Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-14T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
As to the Woman Question (March 16, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-16T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
As to the Woman Question (March 17, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-17T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 17, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
As to the Woman Question (March 18, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-18T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 18, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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

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

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
CANCELLED: Opening Reception: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 18, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69782 69782-17423602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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

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Reception / Open House Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:53:52 -0400 2020-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Reception / Open House 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
As to the Woman Question (March 19, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-19T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 19, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Presentation by Jeremy York (PhD candidate, Information)

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

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:18:10 -0400 2020-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Detroit Institute of Arts
As to the Woman Question (March 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 20, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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

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

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
As to the Woman Question (March 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 21, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
[CANCELED] Saturday Sampler Tour | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile (March 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69486 69486-17327223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located in modern-day northern Sudan), involved pilgrimage and leaving informal marks on temples, pyramids, and other monumental structures. These graffiti are found in temples throughout the later (“Meroitic”) period of Kush, when it bordered Roman Egypt. They represent one of the few direct traces of the devotional practices of private people in Kush and hint at individuals’ thoughts, values, and daily lives. On this tour, explore the times and places in which Kushite graffiti were inscribed through photos, text, and interactive media presentations. At the heart of the show are the hundreds of Meroitic graffiti recently discovered in a rock-cut temple by the Kelsey expedition to El-Kurru in northern Sudan.

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

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Other Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:01:41 -0400 2020-03-21T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-21T15:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other ancient graffito
CANCELLED: Family Day, of the 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73419 73419-18217163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square (March 22, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70153 70153-17540893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:16:50 -0400 2020-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
As to the Woman Question (March 23, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-23T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-23T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
As to the Woman Question (March 24, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-24T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 24, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
As to the Woman Question (March 25, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-25T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 25, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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

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

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
As to the Woman Question (March 26, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-26T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 26, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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

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

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:25:01 -0400 2020-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Art Institute of Chicago
CANCELLED: Crisis and Solidarity: Celebrating 25 years of the Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 26, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72232 72232-17963870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Walgreen Drama Center

Crisis and Solidarity

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

Reception to follow.

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

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Presentation Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:57:02 -0400 2020-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Presentation Rafael DeJesus, Orange Nation, Acrylic on canvas, 2016
As to the Woman Question (March 27, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-27T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 27, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-27T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 27, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-03-27T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
As to the Woman Question (March 28, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-28T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 28, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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

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

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-03-28T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (March 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 28, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 29, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

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

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

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

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

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
As to the Woman Question (March 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-30T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17594467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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

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

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-03-30T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
As to the Woman Question (March 31, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-03-31T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (March 31, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (March 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (March 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
As to the Woman Question (April 1, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-04-01T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
CANCELED No Space Hidden (Under Heaven) (April 1, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70225 70225-17549995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

New work by Abigial DeVille. Born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works, DeVille has maintained a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places. She creates site-specific, immersive installations designed to bring attention to these forgotten stories, such as with the sculpture she built on the site of a former African American burial ground in Harlem.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:50 -0400 2020-04-01T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Abigal DeVille
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (April 1, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-04-01T09:51:00-04:00 2020-04-01T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (April 1, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-17423605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is one of the largest exhibitions of art by incarcerated artists in the country. Each year, faculty, staff and students from the University of Michigan travel to correctional facilities across Michigan and select work for the exhibition while providing feedback and critique that strengthens artist’s work and builds community around art making inside prisons.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-04-01T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (April 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-04-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-04-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (April 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-04-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (April 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-04-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-04-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (April 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-04-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (April 1, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-04-01T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
Stamps Special Event: Abigail DeVille: Only When It's Dark Enough Can You See The Stars (April 1, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70566 70566-17604959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

New York based artist Abigail DeVille creates immersive works and installations designed to bring attention to these forgotten stories, such as with the sculpture she built on the site of a former African American burial ground in Harlem. With family roots spanning back at least two generations, DeVille’s work about New York City is both personal and political. Acting as an archaeologist, DeVille collects and reallocates found materials to give physical presence to unspoken stories and forgotten pasts. Her work often focuses around themes of displacement, migration, marginalization, and cultural invisibility. As an extension of her installation practice, DeVille also designs sets for theatrical productions, including the Stratford Festival and Harlem Stage. Her work is part of some of the most prestigious collections in the world and has been exhibited internationally, including the Institute of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles); The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York); the Pinchuk Art Centre (Kiev); New Museum (New York); and the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam).  An honors fellow at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, a Creative Capital grantee, and an OBIE Award for Design recipient, DeVille is currently in residence at the American Academy in Rome. 

Co-presented with the Institute for Humanities, presenting No Space Hidden (Under Heaven), an exhibition of work by Abigail DeVille, on view at the IH Gallery April 1-May 7, 2020. There will be an exhibition reception at the IH Gallery following this event.​

   

Co-presented with the U-M Institute for Humanities, presenting No Space Hidden (Under Heaven), an exhibition of work by Abigail DeVille, on view at the IH Gallery April 1–May 7, 2020. There will be an exhibition reception at the IH Gallery following this event. Additional support for this speaker series event from the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:07 -0400 2020-04-01T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-01T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
As to the Woman Question (April 2, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-04-02T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
CANCELED No Space Hidden (Under Heaven) (April 2, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70225 70225-17549996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

New work by Abigial DeVille. Born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works, DeVille has maintained a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places. She creates site-specific, immersive installations designed to bring attention to these forgotten stories, such as with the sculpture she built on the site of a former African American burial ground in Harlem.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:50 -0400 2020-04-02T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Abigal DeVille
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (April 2, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-04-02T09:51:00-04:00 2020-04-02T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (April 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (April 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (April 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (April 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (April 2, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-04-02T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
As to the Woman Question (April 3, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-04-03T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
CANCELED No Space Hidden (Under Heaven) (April 3, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70225 70225-17549997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

New work by Abigial DeVille. Born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works, DeVille has maintained a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places. She creates site-specific, immersive installations designed to bring attention to these forgotten stories, such as with the sculpture she built on the site of a former African American burial ground in Harlem.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:50 -0400 2020-04-03T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Abigal DeVille
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (April 3, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-04-03T09:51:00-04:00 2020-04-03T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (April 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-04-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-04-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (April 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-04-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (April 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-04-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-04-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (April 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-04-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Cancelled! Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (April 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73269 73269-18184071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

The presenter will trace the history of an 1887 Crossley Bros. internal combustion engine at The Henry Ford Museum. Along the journey he will discuss Henry Ford as an early pioneer of urbexing and explore the wide range of disciplines that intertwine at this museum of American innovation.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:26:15 -0400 2020-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Crossley Internal Combustion Engine
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (April 3, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-04-03T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
As to the Woman Question (April 4, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-04-04T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (April 4, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-04-04T09:51:00-04:00 2020-04-04T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (April 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-04-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-04-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (April 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-04-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (April 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-04-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-04-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (April 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-04-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (April 4, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-04-04T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (April 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (April 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (April 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (April 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Witness Lab (April 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68851 68851-17165909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:17:21 -0500 2020-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WitnessLabHeader.notext.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: Kaleidoscope (April 5, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70158 70158-17540898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:16:51 -0400 2020-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (April 5, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
FestiFools Goes Virtual (April 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70802 70802-17644327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

Save the Date!

ANN ARBOR'S 14th Annual FestiFools goes VIRTUAL!
Our awesome FestiFools students in the University of Michigan's Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Program are FOOLISHLY changing gears from fabricating giant puppets to making super tiny, incredibly creative, video puppet vignettes—DESIGNED FOR THE KID INSIDE US ALL!

Tune in on Sunday, April 5th at 4pm (Fools at Four!) to be the first to experience FESTIFOOLS/Virtual!!

FestiFools: Always Free and Forever Foolish! Costumes optional.

Photo credit: Myra Klarman http://myraklarman.com

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Fair / Festival Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:09:11 -0400 2020-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Fair / Festival FestiFools photo by Myra Klarman
Public Webinar: Preview for 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (April 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73971 73971-18451821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

http://myumi.ch/MEllE

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:19:47 -0400 2020-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual event poster
As to the Woman Question (April 6, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-04-06T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
CANCELED No Space Hidden (Under Heaven) (April 6, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70225 70225-17550000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

New work by Abigial DeVille. Born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works, DeVille has maintained a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places. She creates site-specific, immersive installations designed to bring attention to these forgotten stories, such as with the sculpture she built on the site of a former African American burial ground in Harlem.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:50 -0400 2020-04-06T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Abigal DeVille
As to the Woman Question (April 7, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 72423-18000561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 9:00am
Location: Bentley Historical Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.
#umichwomen150

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:04:21 -0500 2020-04-07T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Bentley Historical Library Bentley Historical Library Exhibition Collage of images of women from the exhibit
CANCELED No Space Hidden (Under Heaven) (April 7, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70225 70225-17550001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

New work by Abigial DeVille. Born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works, DeVille has maintained a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places. She creates site-specific, immersive installations designed to bring attention to these forgotten stories, such as with the sculpture she built on the site of a former African American burial ground in Harlem.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:50 -0400 2020-04-07T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Abigal DeVille
Canceled - 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition (April 7, 2020 9:51am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73042 73042-18131815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 9:51am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:15:30 -0400 2020-04-07T09:51:00-04:00 2020-04-07T09:51:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/MFA2020-1000x501px.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (April 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-04-07T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (April 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-04-07T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (April 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-04-07T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg