Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (January 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (January 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (January 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Mari Katayama (January 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2020-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (January 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (January 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-01-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (January 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-01-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (January 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-01-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Mari Katayama (January 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2020-01-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (January 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-01-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-01-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (January 23, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-01-23T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (January 23, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-01-23T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (January 23, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-01-23T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Mari Katayama (January 23, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2020-01-23T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (January 23, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-01-23T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 23, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-01-23T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Artist Talk with Cullen Washington, Jr.: Abstract Meditations on the Grid and Humanity presented by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series (January 23, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68749 68749-17147137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Cullen Washington, Jr.’s work offers meditations on human interconnectivity and “the universal framework that undergirds all things.” Fusing together seemingly disparate concepts via the connective tissues of mixed media, Washington uses non-representational abstraction to understand order, chaos, social relationships, and other natural phenomena. The work takes audiences on a vibrant journey through and with materiality – a concerted and haptic interplay between gestures of painting and drawing and the modes of reproduction.

In the exhibition Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square, his most recent series, Agoras, explores the “agora”— the ancient Greek public space — as a "gathering place" for activated assembly that functions as the heart of the commercial, spiritual, and political life in the city. Washington describes the contemporary agora as an “area of convergence, where the displaced can find a place.”

Washington’s work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum and has been exhibited at the Queens Museum, Saatchi Gallery London, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Yaddo, and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. He is also a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.

Co-presented by the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series and UMMA as part of the 2020 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium.

Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square will be on view at UMMA January 25 - May 17, 2020.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:16:55 -0500 2020-01-23T17:10:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Cullen Washington Jr.: Abstract Meditations on the Grid and Humanity (January 23, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70387 70387-17594434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Cullen Washington Jr.’s work offers meditations on human interconnectivity and “the universal framework that undergirds all things.” Fusing seemingly disparate concepts via the connective tissues of mixed media, Washington uses nonrepresentational abstraction to understand order, chaos, social relationships, and other natural phenomena. The work takes audiences on a vibrant journey through and with materiality — a concerted and haptic interplay between gestures of painting and drawing and the modes of reproduction. In the exhibition Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square,his most recent series, Agoras, explores the “agora” — the ancient Greek public space — as a central “gathering place” for activated assembly that functions as the heart of the commercial, spiritual, and political life in the city, where the displaced can find a place. Washington’s work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and has been exhibited at the Queens Museum in New York, the Saatchi Gallery in London, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Yaddo artists’ community in New York, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. He has also received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.

Presented in partnership with UMMA as part of the 2020 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium.

Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square will be on view at UMMA January 25–May 17, 2020.

Lead support for the UMMA exhibition Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Department of the History of Art.

Image: Cullen Washington, Jr., “Agora 1,” 2017, mixed media collage on canvas. Courtesy the artist. © Cullen Washington, Jr. Photography: Andrea Feldman

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:46:44 -0500 2020-01-23T17:10:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Washington2.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (January 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (January 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (January 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Mari Katayama (January 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2020-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (January 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Mark Webster Reading Series (January 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68751 68751-17147139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

This week's reading features Cherline Bazile and Aozora Brockman. 

Cherline Bazile is a Haitian-American writer from Florida. She studied at Harvard University and is a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. 

Aozora Brockman is a poet, essayist, and dancer. She was raised on an organic vegetable farm in Illinois and often wishes she could be a child again, elbow-deep in dirt. 

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

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Presentation Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:16:29 -0500 2020-01-24T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (January 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (January 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (January 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (January 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Family Art Studio: Imaginary Places (January 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68752 68752-17147140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop. Take a tour of abstract paintings in UMMA's Collection Ensemble installation, as well as work by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell, followed by a hands-on workshop where you will create an abstract painting of your own! Led by local artist and UMMA docent Susan Clinthorne.

Please note:  Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:17:17 -0500 2020-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Mari Katayama (January 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2020-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (January 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
UMMA Pop Up: Lily Talmers (January 25, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69588 69588-17368303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

.Everyone and their cousin is trying to become a folk singer these days— Lily Talmers is no exception. Hailing from metro Detroit, and now a student in Ann Arbor, her songwriting is introspective and often cutting, drawing mostly from the 60's folk tradition. She is a singer, and multi-instrumentalist, accompanying herself on guitar, piano, and clawhammer banjo. Her writing technique is delicate, in which she intermingles the political and the extremely personal. Inspired by writers such as Gillian Welch, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Andrew Marlin (of Mandolin Orange), she perfectly balances the lyrical "heaviness" with a lightness in voice and accompaniment. You can find her on Instagram, Facebook, and check her out on Spotify.

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Performance Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:16:32 -0500 2020-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Family Art Studio: Imaginary Places (January 25, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68753 68753-17147141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

DescriptionFamilies with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop. Take a tour of abstract paintings in UMMA's Collection Ensemble installation, as well as work by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell, followed by a hands-on workshop where you will create an abstract painting of your own! Led by local artist and UMMA docent Susan Clinthorne.

Please note:  Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:17:17 -0500 2020-01-25T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
A Conversation with Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Hope of Abstraction and the Possibilities of the Public Square (January 25, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68754 68754-17147142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Artist Cullen Washington, Jr. uses non-representational abstraction to understand order, chaos, and social relationships. His practice makes use of the grid to physically and metaphorically flatten hierarchies and rank to create a new conception of the possibilities for a public square. Washington sees this public space as an ideal "gathering place" for activated assembly and inclusive democracy. Historically, the public square has also been the site of spectacles and public humiliations; today, the internet holds out the promise of a level playing field with access for all that also includes space for extreme views and falsehoods.  Please join Mr. Washington and exhibition curator Vera Grant on opening day for a conversation about the role of art, artists, and the “hope of abstraction” within our current battles for the public square.

Light refreshments to follow.  

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:16:55 -0500 2020-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (January 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (January 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (January 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (January 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Mari Katayama (January 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2020-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (January 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square (January 26, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67820 67820-16954118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Presentation Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:16:54 -0500 2020-01-26T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
In Conversation: Disability and Power with Dessa Cosma (January 26, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68755 68755-17147143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Dessa Cosma is a social justice activist and the founding director of Detroit Disability Power, which works to bridge the gap between the disability community and social justice movements. For Cosma, disability is a key part of her identity and of critical importance socially and politically—just like race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion. In this informal gallery talk, she will respond to the works of Japanese artist Mari Katayama and reflect upon her experiences and political expression as a disability activist. Mari Katayama uses her disabled body as the subject in her provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textiles. Katayama was born with two fingers on one hand and had both of her legs amputated by the age of nine; she has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and her physicality in the context of contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art.   

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Jan 2020 18:17:21 -0500 2020-01-26T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (January 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (January 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (January 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (January 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (January 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (January 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-01-29T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (January 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-01-29T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (January 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-01-29T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (January 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-01-29T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (January 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-01-29T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-01-29T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Local Learning at Literati: The Art of Cullen Washington Jr. (January 29, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70733 70733-17621673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Vera Grant, curator of the UMMA exhibition Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square, presents an expansive look at the exhibition, and the artist’s recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly, through the dual lens of race and humanity.

Vera Ingrid Grant is an art consultant, curator, and writer, living in Ann Arbor, MI. Grant served as Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, and curator of modern and contemporary art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) in 2018-19. Previously, she was the founding director of the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University. She most recently curated Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square; Reflections: An Ordinary Day. Grant has an MA in Modern European History from Stanford University with a concentration in comparative studies of race and visual culture and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hamburg. She was the Associate Director for the Program in African and African American Studies (2001-2007) at Stanford University. She was a fellow (2015-16) at the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL). January 29th. 

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:03 -0500 2020-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (January 30, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (January 30, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (January 30, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (January 30, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (January 30, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 30, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Presents: Theater of Justice with Chief Justice Bridget McCormack, Leonard M. Niehoff, and John de Lancie (January 30, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70399 70399-17594446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget McCormack, legal scholar and practitioner Leonard M. Niehoff, and acclaimed actor John de Lancie explore the work of the courts and the law; how the human impulse for narrative performance and drama informs the inner workings of the courtroom; and how the courtroom is represented on stage and screen. This program will kick off the 2019-2020 Roman J. Witt artist residency project, Witness Lab, a courtroom installation and performance project opening at UMMA on February 15, 2020.  

Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack joined the Michigan Supreme Court in January 2013, and became Chief Justice in January 2019. As the Chief Justice, McCormack has promoted statewide initiatives devoted to improving the courts service to the public, and in particular delivering on a promise that courts are independent, accessible, engaged with their communities and efficient. 

Leonard M. Niehoff is a nationally prominent law practitioner, professor, and scholar in three fields: media law and the First Amendment; higher education law; and trial and appellate litigation. Niehoff is at work on a forthcoming book about the Salem witch trials. 

Best known for his role as “Q” on Star Trek: The Next Generation, John de Lancie’s film and television credits are numerous and include The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, The Fisher King, Breaking Bad, and West Wing. He recently returned from a national tour of the “Scopes Monkey Trial” with Ed Asner where he played Clarence Darrow, and is the first recipient of the Clarence Darrow Award. De Lancie is currently at work on a play about the 2005 Kitzmiller vs. Dover School District trial.

Presented in partnership with the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design in connection with Witness Lab, a project by Roman Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan. This courtroom installation is activated from February 15-May 17, 2020 in UMMA's Stenn Gallery.

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Performance Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:16:41 -0500 2020-01-30T17:10:00-05:00 2020-01-30T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (January 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (January 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (January 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (January 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (January 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Pan-African Pulp: A Night at UMMA (January 31, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70447 70447-17596552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The African Graduate Students Association, the African Students Association, the Seraphine Collective, and University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) invite you to join us for Pan-African Pulp: A Night at UMMA, a celebration of the Diaspora inspired by the new UMMA installation Pan-African Pulp by Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi.

Open-mic performances. Black global music with Detroit-based Seraphine Collective. Refreshments. Gallery viewing of Meleko Mokgosi's work.

This program is organized by the African Graduate Student Association, the African Student Association, Seraphine Collective, and UMMA, with support from the U-M African Studies Center, Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, Students of Color in Public Policy, and the Trotter Multicultural Center.

Lead support is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Performance Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:17:20 -0500 2020-01-31T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (February 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-02-01T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (February 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-02-01T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-01T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-01T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-01T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-01T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (February 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (February 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
UMMA Pop Up: Grant Flick & Hannah O'Brien (February 2, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70808 70808-17646386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

SMTD students Grant Flick (fiddle and tenor guitar), and Hannah O’Brien (fiddle), have been working together to compose in multiple genres. With Hannah’s fiddling style rooted in traditional Irish music, and Grant’s background in American old-time, bluegrass and jazz music, the two have worked to fuse these genres as well as explore new traditional folk outlets. The duo will be playing traditional tunes as well as new compositions and arrangements that they are excited to share. 

For a taste of this music, you can find Grant’s work on Instagram as well as his albums with Jacob Warren and their group, Westbound Situation on Spotify and Bandcamp. 

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Performance Sun, 02 Feb 2020 18:17:33 -0500 2020-02-02T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s (February 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67798 67798-16951993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:16:27 -0500 2020-02-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (February 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (February 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Register to vote with the Ginsberg Center (February 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71987 71987-17907668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Register to vote with the Ginsberg Center as part of the Big-Ten Voting Challenge! This will take place on February 4th, 11th and 18th, from 12-2 p.m in the UMMA Cafe and inside Cullen Washington Jr.'s exhibition, The Public Square. 

For more information about your options to register to vote, visit the Ginsberg Center's website. 

To register to vote from home, visit TurboVote, which is a quick, customizable registration tool. You can use TurboVote to: Start the registration process in any of the 50 states. Update existing voter registration. Request an absentee ballot. Receive election day reminders.

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

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Other Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:17:18 -0500 2020-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (February 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-02-05T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (February 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-02-05T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-05T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-05T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-05T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-05T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (February 6, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (February 6, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 6, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 6, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 6, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 6, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (February 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (February 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Mark Webster Reading Series (February 7, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68757 68757-17147145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

This week's reading features Sofia Ergas Groopman and Isabel Neal.

