Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Gifts of Art presents Blossom by Blossom: Elvish Ceramics (May 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39319 39319-7944463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Gabrielle Soltis creates works from the Gyldenstjerne Porcelain Company lineage. The story goes that sometime in the early 1700s, a young Danish nobleman by the name of Einar Gyldenstjerne fell in love and married an Elvish woman named Gwyneira (surname unknown) who shared the family recipe for how to create hard-paste porcelain. The first items produced by the company are dated to 1715. Soltis’ porcelain flowers in this tradition are assembled meticulously petal by petal. She studied ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and is interested in European history and fiction.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:49:20 -0500 2017-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dahlias by Gabrielle Soltis, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Cakeasaurus: Scenes from a Picture Book (May 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39316 39316-7944209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

One caffeinated afternoon in 2008, a monster appeared to Marian Short, bragging about his many cake thefts. He was arrogant, sugar-fueled and oddly appealing. Being a printmaker, Short began carving the tale into woodblocks. This picture book exhibit follows the confectionary exploits of Cakeasaurus, one cake-deprived town, and one little boy about to turn five. It also shows the evolution of a long-term project, with print variations and peeks into artistic process. Short is an Ann Arbor based artist and writer, whose work has appeared in local and national exhibitions.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:11:11 -0500 2017-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cakeasaurus Dreamt of Cake by Marian Short, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Creating Emotion: Hand Painted Intaglio Prints (May 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39322 39322-7944632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dale Osterle, originally from Boston, MA, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. This body of work is hand painted intaglio prints of romantic and expressionist landscapes, all created from memory. She makes her prints by etching into magnesium plates, embossing oil paint into paper with three different rollers of color, and hand-coloring the prints with colored pencil, marker and paint. Her work hangs in art galleries all over the country and the world, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Center and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:54:47 -0500 2017-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Magnificent Tulips, like Jewels (detail) by Dale Osterle, photograph by Dan Grych. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Deep Ocean View: Acrylic on Canvas (May 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39320 39320-7944547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Westland, Michigan artist Durwood Coffey was influenced at an early age by his artistic family, especially by his father and brother who were both enamored with drawing. In the US Marine Corps, he served as a combat artist, whose job is to interpret and illustrate fellow Marine experiences with emotional resonance, all while protecting himself and others. After spending his working life as an illustrator, in 2001 Coffey decided to focus entirely on his own paintings of images from the animal kingdom. In this exhibition, the viewer is plunged up-close into the beautiful world of the sea.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:51:46 -0500 2017-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Passing Through by Durwood Coffey, scan by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Exploring Color & Pattern: Photography (May 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39324 39324-7944800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Robert P. Kelch retired from his position as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at U-M in the fall of 2009. He enjoyed a wonderful career in academic medicine ̶ as a pediatric endocrinologist, physician investigator and administrator. Retirement has given Kelch much more time and energy to devote to his lifelong interest in photography. He especially enjoys photographing beautiful scenes, animals and objects during his many travels and around his home in South Haven, Michigan.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:02:03 -0500 2017-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Kannally Ranch Gate by Robert P. Kelch, M.D. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Glass Cakes (May 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39317 39317-7944293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Janet Kelman’s glass cakes are a perfect fusion of her love of glass and love of baking. Each colorful slice or cupcake invites sampling while her mirror cakes are intriguing brain teasers. Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in her department created scientific equipment, inspiring her to later teach herself lampworking (glass worked over a torch) and open a hot glass studio. Kelman bakes with glass at her home studio in Ann Arbor.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:34:59 -0500 2017-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Glass Cake #2 by Janet Kelman, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Essence: Photography (May 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39318 39318-7944379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David L. Foster is an Atlanta based nature photographer, writer and educator best known for images that convey the essence of his favorite subjects – botanicals and water. In 2014, he collaborated with Julie Hliboki in creating a book entitled Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude. Foster received the P.C. Turczyn Art That Supports the Healing Process award from among 50 international artists chosen for Manhattan Arts International’s 2014 exhibit, Celebrate the Healing Power of Art.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:46:55 -0500 2017-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Indian Ocean Sunrise by David L. Foster. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Seascapes: Firenation Art Glass (May 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39323 39323-7944716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Matt Paskiet is a native to the Glass City — Toledo, Ohio. He began his study of glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1993, and he continued his studies at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state in 1998 and the Fundacio Centre del Vidre in Barcelona in 2001. He later returned to Toledo and opened Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery in Holland, Ohio in 2002, where he has been blowing glass ever since. His Seascape series featured in this exhibit is composed of individually made Murrini pieces, a Venetian glass technique encased in layers of hot glass.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:57:55 -0500 2017-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Seascape Sculpture by Matt Paskiet, photograph by Tom Brooks. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (May 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-05-30T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
Cosmogonic Tattoos (May 30, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

]]>
Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-05-30T09:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Cosmogonic Tattoos (May 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (May 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (May 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (May 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world. This two-part exhibition (Part I: Figuration followed by Part II: Abstraction on view July 1– October 29) presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. The works themselves are equally diverse, ranging from ancient sculptures to contemporary multimedia works. Part I: Figuration features works by Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Mark Tansey, and Mickalene Thomas, among others, and allows visitors to explore the variety of artistic responses and purposes encompassed by the term “figuration”. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for the Arts: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

]]>
Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition (May 30, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40922 40922-8836703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design is pleased to announce Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition, on view Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017 in the new downtown Ann Arbor Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor). An exhibition reception will take place on Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition brings together a cross-section of rigorous and research-based works that highlight the range and diversity of creative practices emerging from the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps Faculty wear multiple hats as educators, storytellers, artists, and designers.  Their work is a vehicle to deepen research and expand the pedagogical frameworks of contemporary art and design practices in the 21st Century. By experimenting with mediums, materials, audience interaction, and participation, Reach brings together energizing and compelling paintings, sculpture, new media installations, collage and found objects, video, performance, and textile design. Reach is the first of a series of projects that will examine and highlight art, design and creative work produced by Stamps faculty in the years to come.

Participating faculty members include:


James Cogswell
Roland Graf
Holly Hughes
Osman Khan
Heidi Kumao
Louis Marinaro
Rebekah Modrak
Anne Mondro
Robert Platt
Marianetta Porter
Michael Rodemer
Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker
Sherri Smith
Bruce Tharp and Stephanie Tharp
Nick Tobier
Joseph Trumpey


Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm

Image: Sherri Smith, Mercury, 2015. Woven fiber, 114” x 60”

]]>
Exhibition Sat, 13 May 2017 12:15:24 -0400 2017-05-30T12:00:00-04:00 2017-05-30T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2011IP/mercury-frontpg2.jpg
Gifts of Art presents Blossom by Blossom: Elvish Ceramics (May 31, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39319 39319-7944464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Gabrielle Soltis creates works from the Gyldenstjerne Porcelain Company lineage. The story goes that sometime in the early 1700s, a young Danish nobleman by the name of Einar Gyldenstjerne fell in love and married an Elvish woman named Gwyneira (surname unknown) who shared the family recipe for how to create hard-paste porcelain. The first items produced by the company are dated to 1715. Soltis’ porcelain flowers in this tradition are assembled meticulously petal by petal. She studied ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and is interested in European history and fiction.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:49:20 -0500 2017-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dahlias by Gabrielle Soltis, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Cakeasaurus: Scenes from a Picture Book (May 31, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39316 39316-7944210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

One caffeinated afternoon in 2008, a monster appeared to Marian Short, bragging about his many cake thefts. He was arrogant, sugar-fueled and oddly appealing. Being a printmaker, Short began carving the tale into woodblocks. This picture book exhibit follows the confectionary exploits of Cakeasaurus, one cake-deprived town, and one little boy about to turn five. It also shows the evolution of a long-term project, with print variations and peeks into artistic process. Short is an Ann Arbor based artist and writer, whose work has appeared in local and national exhibitions.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:11:11 -0500 2017-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cakeasaurus Dreamt of Cake by Marian Short, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Creating Emotion: Hand Painted Intaglio Prints (May 31, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39322 39322-7944633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dale Osterle, originally from Boston, MA, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. This body of work is hand painted intaglio prints of romantic and expressionist landscapes, all created from memory. She makes her prints by etching into magnesium plates, embossing oil paint into paper with three different rollers of color, and hand-coloring the prints with colored pencil, marker and paint. Her work hangs in art galleries all over the country and the world, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Center and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:54:47 -0500 2017-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Magnificent Tulips, like Jewels (detail) by Dale Osterle, photograph by Dan Grych. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Deep Ocean View: Acrylic on Canvas (May 31, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39320 39320-7944548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Westland, Michigan artist Durwood Coffey was influenced at an early age by his artistic family, especially by his father and brother who were both enamored with drawing. In the US Marine Corps, he served as a combat artist, whose job is to interpret and illustrate fellow Marine experiences with emotional resonance, all while protecting himself and others. After spending his working life as an illustrator, in 2001 Coffey decided to focus entirely on his own paintings of images from the animal kingdom. In this exhibition, the viewer is plunged up-close into the beautiful world of the sea.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:51:46 -0500 2017-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Passing Through by Durwood Coffey, scan by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Exploring Color & Pattern: Photography (May 31, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39324 39324-7944801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Robert P. Kelch retired from his position as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at U-M in the fall of 2009. He enjoyed a wonderful career in academic medicine ̶ as a pediatric endocrinologist, physician investigator and administrator. Retirement has given Kelch much more time and energy to devote to his lifelong interest in photography. He especially enjoys photographing beautiful scenes, animals and objects during his many travels and around his home in South Haven, Michigan.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:02:03 -0500 2017-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Kannally Ranch Gate by Robert P. Kelch, M.D. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Glass Cakes (May 31, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39317 39317-7944294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Janet Kelman’s glass cakes are a perfect fusion of her love of glass and love of baking. Each colorful slice or cupcake invites sampling while her mirror cakes are intriguing brain teasers. Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in her department created scientific equipment, inspiring her to later teach herself lampworking (glass worked over a torch) and open a hot glass studio. Kelman bakes with glass at her home studio in Ann Arbor.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:34:59 -0500 2017-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Glass Cake #2 by Janet Kelman, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Essence: Photography (May 31, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39318 39318-7944380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David L. Foster is an Atlanta based nature photographer, writer and educator best known for images that convey the essence of his favorite subjects – botanicals and water. In 2014, he collaborated with Julie Hliboki in creating a book entitled Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude. Foster received the P.C. Turczyn Art That Supports the Healing Process award from among 50 international artists chosen for Manhattan Arts International’s 2014 exhibit, Celebrate the Healing Power of Art.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:46:55 -0500 2017-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Indian Ocean Sunrise by David L. Foster. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Seascapes: Firenation Art Glass (May 31, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39323 39323-7944717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Matt Paskiet is a native to the Glass City — Toledo, Ohio. He began his study of glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1993, and he continued his studies at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state in 1998 and the Fundacio Centre del Vidre in Barcelona in 2001. He later returned to Toledo and opened Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery in Holland, Ohio in 2002, where he has been blowing glass ever since. His Seascape series featured in this exhibit is composed of individually made Murrini pieces, a Venetian glass technique encased in layers of hot glass.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:57:55 -0500 2017-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Seascape Sculpture by Matt Paskiet, photograph by Tom Brooks. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (May 31, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-05-31T08:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
Cosmogonic Tattoos (May 31, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

]]>
Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-05-31T09:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Cosmogonic Tattoos (May 31, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (May 31, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (May 31, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (May 31, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world. This two-part exhibition (Part I: Figuration followed by Part II: Abstraction on view July 1– October 29) presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. The works themselves are equally diverse, ranging from ancient sculptures to contemporary multimedia works. Part I: Figuration features works by Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Mark Tansey, and Mickalene Thomas, among others, and allows visitors to explore the variety of artistic responses and purposes encompassed by the term “figuration”. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for the Arts: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

]]>
Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition (May 31, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40922 40922-8836704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design is pleased to announce Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition, on view Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017 in the new downtown Ann Arbor Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor). An exhibition reception will take place on Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition brings together a cross-section of rigorous and research-based works that highlight the range and diversity of creative practices emerging from the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps Faculty wear multiple hats as educators, storytellers, artists, and designers.  Their work is a vehicle to deepen research and expand the pedagogical frameworks of contemporary art and design practices in the 21st Century. By experimenting with mediums, materials, audience interaction, and participation, Reach brings together energizing and compelling paintings, sculpture, new media installations, collage and found objects, video, performance, and textile design. Reach is the first of a series of projects that will examine and highlight art, design and creative work produced by Stamps faculty in the years to come.

Participating faculty members include:


James Cogswell
Roland Graf
Holly Hughes
Osman Khan
Heidi Kumao
Louis Marinaro
Rebekah Modrak
Anne Mondro
Robert Platt
Marianetta Porter
Michael Rodemer
Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker
Sherri Smith
Bruce Tharp and Stephanie Tharp
Nick Tobier
Joseph Trumpey


Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm

Image: Sherri Smith, Mercury, 2015. Woven fiber, 114” x 60”

]]>
Exhibition Sat, 13 May 2017 12:15:24 -0400 2017-05-31T12:00:00-04:00 2017-05-31T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2011IP/mercury-frontpg2.jpg
Gifts of Art presents Blossom by Blossom: Elvish Ceramics (June 1, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39319 39319-7944465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Gabrielle Soltis creates works from the Gyldenstjerne Porcelain Company lineage. The story goes that sometime in the early 1700s, a young Danish nobleman by the name of Einar Gyldenstjerne fell in love and married an Elvish woman named Gwyneira (surname unknown) who shared the family recipe for how to create hard-paste porcelain. The first items produced by the company are dated to 1715. Soltis’ porcelain flowers in this tradition are assembled meticulously petal by petal. She studied ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and is interested in European history and fiction.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:49:20 -0500 2017-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dahlias by Gabrielle Soltis, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Cakeasaurus: Scenes from a Picture Book (June 1, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39316 39316-7944211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

One caffeinated afternoon in 2008, a monster appeared to Marian Short, bragging about his many cake thefts. He was arrogant, sugar-fueled and oddly appealing. Being a printmaker, Short began carving the tale into woodblocks. This picture book exhibit follows the confectionary exploits of Cakeasaurus, one cake-deprived town, and one little boy about to turn five. It also shows the evolution of a long-term project, with print variations and peeks into artistic process. Short is an Ann Arbor based artist and writer, whose work has appeared in local and national exhibitions.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:11:11 -0500 2017-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cakeasaurus Dreamt of Cake by Marian Short, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Creating Emotion: Hand Painted Intaglio Prints (June 1, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39322 39322-7944634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dale Osterle, originally from Boston, MA, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. This body of work is hand painted intaglio prints of romantic and expressionist landscapes, all created from memory. She makes her prints by etching into magnesium plates, embossing oil paint into paper with three different rollers of color, and hand-coloring the prints with colored pencil, marker and paint. Her work hangs in art galleries all over the country and the world, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Center and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:54:47 -0500 2017-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Magnificent Tulips, like Jewels (detail) by Dale Osterle, photograph by Dan Grych. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Deep Ocean View: Acrylic on Canvas (June 1, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39320 39320-7944549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Westland, Michigan artist Durwood Coffey was influenced at an early age by his artistic family, especially by his father and brother who were both enamored with drawing. In the US Marine Corps, he served as a combat artist, whose job is to interpret and illustrate fellow Marine experiences with emotional resonance, all while protecting himself and others. After spending his working life as an illustrator, in 2001 Coffey decided to focus entirely on his own paintings of images from the animal kingdom. In this exhibition, the viewer is plunged up-close into the beautiful world of the sea.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:51:46 -0500 2017-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Passing Through by Durwood Coffey, scan by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Exploring Color & Pattern: Photography (June 1, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39324 39324-7944802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Robert P. Kelch retired from his position as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at U-M in the fall of 2009. He enjoyed a wonderful career in academic medicine ̶ as a pediatric endocrinologist, physician investigator and administrator. Retirement has given Kelch much more time and energy to devote to his lifelong interest in photography. He especially enjoys photographing beautiful scenes, animals and objects during his many travels and around his home in South Haven, Michigan.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:02:03 -0500 2017-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Kannally Ranch Gate by Robert P. Kelch, M.D. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Glass Cakes (June 1, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39317 39317-7944295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Janet Kelman’s glass cakes are a perfect fusion of her love of glass and love of baking. Each colorful slice or cupcake invites sampling while her mirror cakes are intriguing brain teasers. Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in her department created scientific equipment, inspiring her to later teach herself lampworking (glass worked over a torch) and open a hot glass studio. Kelman bakes with glass at her home studio in Ann Arbor.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:34:59 -0500 2017-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Glass Cake #2 by Janet Kelman, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Essence: Photography (June 1, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39318 39318-7944381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David L. Foster is an Atlanta based nature photographer, writer and educator best known for images that convey the essence of his favorite subjects – botanicals and water. In 2014, he collaborated with Julie Hliboki in creating a book entitled Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude. Foster received the P.C. Turczyn Art That Supports the Healing Process award from among 50 international artists chosen for Manhattan Arts International’s 2014 exhibit, Celebrate the Healing Power of Art.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:46:55 -0500 2017-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Indian Ocean Sunrise by David L. Foster. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Seascapes: Firenation Art Glass (June 1, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39323 39323-7944718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Matt Paskiet is a native to the Glass City — Toledo, Ohio. He began his study of glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1993, and he continued his studies at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state in 1998 and the Fundacio Centre del Vidre in Barcelona in 2001. He later returned to Toledo and opened Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery in Holland, Ohio in 2002, where he has been blowing glass ever since. His Seascape series featured in this exhibit is composed of individually made Murrini pieces, a Venetian glass technique encased in layers of hot glass.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:57:55 -0500 2017-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Seascape Sculpture by Matt Paskiet, photograph by Tom Brooks. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (June 1, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-06-01T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 1, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

]]>
Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-06-01T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (June 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (June 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (June 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world. This two-part exhibition (Part I: Figuration followed by Part II: Abstraction on view July 1– October 29) presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. The works themselves are equally diverse, ranging from ancient sculptures to contemporary multimedia works. Part I: Figuration features works by Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Mark Tansey, and Mickalene Thomas, among others, and allows visitors to explore the variety of artistic responses and purposes encompassed by the term “figuration”. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for the Arts: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

]]>
Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition (June 1, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40922 40922-8836705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design is pleased to announce Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition, on view Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017 in the new downtown Ann Arbor Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor). An exhibition reception will take place on Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition brings together a cross-section of rigorous and research-based works that highlight the range and diversity of creative practices emerging from the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps Faculty wear multiple hats as educators, storytellers, artists, and designers.  Their work is a vehicle to deepen research and expand the pedagogical frameworks of contemporary art and design practices in the 21st Century. By experimenting with mediums, materials, audience interaction, and participation, Reach brings together energizing and compelling paintings, sculpture, new media installations, collage and found objects, video, performance, and textile design. Reach is the first of a series of projects that will examine and highlight art, design and creative work produced by Stamps faculty in the years to come.

Participating faculty members include:


James Cogswell
Roland Graf
Holly Hughes
Osman Khan
Heidi Kumao
Louis Marinaro
Rebekah Modrak
Anne Mondro
Robert Platt
Marianetta Porter
Michael Rodemer
Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker
Sherri Smith
Bruce Tharp and Stephanie Tharp
Nick Tobier
Joseph Trumpey


Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm

Image: Sherri Smith, Mercury, 2015. Woven fiber, 114” x 60”

]]>
Exhibition Sat, 13 May 2017 12:15:24 -0400 2017-06-01T12:00:00-04:00 2017-06-01T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2011IP/mercury-frontpg2.jpg
Gifts of Art presents Blossom by Blossom: Elvish Ceramics (June 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39319 39319-7944466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Gabrielle Soltis creates works from the Gyldenstjerne Porcelain Company lineage. The story goes that sometime in the early 1700s, a young Danish nobleman by the name of Einar Gyldenstjerne fell in love and married an Elvish woman named Gwyneira (surname unknown) who shared the family recipe for how to create hard-paste porcelain. The first items produced by the company are dated to 1715. Soltis’ porcelain flowers in this tradition are assembled meticulously petal by petal. She studied ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and is interested in European history and fiction.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:49:20 -0500 2017-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dahlias by Gabrielle Soltis, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Cakeasaurus: Scenes from a Picture Book (June 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39316 39316-7944212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

One caffeinated afternoon in 2008, a monster appeared to Marian Short, bragging about his many cake thefts. He was arrogant, sugar-fueled and oddly appealing. Being a printmaker, Short began carving the tale into woodblocks. This picture book exhibit follows the confectionary exploits of Cakeasaurus, one cake-deprived town, and one little boy about to turn five. It also shows the evolution of a long-term project, with print variations and peeks into artistic process. Short is an Ann Arbor based artist and writer, whose work has appeared in local and national exhibitions.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:11:11 -0500 2017-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cakeasaurus Dreamt of Cake by Marian Short, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Creating Emotion: Hand Painted Intaglio Prints (June 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39322 39322-7944635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dale Osterle, originally from Boston, MA, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. This body of work is hand painted intaglio prints of romantic and expressionist landscapes, all created from memory. She makes her prints by etching into magnesium plates, embossing oil paint into paper with three different rollers of color, and hand-coloring the prints with colored pencil, marker and paint. Her work hangs in art galleries all over the country and the world, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Center and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:54:47 -0500 2017-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Magnificent Tulips, like Jewels (detail) by Dale Osterle, photograph by Dan Grych. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Deep Ocean View: Acrylic on Canvas (June 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39320 39320-7944550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Westland, Michigan artist Durwood Coffey was influenced at an early age by his artistic family, especially by his father and brother who were both enamored with drawing. In the US Marine Corps, he served as a combat artist, whose job is to interpret and illustrate fellow Marine experiences with emotional resonance, all while protecting himself and others. After spending his working life as an illustrator, in 2001 Coffey decided to focus entirely on his own paintings of images from the animal kingdom. In this exhibition, the viewer is plunged up-close into the beautiful world of the sea.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:51:46 -0500 2017-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Passing Through by Durwood Coffey, scan by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Exploring Color & Pattern: Photography (June 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39324 39324-7944803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Robert P. Kelch retired from his position as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at U-M in the fall of 2009. He enjoyed a wonderful career in academic medicine ̶ as a pediatric endocrinologist, physician investigator and administrator. Retirement has given Kelch much more time and energy to devote to his lifelong interest in photography. He especially enjoys photographing beautiful scenes, animals and objects during his many travels and around his home in South Haven, Michigan.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:02:03 -0500 2017-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Kannally Ranch Gate by Robert P. Kelch, M.D. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Glass Cakes (June 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39317 39317-7944296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Janet Kelman’s glass cakes are a perfect fusion of her love of glass and love of baking. Each colorful slice or cupcake invites sampling while her mirror cakes are intriguing brain teasers. Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in her department created scientific equipment, inspiring her to later teach herself lampworking (glass worked over a torch) and open a hot glass studio. Kelman bakes with glass at her home studio in Ann Arbor.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:34:59 -0500 2017-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Glass Cake #2 by Janet Kelman, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Essence: Photography (June 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39318 39318-7944382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David L. Foster is an Atlanta based nature photographer, writer and educator best known for images that convey the essence of his favorite subjects – botanicals and water. In 2014, he collaborated with Julie Hliboki in creating a book entitled Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude. Foster received the P.C. Turczyn Art That Supports the Healing Process award from among 50 international artists chosen for Manhattan Arts International’s 2014 exhibit, Celebrate the Healing Power of Art.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:46:55 -0500 2017-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Indian Ocean Sunrise by David L. Foster. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Seascapes: Firenation Art Glass (June 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39323 39323-7944719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Matt Paskiet is a native to the Glass City — Toledo, Ohio. He began his study of glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1993, and he continued his studies at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state in 1998 and the Fundacio Centre del Vidre in Barcelona in 2001. He later returned to Toledo and opened Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery in Holland, Ohio in 2002, where he has been blowing glass ever since. His Seascape series featured in this exhibit is composed of individually made Murrini pieces, a Venetian glass technique encased in layers of hot glass.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:57:55 -0500 2017-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Seascape Sculpture by Matt Paskiet, photograph by Tom Brooks. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (June 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-06-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 2, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

]]>
Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-06-02T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Exhibition and Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 2, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40743 40743-8719612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:55:27 -0400 2017-06-02T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (June 2, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-8592786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-06-02T10:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-06-02T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (June 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-06-02T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (June 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-06-02T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (June 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world. This two-part exhibition (Part I: Figuration followed by Part II: Abstraction on view July 1– October 29) presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. The works themselves are equally diverse, ranging from ancient sculptures to contemporary multimedia works. Part I: Figuration features works by Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Mark Tansey, and Mickalene Thomas, among others, and allows visitors to explore the variety of artistic responses and purposes encompassed by the term “figuration”. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for the Arts: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

]]>
Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-06-02T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition (June 2, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40922 40922-8836706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 2, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design is pleased to announce Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition, on view Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017 in the new downtown Ann Arbor Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor). An exhibition reception will take place on Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition brings together a cross-section of rigorous and research-based works that highlight the range and diversity of creative practices emerging from the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps Faculty wear multiple hats as educators, storytellers, artists, and designers.  Their work is a vehicle to deepen research and expand the pedagogical frameworks of contemporary art and design practices in the 21st Century. By experimenting with mediums, materials, audience interaction, and participation, Reach brings together energizing and compelling paintings, sculpture, new media installations, collage and found objects, video, performance, and textile design. Reach is the first of a series of projects that will examine and highlight art, design and creative work produced by Stamps faculty in the years to come.

Participating faculty members include:


James Cogswell
Roland Graf
Holly Hughes
Osman Khan
Heidi Kumao
Louis Marinaro
Rebekah Modrak
Anne Mondro
Robert Platt
Marianetta Porter
Michael Rodemer
Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker
Sherri Smith
Bruce Tharp and Stephanie Tharp
Nick Tobier
Joseph Trumpey


Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm

Image: Sherri Smith, Mercury, 2015. Woven fiber, 114” x 60”

]]>
Exhibition Sat, 13 May 2017 12:15:24 -0400 2017-06-02T12:00:00-04:00 2017-06-02T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2011IP/mercury-frontpg2.jpg
Gifts of Art presents Blossom by Blossom: Elvish Ceramics (June 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39319 39319-7944467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Gabrielle Soltis creates works from the Gyldenstjerne Porcelain Company lineage. The story goes that sometime in the early 1700s, a young Danish nobleman by the name of Einar Gyldenstjerne fell in love and married an Elvish woman named Gwyneira (surname unknown) who shared the family recipe for how to create hard-paste porcelain. The first items produced by the company are dated to 1715. Soltis’ porcelain flowers in this tradition are assembled meticulously petal by petal. She studied ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and is interested in European history and fiction.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:49:20 -0500 2017-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dahlias by Gabrielle Soltis, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Cakeasaurus: Scenes from a Picture Book (June 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39316 39316-7944213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

One caffeinated afternoon in 2008, a monster appeared to Marian Short, bragging about his many cake thefts. He was arrogant, sugar-fueled and oddly appealing. Being a printmaker, Short began carving the tale into woodblocks. This picture book exhibit follows the confectionary exploits of Cakeasaurus, one cake-deprived town, and one little boy about to turn five. It also shows the evolution of a long-term project, with print variations and peeks into artistic process. Short is an Ann Arbor based artist and writer, whose work has appeared in local and national exhibitions.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:11:11 -0500 2017-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cakeasaurus Dreamt of Cake by Marian Short, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Creating Emotion: Hand Painted Intaglio Prints (June 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39322 39322-7944636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dale Osterle, originally from Boston, MA, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. This body of work is hand painted intaglio prints of romantic and expressionist landscapes, all created from memory. She makes her prints by etching into magnesium plates, embossing oil paint into paper with three different rollers of color, and hand-coloring the prints with colored pencil, marker and paint. Her work hangs in art galleries all over the country and the world, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Center and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:54:47 -0500 2017-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Magnificent Tulips, like Jewels (detail) by Dale Osterle, photograph by Dan Grych. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Deep Ocean View: Acrylic on Canvas (June 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39320 39320-7944551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Westland, Michigan artist Durwood Coffey was influenced at an early age by his artistic family, especially by his father and brother who were both enamored with drawing. In the US Marine Corps, he served as a combat artist, whose job is to interpret and illustrate fellow Marine experiences with emotional resonance, all while protecting himself and others. After spending his working life as an illustrator, in 2001 Coffey decided to focus entirely on his own paintings of images from the animal kingdom. In this exhibition, the viewer is plunged up-close into the beautiful world of the sea.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:51:46 -0500 2017-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Passing Through by Durwood Coffey, scan by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Exploring Color & Pattern: Photography (June 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39324 39324-7944804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Robert P. Kelch retired from his position as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at U-M in the fall of 2009. He enjoyed a wonderful career in academic medicine ̶ as a pediatric endocrinologist, physician investigator and administrator. Retirement has given Kelch much more time and energy to devote to his lifelong interest in photography. He especially enjoys photographing beautiful scenes, animals and objects during his many travels and around his home in South Haven, Michigan.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:02:03 -0500 2017-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Kannally Ranch Gate by Robert P. Kelch, M.D. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Glass Cakes (June 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39317 39317-7944297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Janet Kelman’s glass cakes are a perfect fusion of her love of glass and love of baking. Each colorful slice or cupcake invites sampling while her mirror cakes are intriguing brain teasers. Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in her department created scientific equipment, inspiring her to later teach herself lampworking (glass worked over a torch) and open a hot glass studio. Kelman bakes with glass at her home studio in Ann Arbor.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:34:59 -0500 2017-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Glass Cake #2 by Janet Kelman, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Essence: Photography (June 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39318 39318-7944383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David L. Foster is an Atlanta based nature photographer, writer and educator best known for images that convey the essence of his favorite subjects – botanicals and water. In 2014, he collaborated with Julie Hliboki in creating a book entitled Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude. Foster received the P.C. Turczyn Art That Supports the Healing Process award from among 50 international artists chosen for Manhattan Arts International’s 2014 exhibit, Celebrate the Healing Power of Art.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:46:55 -0500 2017-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Indian Ocean Sunrise by David L. Foster. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Seascapes: Firenation Art Glass (June 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39323 39323-7944720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Matt Paskiet is a native to the Glass City — Toledo, Ohio. He began his study of glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1993, and he continued his studies at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state in 1998 and the Fundacio Centre del Vidre in Barcelona in 2001. He later returned to Toledo and opened Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery in Holland, Ohio in 2002, where he has been blowing glass ever since. His Seascape series featured in this exhibit is composed of individually made Murrini pieces, a Venetian glass technique encased in layers of hot glass.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:57:55 -0500 2017-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Seascape Sculpture by Matt Paskiet, photograph by Tom Brooks. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (June 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-06-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 3, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

]]>
Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-06-03T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-06-03T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (June 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-06-03T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (June 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-06-03T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (June 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world. This two-part exhibition (Part I: Figuration followed by Part II: Abstraction on view July 1– October 29) presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. The works themselves are equally diverse, ranging from ancient sculptures to contemporary multimedia works. Part I: Figuration features works by Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Mark Tansey, and Mickalene Thomas, among others, and allows visitors to explore the variety of artistic responses and purposes encompassed by the term “figuration”. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for the Arts: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

]]>
Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-06-03T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition (June 3, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40922 40922-8836707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design is pleased to announce Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition, on view Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017 in the new downtown Ann Arbor Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor). An exhibition reception will take place on Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition brings together a cross-section of rigorous and research-based works that highlight the range and diversity of creative practices emerging from the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps Faculty wear multiple hats as educators, storytellers, artists, and designers.  Their work is a vehicle to deepen research and expand the pedagogical frameworks of contemporary art and design practices in the 21st Century. By experimenting with mediums, materials, audience interaction, and participation, Reach brings together energizing and compelling paintings, sculpture, new media installations, collage and found objects, video, performance, and textile design. Reach is the first of a series of projects that will examine and highlight art, design and creative work produced by Stamps faculty in the years to come.

Participating faculty members include:


James Cogswell
Roland Graf
Holly Hughes
Osman Khan
Heidi Kumao
Louis Marinaro
Rebekah Modrak
Anne Mondro
Robert Platt
Marianetta Porter
Michael Rodemer
Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker
Sherri Smith
Bruce Tharp and Stephanie Tharp
Nick Tobier
Joseph Trumpey


Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm

Image: Sherri Smith, Mercury, 2015. Woven fiber, 114” x 60”

]]>
Exhibition Sat, 13 May 2017 12:15:24 -0400 2017-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2011IP/mercury-frontpg2.jpg
Exhibition and Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 3, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40743 40743-8719613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:55:27 -0400 2017-06-03T13:00:00-04:00 2017-06-03T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Gifts of Art presents Blossom by Blossom: Elvish Ceramics (June 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39319 39319-7944468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Gabrielle Soltis creates works from the Gyldenstjerne Porcelain Company lineage. The story goes that sometime in the early 1700s, a young Danish nobleman by the name of Einar Gyldenstjerne fell in love and married an Elvish woman named Gwyneira (surname unknown) who shared the family recipe for how to create hard-paste porcelain. The first items produced by the company are dated to 1715. Soltis’ porcelain flowers in this tradition are assembled meticulously petal by petal. She studied ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and is interested in European history and fiction.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:49:20 -0500 2017-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dahlias by Gabrielle Soltis, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Cakeasaurus: Scenes from a Picture Book (June 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39316 39316-7944214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

One caffeinated afternoon in 2008, a monster appeared to Marian Short, bragging about his many cake thefts. He was arrogant, sugar-fueled and oddly appealing. Being a printmaker, Short began carving the tale into woodblocks. This picture book exhibit follows the confectionary exploits of Cakeasaurus, one cake-deprived town, and one little boy about to turn five. It also shows the evolution of a long-term project, with print variations and peeks into artistic process. Short is an Ann Arbor based artist and writer, whose work has appeared in local and national exhibitions.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:11:11 -0500 2017-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cakeasaurus Dreamt of Cake by Marian Short, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Creating Emotion: Hand Painted Intaglio Prints (June 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39322 39322-7944637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dale Osterle, originally from Boston, MA, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. This body of work is hand painted intaglio prints of romantic and expressionist landscapes, all created from memory. She makes her prints by etching into magnesium plates, embossing oil paint into paper with three different rollers of color, and hand-coloring the prints with colored pencil, marker and paint. Her work hangs in art galleries all over the country and the world, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Center and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:54:47 -0500 2017-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Magnificent Tulips, like Jewels (detail) by Dale Osterle, photograph by Dan Grych. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Deep Ocean View: Acrylic on Canvas (June 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39320 39320-7944552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Westland, Michigan artist Durwood Coffey was influenced at an early age by his artistic family, especially by his father and brother who were both enamored with drawing. In the US Marine Corps, he served as a combat artist, whose job is to interpret and illustrate fellow Marine experiences with emotional resonance, all while protecting himself and others. After spending his working life as an illustrator, in 2001 Coffey decided to focus entirely on his own paintings of images from the animal kingdom. In this exhibition, the viewer is plunged up-close into the beautiful world of the sea.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:51:46 -0500 2017-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Passing Through by Durwood Coffey, scan by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Exploring Color & Pattern: Photography (June 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39324 39324-7944805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Robert P. Kelch retired from his position as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at U-M in the fall of 2009. He enjoyed a wonderful career in academic medicine ̶ as a pediatric endocrinologist, physician investigator and administrator. Retirement has given Kelch much more time and energy to devote to his lifelong interest in photography. He especially enjoys photographing beautiful scenes, animals and objects during his many travels and around his home in South Haven, Michigan.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:02:03 -0500 2017-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Kannally Ranch Gate by Robert P. Kelch, M.D. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Glass Cakes (June 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39317 39317-7944298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Janet Kelman’s glass cakes are a perfect fusion of her love of glass and love of baking. Each colorful slice or cupcake invites sampling while her mirror cakes are intriguing brain teasers. Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in her department created scientific equipment, inspiring her to later teach herself lampworking (glass worked over a torch) and open a hot glass studio. Kelman bakes with glass at her home studio in Ann Arbor.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:34:59 -0500 2017-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Glass Cake #2 by Janet Kelman, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Essence: Photography (June 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39318 39318-7944384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David L. Foster is an Atlanta based nature photographer, writer and educator best known for images that convey the essence of his favorite subjects – botanicals and water. In 2014, he collaborated with Julie Hliboki in creating a book entitled Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude. Foster received the P.C. Turczyn Art That Supports the Healing Process award from among 50 international artists chosen for Manhattan Arts International’s 2014 exhibit, Celebrate the Healing Power of Art.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:46:55 -0500 2017-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Indian Ocean Sunrise by David L. Foster. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Seascapes: Firenation Art Glass (June 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39323 39323-7944721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Matt Paskiet is a native to the Glass City — Toledo, Ohio. He began his study of glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1993, and he continued his studies at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state in 1998 and the Fundacio Centre del Vidre in Barcelona in 2001. He later returned to Toledo and opened Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery in Holland, Ohio in 2002, where he has been blowing glass ever since. His Seascape series featured in this exhibit is composed of individually made Murrini pieces, a Venetian glass technique encased in layers of hot glass.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:57:55 -0500 2017-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Seascape Sculpture by Matt Paskiet, photograph by Tom Brooks. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (June 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 4, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

]]>
Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-06-04T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-06-04T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (June 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-06-04T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (June 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-06-04T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (June 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world. This two-part exhibition (Part I: Figuration followed by Part II: Abstraction on view July 1– October 29) presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. The works themselves are equally diverse, ranging from ancient sculptures to contemporary multimedia works. Part I: Figuration features works by Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Mark Tansey, and Mickalene Thomas, among others, and allows visitors to explore the variety of artistic responses and purposes encompassed by the term “figuration”. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for the Arts: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

]]>
Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-06-04T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Exhibition and Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 4, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40743 40743-8719614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:55:27 -0400 2017-06-04T13:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory (June 4, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41007 41007-8894131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II. For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist.
Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Sat, 20 May 2017 13:01:58 -0400 2017-06-04T14:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory
Breaching Artistic Barriers: Artists in Dialogue in Victors For Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors—Part I: Figuration (June 4, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41011 41011-8894135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 4, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Victors For Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors—Part I: Figuration encompasses works of art representing various artistic styles, historical contexts, temporal periods, and geographical spheres. Go behind the scenes with Lehti Mairike Keelmann, UMMA’s Assistant Curator of Western Art, to discover how artists such as Alfred Sisley, Tom Friedman, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jan Saenredam, Andy Warhol, and Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, among others, interpret and challenge established categories of art and subject matter through their choice of technique and social commentary. Keelmann will also discuss how curators approached the installation and layout of these disparate works.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Sat, 20 May 2017 13:34:05 -0400 2017-06-04T15:00:00-04:00 2017-06-04T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Victors for Art
Gifts of Art presents Blossom by Blossom: Elvish Ceramics (June 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39319 39319-7944469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Gabrielle Soltis creates works from the Gyldenstjerne Porcelain Company lineage. The story goes that sometime in the early 1700s, a young Danish nobleman by the name of Einar Gyldenstjerne fell in love and married an Elvish woman named Gwyneira (surname unknown) who shared the family recipe for how to create hard-paste porcelain. The first items produced by the company are dated to 1715. Soltis’ porcelain flowers in this tradition are assembled meticulously petal by petal. She studied ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and is interested in European history and fiction.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:49:20 -0500 2017-06-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dahlias by Gabrielle Soltis, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Cakeasaurus: Scenes from a Picture Book (June 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39316 39316-7944215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

One caffeinated afternoon in 2008, a monster appeared to Marian Short, bragging about his many cake thefts. He was arrogant, sugar-fueled and oddly appealing. Being a printmaker, Short began carving the tale into woodblocks. This picture book exhibit follows the confectionary exploits of Cakeasaurus, one cake-deprived town, and one little boy about to turn five. It also shows the evolution of a long-term project, with print variations and peeks into artistic process. Short is an Ann Arbor based artist and writer, whose work has appeared in local and national exhibitions.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:11:11 -0500 2017-06-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cakeasaurus Dreamt of Cake by Marian Short, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Creating Emotion: Hand Painted Intaglio Prints (June 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39322 39322-7944638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dale Osterle, originally from Boston, MA, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. This body of work is hand painted intaglio prints of romantic and expressionist landscapes, all created from memory. She makes her prints by etching into magnesium plates, embossing oil paint into paper with three different rollers of color, and hand-coloring the prints with colored pencil, marker and paint. Her work hangs in art galleries all over the country and the world, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Center and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:54:47 -0500 2017-06-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-05T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Magnificent Tulips, like Jewels (detail) by Dale Osterle, photograph by Dan Grych. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Deep Ocean View: Acrylic on Canvas (June 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39320 39320-7944553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Westland, Michigan artist Durwood Coffey was influenced at an early age by his artistic family, especially by his father and brother who were both enamored with drawing. In the US Marine Corps, he served as a combat artist, whose job is to interpret and illustrate fellow Marine experiences with emotional resonance, all while protecting himself and others. After spending his working life as an illustrator, in 2001 Coffey decided to focus entirely on his own paintings of images from the animal kingdom. In this exhibition, the viewer is plunged up-close into the beautiful world of the sea.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:51:46 -0500 2017-06-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-05T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Passing Through by Durwood Coffey, scan by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Exploring Color & Pattern: Photography (June 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39324 39324-7944806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Robert P. Kelch retired from his position as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at U-M in the fall of 2009. He enjoyed a wonderful career in academic medicine ̶ as a pediatric endocrinologist, physician investigator and administrator. Retirement has given Kelch much more time and energy to devote to his lifelong interest in photography. He especially enjoys photographing beautiful scenes, animals and objects during his many travels and around his home in South Haven, Michigan.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:02:03 -0500 2017-06-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-05T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Kannally Ranch Gate by Robert P. Kelch, M.D. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Glass Cakes (June 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39317 39317-7944299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Janet Kelman’s glass cakes are a perfect fusion of her love of glass and love of baking. Each colorful slice or cupcake invites sampling while her mirror cakes are intriguing brain teasers. Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in her department created scientific equipment, inspiring her to later teach herself lampworking (glass worked over a torch) and open a hot glass studio. Kelman bakes with glass at her home studio in Ann Arbor.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:34:59 -0500 2017-06-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Glass Cake #2 by Janet Kelman, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Essence: Photography (June 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39318 39318-7944385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David L. Foster is an Atlanta based nature photographer, writer and educator best known for images that convey the essence of his favorite subjects – botanicals and water. In 2014, he collaborated with Julie Hliboki in creating a book entitled Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude. Foster received the P.C. Turczyn Art That Supports the Healing Process award from among 50 international artists chosen for Manhattan Arts International’s 2014 exhibit, Celebrate the Healing Power of Art.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:46:55 -0500 2017-06-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Indian Ocean Sunrise by David L. Foster. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Seascapes: Firenation Art Glass (June 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39323 39323-7944722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Matt Paskiet is a native to the Glass City — Toledo, Ohio. He began his study of glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1993, and he continued his studies at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state in 1998 and the Fundacio Centre del Vidre in Barcelona in 2001. He later returned to Toledo and opened Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery in Holland, Ohio in 2002, where he has been blowing glass ever since. His Seascape series featured in this exhibit is composed of individually made Murrini pieces, a Venetian glass technique encased in layers of hot glass.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:57:55 -0500 2017-06-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-05T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Seascape Sculpture by Matt Paskiet, photograph by Tom Brooks. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (June 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-06-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-05T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 5, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 5, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

]]>
Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-06-05T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 5, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 5, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-06-05T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (June 5, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 5, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-06-05T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (June 5, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 5, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-06-05T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (June 5, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 5, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world. This two-part exhibition (Part I: Figuration followed by Part II: Abstraction on view July 1– October 29) presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. The works themselves are equally diverse, ranging from ancient sculptures to contemporary multimedia works. Part I: Figuration features works by Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Mark Tansey, and Mickalene Thomas, among others, and allows visitors to explore the variety of artistic responses and purposes encompassed by the term “figuration”. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for the Arts: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

]]>
Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-06-05T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Gifts of Art presents Blossom by Blossom: Elvish Ceramics (June 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39319 39319-7944470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Gabrielle Soltis creates works from the Gyldenstjerne Porcelain Company lineage. The story goes that sometime in the early 1700s, a young Danish nobleman by the name of Einar Gyldenstjerne fell in love and married an Elvish woman named Gwyneira (surname unknown) who shared the family recipe for how to create hard-paste porcelain. The first items produced by the company are dated to 1715. Soltis’ porcelain flowers in this tradition are assembled meticulously petal by petal. She studied ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and is interested in European history and fiction.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:49:20 -0500 2017-06-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dahlias by Gabrielle Soltis, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Cakeasaurus: Scenes from a Picture Book (June 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39316 39316-7944216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

One caffeinated afternoon in 2008, a monster appeared to Marian Short, bragging about his many cake thefts. He was arrogant, sugar-fueled and oddly appealing. Being a printmaker, Short began carving the tale into woodblocks. This picture book exhibit follows the confectionary exploits of Cakeasaurus, one cake-deprived town, and one little boy about to turn five. It also shows the evolution of a long-term project, with print variations and peeks into artistic process. Short is an Ann Arbor based artist and writer, whose work has appeared in local and national exhibitions.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:11:11 -0500 2017-06-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cakeasaurus Dreamt of Cake by Marian Short, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Creating Emotion: Hand Painted Intaglio Prints (June 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39322 39322-7944639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dale Osterle, originally from Boston, MA, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. This body of work is hand painted intaglio prints of romantic and expressionist landscapes, all created from memory. She makes her prints by etching into magnesium plates, embossing oil paint into paper with three different rollers of color, and hand-coloring the prints with colored pencil, marker and paint. Her work hangs in art galleries all over the country and the world, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Center and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:54:47 -0500 2017-06-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Magnificent Tulips, like Jewels (detail) by Dale Osterle, photograph by Dan Grych. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Deep Ocean View: Acrylic on Canvas (June 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39320 39320-7944554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Westland, Michigan artist Durwood Coffey was influenced at an early age by his artistic family, especially by his father and brother who were both enamored with drawing. In the US Marine Corps, he served as a combat artist, whose job is to interpret and illustrate fellow Marine experiences with emotional resonance, all while protecting himself and others. After spending his working life as an illustrator, in 2001 Coffey decided to focus entirely on his own paintings of images from the animal kingdom. In this exhibition, the viewer is plunged up-close into the beautiful world of the sea.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:51:46 -0500 2017-06-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Passing Through by Durwood Coffey, scan by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Exploring Color & Pattern: Photography (June 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39324 39324-7944807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Robert P. Kelch retired from his position as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at U-M in the fall of 2009. He enjoyed a wonderful career in academic medicine ̶ as a pediatric endocrinologist, physician investigator and administrator. Retirement has given Kelch much more time and energy to devote to his lifelong interest in photography. He especially enjoys photographing beautiful scenes, animals and objects during his many travels and around his home in South Haven, Michigan.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:02:03 -0500 2017-06-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Kannally Ranch Gate by Robert P. Kelch, M.D. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Glass Cakes (June 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39317 39317-7944300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Janet Kelman’s glass cakes are a perfect fusion of her love of glass and love of baking. Each colorful slice or cupcake invites sampling while her mirror cakes are intriguing brain teasers. Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in her department created scientific equipment, inspiring her to later teach herself lampworking (glass worked over a torch) and open a hot glass studio. Kelman bakes with glass at her home studio in Ann Arbor.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:34:59 -0500 2017-06-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Glass Cake #2 by Janet Kelman, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Essence: Photography (June 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39318 39318-7944386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David L. Foster is an Atlanta based nature photographer, writer and educator best known for images that convey the essence of his favorite subjects – botanicals and water. In 2014, he collaborated with Julie Hliboki in creating a book entitled Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude. Foster received the P.C. Turczyn Art That Supports the Healing Process award from among 50 international artists chosen for Manhattan Arts International’s 2014 exhibit, Celebrate the Healing Power of Art.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:46:55 -0500 2017-06-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Indian Ocean Sunrise by David L. Foster. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Seascapes: Firenation Art Glass (June 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39323 39323-7944723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Matt Paskiet is a native to the Glass City — Toledo, Ohio. He began his study of glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1993, and he continued his studies at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state in 1998 and the Fundacio Centre del Vidre in Barcelona in 2001. He later returned to Toledo and opened Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery in Holland, Ohio in 2002, where he has been blowing glass ever since. His Seascape series featured in this exhibit is composed of individually made Murrini pieces, a Venetian glass technique encased in layers of hot glass.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:57:55 -0500 2017-06-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Seascape Sculpture by Matt Paskiet, photograph by Tom Brooks. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (June 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-06-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 6, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

]]>
Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-06-06T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Exhibition and Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 6, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40743 40743-8719616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:55:27 -0400 2017-06-06T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (June 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (June 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (June 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world. This two-part exhibition (Part I: Figuration followed by Part II: Abstraction on view July 1– October 29) presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. The works themselves are equally diverse, ranging from ancient sculptures to contemporary multimedia works. Part I: Figuration features works by Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Mark Tansey, and Mickalene Thomas, among others, and allows visitors to explore the variety of artistic responses and purposes encompassed by the term “figuration”. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for the Arts: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

]]>
Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition (June 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40922 40922-8836708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design is pleased to announce Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition, on view Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017 in the new downtown Ann Arbor Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor). An exhibition reception will take place on Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition brings together a cross-section of rigorous and research-based works that highlight the range and diversity of creative practices emerging from the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps Faculty wear multiple hats as educators, storytellers, artists, and designers.  Their work is a vehicle to deepen research and expand the pedagogical frameworks of contemporary art and design practices in the 21st Century. By experimenting with mediums, materials, audience interaction, and participation, Reach brings together energizing and compelling paintings, sculpture, new media installations, collage and found objects, video, performance, and textile design. Reach is the first of a series of projects that will examine and highlight art, design and creative work produced by Stamps faculty in the years to come.

Participating faculty members include:


James Cogswell
Roland Graf
Holly Hughes
Osman Khan
Heidi Kumao
Louis Marinaro
Rebekah Modrak
Anne Mondro
Robert Platt
Marianetta Porter
Michael Rodemer
Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker
Sherri Smith
Bruce Tharp and Stephanie Tharp
Nick Tobier
Joseph Trumpey


Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm

Image: Sherri Smith, Mercury, 2015. Woven fiber, 114” x 60”

]]>
Exhibition Sat, 13 May 2017 12:15:24 -0400 2017-06-06T12:00:00-04:00 2017-06-06T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2011IP/mercury-frontpg2.jpg
Gifts of Art presents Blossom by Blossom: Elvish Ceramics (June 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39319 39319-7944471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Gabrielle Soltis creates works from the Gyldenstjerne Porcelain Company lineage. The story goes that sometime in the early 1700s, a young Danish nobleman by the name of Einar Gyldenstjerne fell in love and married an Elvish woman named Gwyneira (surname unknown) who shared the family recipe for how to create hard-paste porcelain. The first items produced by the company are dated to 1715. Soltis’ porcelain flowers in this tradition are assembled meticulously petal by petal. She studied ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and is interested in European history and fiction.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:49:20 -0500 2017-06-07T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dahlias by Gabrielle Soltis, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Cakeasaurus: Scenes from a Picture Book (June 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39316 39316-7944217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

One caffeinated afternoon in 2008, a monster appeared to Marian Short, bragging about his many cake thefts. He was arrogant, sugar-fueled and oddly appealing. Being a printmaker, Short began carving the tale into woodblocks. This picture book exhibit follows the confectionary exploits of Cakeasaurus, one cake-deprived town, and one little boy about to turn five. It also shows the evolution of a long-term project, with print variations and peeks into artistic process. Short is an Ann Arbor based artist and writer, whose work has appeared in local and national exhibitions.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:11:11 -0500 2017-06-07T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cakeasaurus Dreamt of Cake by Marian Short, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Creating Emotion: Hand Painted Intaglio Prints (June 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39322 39322-7944640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dale Osterle, originally from Boston, MA, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. This body of work is hand painted intaglio prints of romantic and expressionist landscapes, all created from memory. She makes her prints by etching into magnesium plates, embossing oil paint into paper with three different rollers of color, and hand-coloring the prints with colored pencil, marker and paint. Her work hangs in art galleries all over the country and the world, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Center and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:54:47 -0500 2017-06-07T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Magnificent Tulips, like Jewels (detail) by Dale Osterle, photograph by Dan Grych. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Deep Ocean View: Acrylic on Canvas (June 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39320 39320-7944555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Westland, Michigan artist Durwood Coffey was influenced at an early age by his artistic family, especially by his father and brother who were both enamored with drawing. In the US Marine Corps, he served as a combat artist, whose job is to interpret and illustrate fellow Marine experiences with emotional resonance, all while protecting himself and others. After spending his working life as an illustrator, in 2001 Coffey decided to focus entirely on his own paintings of images from the animal kingdom. In this exhibition, the viewer is plunged up-close into the beautiful world of the sea.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:51:46 -0500 2017-06-07T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Passing Through by Durwood Coffey, scan by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Exploring Color & Pattern: Photography (June 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39324 39324-7944808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Robert P. Kelch retired from his position as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at U-M in the fall of 2009. He enjoyed a wonderful career in academic medicine ̶ as a pediatric endocrinologist, physician investigator and administrator. Retirement has given Kelch much more time and energy to devote to his lifelong interest in photography. He especially enjoys photographing beautiful scenes, animals and objects during his many travels and around his home in South Haven, Michigan.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:02:03 -0500 2017-06-07T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Kannally Ranch Gate by Robert P. Kelch, M.D. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Glass Cakes (June 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39317 39317-7944301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Janet Kelman’s glass cakes are a perfect fusion of her love of glass and love of baking. Each colorful slice or cupcake invites sampling while her mirror cakes are intriguing brain teasers. Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in her department created scientific equipment, inspiring her to later teach herself lampworking (glass worked over a torch) and open a hot glass studio. Kelman bakes with glass at her home studio in Ann Arbor.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:34:59 -0500 2017-06-07T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Glass Cake #2 by Janet Kelman, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Essence: Photography (June 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39318 39318-7944387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David L. Foster is an Atlanta based nature photographer, writer and educator best known for images that convey the essence of his favorite subjects – botanicals and water. In 2014, he collaborated with Julie Hliboki in creating a book entitled Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude. Foster received the P.C. Turczyn Art That Supports the Healing Process award from among 50 international artists chosen for Manhattan Arts International’s 2014 exhibit, Celebrate the Healing Power of Art.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:46:55 -0500 2017-06-07T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Indian Ocean Sunrise by David L. Foster. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Seascapes: Firenation Art Glass (June 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39323 39323-7944724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Matt Paskiet is a native to the Glass City — Toledo, Ohio. He began his study of glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1993, and he continued his studies at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state in 1998 and the Fundacio Centre del Vidre in Barcelona in 2001. He later returned to Toledo and opened Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery in Holland, Ohio in 2002, where he has been blowing glass ever since. His Seascape series featured in this exhibit is composed of individually made Murrini pieces, a Venetian glass technique encased in layers of hot glass.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:57:55 -0500 2017-06-07T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Seascape Sculpture by Matt Paskiet, photograph by Tom Brooks. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (June 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-06-07T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 7, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

]]>
Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-06-07T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Exhibition and Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 7, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40743 40743-8719617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:55:27 -0400 2017-06-07T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-06-07T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (June 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-06-07T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (June 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-06-07T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (June 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world. This two-part exhibition (Part I: Figuration followed by Part II: Abstraction on view July 1– October 29) presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. The works themselves are equally diverse, ranging from ancient sculptures to contemporary multimedia works. Part I: Figuration features works by Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Mark Tansey, and Mickalene Thomas, among others, and allows visitors to explore the variety of artistic responses and purposes encompassed by the term “figuration”. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for the Arts: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

]]>
Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-06-07T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition (June 7, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40922 40922-8836709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design is pleased to announce Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition, on view Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017 in the new downtown Ann Arbor Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor). An exhibition reception will take place on Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition brings together a cross-section of rigorous and research-based works that highlight the range and diversity of creative practices emerging from the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps Faculty wear multiple hats as educators, storytellers, artists, and designers.  Their work is a vehicle to deepen research and expand the pedagogical frameworks of contemporary art and design practices in the 21st Century. By experimenting with mediums, materials, audience interaction, and participation, Reach brings together energizing and compelling paintings, sculpture, new media installations, collage and found objects, video, performance, and textile design. Reach is the first of a series of projects that will examine and highlight art, design and creative work produced by Stamps faculty in the years to come.

Participating faculty members include:


James Cogswell
Roland Graf
Holly Hughes
Osman Khan
Heidi Kumao
Louis Marinaro
Rebekah Modrak
Anne Mondro
Robert Platt
Marianetta Porter
Michael Rodemer
Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker
Sherri Smith
Bruce Tharp and Stephanie Tharp
Nick Tobier
Joseph Trumpey


Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm

Image: Sherri Smith, Mercury, 2015. Woven fiber, 114” x 60”

]]>
Exhibition Sat, 13 May 2017 12:15:24 -0400 2017-06-07T12:00:00-04:00 2017-06-07T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2011IP/mercury-frontpg2.jpg
Gifts of Art presents Blossom by Blossom: Elvish Ceramics (June 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39319 39319-7944472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Gabrielle Soltis creates works from the Gyldenstjerne Porcelain Company lineage. The story goes that sometime in the early 1700s, a young Danish nobleman by the name of Einar Gyldenstjerne fell in love and married an Elvish woman named Gwyneira (surname unknown) who shared the family recipe for how to create hard-paste porcelain. The first items produced by the company are dated to 1715. Soltis’ porcelain flowers in this tradition are assembled meticulously petal by petal. She studied ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and is interested in European history and fiction.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:49:20 -0500 2017-06-08T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dahlias by Gabrielle Soltis, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Cakeasaurus: Scenes from a Picture Book (June 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39316 39316-7944218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

One caffeinated afternoon in 2008, a monster appeared to Marian Short, bragging about his many cake thefts. He was arrogant, sugar-fueled and oddly appealing. Being a printmaker, Short began carving the tale into woodblocks. This picture book exhibit follows the confectionary exploits of Cakeasaurus, one cake-deprived town, and one little boy about to turn five. It also shows the evolution of a long-term project, with print variations and peeks into artistic process. Short is an Ann Arbor based artist and writer, whose work has appeared in local and national exhibitions.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:11:11 -0500 2017-06-08T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cakeasaurus Dreamt of Cake by Marian Short, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Creating Emotion: Hand Painted Intaglio Prints (June 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39322 39322-7944641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dale Osterle, originally from Boston, MA, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. This body of work is hand painted intaglio prints of romantic and expressionist landscapes, all created from memory. She makes her prints by etching into magnesium plates, embossing oil paint into paper with three different rollers of color, and hand-coloring the prints with colored pencil, marker and paint. Her work hangs in art galleries all over the country and the world, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Center and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:54:47 -0500 2017-06-08T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Magnificent Tulips, like Jewels (detail) by Dale Osterle, photograph by Dan Grych. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Deep Ocean View: Acrylic on Canvas (June 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39320 39320-7944556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Westland, Michigan artist Durwood Coffey was influenced at an early age by his artistic family, especially by his father and brother who were both enamored with drawing. In the US Marine Corps, he served as a combat artist, whose job is to interpret and illustrate fellow Marine experiences with emotional resonance, all while protecting himself and others. After spending his working life as an illustrator, in 2001 Coffey decided to focus entirely on his own paintings of images from the animal kingdom. In this exhibition, the viewer is plunged up-close into the beautiful world of the sea.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:51:46 -0500 2017-06-08T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Passing Through by Durwood Coffey, scan by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Exploring Color & Pattern: Photography (June 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39324 39324-7944809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Robert P. Kelch retired from his position as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at U-M in the fall of 2009. He enjoyed a wonderful career in academic medicine ̶ as a pediatric endocrinologist, physician investigator and administrator. Retirement has given Kelch much more time and energy to devote to his lifelong interest in photography. He especially enjoys photographing beautiful scenes, animals and objects during his many travels and around his home in South Haven, Michigan.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:02:03 -0500 2017-06-08T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Kannally Ranch Gate by Robert P. Kelch, M.D. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Glass Cakes (June 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39317 39317-7944302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Janet Kelman’s glass cakes are a perfect fusion of her love of glass and love of baking. Each colorful slice or cupcake invites sampling while her mirror cakes are intriguing brain teasers. Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in her department created scientific equipment, inspiring her to later teach herself lampworking (glass worked over a torch) and open a hot glass studio. Kelman bakes with glass at her home studio in Ann Arbor.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:34:59 -0500 2017-06-08T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Glass Cake #2 by Janet Kelman, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Essence: Photography (June 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39318 39318-7944388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David L. Foster is an Atlanta based nature photographer, writer and educator best known for images that convey the essence of his favorite subjects – botanicals and water. In 2014, he collaborated with Julie Hliboki in creating a book entitled Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude. Foster received the P.C. Turczyn Art That Supports the Healing Process award from among 50 international artists chosen for Manhattan Arts International’s 2014 exhibit, Celebrate the Healing Power of Art.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:46:55 -0500 2017-06-08T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Indian Ocean Sunrise by David L. Foster. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Seascapes: Firenation Art Glass (June 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39323 39323-7944725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Matt Paskiet is a native to the Glass City — Toledo, Ohio. He began his study of glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1993, and he continued his studies at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state in 1998 and the Fundacio Centre del Vidre in Barcelona in 2001. He later returned to Toledo and opened Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery in Holland, Ohio in 2002, where he has been blowing glass ever since. His Seascape series featured in this exhibit is composed of individually made Murrini pieces, a Venetian glass technique encased in layers of hot glass.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:57:55 -0500 2017-06-08T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Seascape Sculpture by Matt Paskiet, photograph by Tom Brooks. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (June 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-06-08T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 8, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

]]>
Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-06-08T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Exhibition and Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 8, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40743 40743-8719618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:55:27 -0400 2017-06-08T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-06-08T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (June 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-06-08T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (June 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-06-08T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (June 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world. This two-part exhibition (Part I: Figuration followed by Part II: Abstraction on view July 1– October 29) presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. The works themselves are equally diverse, ranging from ancient sculptures to contemporary multimedia works. Part I: Figuration features works by Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Mark Tansey, and Mickalene Thomas, among others, and allows visitors to explore the variety of artistic responses and purposes encompassed by the term “figuration”. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for the Arts: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

]]>
Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-06-08T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition (June 8, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40922 40922-8836710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design is pleased to announce Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition, on view Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017 in the new downtown Ann Arbor Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor). An exhibition reception will take place on Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition brings together a cross-section of rigorous and research-based works that highlight the range and diversity of creative practices emerging from the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps Faculty wear multiple hats as educators, storytellers, artists, and designers.  Their work is a vehicle to deepen research and expand the pedagogical frameworks of contemporary art and design practices in the 21st Century. By experimenting with mediums, materials, audience interaction, and participation, Reach brings together energizing and compelling paintings, sculpture, new media installations, collage and found objects, video, performance, and textile design. Reach is the first of a series of projects that will examine and highlight art, design and creative work produced by Stamps faculty in the years to come.

Participating faculty members include:


James Cogswell
Roland Graf
Holly Hughes
Osman Khan
Heidi Kumao
Louis Marinaro
Rebekah Modrak
Anne Mondro
Robert Platt
Marianetta Porter
Michael Rodemer
Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker
Sherri Smith
Bruce Tharp and Stephanie Tharp
Nick Tobier
Joseph Trumpey


Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm

Image: Sherri Smith, Mercury, 2015. Woven fiber, 114” x 60”

]]>
Exhibition Sat, 13 May 2017 12:15:24 -0400 2017-06-08T12:00:00-04:00 2017-06-08T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2011IP/mercury-frontpg2.jpg
Gifts of Art presents Blossom by Blossom: Elvish Ceramics (June 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39319 39319-7944473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Gabrielle Soltis creates works from the Gyldenstjerne Porcelain Company lineage. The story goes that sometime in the early 1700s, a young Danish nobleman by the name of Einar Gyldenstjerne fell in love and married an Elvish woman named Gwyneira (surname unknown) who shared the family recipe for how to create hard-paste porcelain. The first items produced by the company are dated to 1715. Soltis’ porcelain flowers in this tradition are assembled meticulously petal by petal. She studied ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and is interested in European history and fiction.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:49:20 -0500 2017-06-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dahlias by Gabrielle Soltis, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Cakeasaurus: Scenes from a Picture Book (June 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39316 39316-7944219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

One caffeinated afternoon in 2008, a monster appeared to Marian Short, bragging about his many cake thefts. He was arrogant, sugar-fueled and oddly appealing. Being a printmaker, Short began carving the tale into woodblocks. This picture book exhibit follows the confectionary exploits of Cakeasaurus, one cake-deprived town, and one little boy about to turn five. It also shows the evolution of a long-term project, with print variations and peeks into artistic process. Short is an Ann Arbor based artist and writer, whose work has appeared in local and national exhibitions.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:11:11 -0500 2017-06-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cakeasaurus Dreamt of Cake by Marian Short, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Creating Emotion: Hand Painted Intaglio Prints (June 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39322 39322-7944642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dale Osterle, originally from Boston, MA, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. This body of work is hand painted intaglio prints of romantic and expressionist landscapes, all created from memory. She makes her prints by etching into magnesium plates, embossing oil paint into paper with three different rollers of color, and hand-coloring the prints with colored pencil, marker and paint. Her work hangs in art galleries all over the country and the world, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Center and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:54:47 -0500 2017-06-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Magnificent Tulips, like Jewels (detail) by Dale Osterle, photograph by Dan Grych. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Deep Ocean View: Acrylic on Canvas (June 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39320 39320-7944557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Westland, Michigan artist Durwood Coffey was influenced at an early age by his artistic family, especially by his father and brother who were both enamored with drawing. In the US Marine Corps, he served as a combat artist, whose job is to interpret and illustrate fellow Marine experiences with emotional resonance, all while protecting himself and others. After spending his working life as an illustrator, in 2001 Coffey decided to focus entirely on his own paintings of images from the animal kingdom. In this exhibition, the viewer is plunged up-close into the beautiful world of the sea.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:51:46 -0500 2017-06-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Passing Through by Durwood Coffey, scan by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Exploring Color & Pattern: Photography (June 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39324 39324-7944810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Robert P. Kelch retired from his position as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at U-M in the fall of 2009. He enjoyed a wonderful career in academic medicine ̶ as a pediatric endocrinologist, physician investigator and administrator. Retirement has given Kelch much more time and energy to devote to his lifelong interest in photography. He especially enjoys photographing beautiful scenes, animals and objects during his many travels and around his home in South Haven, Michigan.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:02:03 -0500 2017-06-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Kannally Ranch Gate by Robert P. Kelch, M.D. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Glass Cakes (June 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39317 39317-7944303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Janet Kelman’s glass cakes are a perfect fusion of her love of glass and love of baking. Each colorful slice or cupcake invites sampling while her mirror cakes are intriguing brain teasers. Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in her department created scientific equipment, inspiring her to later teach herself lampworking (glass worked over a torch) and open a hot glass studio. Kelman bakes with glass at her home studio in Ann Arbor.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:34:59 -0500 2017-06-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Glass Cake #2 by Janet Kelman, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Essence: Photography (June 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39318 39318-7944389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David L. Foster is an Atlanta based nature photographer, writer and educator best known for images that convey the essence of his favorite subjects – botanicals and water. In 2014, he collaborated with Julie Hliboki in creating a book entitled Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude. Foster received the P.C. Turczyn Art That Supports the Healing Process award from among 50 international artists chosen for Manhattan Arts International’s 2014 exhibit, Celebrate the Healing Power of Art.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:46:55 -0500 2017-06-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Indian Ocean Sunrise by David L. Foster. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Seascapes: Firenation Art Glass (June 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39323 39323-7944726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Matt Paskiet is a native to the Glass City — Toledo, Ohio. He began his study of glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1993, and he continued his studies at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state in 1998 and the Fundacio Centre del Vidre in Barcelona in 2001. He later returned to Toledo and opened Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery in Holland, Ohio in 2002, where he has been blowing glass ever since. His Seascape series featured in this exhibit is composed of individually made Murrini pieces, a Venetian glass technique encased in layers of hot glass.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:57:55 -0500 2017-06-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Seascape Sculpture by Matt Paskiet, photograph by Tom Brooks. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (June 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-06-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 9, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

]]>
Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-06-09T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Exhibition and Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 9, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40743 40743-8719619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:55:27 -0400 2017-06-09T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (June 9, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-8592787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-06-09T10:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-06-09T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (June 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-06-09T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (June 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-06-09T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (June 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world. This two-part exhibition (Part I: Figuration followed by Part II: Abstraction on view July 1– October 29) presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. The works themselves are equally diverse, ranging from ancient sculptures to contemporary multimedia works. Part I: Figuration features works by Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Mark Tansey, and Mickalene Thomas, among others, and allows visitors to explore the variety of artistic responses and purposes encompassed by the term “figuration”. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for the Arts: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

]]>
Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-06-09T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition (June 9, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40922 40922-8836711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design is pleased to announce Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition, on view Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017 in the new downtown Ann Arbor Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor). An exhibition reception will take place on Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition brings together a cross-section of rigorous and research-based works that highlight the range and diversity of creative practices emerging from the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps Faculty wear multiple hats as educators, storytellers, artists, and designers.  Their work is a vehicle to deepen research and expand the pedagogical frameworks of contemporary art and design practices in the 21st Century. By experimenting with mediums, materials, audience interaction, and participation, Reach brings together energizing and compelling paintings, sculpture, new media installations, collage and found objects, video, performance, and textile design. Reach is the first of a series of projects that will examine and highlight art, design and creative work produced by Stamps faculty in the years to come.

Participating faculty members include:


James Cogswell
Roland Graf
Holly Hughes
Osman Khan
Heidi Kumao
Louis Marinaro
Rebekah Modrak
Anne Mondro
Robert Platt
Marianetta Porter
Michael Rodemer
Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker
Sherri Smith
Bruce Tharp and Stephanie Tharp
Nick Tobier
Joseph Trumpey


Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm

Image: Sherri Smith, Mercury, 2015. Woven fiber, 114” x 60”

]]>
Exhibition Sat, 13 May 2017 12:15:24 -0400 2017-06-09T12:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2011IP/mercury-frontpg2.jpg
Fridays After 5 (June 9, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41013 41013-8894138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Stop in to UMMA on select Friday evenings to enjoy special exhibitions and engaging activities at Fridays After 5! With all of UMMA's galleries remaining open until 8:00 p.m., this exciting series provides an interactive atmosphere for all audiences. Park in the Maynard Structure (between Liberty and William) and receive free, validated parking. The Museum is always free.
Also, be sure to save the date for our upcoming Fridays After 5:
July 21
UMMA Fridays After 5 are generously supported by Comerica Bank and State Street District. The media sponsor for Fridays After 5 is Michigan Radio.

]]>
Recreational / Games Sat, 20 May 2017 13:42:52 -0400 2017-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 2017-06-09T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Recreational / Games Fridays after 5
Outside In: A Walking Tour of Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 9, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41012 41012-8894136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University Bicentennial, Stamps School of Art & Design Professor and artist Jim Cogswell was invited to develop a public installation drawing upon the collections of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist created a single rhythmic procession of vivid, but fragmentary images installed on the glass walls of the two museums. In this walking tour that begins at UMMA and ends at the Kelsey, Cogswell will describe the purpose and process of his project which narrates a compelling story about the movement of people and objects throughout history, their stories now set in new relationships to each other. A public reception will follow the tour on the Kelsey Museum Loggia (outside the Maynard Street Entrance).

Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Sat, 20 May 2017 13:38:40 -0400 2017-06-09T17:30:00-04:00 2017-06-09T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Jim Cogswell
Outside In: A Walking Tour of Cosmogonic Tattoos with Curator Jim Cogswell (June 9, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40744 40744-8719714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Tour begins in UMMA’s exterior courtyard and continues to the installations at the Kelsey Museum. Reception to follow at the Kelsey.

]]>
Other Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:56:36 -0400 2017-06-09T17:30:00-04:00 2017-06-09T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other Cosmogonic Tattoos
Gifts of Art presents Blossom by Blossom: Elvish Ceramics (June 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39319 39319-7944474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Gabrielle Soltis creates works from the Gyldenstjerne Porcelain Company lineage. The story goes that sometime in the early 1700s, a young Danish nobleman by the name of Einar Gyldenstjerne fell in love and married an Elvish woman named Gwyneira (surname unknown) who shared the family recipe for how to create hard-paste porcelain. The first items produced by the company are dated to 1715. Soltis’ porcelain flowers in this tradition are assembled meticulously petal by petal. She studied ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and is interested in European history and fiction.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:49:20 -0500 2017-06-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dahlias by Gabrielle Soltis, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Cakeasaurus: Scenes from a Picture Book (June 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39316 39316-7944220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

One caffeinated afternoon in 2008, a monster appeared to Marian Short, bragging about his many cake thefts. He was arrogant, sugar-fueled and oddly appealing. Being a printmaker, Short began carving the tale into woodblocks. This picture book exhibit follows the confectionary exploits of Cakeasaurus, one cake-deprived town, and one little boy about to turn five. It also shows the evolution of a long-term project, with print variations and peeks into artistic process. Short is an Ann Arbor based artist and writer, whose work has appeared in local and national exhibitions.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:11:11 -0500 2017-06-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cakeasaurus Dreamt of Cake by Marian Short, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Creating Emotion: Hand Painted Intaglio Prints (June 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39322 39322-7944643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dale Osterle, originally from Boston, MA, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. This body of work is hand painted intaglio prints of romantic and expressionist landscapes, all created from memory. She makes her prints by etching into magnesium plates, embossing oil paint into paper with three different rollers of color, and hand-coloring the prints with colored pencil, marker and paint. Her work hangs in art galleries all over the country and the world, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Center and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:54:47 -0500 2017-06-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Magnificent Tulips, like Jewels (detail) by Dale Osterle, photograph by Dan Grych. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Deep Ocean View: Acrylic on Canvas (June 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39320 39320-7944558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Westland, Michigan artist Durwood Coffey was influenced at an early age by his artistic family, especially by his father and brother who were both enamored with drawing. In the US Marine Corps, he served as a combat artist, whose job is to interpret and illustrate fellow Marine experiences with emotional resonance, all while protecting himself and others. After spending his working life as an illustrator, in 2001 Coffey decided to focus entirely on his own paintings of images from the animal kingdom. In this exhibition, the viewer is plunged up-close into the beautiful world of the sea.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:51:46 -0500 2017-06-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Passing Through by Durwood Coffey, scan by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Exploring Color & Pattern: Photography (June 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39324 39324-7944811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Robert P. Kelch retired from his position as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at U-M in the fall of 2009. He enjoyed a wonderful career in academic medicine ̶ as a pediatric endocrinologist, physician investigator and administrator. Retirement has given Kelch much more time and energy to devote to his lifelong interest in photography. He especially enjoys photographing beautiful scenes, animals and objects during his many travels and around his home in South Haven, Michigan.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:02:03 -0500 2017-06-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Kannally Ranch Gate by Robert P. Kelch, M.D. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Glass Cakes (June 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39317 39317-7944304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Janet Kelman’s glass cakes are a perfect fusion of her love of glass and love of baking. Each colorful slice or cupcake invites sampling while her mirror cakes are intriguing brain teasers. Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in her department created scientific equipment, inspiring her to later teach herself lampworking (glass worked over a torch) and open a hot glass studio. Kelman bakes with glass at her home studio in Ann Arbor.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:34:59 -0500 2017-06-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Glass Cake #2 by Janet Kelman, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Essence: Photography (June 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39318 39318-7944390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David L. Foster is an Atlanta based nature photographer, writer and educator best known for images that convey the essence of his favorite subjects – botanicals and water. In 2014, he collaborated with Julie Hliboki in creating a book entitled Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude. Foster received the P.C. Turczyn Art That Supports the Healing Process award from among 50 international artists chosen for Manhattan Arts International’s 2014 exhibit, Celebrate the Healing Power of Art.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:46:55 -0500 2017-06-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Indian Ocean Sunrise by David L. Foster. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Seascapes: Firenation Art Glass (June 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39323 39323-7944727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Matt Paskiet is a native to the Glass City — Toledo, Ohio. He began his study of glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1993, and he continued his studies at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state in 1998 and the Fundacio Centre del Vidre in Barcelona in 2001. He later returned to Toledo and opened Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery in Holland, Ohio in 2002, where he has been blowing glass ever since. His Seascape series featured in this exhibit is composed of individually made Murrini pieces, a Venetian glass technique encased in layers of hot glass.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:57:55 -0500 2017-06-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Seascape Sculpture by Matt Paskiet, photograph by Tom Brooks. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present (June 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 36562-5716736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child, television programs like Lost in Space, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:00:19 -0500 2017-06-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Robot Family Series, photograph by Elaine Reed. High resolution version available upon request.
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 10, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

]]>
Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-06-10T09:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40469 40469-8571665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:52:44 -0400 2017-06-10T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Jim Cogswell
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (June 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39107 39107-7692752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2013, artist Ernestine Ruben (BSDEs ’53) photographed the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Designed by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Kahn, for the Ford Motor Company, Willow Run was an exemplar of American defense manufacturing because of its efficient mass-production of B-24 Liberators during World War II.

For this exhibition, Ruben overlaid interior views of the now-dormant factory with imagined glimpses into her body’s interior landscape. The resulting compositions seem to breathe energy and light into the stagnant and cavernous spaces of Willow Run and suggest a longing for a productive existence undeterred by mortality for both Willow Run and the artist. Her grandfather’s role in the history of the site underscores Ruben’s personal connection.

The exhibition presents Ruben’s photographs of Willow Run in UMMA’s Photography Gallery and an original film—co-created by Ruben and video artist Seth Bernstein and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Stephen Hartke—in the Museum’s Forum.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:20:03 -0500 2017-06-10T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (June 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40468 40468-8571564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9, by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a kinetic sculpture and interactive installation that plays on the work of mid-century American designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The installation consists of 42 molded plastic chairs (designed by the Eameses in 1948) arranged in a grid and attached to electromechanical pistons. When visitors approach the chairs, a surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs lift gently off the ground. The adjacent chairs follow, and a wave movement spreads across the array. The software controlling the pistons is based on fluid dynamics, so as more visitors approach the grid, the chairs—whose iconic curving contours were also generated mathematically— mimic the complex interaction of multiple waves in water.

This performative installation complements the concurrent exhibition Moving Image: Performance, which together constitute the second of three presentations at UMMA drawn from the collection of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. The works in this year-long trio of exhibitions represent traditional categories such as portraiture, landscape, and performance that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9 is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and Michigan Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:47:35 -0400 2017-06-10T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (June 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world. This two-part exhibition (Part I: Figuration followed by Part II: Abstraction on view July 1– October 29) presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. The works themselves are equally diverse, ranging from ancient sculptures to contemporary multimedia works. Part I: Figuration features works by Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Mark Tansey, and Mickalene Thomas, among others, and allows visitors to explore the variety of artistic responses and purposes encompassed by the term “figuration”. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for the Arts: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

]]>
Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-06-10T11:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition (June 10, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40922 40922-8836712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design is pleased to announce Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition, on view Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017 in the new downtown Ann Arbor Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor). An exhibition reception will take place on Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition brings together a cross-section of rigorous and research-based works that highlight the range and diversity of creative practices emerging from the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps Faculty wear multiple hats as educators, storytellers, artists, and designers.  Their work is a vehicle to deepen research and expand the pedagogical frameworks of contemporary art and design practices in the 21st Century. By experimenting with mediums, materials, audience interaction, and participation, Reach brings together energizing and compelling paintings, sculpture, new media installations, collage and found objects, video, performance, and textile design. Reach is the first of a series of projects that will examine and highlight art, design and creative work produced by Stamps faculty in the years to come.

Participating faculty members include:


James Cogswell
Roland Graf
Holly Hughes
Osman Khan
Heidi Kumao
Louis Marinaro
Rebekah Modrak
Anne Mondro
Robert Platt
Marianetta Porter
Michael Rodemer
Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker
Sherri Smith
Bruce Tharp and Stephanie Tharp
Nick Tobier
Joseph Trumpey


Reach: A Stamps Faculty Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, May 16 - Saturday July 8, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Friday, June 16 from 6 - 8 pm

Image: Sherri Smith, Mercury, 2015. Woven fiber, 114” x 60”

]]>
Exhibition Sat, 13 May 2017 12:15:24 -0400 2017-06-10T12:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2011IP/mercury-frontpg2.jpg
Exhibition and Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 10, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40743 40743-8719620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 10, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled "Cosmogonic Tattoos," his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:55:27 -0400 2017-06-10T13:00:00-04:00 2017-06-10T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Gifts of Art presents Blossom by Blossom: Elvish Ceramics (June 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39319 39319-7944475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Gabrielle Soltis creates works from the Gyldenstjerne Porcelain Company lineage. The story goes that sometime in the early 1700s, a young Danish nobleman by the name of Einar Gyldenstjerne fell in love and married an Elvish woman named Gwyneira (surname unknown) who shared the family recipe for how to create hard-paste porcelain. The first items produced by the company are dated to 1715. Soltis’ porcelain flowers in this tradition are assembled meticulously petal by petal. She studied ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and is interested in European history and fiction.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:49:20 -0500 2017-06-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-11T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Dahlias by Gabrielle Soltis, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Cakeasaurus: Scenes from a Picture Book (June 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39316 39316-7944221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

One caffeinated afternoon in 2008, a monster appeared to Marian Short, bragging about his many cake thefts. He was arrogant, sugar-fueled and oddly appealing. Being a printmaker, Short began carving the tale into woodblocks. This picture book exhibit follows the confectionary exploits of Cakeasaurus, one cake-deprived town, and one little boy about to turn five. It also shows the evolution of a long-term project, with print variations and peeks into artistic process. Short is an Ann Arbor based artist and writer, whose work has appeared in local and national exhibitions.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:11:11 -0500 2017-06-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-11T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cakeasaurus Dreamt of Cake by Marian Short, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Creating Emotion: Hand Painted Intaglio Prints (June 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39322 39322-7944644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dale Osterle, originally from Boston, MA, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. This body of work is hand painted intaglio prints of romantic and expressionist landscapes, all created from memory. She makes her prints by etching into magnesium plates, embossing oil paint into paper with three different rollers of color, and hand-coloring the prints with colored pencil, marker and paint. Her work hangs in art galleries all over the country and the world, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Center and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:54:47 -0500 2017-06-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-11T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Magnificent Tulips, like Jewels (detail) by Dale Osterle, photograph by Dan Grych. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Deep Ocean View: Acrylic on Canvas (June 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39320 39320-7944559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Westland, Michigan artist Durwood Coffey was influenced at an early age by his artistic family, especially by his father and brother who were both enamored with drawing. In the US Marine Corps, he served as a combat artist, whose job is to interpret and illustrate fellow Marine experiences with emotional resonance, all while protecting himself and others. After spending his working life as an illustrator, in 2001 Coffey decided to focus entirely on his own paintings of images from the animal kingdom. In this exhibition, the viewer is plunged up-close into the beautiful world of the sea.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:51:46 -0500 2017-06-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-11T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Passing Through by Durwood Coffey, scan by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Exploring Color & Pattern: Photography (June 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39324 39324-7944812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Dr. Robert P. Kelch retired from his position as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at U-M in the fall of 2009. He enjoyed a wonderful career in academic medicine ̶ as a pediatric endocrinologist, physician investigator and administrator. Retirement has given Kelch much more time and energy to devote to his lifelong interest in photography. He especially enjoys photographing beautiful scenes, animals and objects during his many travels and around his home in South Haven, Michigan.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:02:03 -0500 2017-06-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-11T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Kannally Ranch Gate by Robert P. Kelch, M.D. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Glass Cakes (June 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39317 39317-7944305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Janet Kelman’s glass cakes are a perfect fusion of her love of glass and love of baking. Each colorful slice or cupcake invites sampling while her mirror cakes are intriguing brain teasers. Kelman began her love affair with glass in 1970. While studying chemistry in college, she watched, fascinated, as the glassblower in her department created scientific equipment, inspiring her to later teach herself lampworking (glass worked over a torch) and open a hot glass studio. Kelman bakes with glass at her home studio in Ann Arbor.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:34:59 -0500 2017-06-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-11T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Glass Cake #2 by Janet Kelman, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Essence: Photography (June 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39318 39318-7944391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David L. Foster is an Atlanta based nature photographer, writer and educator best known for images that convey the essence of his favorite subjects – botanicals and water. In 2014, he collaborated with Julie Hliboki in creating a book entitled Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude. Foster received the P.C. Turczyn Art That Supports the Healing Process award from among 50 international artists chosen for Manhattan Arts International’s 2014 exhibit, Celebrate the Healing Power of Art.

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:46:55 -0500 2017-06-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-06-11T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Indian Ocean Sunrise by David L. Foster. High resolution version available upon request.