Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (July 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-07-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (July 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-07-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (July 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-07-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (July 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-07-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-22T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (July 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-07-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (July 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-07-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (July 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-07-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (July 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-07-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (July 22, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 22, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (July 22, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 22, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (July 22, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 22, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (July 22, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 22, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Guided Tour - Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (July 22, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49500 49500-12850983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 22, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century including Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others. Join docents as they explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:05:56 -0500 2018-07-22T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-22T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (July 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-07-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (July 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-07-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (July 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-07-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (July 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-07-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-23T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (July 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-07-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (July 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-07-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (July 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-07-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Water’s Presence: Landscapes in Oil (July 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52363 52363-12650054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Cathy VanVoorhis’ oil landscape paintings represent her experience of the healing power of nature. VanVoorhis travels to lakes, rivers and streams to witness the ecology and beauty of natural coastlines of Michigan. She finds inspiration in the writing of naturalists such as Rachel Carson, and the understanding of the intricate web of all life. This series of paintings focuses on the healing that comes from contemplation of bodies of water. This beautiful element can bring a meditative calm and inner peace, as one feels a connection to the timeless forces of life. VanVoorhis is a lecturer at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 09:05:25 -0400 2018-07-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-23T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Trees at the Shore by Cathy VanVoorhis, photograph by Mark VanVoorhis. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (July 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-07-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (July 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-07-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (July 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-07-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (July 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-07-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (July 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-07-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (July 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-07-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (July 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-07-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Water’s Presence: Landscapes in Oil (July 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52363 52363-12650055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Cathy VanVoorhis’ oil landscape paintings represent her experience of the healing power of nature. VanVoorhis travels to lakes, rivers and streams to witness the ecology and beauty of natural coastlines of Michigan. She finds inspiration in the writing of naturalists such as Rachel Carson, and the understanding of the intricate web of all life. This series of paintings focuses on the healing that comes from contemplation of bodies of water. This beautiful element can bring a meditative calm and inner peace, as one feels a connection to the timeless forces of life. VanVoorhis is a lecturer at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 09:05:25 -0400 2018-07-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Trees at the Shore by Cathy VanVoorhis, photograph by Mark VanVoorhis. High resolution version available upon request.
M Farmers Market at East Ann Arbor Health Center (July 24, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/30698 30698-12650117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MHealthy

Visit the M Farmers Market at East Ann Arbor Health Center (EAAHC) every Tuesday, June 5 – September 25. Buy farm fresh, locally-grown seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more at an affordable price.

M Farmers Markets, a partnership between MHealthy, Michigan Medicine, MDining, Central Student Government, and Planet Blue, support U-M's commitment to offering sustainable, locally sourced foods.

View all M Farmers Market dates, times, and locations on the MHealthy website.

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Other Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:06:49 -0400 2018-07-24T10:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location MHealthy Other Fresh vegetables and fruits at M Farmers Market at East Ann Arbor Health Center
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (July 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-07-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (July 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-07-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (July 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-07-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (July 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-07-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (July 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (July 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (July 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (July 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (July 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (July 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (July 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Water’s Presence: Landscapes in Oil (July 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52363 52363-12650056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Cathy VanVoorhis’ oil landscape paintings represent her experience of the healing power of nature. VanVoorhis travels to lakes, rivers and streams to witness the ecology and beauty of natural coastlines of Michigan. She finds inspiration in the writing of naturalists such as Rachel Carson, and the understanding of the intricate web of all life. This series of paintings focuses on the healing that comes from contemplation of bodies of water. This beautiful element can bring a meditative calm and inner peace, as one feels a connection to the timeless forces of life. VanVoorhis is a lecturer at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 09:05:25 -0400 2018-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Trees at the Shore by Cathy VanVoorhis, photograph by Mark VanVoorhis. High resolution version available upon request.
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (July 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (July 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (July 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (July 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-07-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (July 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (July 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (July 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (July 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (July 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (July 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (July 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Water’s Presence: Landscapes in Oil (July 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52363 52363-12650057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Cathy VanVoorhis’ oil landscape paintings represent her experience of the healing power of nature. VanVoorhis travels to lakes, rivers and streams to witness the ecology and beauty of natural coastlines of Michigan. She finds inspiration in the writing of naturalists such as Rachel Carson, and the understanding of the intricate web of all life. This series of paintings focuses on the healing that comes from contemplation of bodies of water. This beautiful element can bring a meditative calm and inner peace, as one feels a connection to the timeless forces of life. VanVoorhis is a lecturer at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 09:05:25 -0400 2018-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Trees at the Shore by Cathy VanVoorhis, photograph by Mark VanVoorhis. High resolution version available upon request.
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (July 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (July 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (July 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (July 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Volunteer at Artscapade! (July 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42847 42847-13176831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Artscapade is at UMMA on Friday, August 30, 7-10pm
Sign up to volunteer today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

Arts at Michigan and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) celebrate Welcome Week through Artscapade -- an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes. We're looking for volunteers to help with Artscapade! There are many fun volunteer opportunities for Artscapade. As a volunteer you'll meet new students, explore UMMA, help run fun arts activities, and get a free Artscapade t-shirt! We hope that you will join us to kick off the new year with Arts at Michigan!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:43:45 -0400 2018-07-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-26T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Fair / Festival Artscapade at UMMA
Early British Rock (July 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52648 52648-12916810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

David Roof’s musical goal is to capture the inspiration that comes at the roots of all types of music. Whether it’s early jazz, blues, rock-a-billy, British invasion rock, or emerging artists, there is a raw energy and authenticity to the sound that he aspires to in his playing. Roof is the bandleader for The Invasion, as well as an in-demand sideman on bass, guitar, or whatever instrument may be needed. For this show, he will be playing music of the British Invasion on guitar along with Ron Bozzi on bass and Donn Deniston on drums. MHealthy Farmers Market is also open in the courtyard during the concert. Rain/heat location: University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.

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Performance Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:16:55 -0400 2018-07-26T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-26T13:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Performance Photograph of David Roof by David Kornblum. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (July 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (July 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (July 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (July 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (July 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (July 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (July 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Water’s Presence: Landscapes in Oil (July 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52363 52363-12650058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Cathy VanVoorhis’ oil landscape paintings represent her experience of the healing power of nature. VanVoorhis travels to lakes, rivers and streams to witness the ecology and beauty of natural coastlines of Michigan. She finds inspiration in the writing of naturalists such as Rachel Carson, and the understanding of the intricate web of all life. This series of paintings focuses on the healing that comes from contemplation of bodies of water. This beautiful element can bring a meditative calm and inner peace, as one feels a connection to the timeless forces of life. VanVoorhis is a lecturer at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 09:05:25 -0400 2018-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Trees at the Shore by Cathy VanVoorhis, photograph by Mark VanVoorhis. High resolution version available upon request.
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (July 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-07-27T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (July 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-07-27T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (July 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-07-27T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (July 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-07-27T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (July 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-07-27T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (July 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (July 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (July 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (July 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (July 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (July 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (July 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (July 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-07-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (July 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-07-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (July 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-07-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (July 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-07-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Storytime at the Museum (July 28, 2018 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52562 52562-12850981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 28, 2018 11:15am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytime at the Museum promotes art enjoyment for our youngest patrons. During the summer we take advantage of the warm weather and the public art situated outside the Museum. As always, we include a fun, age-appropriate hands-on activity related to the story. Children ages three to six are invited to join Storytime. Parents must accompany children. Siblings are welcome to join the group. Meet in front of the UMMA Store.

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

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 05 Jun 2018 13:22:52 -0400 2018-07-28T11:15:00-04:00 2018-07-28T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Storytime
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (July 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (July 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (July 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (July 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (July 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (July 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (July 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (July 29, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 29, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-07-29T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (July 29, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 29, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-07-29T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (July 29, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 29, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-07-29T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (July 29, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 29, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-07-29T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Guided Tour - See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography (July 29, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52563 52563-12850982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 29, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

'See Through' looks at how photographers of these images doubly frame the world around us —once through the frame of the camera lens and, again, through the frame of a reflective mirror or transparent window. UMMA Docents will reveal which photographers include their own reflections in their photographs, highlighting their active role in the creation of images. A tour will also indicate which photographers look outward, enacting an exchange of public and, sometimes, voyeuristic glances; and which look inward to domestic spaces, framing intimate views and personal moments among families and lovers. Mirrors and windows, like the medium of photography itself, expand the limits of the human eye to perceive the world and, in turn, invite viewers to see through to new visual possibilities.

Lead support for 'See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography' is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 05 Jun 2018 13:26:19 -0400 2018-07-29T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-29T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering See Through
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (July 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (July 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (July 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (July 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (July 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (July 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-30T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (July 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Water’s Presence: Landscapes in Oil (July 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52363 52363-12650061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Cathy VanVoorhis’ oil landscape paintings represent her experience of the healing power of nature. VanVoorhis travels to lakes, rivers and streams to witness the ecology and beauty of natural coastlines of Michigan. She finds inspiration in the writing of naturalists such as Rachel Carson, and the understanding of the intricate web of all life. This series of paintings focuses on the healing that comes from contemplation of bodies of water. This beautiful element can bring a meditative calm and inner peace, as one feels a connection to the timeless forces of life. VanVoorhis is a lecturer at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 09:05:25 -0400 2018-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-30T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Trees at the Shore by Cathy VanVoorhis, photograph by Mark VanVoorhis. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (July 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (July 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (July 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (July 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (July 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (July 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (July 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Water’s Presence: Landscapes in Oil (July 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52363 52363-12650062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Cathy VanVoorhis’ oil landscape paintings represent her experience of the healing power of nature. VanVoorhis travels to lakes, rivers and streams to witness the ecology and beauty of natural coastlines of Michigan. She finds inspiration in the writing of naturalists such as Rachel Carson, and the understanding of the intricate web of all life. This series of paintings focuses on the healing that comes from contemplation of bodies of water. This beautiful element can bring a meditative calm and inner peace, as one feels a connection to the timeless forces of life. VanVoorhis is a lecturer at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 09:05:25 -0400 2018-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Trees at the Shore by Cathy VanVoorhis, photograph by Mark VanVoorhis. High resolution version available upon request.
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (July 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (July 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (July 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (July 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (August 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (August 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (August 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (August 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (August 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (August 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (August 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Water’s Presence: Landscapes in Oil (August 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52363 52363-12650063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Cathy VanVoorhis’ oil landscape paintings represent her experience of the healing power of nature. VanVoorhis travels to lakes, rivers and streams to witness the ecology and beauty of natural coastlines of Michigan. She finds inspiration in the writing of naturalists such as Rachel Carson, and the understanding of the intricate web of all life. This series of paintings focuses on the healing that comes from contemplation of bodies of water. This beautiful element can bring a meditative calm and inner peace, as one feels a connection to the timeless forces of life. VanVoorhis is a lecturer at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 09:05:25 -0400 2018-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Trees at the Shore by Cathy VanVoorhis, photograph by Mark VanVoorhis. High resolution version available upon request.
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (August 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-08-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (August 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (August 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (August 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (August 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (August 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (August 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (August 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Water’s Presence: Landscapes in Oil (August 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52363 52363-12650064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Cathy VanVoorhis’ oil landscape paintings represent her experience of the healing power of nature. VanVoorhis travels to lakes, rivers and streams to witness the ecology and beauty of natural coastlines of Michigan. She finds inspiration in the writing of naturalists such as Rachel Carson, and the understanding of the intricate web of all life. This series of paintings focuses on the healing that comes from contemplation of bodies of water. This beautiful element can bring a meditative calm and inner peace, as one feels a connection to the timeless forces of life. VanVoorhis is a lecturer at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 09:05:25 -0400 2018-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Trees at the Shore by Cathy VanVoorhis, photograph by Mark VanVoorhis. High resolution version available upon request.
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-02T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (August 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-08-02T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-02T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-02T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Volunteer at Artscapade! (August 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42847 42847-13176832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Artscapade is at UMMA on Friday, August 30, 7-10pm
Sign up to volunteer today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

Arts at Michigan and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) celebrate Welcome Week through Artscapade -- an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes. We're looking for volunteers to help with Artscapade! There are many fun volunteer opportunities for Artscapade. As a volunteer you'll meet new students, explore UMMA, help run fun arts activities, and get a free Artscapade t-shirt! We hope that you will join us to kick off the new year with Arts at Michigan!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:43:45 -0400 2018-08-02T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-02T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Fair / Festival Artscapade at UMMA
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (August 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (August 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-03T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (August 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-03T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (August 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (August 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (August 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-03T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (August 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-03T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Water’s Presence: Landscapes in Oil (August 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52363 52363-12650065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Cathy VanVoorhis’ oil landscape paintings represent her experience of the healing power of nature. VanVoorhis travels to lakes, rivers and streams to witness the ecology and beauty of natural coastlines of Michigan. She finds inspiration in the writing of naturalists such as Rachel Carson, and the understanding of the intricate web of all life. This series of paintings focuses on the healing that comes from contemplation of bodies of water. This beautiful element can bring a meditative calm and inner peace, as one feels a connection to the timeless forces of life. VanVoorhis is a lecturer at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 09:05:25 -0400 2018-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Trees at the Shore by Cathy VanVoorhis, photograph by Mark VanVoorhis. High resolution version available upon request.
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 3, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-03T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 3, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-03T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (August 3, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-08-03T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 3, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-03T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 3, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-03T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (August 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (August 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (August 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (August 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (August 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (August 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (August 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-04T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (August 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-08-04T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-04T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-04T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (August 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (August 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-05T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (August 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-05T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (August 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (August 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (August 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-05T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (August 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-05T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-05T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (August 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-08-05T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-05T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-05T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Guided Tour - Cosmogonic Tattoos (August 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53388 53388-13355938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished Stamps School of Art and Design professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations at the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative of reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. 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. UMMA docents will introduce the juxtaposed images and help connect the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity.

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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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 03 Aug 2018 11:53:15 -0400 2018-08-05T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-05T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Jim Cogswell, Study for Cosmogonic Tattoos, 2016, shellac ink and graphite on mylar. Courtesy of the artist
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (August 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (August 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (August 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (August 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (August 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (August 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (August 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Water’s Presence: Landscapes in Oil (August 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52363 52363-12650068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Cathy VanVoorhis’ oil landscape paintings represent her experience of the healing power of nature. VanVoorhis travels to lakes, rivers and streams to witness the ecology and beauty of natural coastlines of Michigan. She finds inspiration in the writing of naturalists such as Rachel Carson, and the understanding of the intricate web of all life. This series of paintings focuses on the healing that comes from contemplation of bodies of water. This beautiful element can bring a meditative calm and inner peace, as one feels a connection to the timeless forces of life. VanVoorhis is a lecturer at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 09:05:25 -0400 2018-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-06T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Trees at the Shore by Cathy VanVoorhis, photograph by Mark VanVoorhis. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (August 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry (August 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52362 52362-12649985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:55:00 -0400 2018-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Squiggle in Red by Marsha Chamberlin, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography (August 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52361 52361-12649901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:51:28 -0400 2018-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Red Flamingos by Patty Carroll, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography (August 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52358 52358-12649649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:16 -0400 2018-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Woman in Blue Window – Havana, Cuba by Larry Hauptman. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting (August 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52353 52353-12641781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:18:01 -0400 2018-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Facing the Storm (North American Wolverine – Gulo gulo) by John Megahan, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls (August 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52354 52354-12641865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 May 2018 16:21:11 -0400 2018-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Wild Turkey by Charlie Patricolo, photograph by Richard Babb. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting (August 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52360 52360-12649817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:40 -0400 2018-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition The Conductor by Adnan Charara, photograph by Julia Stephenson. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Water’s Presence: Landscapes in Oil (August 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52363 52363-12650069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Cathy VanVoorhis’ oil landscape paintings represent her experience of the healing power of nature. VanVoorhis travels to lakes, rivers and streams to witness the ecology and beauty of natural coastlines of Michigan. She finds inspiration in the writing of naturalists such as Rachel Carson, and the understanding of the intricate web of all life. This series of paintings focuses on the healing that comes from contemplation of bodies of water. This beautiful element can bring a meditative calm and inner peace, as one feels a connection to the timeless forces of life. VanVoorhis is a lecturer at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 09:05:25 -0400 2018-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Trees at the Shore by Cathy VanVoorhis, photograph by Mark VanVoorhis. High resolution version available upon request.
M Farmers Market at East Ann Arbor Health Center (August 7, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/30698 30698-12650118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MHealthy

Visit the M Farmers Market at East Ann Arbor Health Center (EAAHC) every Tuesday, June 5 – September 25. Buy farm fresh, locally-grown seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more at an affordable price.

M Farmers Markets, a partnership between MHealthy, Michigan Medicine, MDining, Central Student Government, and Planet Blue, support U-M's commitment to offering sustainable, locally sourced foods.

View all M Farmers Market dates, times, and locations on the MHealthy website.

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Other Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:06:49 -0400 2018-08-07T10:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location MHealthy Other Fresh vegetables and fruits at M Farmers Market at East Ann Arbor Health Center
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (August 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-08-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (August 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-08-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (August 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-08-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (August 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-08-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics (August 8, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52359 52359-12649734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:37 -0400 2018-08-08T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-08T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Haunted Hard Drive by Dennison Dorsey, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.