0500 2021-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T13:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Radical Acts: A conversation with Sheryl Oring and Sherrill Roland (February 25, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81521 81521-20905713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Radical Acts: Building an anti-racist future through art
A conversation with Sheryl Oring and Sherrill Roland

Stamps Gallery in partnership with U-M Democracy & Debate Theme Semester is proud to present a conversation with leading social practice artists Sheryl Oring and Sherrill Roland, Creative Capital awardees and practitioners nationally renowned for their long-term and ongoing performance projects, I Wish to Say and The Jumpsuit Project. Oring and Roland leverage their socially engaged art practices as a vehicle to activate democracy and build awareness of the systemic barriers within the incarceration and criminal justice systems.

Join us for a lively and intimate conversation with Oring and Roland, who are also longtime friends and collaborators, as they discuss the urgency and complexities of making socially engaged projects in our present moment. The conversation will be moderated by Stamps Gallery Director, Srimoyee Mitra.

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Sheryl Oring activates democracy through art. She is the creator of the I Wish to Say public performance project, through which she has typed more than 4,000 postcards to four different U.S. Presidents from more than 100 locations across the country since launching the project in 2004. Her book, Activating Democracy: The I Wish to Say Project, was published by the University of Chicago Press.  Other recent projects include large-scale public art commissions at airports in Tampa and San Diego. Oring is the recipient of grants from Franklin Furnace Fund, Creative Capital Foundation, the American Council on Germany, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. Oring’s work has been shown at Bryant Park in New York; the Berlin Wall Memorial; the Jewish Museum Berlin; the 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, CA; the San Diego Museum of Art; as well as in major festivals such as Encuentro in São Paulo, Brazil, and the Art Prospect Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her work is in collections including the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art (NY) and the Tate in London and has been reviewed in numerous publications. She is Professor and Chair of the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Sherrill Roland is an interdisciplinary artist who creates art that challenges ideas around controversial social and political constructs and generates a safe space to process, question and share. He was born in Asheville, NC, and received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Inspired by his experience in prison for a crime he did not commit, he founded The Jumpsuit Project to raise awareness around issues related to mass incarceration. Roland’s socially-engaged art project has been presented at Open Engagement Chicago, Oakland City Hall, and the Studio Museum of Harlem. He is a 2021 awardee of Art for Justice Fund and Creative Capital awardee.

Image: courtesy of Sherrill Roland from The Jumpsuit Project.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuduGspz8jGNaSpz6vgmThH6cXTIWXr7zt

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Feb 2021 12:15:08 -0500 2021-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/SR_2021DCJP_%281%29.jpg
Stump UMMA: LIVE (February 25, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81338 81338-20887795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Join us as UMMA takes the hit TikTok series Stump Me, live onto Zoom. Pose a prompt, any prompt, and Isabel Engel (University Learning and Programs Specialist) and Dave Choberka (Andrew W. Mellon Curator for University Learning and Programs) will find artwork in UMMA's collection to go with it. Stump us!

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:15:59 -0500 2021-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts (February 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82040 82040-21012672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Professor Emerita Shelley Perlove, History of Art (UM-Dearborn), will give a Zoom lecture on February 25, 2021, at 7 PM. Her talk, “Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts,” is sponsored by the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (MCECS), the Department of Middle East Studies, and the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program of the University of Michigan.

The presentation focuses upon the diverse and ever-changing interpretations of Christ and his mother Mary from the 13th through the 17th c. in Italy, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Selected works will be discussed in terms of their meaning and cultural context, including Catholic and Protestant controversies. Also of interest are the varied techniques in wood, marble, gold, and paint, as well as issues of museum display. In many cases an attempt will be made to “reconstruct” the original functions of these works created for ecclesiastical and domestic settings.

Registration is required: https://forms.gle/3L1yGa7JF2GCxdiA7
*We recommend registration at least two days before the event, although registration will remain open until the night of the event.*

Additional information is available on the MCECS website: https://mcecs.org/christian-art-at-the-dia/

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:26:19 -0500 2021-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts
For Your Eyes Only (February 26, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-26T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Outdoor Tour: Behind the Walls and Sophie / Elsie (February 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81334 81334-20887791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Meet UMMA’s newest faces! Jaume Plensa’s Behind the Walls and Mary Sibande’s Sophie / Elsie provide a visible public presence at a time when in-person engagement with the arts and indoor events are limited. Explore these sculptures with museum guides, who will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for these riveting and intriguing works. 

This is an outdoor activity and all are welcome. Please wear a mask and follow COVID safety protocol. Entrance to the Museum building is restricted.

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Presentation Fri, 26 Feb 2021 18:15:57 -0500 2021-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Science as Art Faculty Panel Discussion & Awards Ceremony (February 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82385 82385-21090310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Join a panel of faculty in this discussion of the intersection of science and art. Immediately following the panel, award winners will be announced for the 2021 Science as Art competition. You can view submissions and vote for peoples' choice award through 2:15pm on Friday, February 26, 2021.

Eleni Gourgou, Assistant Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
Brad Smith, Associate Dean for Academic Programs; Professor, School of Art & Design; Research Professor, Department of Radiology
Matthew Thompson, Assistant Professor of Music; Associate Faculty, UM Center for Japanese Studies
Moderated by Deb Mexicotte, Managing Director, ArtsEngine

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:46:00 -0500 2021-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location ArtsEngine Livestream / Virtual Science as Art
Story, Word, Sound, Sway (February 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80761 80761-20785434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is on view at Stamps Gallery January 18, 2021 – February 28, 2021. The gallery is currently open Tuesdays and Fridays from 2pm to 7pm to U-M faculty, staff, and students with valid MCards only. Learn more about COVID health and safety restrictions prior to your visit:  https://stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/stamps_gallery
The work in the exhibition can also be viewed online: http://stamps.umich.edu/calendar/event-detail/story_word_sound_sway

Artists: Carisa Bledsoe (BFA Interarts ’14), Schroeder Cherry (BFA ’76), Elshafei Dafalla (MFA ’08), Masimba Hwati (MFA ’19), Caleb Moss (BFA ’13), Senghor Reid (BFA ’99), Valencia Robin (MFA ’08), Yvette Rock (MFA ’99), Wes Taylor (BFA ’04), Levester Williams (BFA ’13), and Elizabeth Youngblood (BFA ’73)

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is an exhibition of work by eleven Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni using performance, movement, text, sound, and design to interrogate systems of oppression and interrupt the status quo. It explores themes of alternative histories, archives, Black identity, collective memory, storytelling; meshing performance and performativity, and the interplay of the oral and aural in one’s experience of the world. An undercurrent of movement explored in multiple variations thread the works together, realized through a variety of methods including painterly gesture, repetitive mark-making, performance with an audience or without, spoken word, ambient sound, and reimagined instruments. The exhibition aspires to pull at the loosened threads of a social fabric in crisis, revealing larger complex histories and art discourses, nationally and internationally, framed through the experiences and trajectories of Stamps alumni during their time in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include interviews with each of the alumni artists conducted by current Stamps’ student and exhibition co-curator Moteniola Ogundipe.

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is co-curated by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Moteniola Ogundipe.

 

Image: Levester Williams, “Shift, Sift, Swoosh Bods,” 2018, (detail, video still) HD video, color, four audio channels; 17 minutes 33 seconds (full length).

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Shift-Sift-Swoosh-Bods_still_04.jpg
Residential College Zoom Chats for Prospective Students (February 26, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82001 82001-21004766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Chat with current RC students in a casual setting and learn more about the RC student experience!

>> Friday, 2/26/2021, 4-5pm ET

>> Thursday, 3/11/2021, 3-4pm ET

>> Monday, 4/5/2021, 6-7pm ET

Register via email at visittherc@gmail.com

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:35:11 -0500 2021-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Social / Informal Gathering RC Zoom Chats flier
Group Chat: Let's Celebrate! Everyday Photographs from the Before Times (February 26, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81446 81446-20895775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Remember celebrating together? Taking cheeky photos with friends and awkward photographs with family to commemorate personal milestones is a significant part of how we gather. Join curator Jennifer Friess for a virtual tour (unironically, from her home via Zoom) of twentieth-century amateur photographs picturing parties, gatherings, and celebrations from UMMA’s collection. We will explore the special moments that bring us together and the role of photography in making memories.

This is one of five themed tours offered as part of UMMA + Chill during the month of February. Each theme will be accompanied by a customized beverage suggestion created by local mixologists. 

Availability for this event is first-come first serve and may be full. Click here to check availability of this and other Group Chat events.

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Presentation Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:15:59 -0500 2021-02-26T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Group Chat: We Contain Multitudes and Exist in Multiverses: Articulations of Blackness, Black Life, and Black History in UMMA's Collections (February 26, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81443 81443-20895772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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When Alisha B. Wormsley created the phrase, “There Are Black People in the Future,” she boldly articulated an “archive of information, histories, and myths that [continued] despite the apocalyptic narrative of Black American culture.”  Join Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art, on this tour that looks at how Black artists within UMMA’s collection have used their craft to articulate identity, reflect on Black life globally, examine the stories we fail to tell, and reimagine a new future.

This is one of five themed tours offered as part of UMMA + Chill during the month of February. Each theme will be accompanied by a customized beverage suggestion created by local mixologists.

Availability for this event is first-come first serve and may be full. Click here to check availability of this and other Group Chat events.  

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Presentation Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:15:58 -0500 2021-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
The Virtual Mark Webster Reading Series (February 26, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75955 75955-19627790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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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. Tune in to enjoy work from the next generation of authors.

This week's reading features Kelsey Wiora [Fiction] and Catherine Valdez [Poetry]. 

Organized by the MFA in Creative Writing Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts David Freeman (dfrman@umich.edu) or Lauren Morrow (lmmorrow@umich.edu).

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Presentation Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:15:57 -0500 2021-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Sophia Brueckner: Sci-Fi Prototyping and Critical Optimism (February 26, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80900 80900-20818976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Inseparable from computers since the age of two, Sophia Brueckner believes she is a cyborg. As a software engineer at Google, she designed and built products used by tens of millions. At the Rhode Island School of Design and the MIT Media Lab, she researched the simultaneously empowering and controlling aspects of technology with a focus on tangible and social interfaces. Since 2011, Brueckner has taught Sci-Fi Prototyping, a course combining science fiction, extrapolative thinking, building prototypes, and technology ethics at MIT, Harvard, RISD, Brown, and the University of Michigan. Both the class itself as well as the students’ individual projects received international recognition and were featured by The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, Wired, NPR, Scientific American, Fast Company, and many others. Creating new ways to apply science fiction to the design process, Brueckner prototypes alternatives to the tech industry’s limited visions for how we live with technology. She makes both physical and digital artifacts combining software programming, digital fabrication, and electronics with traditional media. These projects challenge the norms of the tech community, whose work has enormous impact on our day-to-day lives, as well as translates the problems in ways that are understandable to the everyday user. She invites others to embody an attitude of “critical optimism” and to imagine what technological futures they might prefer for themselves. Brueckner is the founder and creative director of Tomorrownaut, a creative studio focusing on speculative futures and sci-fi-inspired prototypes. Brueckner’s work has been featured by Artforum, SIGGRAPH, the Peabody Essex Museum, Portugal’s National Museum of Contemporary Art, Leonardo, Eyeo, ISEA, TEDx, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and more. She was an artist-in-residence at Autodesk Pier 9 and is now an artist-in-residence at Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). She is currently an assistant professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. Her ongoing objective is to combine her background in design and engineering with the perspective of an artist to inspire a more positive future.

Our 2020-2021 Series is brought to you with the support of our streaming partners, Detroit Public Television and PBS Books.

How to WatchAll events will be webcast on Fridays at 8pm (ET) at http://pennystampsevents.org and https://dptv.org/pennystamps. Join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

Subscribe to receive weekly email reminders for Penny Stamps Speaker Series events.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

 

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event:

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:15:08 -0500 2021-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Brueckner-Sophia.jpg
For Your Eyes Only (February 27, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-27T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Outdoor Tour: Behind the Walls and Sophie / Elsie (February 27, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81335 81335-20887792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Meet UMMA’s newest faces! Jaume Plensa’s Behind the Walls and Mary Sibande’s Sophie / Elsie provide a visible public presence at a time when in-person engagement with the arts and indoor events are limited. Explore these sculptures with museum guides, who will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for these riveting and intriguing works. 

This is an outdoor activity and all are welcome. Please wear a mask and follow COVID safety protocol. Entrance to the Museum building is restricted.

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Presentation Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:16:13 -0500 2021-02-27T11:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
ZooMoon Luminary Making Workshop (February 27, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81003 81003-20832759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Please join us for an afternoon of fun and creativity online at UMMA!

Mark Tucker, Founder and Creative Director of FestiFools and FoolMoon, is unleashing a new online artmaking workshop just for you! Learn to make a ZooMoon Luminary Sculpture. These cool illuminated sculptures will light up your world! Come join us on Zoom and meet new friends, get creative, laugh, and let your inner artist beast roam free!    No experience necessary. Ideal for ages 10-110. Younger kids with adult supervision are also welcome.

Supplies needed (all should be available at ACE Barnes Hardware on W. Stadium Blvd):
17-20 gauge steel wire Wire cutters Elmer’s White Glue 1-2” wide brush Tissue paper (white or colored) ½” wide fiberglass tape 2” wide clear packing tape LED lights (puck or string lights) Batteries Pencil/paper (for drawing out design)
Mark Tucker is the originator and Founder of FestiFools and FoolMoon, two annual large-scale public art events held in downtown Ann Arbor, and Co-Founder of WonderFool Productions, the non-profit producers of FestiFools, FoolMoon and YpsiGlow.  Mark also helped launch YES (Ypsilanti Experimental Space) in downtown Ypsilanti, and he serves as Art Director for the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts where he develops and designs innovative arts programming and has the pleasure of teaching art classes for non-art majors at the University of Michigan.    Tucker’s current creative work revolves around community collaborations making large-scale public art sculptures, theater sets, and unique outdoor spectacles celebrating the Arts as a catalyst for creative community engagement. 

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

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 27 Feb 2021 18:16:11 -0500 2021-02-27T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Group Chat: Caustic + Bitters (February 27, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82135 82135-21038695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Artists integrate humour in their works of art in ways that can be twisted, dark, political, silly, nonsensical, weird and dry. In this tour, you will join Isabelle Marie Anne Gillet, UMMA’s Stenn Fellow in Public and Digital Humanities and Museum Pedagogy, to explore and discuss how artists use humor as a tool to undermine the superficial meaning of what is depicted and subvert or even confuse expectations. We might even laugh.

This is one of five themed tours offered as part of UMMA + Chill during the month of February. Each theme will be accompanied by a customized beverage suggestion created by local mixologists. 

Availability for this event is first-come first serve and may be full. Click here to check availability of this and other Group Chat events.

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Presentation Sat, 27 Feb 2021 18:16:13 -0500 2021-02-27T17:30:00-05:00 2021-02-27T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Group Chat: We Contain Multitudes and Exist in Multiverses: Articulations of Blackness, Black Life, and Black History in UMMA's Collections (February 27, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81444 81444-20895773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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When Alisha B. Wormsley created the phrase, “There Are Black People in the Future,” she boldly articulated an “archive of information, histories, and myths that [continued] despite the apocalyptic narrative of Black American culture.”  Join Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art, on this tour that looks at how Black artists within UMMA’s collection have used their craft to articulate identity, reflect on Black life globally, examine the stories we fail to tell, and reimagine a new future.

This is one of five themed tours offered as part of UMMA + Chill during the month of February. Each theme will be accompanied by a customized beverage suggestion created by local mixologists.

Availability for this event is first-come first serve and may be full. Click here to check availability of this and other Group Chat events.  

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Presentation Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:15:53 -0500 2021-02-27T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Group Chat: Caustic + Bitters (February 27, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81448 81448-20895777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Artists integrate humour in their works of art in ways that can be twisted, dark, political, silly, nonsensical, weird and dry. In this tour, you will join Isabelle Marie Anne Gillet, UMMA’s Stenn Fellow in Public and Digital Humanities and Museum Pedagogy, to explore and discuss how artists use humor as a tool to undermine the superficial meaning of what is depicted and subvert or even confuse expectations. We might even laugh.

This is one of five themed tours offered as part of UMMA + Chill during the month of February. Each theme will be accompanied by a customized beverage suggestion created by local mixologists. 

Availability for this event is first-come first serve and may be full. Click here to check availability of this and other Group Chat events.

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Presentation Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:15:53 -0500 2021-02-27T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
For Your Eyes Only (February 28, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 28, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-28T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-28T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Outdoor Tour: Behind the Walls and Sophie / Elsie (February 28, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81336 81336-20887793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 28, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Meet UMMA’s newest faces! Jaume Plensa’s Behind the Walls and Mary Sibande’s Sophie / Elsie provide a visible public presence at a time when in-person engagement with the arts and indoor events are limited. Explore these sculptures with museum guides, who will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for these riveting and intriguing works. 

This is an outdoor activity and all are welcome. Please wear a mask and follow COVID safety protocol. Entrance to the Museum building is restricted.

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Presentation Sun, 28 Feb 2021 18:15:53 -0500 2021-02-28T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-28T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
For Your Eyes Only (March 1, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-01T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 2, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-02T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 3, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-03T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
The Residential College 2020-2021 Annual Robertson Lecture: "The News from Poetry: In An Era of False Facts and True Fallacies, What's to be Found in Art?" (March 3, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81245 81245-20877917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

The Residential College 2020-2021 Robertson Memorial Lecture

Award-Winning Writer, Theodore Roethke Distinguished University Professor and RC Alumna, Laura Kasischke

"The News from Poetry: In an Era of False Facts and True Fallacies, What's to be Found in Art?”

March 3, 2021 via Zoom
4 - 5:30pm, with an online reception to follow
Register at https://myumi.ch/yKA8b

This talk will explore the ways in which art crosses borders and boundaries, both personal and global, erases political divisions to unite generations and cultures, to speak to all genders and races, to erase religious and economic divisions, while traveling eternally and generously (and for free!) from continent to continent, century to century, enduring through crises and chaos, disease and despair, to bring us the truths without which we will die.

Laura Kasischke is a graduate of the Residential College and is now proud to be an instructor of creative writing in it as well as in the English Department, where she is the Theodore Roethke Distinguished University Professor. She has published eleven collections of poetry, nine novels, a novella, and a collection of short stories. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages, and three of her novels have been made into feature length films. The recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rilke Award for Poetry, and numerous teaching awards, Kasischke’s twelfth collection of poetry, Lightning Falls in Love, will be published in September.

Presented by the Residential College, celebrating 50 years of the Creative Writing & Literature Program

The Robertson Memorial Lecture is an annual Residential College event made possible by a gift honoring Professor James H. Robertson and Jean B. Robertson, the first Dean of the Residential College and his wife.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:45:22 -0500 2021-03-03T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Lecture / Discussion Event flier
Michigan's Got Talent! (March 3, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82157 82157-21044622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MUSIC Matters

MUSIC Matters presents Michigan's Got Talent: A Talent Show Celebrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Arts! Tune in to watch U-M students from across campus show off their unique talents. Following the event, YOU will have a chance to vote for your favorite acts to receive various superlative rewards and cash/prizes!

MUSIC Matters also wishes to address the lack of diversity and equitable representation in the performing arts and entertainment industries through our event. We will do this not only through the performances themselves, but also from appearances by our event host and various cameos from well-respected members of the entertainment industry and U-M community.

We are excited to announce that the event will feature appearances from the music group Two Friends, Vice President of Student Life Martino Harmon, two-time Olympic athlete Tiffany Porter, and more!

Tune in to Michigan's Got Talent on YouTube March 3rd at 8pm EST. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to parniam@umich.edu.

tinyurl.com/michigansgottalent

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Performance Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:09:20 -0500 2021-03-03T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location MUSIC Matters Performance Flyer for Michigan's Got Talent on March 3rd at 8pm
For Your Eyes Only (March 4, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-04T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
International Institute Conference on Arts of Devotion (March 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81757 81757-20951378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Free and open to the public; register at http://myumi.ch/wleGk

The phrase “Arts of Devotion” typically brings to mind traditional ritual objects used as part of religious practices, or evokes items like costumes, masks, dances, songs, poetry, and literature. Arts of Devotion can tend to be conflated with only those items that are understood as “traditional,” rather than those that emerge from the contemporary moment, as if modern and contemporary art can only be associated with the purely secular world.

Yet there are numerous contemporary artists who have incorporated elements of the devotional into their works, and devotional arts have changed with the advent of modern technologies and changing socio-political contexts. We might also consider Arts of Devotion as potentially extending beyond the usual association with the religious to other “devotional” relationships, such as those for political or revolutionary leaders, or individuals’ loved ones.

This year’s conference explores both contemporary and traditional Arts of Devotion by bringing together scholars from across disciplines and temporal and regional contexts, to engage with one another and a broader audience of faculty, students, and the general public.

Free and open to the public.
This conference is funded in part by five (5) Title VI National Resource Center grants from the U.S. Department of Education

Co-sponsors: African Studies Center, Center for Armenian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Program in International and Comparative Studies, History of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art

For schedule and panel information:
https://ii.umich.edu/ii/news-events/all-events/ii-conference.html

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:00:09 -0500 2021-03-04T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Conference / Symposium II Conference on Arts of Devotion poster
For Your Eyes Only (March 5, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-05T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Jad Abumrad: Making “Dolly Parton’s America” (March 5, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80901 80901-20818977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Jad Abumrad is the host and creator of Radiolab, a public radio program broadcast on nearly 600 stations across the nation and downloaded more than 12 million times a month as a podcast. Abumrad employs his dual backgrounds as composer and journalist to create what’s been called “a new aesthetic” in broadcast journalism. He orchestrates dialogue, music, interviews, and sounds into compelling documentaries that draw listeners into investigations of otherwise intimidating topics, such as the nature of numbers, the evolution of altruism, or the legal foundation for the war on terror. He’s won three George Foster Peabody Awards, and in 2011 Abumrad was honored as a MacArthur Fellow (also known as the Genius Grant).

The MacArthur Foundation website says: “Abumrad is inspiring boundless curiosity within a new generation of listeners and experimenting with sound to find ever more effective and entertaining ways to explain ideas and tell a story.”

Abumrad also created and hosted three seasons of More Perfect, a series about untold stories of the Supreme Court, which The New York Times called “...possibly the most mesmerizing podcast.” And in 2019, along with OSM Audio’s Shima Oliaee, Jad Abumrad created Dolly Parton’s America, a Peabody Award-winning 9-part series that explores a divided America through the life and music of one its greatest icons. Alongside his radio work, Abumrad continues to work as a composer and remixer and is currently hosting a radio show on Apple Music.

For this speaker series event, Abumrad will be in conversation with Chris Azzopardi, editor of Q Syndicate, the national LGBTQ wire service serving LGBTQ publications across the United States. Azzopardi is also a contributor to The New York Times and has written for Vanity Fair, GQ, Billboard, and Oprah Magazine. His 2014 interview with Dolly Parton was published in an anthology of interviews spanning her life and career, entitled Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton. Over the course of Azzopardi’s career, he has interviewed musicians, actors, allies, and icons including Beyoncé, Meryl Streep, Lady Gaga, and Mariah Carey. Locally, his stories are published in Michigan's LGBTQ newspaper Between The Lines.

Our 2020-2021 Series is brought to you with the support of our streaming partners, Detroit Public Television and PBS Books.

How to WatchAll events will be webcast on Fridays at 8pm (ET) at http://pennystampsevents.org and https://dptv.org/pennystamps. Join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

Subscribe to receive weekly email reminders for Penny Stamps Speaker Series events.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:15:09 -0500 2021-03-05T20:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Abumrad-Jad.jpg
For Your Eyes Only (March 6, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-06T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 7, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-07T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 8, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 9, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-09T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
From Here to There: Rich Liverance’s Creative Career (March 9, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81940 81940-20992889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Moderated by artist and alumnus Stephanie Brown (MFA ‘18), From Here to There brings current Stamps students and Stamps alums together for honest and accessible conversations about the alumni’s creative career path.

Designed to help Stampers navigate their art and design careers, these talks will reveal the “nuts and bolts” of how Stamps alums worked to find a home in their creative career. With a different alumni featured bi-monthly, this live interview will be followed by a Q&A with students. BONUS: From Here to There participants will receive contact information for the alumni speaker, who will welcome follow-up questions via email and/or social media. From Here to There is a great way for students to start their professional networking journey — and get the critical information they need to design their present and their future for the real world. About the Speaker: Rich Liverance, Animation Editor for DreamWorks AnimationSeeing Monsters Inc. at 10 years old was a pivotal moment when Rich Liverance realized the career path he wanted to pursue. The excitement Rich felt watching such a compelling story had him jumping at every opportunity to create during his time in high school. After he graduated, Rich spent four exciting and challenging years at University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design learning the ins and outs of animation, storytelling and design. With the help and encouragement of the Stamps staff, Rich was able to land an internship with Nickelodeon which led to his current job as an Animation Editor for DreamWorks Animation in Los Angeles. Every day Rich is excited knowing that he’s using his passion for animation to inspire the next generation of artists and creators.Stamps events are free and open to the public, and we are committed to making them accessible to all attendees. This event will be online using the Zoom platform with an auto-generated Live Transcript available. If you anticipate needing any additional accommodations to participate, please email John Luther at jonel@umich.edu at least one week in advance of the scheduled event so we can arrange for your accommodation or an effective alternative. After receiving your request, our team will follow up with you directly.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYudO-rqzIpHNUkUsbxRvDPyk1IyrpX5xYe

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Auditions Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:15:11 -0500 2021-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/Rich_Liverance.jpeg
For Your Eyes Only (March 10, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:00am
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Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

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

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-10T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Membership meeting (March 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79744 79744-20483907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Members meet to plan and facilitate correspondence workshops and PCAP events

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Meeting Mon, 07 Dec 2020 08:55:08 -0500 2021-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting