Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (April 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14797362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (April 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-04-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
2019 Stamps Senior Show (April 19, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59592 59592-14754531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2019-04-19T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (April 19, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-04-19T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Cosmogonic Tattoos (April 19, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was 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 adhered 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 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 the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

#CosmogonicTattoos

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.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-04-19T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
CANCELED :: Roundtable and Q&A with Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan (April 19, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60967 60967-14997739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 11:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

****This event has been canceled due to changing travel plans. We hope to see you at the 4/18 Hopwood Awards Ceremony instead (Thursday, April 18, 6:00 PM, Rackham Auditorium).****

Please join us in the Hopwood Room for a discussion between essayists Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan. This lunchtime event will be catered; food will be available at 11:30, and the discussion will start at noon.

Hilton Als began contributing to The New Yorker in 1989, writing pieces for ‘The Talk of the Town,’ he became a staff writer in 1994, theatre critic in 2002, and lead theater critic in 2012. Week after week, he brings to the magazine a rigorous, sharp, and lyrical perspective on acting, playwriting, and directing. With his deep knowledge of the history of performance—not only in theatre but in dance, music, and visual art—he shows us how to view a production and how to place its director, its author, and its performers in the ongoing continuum of dramatic art. His reviews are not simply reviews; they are provocative contributions to the discourse on theatre, race, class, sexuality, and identity in America. Als is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan, and Smith College. He lives in New York City.

Aisha Sabatini Sloan was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her writing about race and current events is often coupled with analysis of art, film and pop culture. She studied English Literature at Carleton College and went on to earn an MA in Cultural Studies and Studio Art from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona. Her essay collection, The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2013. Her most recent essay collection, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, was just chosen by Maggie Nelson as the winner of the 1913 Open Prose Contest and will be published in 2017. She is currently a Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 13 Apr 2019 19:07:21 -0400 2019-04-19T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (April 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60271 60271-14855620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Presentation by Caitlin Clerkin (PhD candidate, Interdisciplinary Program in Classical Art and Archaeology)

The presenter will discuss her practicum at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, working with art of the Ancient World and narrative issues that are common to ancient art galleries — both in the sense of the arguments being made in galleries and the narratives with which visitors enter the galleries.

http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/museums-at-noon/

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Presentation Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:23:31 -0500 2019-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
she was here, once (April 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 19, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-19T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
2019 Stamps Senior Show (April 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59592 59592-14754532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2019-04-20T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (April 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2019-04-20T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Cosmogonic Tattoos (April 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was 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 adhered 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 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 the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

#CosmogonicTattoos

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.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-04-20T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (April 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-04-20T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
Saturday Sampler Tour | Newberry Hall and the Tiffany Window (April 20, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61691 61691-15170140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

"I've always wondered what was in this building" is a common refrain from visitors to the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Completed in 1891, Newberry Hall is one of the oldest buildings on the University of Michigan campus. Join us on a guided walk through this Richardsonian Romanesque building and learn about its architecture and fascinating history.

The highlight of the tour is an up-close view of the glorious Tiffany stained-glass window in the Kelsey Museum library. Julia Truettner, U-M preservationist and building historian, describes the window as follows:

"The Fox memorial window utilizes many kinds of glass, including roundels and chunks or nuggets, as well as plated layers, to produce a range of colors from rich claret and deep sapphire to greens, golds, and lighter shades of pinks, yellows, and blues. The abstract design incorporates not only geometric forms but also floral and vegetable motifs, such as the green pods around the perimeter and the petal-like forms at the bottom, which embrace the panels naming the honorees. These forms, plus the medallion at the top with its floral images surrounded by roundels, hint at Tiffany's coming mastery of landscape, figural, and ecclesiastical designs."

Space on the tour is limited to 30 participants. Please register by emailing mullersm@umich.edu.

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

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Other Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:29:58 -0500 2019-04-20T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T15:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other tiffany window
UMMA Pop Up: Lewis and Spence (April 20, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63094 63094-15555872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Lewis & Spence deliver a wide variety of old time classics with solid vocal harmonies, region-specific fiddle tunes, and driving banjo stylings to chase the blues away! Swapping instruments throughout their set, this duo dons an amusing repertoire, punctuated by the occasional flatfoot number, during which Lewis clicks-and-clacks along with the rhythmic phrases as Spence hammers them out on the banjo. Eager to invite audience members to wrestle with the difficult themes that shroud old time music and its history, this duo shares their analysis, questions, and ponderings casually throughout their set. Traveling with an impressive display of cheap art, it’s clear their inspiration ranges from a reverence for traditional music to the looming collapse of our civilization.

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Performance Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:15:47 -0400 2019-04-20T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 20, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 20, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-20T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
2019 Stamps Senior Show (April 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59592 59592-14754533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2019-04-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (April 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2019-04-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Cosmogonic Tattoos (April 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was 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 adhered 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 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 the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

#CosmogonicTattoos

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.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-04-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (April 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-04-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (April 21, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58797 58797-14561445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:20 -0500 2019-04-21T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 21, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-21T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14797365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (April 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (April 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-04-22T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 22, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-22T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14797366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (April 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (April 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-04-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Instant Knowledge: Detroit (April 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63285 63285-15612037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: History of Art

This workshop will focus on data-objects, or historical, data-based research and mapping projects related to Detroit, from the 1930s to the 1980s. Students and invited guests will reflect about these objects in the context of the Cold War and the global dimension or urbanization processes, and in relationship to the Mapping Detroit project, currently prepared at Taubman College.

9:00 - 10:45AM: Detroit Cold War
Tim Barney
University of Richmond

Presentations from:
Jessica Puff
Anjelica Hope Perez
Bader AlBader & Christine Hwang

10:50 - 1:00PM: Detroit Global

Presentations:
Amit Ittyerah
Weican Zuo

Discussants:
Robert Fishman
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrio
Anya Sirota
Lukasz Stanek
Kathy Velikov
Claire Zimmerman

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Apr 2019 14:29:39 -0400 2019-04-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T14:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building History of Art Workshop / Seminar poster
2019 Stamps Senior Show (April 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59592 59592-14754534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2019-04-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (April 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2019-04-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Cosmogonic Tattoos (April 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was 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 adhered 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 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 the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

#CosmogonicTattoos

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.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-04-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (April 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-04-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 23, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-23T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14797367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (April 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (April 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-04-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
2019 Stamps Senior Show (April 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59592 59592-14754535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2019-04-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (April 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-04-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Cosmogonic Tattoos (April 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was 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 adhered 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 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 the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

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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.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-04-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (April 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-04-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
Making Art Public: A conversation with Mark di Suvero and Christina Olsen (April 24, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63024 63024-15536918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Public art on a university campus plays a significant role in creating an environment that supports the development of the mind and spirit of students, faculty, and staff. The University of Michigan has an historic and longstanding commitment to public art. The campus is full of icons that evoke the Michigan spirit, but none capture the vital importance of public art on campus like Mark di Suvero’s Orion.

Please join us on Wednesday, April 24 for an opportunity to hear from one of the greatest living sculptors and creators of public art.

Born in Shanghai, China, in 1933, di Suvero immigrated to the United States in 1941 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. An internationally renowned sculptor and pioneer in the use of steel, he began showing his sculptures in the 1950s. Di Suvero is the sculptor of two iconic works on the U-M Ann Arbor campus: Shang, a kinetic sculpture that features a suspended platform that swings, and Orion, a brightly painted, orange-red sculpture made of hand-cut, painted steel. His architectural-scale sculptures have been exhibited in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Germany, Australia, Japan, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. di Suvero is the first living artist to exhibit in the Jardin des Tuileries and the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris and at Millennium Park in Chicago. His work is featured in more than 100 museums and public collections, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. An activist for peace and social justice, di Suvero co-founded Park Place Gallery, an artists’ cooperative, in New York City in 1962. In 1977, he established the Athena Foundation to assist artists to fulfill their ambitions. He established Socrates Sculpture Park in 1986 at the site of a landfill in Queens, New York. Di Suvero has received several honors, including the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center and the National Medal of Arts.

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

This program is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan President's Advisory Committee on Public Art.

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Presentation Sat, 20 Apr 2019 18:15:39 -0400 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Membership Meeting Party (April 24, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58179 58179-14435453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 04 Dec 2018 15:16:47 -0500 2019-04-24T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering East Quadrangle
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 24, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-24T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14797368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (April 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (April 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-04-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
2019 Stamps Senior Show (April 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59592 59592-14754536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2019-04-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (April 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-04-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Cosmogonic Tattoos (April 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was 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 adhered 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 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 the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

#CosmogonicTattoos

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.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-04-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (April 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-04-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 25, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-25T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (April 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14797369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (April 26, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-04-26T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
2019 Stamps Senior Show (April 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59592 59592-14754537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2019-04-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (April 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 53719-13452969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:40:44 -0400 2019-04-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam Situation VI—Pisces 4 ca. 1972 Polypropylene painted multiform Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund
Cosmogonic Tattoos (April 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was 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 adhered 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 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 the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

#CosmogonicTattoos

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.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-04-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (April 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-04-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
she was here, once (April 26, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-04-26T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 26, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-26T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
2019 Stamps Senior Show (April 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59592 59592-14754538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2019-04-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (April 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2019-04-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Cosmogonic Tattoos (April 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was 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 adhered 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 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 the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

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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.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-04-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
Family Art Studio: Painting with Paper (April 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59550 59550-14750209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Join us for a close up look at the collage art of contemporary artist, Mark Bradford. Using paper, interesting materials, and surprising techniques we will create abstract landscapes or cityscapes. The workshop begins with a tour of UMMA's gallery of Modern and Contemporary art, followed by a hands-on workshop with local artist, and UMMA community Docent, Susan Clinthorne. Designed for families with children of ages six and above. Parents must be present during the workshop.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:15:33 -0400 2019-04-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (April 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-04-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
Family Art Studio: Painting with Paper (April 27, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59551 59551-14750210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Join us for a close up look at the collage art of contemporary artist, Mark Bradford. Using paper, interesting materials, and surprising techniques we will create abstract landscapes or cityscapes. The workshop begins with a tour of UMMA's gallery of Modern and Contemporary art, followed by a hands-on workshop with local artist, and UMMA community Docent, Susan Clinthorne. Designed for families with children of ages six and above. Parents must be present during the workshop.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Apr 2019 18:15:57 -0400 2019-04-27T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Imprint: The World to Come A youth response to the exhibition at UMMA (April 27, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63095 63095-15555873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA is working with the Neutral Zone to bring young minds, talents, and interpretations to the table in response to UMMA's exhibition of The World to Come: Art In the Age of the Anthropocene (April 27 - July 28, 2019). High school students, working with Neutral Zone resident artist, Sajeev Visweswaran, will create multicolored serigraphy poster images in response to this exhibition. Students working in different media such as music, video, and poetry are also invited to create work. Themes from the exhibition that will prompt the student's work will include environmental devastation, justice, and action.  All works created as a result of this partnership will be on display at the 37th Potential Exhibition, opening at the Neutral Zone on April 27 and on view through May 1, 2019.

 

The 37th Potential Exhibition, Washtenaw County Juried Teen Art Competition, opens at the Neutral Zone on Saturday, April 27, 5:30 - 7 p.m., awards Ceremony at 6 p.m. This year's exhibition juried by Jennifer Friess, UMMA's Assistant Curator of Photography. Gallery hours: 4/29 - 5/1, 12 - 6 p.m. Free and open to the public. The Neutral Zone is located at 310 E. Washington St. in Ann Arbor. Please contact Mary Thiefels (thiefels@neutral-zone.org), Neutral Zone Visual & Media Arts Manager, for more information.

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:15:33 -0400 2019-04-27T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-27T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 27, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-27T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (April 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-04-28T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
​Yoga Study Break at UMMA (April 28, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59552 59552-14750211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

​Participate in the ancient practice of yoga in the beautiful surroundings of the Museum of Art. This will be gentle yoga, especially appropriate for students in the throes of exams, led by a U-M RecSports teacher. All levels and community members welcome. This event is free but registration is required. Registration will open in March. Please bring your own yoga mat.

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

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Presentation Sat, 27 Apr 2019 11:55:55 -0400 2019-04-28T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T11:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation yoga
2019 Stamps Senior Show (April 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59592 59592-14754539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2019-04-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (April 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2019-04-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Cosmogonic Tattoos (April 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was 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 adhered 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 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 the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

#CosmogonicTattoos

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.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-04-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (April 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-04-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
UMMA Pop Up: Music with Back Pocket Duo (April 28, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62916 62916-15494567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)



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Performance Wed, 24 Apr 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-04-28T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
The Six Senses of Buddhism (April 28, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59786 59786-14788663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Art museums generally give primacy to the sense of sight. Religious and ritual objects, on the other hand, stimulate an array of multisensory experiences. Focusing on works from UMMA’s collection associated with different types of Japanese Buddhism, we engage all of the six senses in this exhibition. These six are integral to Buddhist devotion: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and mind (or the activity of thinking, including what is perceived via the other senses). The “Six Senses” gallery experience extends beyond vision to include: the sound of chanting and ritual implements; the fragrance of incense; the feel of bronze, ceramic, and silk; and the creation of mental images. Gain a deeper understanding of the nature and histories of objects used in Buddhist practice with a docent tour of this fascinating exhibition.

Lead support for The Six Senses of Buddhism is provided by the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:29 -0500 2019-04-28T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Meet Me at UMMA: A Museum Arts Experience for Persons with Mild Memory Loss and Their Care Partners (April 28, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58533 58533-14510855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Meet Me at UMMA invites people with mild memory loss to enjoy a guided gallery experience along with family members or care partners. This program is designed for people who live at home and their companions.

If you or someone you care about is experiencing mild memory loss, research has shown that the visual and expressive arts can be good for your mind. In addition, great enjoyment is to be found in seeking out the sights, sounds, textures, and good feelings that come with looking at, learning, and sharing feelings about paintings, music, and other creative arts.

UMMA's trained docents will accompany small groups for a guided tour and provide the opportunity for everyone to experience different kinds of art and share their responses.

Meet Me at UMMA is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Monroe-Brown Foundation Discretionary Fund for Outreach to the State of Michigan, and individual donors.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:19 -0500 2019-04-28T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 28, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-28T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (April 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14797372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-04-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (April 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-04-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (April 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-04-29T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 29, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-29T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (April 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14797373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-04-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (April 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-04-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (April 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-04-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (April 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-04-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (April 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-04-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (April 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-04-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (April 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-04-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (April 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-04-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (April 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-04-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (April 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-04-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (April 30, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-04-30T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
2019 Stamps Senior Show (April 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59592 59592-14754540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2019-04-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (April 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 53718-13452811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Lead support for "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:39:06 -0400 2019-04-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sam Gilliam, Situation VI—Pisces 4, ca. 1972, polypropylene painted multiform. Williams College Museum of Art Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust and Kathryn Hurd Fund. Courtesy of Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., New York. © Sam Gilliam
Cosmogonic Tattoos (April 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 58558-14510927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was 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 adhered 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 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 the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2, 2018 and UMMA through June 2, 2019.

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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.
 

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-04-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/procession.jpg
New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono (April 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 58566-14511693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty, incredible softness, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.

This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister, Shizuko Iwata, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.

This kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:16:17 -0400 2019-04-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2016_2_52_front.jpeg
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (April 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 59263-14721792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS, DISASTERS, CONSUMPTION, LOSS, AND JUSTICE

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues, the exhibition presents photography, video, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials, disasters, consumption, loss, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists, including Sammy Baloji, Liu Bolin, Dana Levy, Mary Mattingly, Pedro Neves Marques, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, and Thomas Struth, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness, wonder, and curiosity about the world to come.

Read the exhibition press release here.

 

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 
 

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Harn-sixpetritsch_spatialintervention.jpeg
Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library (April 30, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 60521-14903636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, interventions, and events by University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

The continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment, distribution, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.

Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR), and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

 

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-04-30T21:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Bookmarks-Banner.jpg
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (May 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14797374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-05-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan (May 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 61743-15179031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Born and raised in India, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth, healing, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale, Illinois, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:19:14 -0500 2019-05-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Adaptation by Bala Thiagarajan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi (May 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 61746-15179115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures, patterns, shapes and colors, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:24:37 -0500 2019-05-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of Rezgar Mamandi applying glaze. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden (May 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 62142-15302250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint, Michigan native, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:24:05 -0400 2019-05-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Work from the Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form series by Darcy R. Bowden, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider (May 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 61755-15179527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design, and she works with cloth, paint, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her work is in both private and public collections.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 May 2019 14:03:34 -0400 2019-05-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-01T20:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Still Life: Two Calligraphy Brushes & Boro by Barbara J. Schneider, photo by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss (May 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 61751-15179280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep, saturated color in her studio in Evanston, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:32:01 -0500 2019-05-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Prairie in Bright Sun by Nina Weiss, photograph by James Prince. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand (May 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 61749-15179197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:28:31 -0500 2019-05-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Under the Bodhi Tree, Blazing Stupa by Roshan Houshmand, photograph by the artist. High resolution version
Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder (May 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 62143-15302332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction, including a Newbery Award winning book for children, Step Gently Out, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program "Creatures of Light", produced by National Geographic Television, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:17 -0400 2019-05-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition River (detail) by Rick Lieder. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of presents Art, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway (May 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 62140-15302167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In Juliette Hemingway’s work, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing, autism, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism, and for her, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora, Colorado.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:19:32 -0400 2019-05-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Pouring My Heart Out by Juliette Hemingway, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
she was here, once (May 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-05-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-01T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency (May 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 58928-14578362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy." Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500 2019-05-01T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-01T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Blind House composite
2019 Stamps Senior Show (May 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59592 59592-14754541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions.

Exhibition Openings & Events

Wednesday, April 10
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 11
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 - 8 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 8:00 pm.

The 2019 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and the Art & Architecture Building from April 12-May 4, 2019.

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2019-05-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-05-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg