Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 9, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 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 2020-04-09T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Lauren Groff, Writer in Residence, In Conversation with ​Akil Kumarasamy (April 9, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70570 70570-17604963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Lauren Groff’s latest book, Florida (Riverhead Books, 2018), explores loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments, decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury—the moments that make us alive. Florida won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Southern Book Prize, and the Kirkus Prize. 

Groff is also the author of the short story collection, Delicate Edible Birds, and three novels: The Monsters of Templeton, a finalist for the Orange Prize for New Writers; Arcadia, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction; and Fates and Furies, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Prize, and the Kirkus Prize, and the winner of the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne in France. 

Groff’s short fiction has won prizes including the Pushcart Prize, the PEN/O. Henry Prize, and the Paul Bowles Prize, and has appeared frequently in the New Yorker and the Best American Short Stories anthology. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Foundation, and her work has been published in over 30 languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.

This event is free and open to the public. Onsite book sales will be provided by Literati Bookstore.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the  Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event. 
 
U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

 
 

 

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Presentation Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:17:09 -0400 2020-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
[FREE- NOW ONLINE!]Great Lakes Theme Semester Presents: #LakeEffects Film Series (April 9, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73624 73624-18272034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

Hosted by Michigan Sea Grant and co-sponsored by Great Lakes Now, this completely free series will have a different theme each night: Journeys, Shipwrecks, Invaders, Hazards, Detroit Public TV Night.

Join us every Thursday for the next five weeks now on Zoom! Join us virtually for an hour and a half screening followed by a brief Q&A with filmmakers, participants, and local experts. We hope to see you there!
https://zoom.us/j/380790681

March 12: Journeys
The Big Five Dive
Crossing Lake Huron

March 19: Shipwrecks
Project Shiphunt
November Requiem

March 26: Invaders
Making Waves

April 2: Hazards
Great Lakes, Bad Lines
The Forever Chemicals

April 9: Detroit Public TV Night
Selections from Great Lakes Now

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:33:59 -0500 2020-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-09T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Great Lakes Theme Semester Livestream / Virtual U-M LSA Great Lakes Theme Semester, Lake Effects, with topographical map of Michigan
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 10, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 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 2020-04-10T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-11T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-11T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-11T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-11T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-11T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-11T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-11T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-11T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-11T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-11T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-11T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-11T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-11T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-11T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-11T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-11T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 11, 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 2020-04-11T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
UMMA Pop Up: Emma Aboukasm and Alex Anest (April 11, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71630 71630-17846975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 11, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Emma Lee Aboukasm is an award-winning, Detroit-based recording artist, vocalist, pianist, and composer. Educated in classical and jazz music at the University of Michigan, she is now performing in a variety of venues, ranging from intimate venues like the Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe to the Detroit Jazz Festival. Emma Lee is on the vanguard of contemporary music in the heart of metro-Detroit. 

Aboukasm won the Youth Vocal Jazz Competition in Detroit in 2014. In 2015, she made the top five finalists out of 2,000 applications worldwide in the International Sarah Vaughan Vocal Jazz Competition. There, she performed for a panel of judges including Christian McBride and Cyrille Aimée and played tracks from her CD on WBGO radio in Newark, NJ. 

Currently, Emma Lee Aboukasm resides in Southeast Michigan as she completes her bachelor degrees in Jazz Studies and Science in Information Analysis at the University of Michigan. She continues to write and arrange music for a new project to be announced soon. 

Alex Anest has been teaching, performing, and recording music professionally in the Southeast Michigan area since 1996. He founded and leads the Ann Arbor Guitar Trio and is also currently playing with the Alex Anest Trio, the Bluewater Kings, Kat Steih, and Klezmephonic. Alex studied guitar with Miles Okazaki and Chris Buzzelli. He holds a Masters of Music in Improvisation from University of Michigan, where he studied with Benny Green, Mark Kirschenmann, and Ellen Rowe. Alex was a founding member of the electric jazz group Giraffe, the Jericho Guitar Trio, Never Nebula, Secret 7, and Delta 88. He has toured Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy with songwriter Kevin Meisel and has played on stages throughout the Midwest and New England. Alex has also appeared on over 30 albums, mostly recorded in Michigan.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:10 -0400 2020-04-11T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-11T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
[CANCELED] Saturday Sampler Tour | Read and Look: "One-Minute Greek Myths" (April 11, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69488 69488-17327225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 11, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join us for a kid-friendly tour of the exhibits at the Kelsey Museum! We begin by reading aloud a few myths from "One-Minute Greek Myths," by Shari Lewis. Then we explore the galleries to find some of the characters pictured in the book like brightly colored frescoes, mosaics, coins, and pottery. During the tour, replica artifacts will be available for kids to touch and learn from. This tour is great for our younger visitors, ages 4–8. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

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 12:03:04 -0400 2020-04-11T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-11T15:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other One-Minute Myths cover
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-12T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-12T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-12T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-12T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-12T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-12T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-12T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 12, 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 2020-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
The Power Family Program for Inuit Art Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 12, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70156 70156-17540896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 12, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Our second exhibition on Inuit art explores the serene expressions of day-to-day activities found in mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints and sculptures. Donors inspired by the Power gift and the development of a Power Program for Inuit Art at UMMA contributed to this exhibition with diffuse offerings to incorporate into our holdings, or with loans to expand our conversations. 

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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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:16:50 -0400 2020-04-12T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 14, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 14, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 14, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 14, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 14, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 14, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 14, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 14, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 14, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 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 2020-04-14T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 15, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-15T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 15, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-15T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 15, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-15T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 15, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-15T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 15, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-15T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 15, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-15T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 15, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-15T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 15, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-15T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 15, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-15T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 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 2020-04-15T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 16, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-16T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 16, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-16T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 16, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-16T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 16, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-16T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 16, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-16T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 16, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-16T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 16, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-16T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 16, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-16T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 16, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-16T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 16, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 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 2020-04-16T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 17, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-17T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 17, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-17T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 17, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-17T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 17, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-17T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 17, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-17T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 17, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-17T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 17, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-17T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 17, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-17T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 17, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-17T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 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 2020-04-17T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 18, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-18T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 18, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-18T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 18, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-18T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 18, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-18T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 18, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-18T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 18, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-18T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 18, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-18T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 18, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-18T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 18, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-18T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 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 2020-04-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 19, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 19, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 19, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 19, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 19, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 19, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 19, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 19, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 19, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 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 2020-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
UMMA Pop Up: Warren & Flick (April 19, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71631 71631-17846976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jacob Warren and Grant Flick explore the nuanced textures of a two-person band. Using both original material and  personally arranged standards from many genres, the group finds new depth in the simplicity of duets. The two met at the 2015 Acoustic Music Seminar, a program accepting only sixteen young string players from around the world to participate in a week of intense improvisation, composition and performance training. With Jacob’s classical foundation and Grant’s experience in bluegrass and jazz, their contrasting backgrounds give Warren & Flick a unique and compelling musical narrative. ​ You can find out more on their website, or follow them on Instagram and Facebook.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:11 -0400 2020-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-19T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 21, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 21, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 21, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 21, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 21, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 21, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 21, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 21, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 21, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 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 2020-04-21T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 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 2020-04-22T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 23, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 23, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 23, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 23, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 23, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 23, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 23, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 23, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 23, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-23T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 23, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 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 2020-04-23T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 24, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 24, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 24, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 24, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 24, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 24, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 24, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 24, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 24, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 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 2020-04-24T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-25T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Family Art Studio: Investigations with Watercolor (April 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70577 70577-17604970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop. Take a tour of Collection Ensemble, the vibrant reinstallation of UMMA’s Tisch Apse, followed by a watercolor and assemblage workshop where you will learn painting techniques and create two of your own works of art. Led by Stamps School of Art and Design students Emily Considine and Bre Boersma.

Parents must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:09 -0400 2020-04-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-25T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 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 2020-04-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Storytime at the Museum (April 25, 2020 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70579 70579-17604972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 11:15am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytime at the Museum promotes art enjoyment for our youngest patrons. Join us as we travel around the world and look at art from different countries. We read a story in the galleries and include a fun, age-appropriate, hands-on activity related to it. Parents must accompany children. Siblings are welcome to join the group. Meet in front of the UMMA Shop.

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

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:09 -0400 2020-04-25T11:15:00-04:00 2020-04-25T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
Family Art Studio: Investigations with Watercolor (April 25, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70578 70578-17604971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop. Take a tour of Collection Ensemble, the vibrant reinstallation of UMMA’s Tisch Apse, followed by a watercolor and assemblage workshop where you will learn painting techniques and create two of your own works of art. Led by Stamps School of Art and Design students Emily Considine and Bre Boersma.

Parents must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:09 -0400 2020-04-25T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-25T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
UMMA Pop Up: Matthew Davis & Betsy Richards (April 25, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72227 72227-17959602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 25, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Betsy Richards and Matthew Davis bring a blend of traditional folk music from around the world in a dynamic duo consisting of fiddle, banjo, and other string instruments. Their influences range from Swedish polskas, to Irish jigs and reels– all through the lens of American old-time and bluegrass. Having grown up as friends in the Midwest, Richards and Davis have since lived in many places and traveled the country, allowing different folk traditions to shape their playing. Now, the two reside in Southeast Michigan and enjoy a reunion of their different musical experiences in this duo project. 

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Performance Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:15:27 -0400 2020-04-25T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-25T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (April 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 26, 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 2020-04-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-27T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless
Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture (April 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73894 73894-18392891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:06:52 -0400 2020-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Works from the Flora Series by Anne Mondro, photograph by the artist.
Gouache Paintings (April 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73888 73888-18390317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:52:54 -0400 2020-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Some City #7 by Jaye Schlesinger, photograph by the artist
Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey (April 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73895 73895-18392970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:09:51 -0400 2020-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-27T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Spelling Bees by Martina Celerin, photo by the artist.
Nature’s Dance (April 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73890 73890-18390475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:02:49 -0400 2020-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cone Village by Chris Trombley, photograph by Roland Trombley.
Sculptural Dinnerware (April 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73891 73891-18390554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:13:36 -0400 2020-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition American Modern water pitchers, 1939-59 by Russel Wright, photograph courtesy of Margaret Carney.
What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels (April 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73889 73889-18390396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:57:41 -0400 2020-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Two House Totems surrounding small Totem by Candace Compton Pappas, photograph by the artist.
Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas (April 28, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73893 73893-18392812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:03:00 -0400 2020-04-28T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Starfish by Charles L. Gilchrist, photograph by the artist
Americana Sampler (April 28, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 70213-17547848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:28:27 -0500 2020-04-28T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-28T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition British Men o’ War off Long Island, ca. 1814 by William Paine from U-M William L. Clements Library collection.
Birds Fly In: Oil Painting (April 28, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73892 73892-18390634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:16 -0400 2020-04-28T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Violet Evolution by Ellie Harold, photograph by Steve Loveless