Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Marked Landscapes: From Civil War to Civil Rights (February 21, 2017 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38173 38173-6987113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 7:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Art Gallery hours are 7am-5pm Monday-Friday.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:05:29 -0500 2017-02-21T07:00:00-05:00 2017-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Michel Mergen
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (February 21, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2017-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (February 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (February 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (February 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (February 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Agents of Change (February 21, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37423 37423-6534061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Followed by discussion.

About the film: From the well-publicized events at San Francisco State in 1968 to the image of black students with guns emerging from the takeover of the student union at Cornell University in April, 1969, the struggle for a more relevant and meaningful education, including demands for black and ethnic studies programs, became a clarion call across the country in the late 1960’s. Through the stories of these young men and women who were at the forefront of these efforts, Agents of Change examines the untold story of the racial conditions on college campuses and in the country that led to these protests. The film’s characters were caught at the crossroads of the civil rights, black power, and anti-Vietnam war movements at a pivotal time in America’s history. Today, over 45 years later, many of the same demands are surfacing in campus protests across the country, revealing how much work remains to be done.

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Film Screening Fri, 06 Jan 2017 12:43:57 -0500 2017-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 2017-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Film Screening Agents of Change
Study Abroad First Step Session (February 21, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 2017-02-21T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Film screening and Q & A: Nana Dijo; Irresolute Radiography of Black Consciousness (February 21, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38992 38992-7551385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Munger Graduate Residences

Please join us in celebrating Black History Month by attending a film screening of Nana Dijo; Irresolute Radiography of Black Consciousness. The screening will be followed by a Q & A and spoken word with Bocafloja Quilomboarte. Complete details are below. We look forward to seeing you there!

Location: Rackham Amphitheatre, 4th Floor of Rackham
Date: February 21, 2017

7:00p.m. (Welcome and Intro. by Bocafloja Quilomboarte)
7:30p.m. (film begins)
8:10p.m. (film ends; Q & A begins)
9:00p.m. (Q&A ends)
9:00-9:15p.m. (spoken word performance conclusion)

About the film and Bocafloja:

• Bocafloja is a Multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, author, and founder of the Quilomboarte collective. Decoloniality, Body Politics, African Diaspora in Latin America and Intersectionality are fundamental topics addressed in his body of work. Bocafloja has been featured in newspapers, magazines and media outlets globally.

• Nana Dijo is a cartography of the Black experience through a collection of narratives in first person. Nana Dijo is an urgent historical registry filmed in Mexico, Honduras, Uruguay, Argentina and the United States, which opens a crucial platform of analysis about race relations/politics by transgressing beyond the parameters of hegemonic discourses imposed by culturalist agendas. The narrative sewed into Nana Dijo grows out of the body of the oppressed trespassing geo-political borders. Nana Dijo pursues processes of empowerment while being critical towards exoticization within hegemonic cultural industries. Nana Dijo is the complexity in the colonized psyche; Our elders vernacular manifestation. Nana Dijo; Irresolute Radiography of Black Consciousness is the first documentary collaborative project directed by Bocafloja in collaboration with Cambiowashere.

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Film Screening Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:27:07 -0500 2017-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 2017-02-21T21:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Munger Graduate Residences Film Screening Bocafloja Quilomboarte
Marked Landscapes: From Civil War to Civil Rights (February 22, 2017 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38173 38173-6987114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 7:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Art Gallery hours are 7am-5pm Monday-Friday.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:05:29 -0500 2017-02-22T07:00:00-05:00 2017-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Michel Mergen
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (February 22, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-02-22T10:00:00-05:00 2017-02-22T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (February 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-02-22T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (February 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-02-22T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (February 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-02-22T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (February 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-02-22T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Study Abroad First Step Session (February 22, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 2017-02-22T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
ASP Film Screening | Havresc: Stand On Courage (February 22, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36436 36436-5613613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 7:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

HAVRESC: STAND ON COURAGE is a documentary on the struggles of Armenian and Assyrian Christian Iraqis and the village they have formed on the edge of ISIS controlled territory. Standing in the face of adversity, bigotry, hatred and oppression they have protected themselves from the Islamic state and created a community that is a home to all Christians facing persecution.

Free admission!
Fundraiser Event for the village of Havresc

Q&A Session with director David Ritter

TO HELP HAVRESC VISIT http://www.echo612.org/

Download the event flyer: http://ii.umich.edu/content/dam/asp-assets/asp-documents/Havresc-Promo-Michigan.pdf

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Film Screening Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:37:50 -0500 2017-02-22T19:00:00-05:00 2017-02-22T21:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening Havresc: Stand On Courage
Marked Landscapes: From Civil War to Civil Rights (February 23, 2017 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38173 38173-6987115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2017 7:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Art Gallery hours are 7am-5pm Monday-Friday.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:05:29 -0500 2017-02-23T07:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Michel Mergen
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (February 23, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-02-23T10:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (February 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-02-23T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (February 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-02-23T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (February 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-02-23T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (February 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-02-23T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Study Abroad First Step Session (February 23, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Marked Landscapes: From Civil War to Civil Rights (February 24, 2017 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38173 38173-6987116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 7:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Art Gallery hours are 7am-5pm Monday-Friday.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:05:29 -0500 2017-02-24T07:00:00-05:00 2017-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Michel Mergen
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (February 24, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-02-24T10:00:00-05:00 2017-02-24T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (February 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-02-24T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (February 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-02-24T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (February 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-02-24T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (February 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-02-24T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Study Abroad First Step Session (February 24, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 2017-02-24T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (February 25, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 25, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-02-25T10:00:00-05:00 2017-02-25T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (February 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (February 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (February 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (February 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (February 26, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 26, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-02-26T10:00:00-05:00 2017-02-26T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (February 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-02-26T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (February 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-02-26T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (February 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-02-26T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (February 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-02-26T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (February 27, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 27, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-02-27T10:00:00-05:00 2017-02-27T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (February 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-02-27T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (February 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-02-27T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (February 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-02-27T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (February 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-02-27T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
A Plastic Ocean (February 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39259 39259-7885903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Planet Blue

Join us for a film screening of
A Plastic Ocean
Exchange plastic bags for a Planet Blue reusable bag and make a commit to Breaking Bag Habits
Free popcorn!

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Film Screening Tue, 28 Feb 2017 08:33:32 -0500 2017-02-28T08:00:00-05:00 2017-02-28T09:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Planet Blue Film Screening Plastics in our great lakes
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (February 28, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-02-28T10:00:00-05:00 2017-02-28T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (February 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-02-28T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (February 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-02-28T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (February 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-02-28T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (February 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-02-28T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 1, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-01T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-01T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-01T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-01T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (March 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-03-01T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-01T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 2, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 2, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-02T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-02T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-02T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-02T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-02T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-02T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (March 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-03-02T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-02T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-02T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-02T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
(FULL) 35th Annual Women of Color Task Force (WCTF) Career Conference (March 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37205 37205-6451224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: CEW+

Registration for this conference is now closed, as we have reached capacity. Thank you!

The 35th Annual WCTF Career Conference will be held on Friday, March 3, 2017. This year's featured keynote speakers are Ms. Jane Elliott, Diversity Scholar and Pioneer, and Mr. Roland S. Martin, Host & Managing Editor of News One Now.

Jane Elliott has been teaching her "Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes" groundbreaking anti-racist group social exercise for over thirty-six years, working to make people permanently more empathetic and sensitive to the problem of racism. Starting the exercise in her third-grade classroom in all-white, all-Christian Riceville, Iowa, immediately after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this exercise has provided dramatic results for both children and adults throughout the country. Elliott’s work has also been the subject of several television documentaries, written up in many psychology and social studies texts, and a book, A Class Divided, Then and Now. Elliott is a recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education. She has been a guest lecturer at numerous colleges, universities, and corporations, and has appeared on a plethora of television shows, including 60 Minutes, Oprah, and Today.

Roland S. Martin is a journalist who is the host and managing editor of TV One’s News One Now, the first daily morning news program in history to focus on news and analysis of politics, entertainment, sports and culture from an explicitly African American perspective. Martin is also the creator and host of The Roland Martin Show, as well as senior analyst for the Tom Joyner Morning Show. Honored with the 2013 National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) Journalist of the Year Award, Martin is a two-time winner of the NAACP Image Award and has received more than 40 professional media awards. Spending six years as a CNN Contributor, and as a member of the network's "Best Political Team on Television,” he was granted the Peabody Award in 2009. Named three times to Ebony Magazine's 150 Most Influential African Americans list, and recognized as one of the Top 50 Political Pundits by the Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom, Martin is also the author of three influential books.

The keynote is free and open to the public, however, pre-registration is requested online here:
http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/2017WCTFKeynote

Register here for the full day conference:
http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/2017WCTFConference

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:29:45 -0500 2017-03-03T08:00:00-05:00 2017-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League CEW+ Conference / Symposium Roland Martin & Jane Elliott
Race, Gender & Identity in the Workplace featuring Jane Elliott and Roland S. Martin (March 3, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38113 38113-6891407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2017 8:30am
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: CEW+

In honor of the 35th Annual Women of Color Task Force Career Conference, please join us for an engaging discussion on Race, Gender & Identity in the Workplace featuring Jane Elliott and Roland S. Martin, and moderated by Professor Robin Means Coleman.

This morning keynote address is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, however, registration is required for those who are not attending the 1-day paid WCTF conference.

Register to attend here: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/2017WCTFKeynote

Jane Elliott has been teaching her groundbreaking anti-racist group social exercise “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes” for over 36 years, working to make people more empathetic and sensitive to the problem of racism, prejudice, and privilege. Elliott started the exercise in her third-grade classroom immediately after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. recognizing that continuous education, introspection, and commitment to this issue should be taught at an early age.

Roland S. Martin is an award-winning journalist who has always maintained a clear sense of his calling and delivered a critical analysis of the news and politics from an explicitly African American perspective. The host of his own news show on BET, Martin also serves as senior analyst for the Tom Joyner Morning Show. Martin is the author of three books, including The First: President Barack Obama’s Road to the White House.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:11:45 -0500 2017-03-03T08:30:00-05:00 2017-03-03T10:30:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium CEW+ Lecture / Discussion Headshots of Roland S. Martin & Jane Elliott
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 3, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-03T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-03T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-03T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-03T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (March 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-03-03T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-03T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 4, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 4, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-04T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-04T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-04T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-04T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (March 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-03-04T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-04T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 5, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 5, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-05T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-05T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 5, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 5, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 5, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 5, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (March 5, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 5, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 5, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 5, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 6, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-06T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-06T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-06T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (March 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-03-06T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-06T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
“An Unprecedented Obligation and Opportunity for the South”: World War II and the Death of the Southern Renaissance (March 6, 2017 3:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38642 38642-7320021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 3:10pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Dr. Gardner surveys the changes wrought by World War II to the book industry in general and to the southern renaissance in particular. Taking Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit and Richard Wright’s Black Boy, both published in 1944, as case studies and expanding out, Dr. Gardner argues that during the 1940s the South came to occupy a different literary position in the minds of industry insiders. The war changed which books were produced, how they were produced, and the ways they were pitched to an expanding market that demanded reading material that explained new wartime realities. In this climate, few southern titles fit the bill. It also notes the ways in which the industry itself had changed. Southerners continued to publish fiction, of course, but by the 1940s there was hardly anything new about the overturning of the moonlight and magnolia school of southern letters. Renaissances cannot continue forever. Southern authors still might have something new to say, but that was no longer revolutionary. The modern literary marketplace that had emerged in the 1920s and 1930s looked markedly different in the 1940s and 1950s. The war might not have signaled the death of Dixie, as some prognosticators had suggested, but it did signal the death of the southern literary renaissance.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2017 12:13:20 -0500 2017-03-06T15:10:00-05:00 2017-03-06T16:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion East Quadrangle
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 6, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 7, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-07T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-07T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-07T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (March 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-03-07T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-07T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 7, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
25th Wallenberg Lecture: Bryan Stevenson (March 7, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37513 37513-6610215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallenberg Lecture

Stevenson is a fierce advocate for social justice and human rights in the context of criminal justice reform in the United States. As a civil rights lawyer, he litigates on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. He, like Raoul Wallenberg, show that one person can make a difference.

Join us for his Wallenberg Lecture.
March 7, 2017
7:30 pm
Rackham Auditorium
Wallenberg.umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:08:54 -0500 2017-03-07T19:30:00-05:00 2017-03-07T21:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallenberg Lecture Lecture / Discussion Bryan Stevenson
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 8, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-08T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-08T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (March 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-03-08T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-08T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 8, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 9, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-09T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-09T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-09T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (March 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-03-09T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-09T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 9, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
"Remnants" (March 9, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38490 38490-7191732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

"Remnants" is an award-winning, minimalist piece that includes the voices of 3 men and 4 women, currently presented as a one-man performance by the author. The play reflects more than 40 years of conversation between the playwright and a small group of Holocaust survivors. "Remnants" is thus not testimony, but rather recreates memory as it erupts within sustained and deepening acquaintance.

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Performance Wed, 01 Feb 2017 12:00:26 -0500 2017-03-09T19:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Performance Remnants
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 10, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-10T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-10T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (March 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-03-10T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-10T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
RC Talks: "Early Female Gamelan Buskers: Social Persona and Musical Style" (March 10, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38453 38453-7191690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

For centuries, professional female entertainers, taledhek, have been Java’s premier buskers, singing and dancing in the streets, in erotic dance parties and fertility rites accompanied by the gamelan. By presenting short life histories of a few of these women, Dr. Walton shows how their musical style and persona eschew middle class Javanese gender norms. Drawing on recordings from the 1920s and 1930s, ethnographic fieldwork with aging male gamelan musicians and taledhek, and information from literary sources, Dr. Walton will analyze the musical characteristics of the early taledhek’s style and how those musical elements shifted when some taledhek started to perform in the courts in the early 20th century.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Feb 2017 12:08:02 -0500 2017-03-10T15:30:00-05:00 2017-03-10T17:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Djumira Taledhek
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 10, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 11, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 11, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-11T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-11T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 11, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 11, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-11T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 11, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 11, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-11T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (March 11, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 11, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-03-11T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 11, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 11, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-11T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
CSEAS Workshop. Music & Dance Workshop of the Muslim Societies of the Southern Philippines (March 11, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39144 39144-7712204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 11, 2017 1:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Dance ethnologist Peter Paul De Guzman and ethnomusicologist Bernard Ellorin, Ph.D., will be giving a four-hour workshop on music and dances from the Muslim Societies of the Southern Philippines. This hands-on participatory workshop will focus on the Maranao and Sama-Tausug known for their rich dance and music vocabulary rooted in living traditions that are celebratory in nature. Both artist-scholars bring a wealth of information from intensive field research with native practitioners that will be shared with the Ann Arbor community.

Co-sponsored by: Philippine Arts & Cultural Ensemble of Michigan (PACE-MI)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:29:41 -0500 2017-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 2017-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Center for Southeast Asian Studies Workshop / Seminar guzman
Vortex (March 11, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38844 38844-7435847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 11, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Promoting Healthcare through Dance

Come see a medley of University of Michigan's finest dance, acapella, and other performing arts groups on campus on March 11th in the Kuenzel room of the Michigan Union! Vortex will feature performances by 58 Greene, Hipnotics Belly Dance, Michigan Sahana, and other amazing performance groups. Tickets are $5 and all the proceeds go to the Community Foundation of Greater Flint to aid in the ongoing Flint Water Crisis.

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Performance Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:41:16 -0500 2017-03-11T19:00:00-05:00 2017-03-11T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Promoting Healthcare through Dance Performance Vortex Flyer
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 12, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 12, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-12T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-12T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 12, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 12, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 12, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 12, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
The Aesthetic Movement (March 12, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 34762-4987840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 12, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:52:39 -0400 2017-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Photo secession
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 12, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 12, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 13, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-13T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-13T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 13, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 13, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 13, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 13, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-13T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 14, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-14T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-14T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 14, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-14T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 14, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-14T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 14, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-14T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 14, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 15, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-15T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 15, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-15T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 15, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-15T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 15, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-15T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
"1943: Consequences of Mobilization" (March 15, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39109 39109-7692825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This symposium uncovers the impact of World War II on the home front. Each of its three sessions investigate critical social changes produced by war: in Ann Arbor, the far-reaching effects of the G.I. Bill in expanding higher education to an entire generation of men; in Willow Run the profound influence of female and African American employment in defense industries alongside a personal testament evoked by the mammoth, now empty buildings; in Detroit the ripples of musical exchange that ran alongside racial, religious, and ethnic conflict. The three sessions draw upon a lively mix of scholars, artists, and musicians, who, in turn, explore the unprecedented mixing that characterized wartime America.
Symposium schedule:

2 –4 p.m. Ann Arbor: "The GI Bill and Its Impact on Higher Education," featuring lectures by Glenn Altschuler and Philo Hutcheson.

4 –4:15 p.m. Visit UMMA exhibition Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory

4:15–6:30 p.m. "Willow Run: Gender, Race, and Factory Work During and After World War II," featuring Ernestine Ruben, her collaborator composer Stephen Hartke,
UMMA Assistant Curator of Photography Jennifer Friess, Ruth Milkman, and Katie Rosenblatt.

6:30–7:30 p.m. Break. UMMA exhibition Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory open for browsing.

7:30–9 p.m. "Detroit: Remembering the Music with Vincent York's Jazzistry"

For more information about the symposium and the U-M Bicentennial Theme Semester, please visit lsa.umich.edu/bicentennial or call 734-615-7400.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:47:55 -0500 2017-03-15T14:00:00-04:00 2017-03-15T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Rally / Mass Meeting Blurred Lights, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 15, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-15T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 16, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-16T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-16T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-16T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-16T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 16, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
HIV Today Panel (March 16, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39392 39392-8044717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join us for HIV Today, part of LGBTQ+ Health and Wellness Week, as we hear a panel of speakers share their personal experiences and stories about HIV in today's society.

We will be engaging the panelists in conversations about getting tested, communicating with partners, current research, blood donation, community services, and living with HIV. (There will also be an opportunity for audience members to personally ask questions to the panelists or to use an anonymous dropbox.) Come ready to learn and/or to gain insight from professionals and people from the U of M community. We hope to see you there!

FREE FOOD from Jerusalem Garden will also be available starting at 5:45pm

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Presentation Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:44:20 -0500 2017-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T19:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Spectrum Center Presentation HIV Panel Poster
Paint No Pour (March 16, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33210 33210-4703048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Join us at Trotter for a monthly guided art experience! We will provide participants canvases, art supplies, and a fabulous facilitator to unwind and explore their creative sides, for FREE! This program will allow participants to engage in cultural exploration through art, and sessions will be inspired by heritage months, current pressing social concerns, and the broad interests of the students we serve.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 07 Sep 2016 14:33:57 -0400 2017-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering Flyer for Paint No Pour. Info in graphic contained in details.
A Glimpse Into the Refugee Crisis (March 16, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39110 39110-7692826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Join the Michigan Refugee Assistance Program (MRAP) as they host their capstone event on March 16, 2017 from 7:30-10:00 p.m. at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. At this event, the audience will have the opportunity to hear from former refugees who will be sharing their moving stories about resettling in the United States. The event will also host photographer Jim Lommasson, who will speak about his current project What We Carried, which depicts stories of displacement, loss, and the preservation of identity through objects brought from displaced Syrian and Iraqi refugees.

Professionals in the refugee sector will then provide insight into the largest humanitarian crisis of our generation and how we can
take action.

This event will be followed by a reception with Jim Lommasson and members of the refugee community. Organized by the Michigan Refugee Assistance Program, with support from the U-M LSA Student Government, Language Resource Center, International Institute, Multi-Ethnic Student Association, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:54:38 -0500 2017-03-16T19:30:00-04:00 2017-03-16T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Helmut Stern Auditorium
Night in the D with Semester in Detroit! (March 16, 2017 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39446 39446-8069310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Join Semester in Detroit for a special edition Day in the D - at night! We'll be grooving out at Bert's Jazz Club, featuring an open mic night following a special performance and talk by Bill Meyer.

*This event is also an optional session for our Detroiters Speak: Toward Education Justice.*

RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/meTOIIiV1eVjxFJb2

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:32:12 -0500 2017-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Social / Informal Gathering Night in the D Cover Photo
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 17, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-17T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
ASP Film Screening | After this Day (March 17, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36441 36441-5613618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 4:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

This documentary revisits the stories of orphans and orphanages born out of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, particularly the orphanage of Antoura in Lebanon, where children were sent to be Turkified under the order of Jamal Pasha. The children experienced horrific circumstances, but this is ultimately a true story of how many endured to tell their stories of survival and death-defying courage. Bezjian uncovers how the children held onto their Armenian faith and language, while defying Pasha’s aims of destroying all vestiges of Armenian identity.

For the first time, the film brings together prominent Armenian and Turkish historians Vahé Tashjian and Dr. Selim Deringil to discuss and explore the history of Armenian orphans and orphanages that resulted from the Armenian Genocide.

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Film Screening Mon, 20 Feb 2017 15:52:54 -0500 2017-03-17T16:30:00-04:00 2017-03-17T18:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening After this Day
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 17, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 18, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 18, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-18T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Social Justice Art Festival 2017 (March 18, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38538 38538-7217363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 18, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: School of Social Work

The Social Justice Art Festival aims to explore how art can be used as a tool to promote social justice and encourage dialogue among community members, social work students, and the University of Michigan family at large. The festival will feature a variety of artwork from artists in the University of Michigan community and beyond, including visual displays, musical performances, and interactive installations. The artwork submitted highlights a range of social justice topics, including internationality, body acceptance, identity, and protest, all of which connect back to the theme of what it means to claim, move throughout, and inhabit space. There will be locally sourced and cultivated coffee and tea available for a small fee.

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Exhibition Thu, 02 Feb 2017 09:24:56 -0500 2017-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center School of Social Work Exhibition Brenda Miller Slomovits
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 19, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 19, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-19T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 20, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 20, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 21, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 21, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 22, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
The Agency of Color: Art and Race in Eighteenth Century (March 22, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39393 39393-8044719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Tappan Hall
Organized By: History of Art

In this lecture, I would like to better define the instrumental role played by the arts of color in the surprising process of articulating the category of race to that of skin color. While natural history, political history, aesthetics have already been the subject of remarkable historical and epistemological work regarding the emerging category of race under the Ancien Régime, there seems to be, still, a compelling case to address by studying the role of images and of fine arts in their expository and material specificities. Indeed, I would like to expose how, in the Eighteenth Century, their very means were fundamentally entangled with the anchoring of race in skin color.

Anne Lafont is associate professor in art history at the University of East Paris/Marne-la-Vallée. In 2007 she joined the French National Institute of Art History (INHA). There, she was engaged for five years in historiographical research programs (art and science; art and nationalism; gender studies and art discourses) before becoming editor-in-chief of the INHA review Perspective. Lafont is the author of a monograph on the french painter Girodet (Paris: Adam Biro, 2005). She has edited Plumes et pinceaux. Discours de femmes sur l’art en Europe 1750-1850, 2 vols (Paris: Presses du Réel, 2012) and she just completed a book on Art and Race in the Age of Enlightenment after having published numerous articles on this topic.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:32:28 -0400 2017-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Tappan Hall History of Art Lecture / Discussion Nattier
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 22, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 23, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 23, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
A Plastic Ocean (March 23, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39259 39259-7885902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Planet Blue

Join us for a film screening of
A Plastic Ocean
Exchange plastic bags for a Planet Blue reusable bag and make a commit to Breaking Bag Habits
Free popcorn!

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Film Screening Tue, 28 Feb 2017 08:33:32 -0500 2017-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Planet Blue Film Screening Plastics in our great lakes
Oscar-Winning Film The White Helmets Screening – Pizza provided (March 23, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39937 39937-8412121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Syrian Orphans Sponsorship Association

Oscar-winning film The White Helmets will be screened! Please join us for this incredible documentary. Food will be provided and there will be a discussion afterwards on the documentary. Any donations ($3 suggested) shall go towards helping provide our sponsored orphan in Syria with food and an education.

Room 3437 Mason Hall, from 7:30 - 9:30 PM (Documentary is 40 minutes, and the discussion will be 20-30 minutes. Afterwards, board members will stick around to answer any questions)

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:23:00 -0400 2017-03-23T19:30:00-04:00 2017-03-23T21:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Syrian Orphans Sponsorship Association Social / Informal Gathering White Helmets Flyer
India Business Conference 2017 (March 24, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39618 39618-8210481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 10:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: India Initiatives @ Ross

The 8th India Business Conference (IBC) takes place on March 24th and 25th at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. IBC is recognized as one of the premier student-run conferences focused on bringing a high degree of awareness about India's role in the global economy.

Featured guest speakers include renowned leaders covering various dimensions of business in India ranging from politics, manufacturing, business economics, business turnarounds, brand building to medicine!

Featured Speakers:
Jayant Sinha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Government of India: Prior business experience includes 12 years with McKinsey & Company as a partner in the Boston and Delhi offices.

Raja Krishnamoorthi, United States Congressman for Illinois: Serves on the committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the subcommittee on health care and financial services.

Ann Mukherjee, Chief Marketing Officer, SC Johnson: Featured in Ad Age Women to Watch, and Forbes Top 50 Most Influential CMOs.

Priyanka Komala, Technology Director, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: A Rising Star finalist for the 18th Annual Women in Technology Leadership Awards.

Raj Nair,Chief technical officer (CTO), Ford Motor Company: Kettering Alumni Award for Management Achievement in 2012, and Fortune Automotive Businessperson of the Year in 2014.

Anil Gupta, Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Smith School of Business: Ranked by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s “most influential living management thinkers”. The Economist named him a "superstar".

Gopal Srinivasan, Chairman, TVS Capital: Incubated over eight businesses, and has over 25 years of operational experience in India.

Parul Soni, Global Managing Partner and Co-Founder, TTC-Thinkthrough Consulting: Valuable support and thought leadership in CSR and social development. Advisory support to sustainable development initiatives.

When: March 24th (10:00am – 7:00pm) & March 25th (10:00am – 1:30pm)
Venue: Robertson Auditorium, Ross School of Business

Registration is mandatory and free for all UofM students/faculty/staff. There will be lunch, refreshments, and beverages provided on both days.

For more details and the agenda, please visit our website or our Facebook page. We hope you can join us on both days for thought-provoking discussions on doing business in India and with India.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:07:21 -0400 2017-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business India Initiatives @ Ross Conference / Symposium Ross School of Business
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 24, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Moving Image: Landscape (March 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 36107-5446274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell, Antti Laitinen, Joanie Lemercier, and Rick Silva.

Campbell’s recent body of work, including Seal Rock, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality, citizenship, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape, including remix and glitch aesthetics, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.

Throughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund,
the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:28:25 -0500 2017-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors–Part I: Figuration (March 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38428 38428-7178804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:05:00 -0500 2017-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Victors for Art
​"Through Revolutionary Lenses: The African Hero in the Atlantic World of Enlightenment" (March 24, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39791 39791-8314872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

​Lafont will take the opportunity of this talk to explore the ways in which fine arts and print culture dealt with the Revolutionary and Atlantic Black Subject of 1800. Questions will include: Did the African Hero of the American, French and Haitian Revolutions get images and portraits illustrating their contributions to those political emancipations? How specific were their iconographies regarding race, national context and medium? Is there any material and visual testimony of the Black empowerment in the late eighteenth-century and what does it mean?

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:31:40 -0400 2017-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Lafont
Martha Cook International Tea (March 24, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39675 39675-8235035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Martha Cook Residence
Organized By: Martha Cook Building

Join the residents of the Martha Cook Building for our annual International Tea!

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Reception / Open House Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:44:02 -0400 2017-03-24T15:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Martha Cook Residence Martha Cook Building Reception / Open House International Tea
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 24, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Classical Javanese Dance Demonstration (March 24, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39336 39336-7964114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 7:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free and open to the public
Reception to follow, including Indonesian traditional finger foods

Guest artists Wahyu Santoso Prabowo and Maharani Luthvinda Dewi provide an introduction to the classical Javanese dance that originated in the palaces of Central Java, Indonesia, followed by a demonstration of scenes from the upcoming dance drama about Sunan Kalijaga, an Islamic saint who helped bring Islam to Java.

Co-sponsored By: Center for World Performance Studies, Residential College, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Humanities Institute, Literature Science and the Arts, School of Music Theatre and Dance

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:55:37 -0400 2017-03-24T19:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Javanese Dance
India Business Conference 2017 (March 25, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39618 39618-8210482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 25, 2017 10:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: India Initiatives @ Ross

The 8th India Business Conference (IBC) takes place on March 24th and 25th at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. IBC is recognized as one of the premier student-run conferences focused on bringing a high degree of awareness about India's role in the global economy.

Featured guest speakers include renowned leaders covering various dimensions of business in India ranging from politics, manufacturing, business economics, business turnarounds, brand building to medicine!

Featured Speakers:
Jayant Sinha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Government of India: Prior business experience includes 12 years with McKinsey & Company as a partner in the Boston and Delhi offices.

Raja Krishnamoorthi, United States Congressman for Illinois: Serves on the committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the subcommittee on health care and financial services.

Ann Mukherjee, Chief Marketing Officer, SC Johnson: Featured in Ad Age Women to Watch, and Forbes Top 50 Most Influential CMOs.

Priyanka Komala, Technology Director, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: A Rising Star finalist for the 18th Annual Women in Technology Leadership Awards.

Raj Nair,Chief technical officer (CTO), Ford Motor Company: Kettering Alumni Award for Management Achievement in 2012, and Fortune Automotive Businessperson of the Year in 2014.

Anil Gupta, Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Smith School of Business: Ranked by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s “most influential living management thinkers”. The Economist named him a "superstar".

Gopal Srinivasan, Chairman, TVS Capital: Incubated over eight businesses, and has over 25 years of operational experience in India.

Parul Soni, Global Managing Partner and Co-Founder, TTC-Thinkthrough Consulting: Valuable support and thought leadership in CSR and social development. Advisory support to sustainable development initiatives.

When: March 24th (10:00am – 7:00pm) & March 25th (10:00am – 1:30pm)
Venue: Robertson Auditorium, Ross School of Business

Registration is mandatory and free for all UofM students/faculty/staff. There will be lunch, refreshments, and beverages provided on both days.

For more details and the agenda, please visit our website or our Facebook page. We hope you can join us on both days for thought-provoking discussions on doing business in India and with India.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:07:21 -0400 2017-03-25T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-25T13:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business India Initiatives @ Ross Conference / Symposium Ross School of Business
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 25, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39115 39115-7705711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 25, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!
The Accolades Awards were started in 2014 to recognize U-M student organizations for their outstanding achievements in the arts each year, and for their leadership in the university's vibrant arts community.

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 15- March 31, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.
Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:32:19 -0500 2017-03-25T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-25T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run (March 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/31216 31216-5794098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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



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

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:27:21 -0500 2017-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Cathedral, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run