Sofia Ergas Groopman is a writer from New York. She is a second year in the Helen Zell Writers Program and lives with her dachshund, Roger, in Ann Arbor. 

Isabel is a poet and educator from Boston. She is a Gemini. 

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

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Presentation Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:16:37 -0500 2020-02-07T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (February 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-02-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (February 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-02-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Family Art Studio: Printing the World Around Us (February 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68758 68758-17147146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop inspired by UMMA's second exhibition of Inuit Art, Reflections: An Ordinary Day. Guided by local artist Sajeev Vadakoottu, participants will make a drawing of an image from their own imagination directly on a screen, essentially creating a stencil, and use that stencil to make prints on paper, bags or t-shirts. (Please bring your own canvas bags or t-shirts!) 

Please note: Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:17:23 -0500 2020-02-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
UMMA Pop Up: Andrew Brown's Djangophonique (February 8, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72287 72287-17968248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Born in a sandstone Victorian farmhouse that has been in his family since it was built four generations ago, Andrew Brown is the son of a Motown session musician and grew up listening to the sounds of his dad’s piano as he steeped in musical influences from Duke Ellington to Stevie Wonder. As a young man returning from a trip to New Orleans with a newfound interest in Swing music, he co-founded the eclectic Americana group Appleseed Collective, with whom he has toured 150+ dates per year. Traveling all over the continental United States, playing esteemed venues and festivals such as The Ark, Sisters Folk Festival, Wheatland, Cervantes Ballroom, Summercamp Music Festival, Schuba’s, and The Ann Arbor Folk Festival at Hill Auditorium, he cut his teeth as a guitarist, songwriter and band leader. Since slowing down his touring schedule in 2017 he began tirelessly practicing and performing the music of his favorite guitar player: Django Reinhardt. Since then he has studied at various music camps with many of the genres heavy hitting players such as Angelo Debarre, Sebastian Gineaux, and Gonzalo Bergara, and was even invited to back up Denis Chang at one of his concerts. Andrew currently plays throughout Michigan with his own project Djangophonique, his band Appleseed Collective, and his friends' projects Third Coast Gypsy Jazz, and Smoking Dandies. He also teaches guitar, both generally and specifically in the style of Django

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Performance Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:17:41 -0500 2020-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Family Art Studio: Printing the World Around Us (February 8, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68759 68759-17147147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop inspired by UMMA's second exhibition of Inuit Art, Reflections: An Ordinary Day. Guided by local artist Sajeev Vadakoottu, participants will make a drawing of an image from their own imagination directly on a screen, essentially creating a stencil, and use that stencil to make prints on paper, bags or t-shirts. (Please bring your own canvas bags or t-shirts!)

Please note: Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive mroe than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:16:58 -0500 2020-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Yoga Study Break at UMMA (February 9, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68760 68760-17147148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:17:23 -0500 2020-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T11:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (February 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2020-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (February 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2020-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
The Power Family Program for Inuit Art Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 9, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67800 67800-16951995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Presentation Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2020-02-09T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
In Conversation with Jennifer Friess: Curating Mobile Memories (February 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68838 68838-17163790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The votes are in! For the last four months UMMA visitors have voted for their top favorite photographs of the 1,000 on view in the Take Your Pick exhibition. Now what? Join Jennifer M. Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, to look at the 250 winning photographs that will be acquired into the Museum’s permanent collection and discuss the exciting research and exhibition potential of this new acquisition, as well as the significance of snapshot photography in the digital age.

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Department of Film, Television, and Media, and Department of American Culture.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:16:39 -0500 2020-02-09T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (February 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Register to vote with the Ginsberg Center (February 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71988 71988-17907669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Register to vote with the Ginsberg Center as part of the Big-Ten Voting Challenge! This will take place on February 4th, 11th and 18th, from 12-2 p.m in the UMMA Cafe and inside Cullen Washington Jr.'s exhibition, The Public Square. 

For more information about your options to register to vote, visit the Ginsberg Center's website. 

To register to vote from home, visit TurboVote, which is a quick, customizable registration tool. You can use TurboVote to: Start the registration process in any of the 50 states. Update existing voter registration. Request an absentee ballot. Receive election day reminders.

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

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Other Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:17:18 -0500 2020-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Value the Voice: It’s Above Me Now: Lessons Learned from Letting Go (February 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71104 71104-17777065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of educational entertainment known to mankind. From the West African tradition of the Griot to modern day Moth events, storytelling environments have served as a means to pass along history, shape culture, share helpful lessons, and establish a sense of belonging and community.

The U-M Comprehensive Studies Program and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies invite you to explore themes related to campus life, coming of age, and learning and growing, at this series of Moth Style Storyteller Lounge events. Storytellers include students, faculty and staff, and Voices of Wisdom (alums or community members). 

 

Value the Voice is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Presentation Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:16:57 -0500 2020-02-11T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (February 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-13T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-13T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-13T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-13T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-14T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-14T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-14T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-14T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-15T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-15T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-15T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-15T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Special Pop Up Performance with Mariachi Nuevo Santander (February 15, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72199 72199-17957207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Join us for a special pop up performance of this award-winning youth Mariachi group from Texas’s Roma High School presented in collaboration with UMS. 

For 25 years, San Antonio has played host to the Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza, the largest, longest running and most competitive mariachi group competition in the world. Mariachi Nuevo Santander has placed at the top of the high school division throughout the competition’s history and has been named “grand champions” of the entire Extravaganza seven times, selected directly by members of the world’s preeminent Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, which performs a UMS concert at Hill Auditorium on Friday, February 14.

Mariachi Nuevo Santander has appeared on national television and performed throughout the U.S., from Washington, DC to Ashland, OR. The group appeared on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” Season 12, recorded in Pasadena, California and at the Universal Studios in Los Angeles.

Mariachi Nuevo Santander will release its third album in March, following Corazón Orgullo y Tradición in 2018 and Heart, Pride & Passion in 2014. The new album, titled Sangre Mariachera, features 11 tracks, including the group’s award-winning performance from the December’s Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza in San Antonio. The album features traditional mariachi rhythms and songs with original arrangements by the group’s director, Eloy Garza. Garza’s background as a mariachi musician with Mariachi Nuevo Santander and Mariachi Sol de Mexico has served as the foundation for the group’s success. 

This performance is free and open to the public. No tickets required.

Mariachi Nuevo Santander’s performance is presented in partnership with the University Musical Society and supported by the U-M Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.  

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Performance Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:17:43 -0500 2020-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (February 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 16, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70734 70734-17621674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 16, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Presentation Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:16:48 -0500 2020-02-16T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-16T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
UMMA Book Club: Stories from the North (February 16, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68762 68762-17147150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 16, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Please join us for a monthly gathering that offers a starting point to discover a variety of narratives pertaining to the cultures of North American Indigenous people featuring the works of Inuit and indigenous authors. We will meet on the third Sunday of each month in the University of Michigan Museum of Art’s exhibition, Reflections: An Ordinary Day. The prints, drawings, and sculptures featured in this exhibition of Inuit art explore the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Each of the four gatherings will present an opportunity to enjoy traditional storytelling as well as discuss books written by contemporary Inuit and Native American authors. Our book club facilitator is Elizabeth James, a Detroit-based Powhatan storyteller and Program Manager at the U-M Department for AfroAmerican and African Studies.​

3rd Sunday of the month at at 3 p.m. 

January 19: The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet by Sheila Watt-Cloutier 

February 16: House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed]: A Novel (P.S.) Anniversary Edition by N. Scott Momaday 

March 22: Sanaaq:  An Inuit Novel by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk (Author), Peter Frost (Translator)

April 19: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Books will be available for sale in the UMMA Shop. Book Club participants will receive a 10% discount.  

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

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Other Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:17:11 -0500 2020-02-16T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Artist Talk with Courtney McClellan: Observer v. Witness, presented by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series and UMMA (February 17, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68761 68761-17147149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Courtney McClellan is an artist and writer from Greensboro, N.C., and the current Roman Witt Artist in Residence at the Stamps School of Art & Design. Her work addresses public ritual, institutional space, and objects that invite or demand speech. Her explorations result in sculpture, performance, installation, writing, and video. Her studio practice includes experimenting with materials, but also reaches to fields like law, theater, and journalism. For the past five years she has studied legal simulation.

At UMMA, McClellan will mount Witness Lab, an architectural courtroom installation and performance series. The facsimile courtroom located in the glassed-in Stenn Gallery will host legal simulations from participating groups including The Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Additionally, court transcript readings and trial advocacy workshops will be performed in the gallery. Stamps students will observe and document the courtroom activity through drawing, text, photography, and video. The accumulated documents will result in a publication. 

Witness Lab offers audiences a complex truth. By studying the courtroom as a space of performance, and the lawyers as agents of justice, participants and passersby consider the physical and social architecture of the law.

 

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:17:18 -0500 2020-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (February 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Register to vote with the Ginsberg Center (February 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71989 71989-17907670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Register to vote with the Ginsberg Center as part of the Big-Ten Voting Challenge! This will take place on February 4th, 11th and 18th, from 12-2 p.m in the UMMA Cafe and inside Cullen Washington Jr.'s exhibition, The Public Square. 

For more information about your options to register to vote, visit the Ginsberg Center's website. 

To register to vote from home, visit TurboVote, which is a quick, customizable registration tool. You can use TurboVote to: Start the registration process in any of the 50 states. Update existing voter registration. Request an absentee ballot. Receive election day reminders.

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

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Other Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:17:18 -0500 2020-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
David Lang's the little match girl passion (February 18, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68763 68763-17147151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Acclaimed by The New Yorker as “an American Master,” Composer David Lang is part visionary sound artist, part musical mad scientist.  With one foot in the classical tradition and one in the future, his music explores meaning and musical relationships in a way that is at once fiercely intellectual and plain-spoken.  Join the U-M Chamber Choir, under the direction of Eugene Rogers, for a stunning performance of Lang's Pulitzer-Prize winning work, the little match girl passion. The New York Times describes this touching work as “understated and ethereal… tender and mysterious.” The performance on February 18  will be the opening event of his week-long William Bolcom Guest Residency at the University of Michigan, which will feature performances of his music and other events across campus.    

This program is supported by the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund and the Greg Hodes and Heidi Hertel Hodes—Partners in the Arts Endowment Fund.

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Performance Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:17:25 -0500 2020-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (February 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-19T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-19T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-19T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-19T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Biopolitics or Deconstruction (February 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72352 72352-17998134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Please join us at our upcoming conference - Biopolitics or Deconstruction: Derrida’s *La vie la mort* and the question of life.

With presentations from:
Claudio Aguayo • Matias Beverinotti • Maddalena Cerrato • Katie Chenoweth • Justin Joque • Juan Leal • Armando Mastrogiovanni • Eliza Mizrahi • Alberto Moreiras • Michael Naas • Adam Rosenthal • Rodrigo Therezo • Antoine Traisnel • Teresa Vilaros • Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott • Michela Russo • Alejo Stark • Francesco Vitale • Gareth Williams • David Wills

Sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of American Culture, Department of Philosophy, Department of Political Science,
Department of Classical Studies, Professor Cristina Moreiras-Menor, LSA Dean's Office, UMOR Small Grant for Conference,
Rackham Dean’s Strategic Initiative Funding, Humanities Institute Mini Grant for Public Humanities.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Feb 2020 08:47:53 -0500 2020-02-20T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Biopolitics or Deconstruction
Collection Ensemble (February 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Penny Stamps Speaker Series Presents: David Lang: Music and Bad Manners (February 20, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72434 72434-18002781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

As one of America’s most performed composers, David Lang has “solidified his standing as an American master,” as The New Yorker puts it. His catalog of work is extensive, and his opera, orchestra, chamber, and solo works are by turns ominous, ethereal, urgent, hypnotic, unsettling, and emotionally direct. In 2008, the New York-based composer was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for the little match girl passion, a score for four voices and a few percussion instruments, played by the singers, based on the children’s story by Hans Christian Andersen. Additionally, Lang’s score for Paolo Sorrentino’s film Youth received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, among others. Other recent work includes man made, a concerto co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony; the loser, an opera based on the novel by Thomas Bernhard, which opened the 2016 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; and prisoner of the state, an opera co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, De Doelen concert hall in the Netherlands, the Barbican Centre in London, l’Auditori concert hall in Barcelona, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra in Germany, the Concertgebouw in Belgium, and Malmö Opera in Sweden. Lang is co-founder and co-artistic director of Bang on a Can, a New York-based organization dedicated to the support of experimental music.

David Lang’s appearance is courtesy of the William Bolcom Guest Residency at the U-M School of Music, Theater, and Dance, with additional support from the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:17:30 -0500 2020-02-20T17:10:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Biopolitics or Deconstruction (February 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72352 72352-17998135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Please join us at our upcoming conference - Biopolitics or Deconstruction: Derrida’s *La vie la mort* and the question of life.

With presentations from:
Claudio Aguayo • Matias Beverinotti • Maddalena Cerrato • Katie Chenoweth • Justin Joque • Juan Leal • Armando Mastrogiovanni • Eliza Mizrahi • Alberto Moreiras • Michael Naas • Adam Rosenthal • Rodrigo Therezo • Antoine Traisnel • Teresa Vilaros • Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott • Michela Russo • Alejo Stark • Francesco Vitale • Gareth Williams • David Wills

Sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of American Culture, Department of Philosophy, Department of Political Science,
Department of Classical Studies, Professor Cristina Moreiras-Menor, LSA Dean's Office, UMOR Small Grant for Conference,
Rackham Dean’s Strategic Initiative Funding, Humanities Institute Mini Grant for Public Humanities.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Feb 2020 08:47:53 -0500 2020-02-21T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Biopolitics or Deconstruction
Collection Ensemble (February 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (February 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-02-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Storytime at the Museum (February 22, 2020 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68765 68765-17147153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:15am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:16:39 -0500 2020-02-22T11:15:00-05:00 2020-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
UMMA Pop Up: Adam Kahana & Darianna Videaux Capitel (February 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72288 72288-17968249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Adam Kahana is a singer, guitarist, pianist, and composer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Born in Seattle, he currently lives in Ann Arbor, where he studies jazz guitar, data science, and business at the University of Michigan. Adam is currently a Geri Allen Fellow in the Carr Center Gathering Orchestra, under the direction of Professor Rodney Whitaker. He is also a member of the Bluenote Vocal Jazz Ensemble, the University of Michigan’s only such group. In addition to giving guitar lessons in the area, Adam can be seen performing around town with his groups, as well as with the acclaimed Ann Arbor Guitar Trio.

Darianna Videaux Capitel is a bassist, vocalist, and educator. She discovered the bass at the age of 10 in her home province of Guantanamo, Cuba, where she attended the Arts School. She continued her musical education to earn her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of the Arts in Havana. A classically-trained bassist, she won a position in the National Radio and Television Orchestra of Cuba, as well as an alternating guest-bassist position with the renowned Camerata Romeu. While living in Havana, she was introduced to traditional Cuban music. Darianna enjoys playing everything– from Son, Salsa, and Timba Cubana, to an entire array of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean genres. With anything from traditional aggrupations to salsa orchestras, she has performed in acclaimed venues across the island of Cuba, as well as in Eastern Europe. She is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation at the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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Performance Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:17:41 -0500 2020-02-22T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Radio Campfire: Town Square -- stories that unfold in public places (February 22, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68766 68766-17147154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Radio Campfire and UMMA present Town Square -- audio stories that unfold in public places   Set to the backdrop of artist Cullen Washington’s large scale abstract Agoras paintings, this Radio Campfire event will feature a series of creative audio stories, soundscapes, and sonic postcards that, like Washington’s paintings, tell us stories about the places where civic life ensues.  

Radio Campfire is a community listening event series based in southeast Michigan. Going to a Radio Campfire is “like going to the movies for your ears.” We gather, we dim the lights, and listen to a specially curated selection of creative audio stories on a theme. If you like podcasts, you’ll love Radio Campfire.   Inspired by the UMMA exhibition Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (on view through May 17, 2020), Radio Campfire: Town Square will be hosted and produced by Stephanie Rowden and Juliet Hinely.   The event begins at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. The gallery is located on Floor 2 of the Alumni Memorial Hall building.    UMMA is wheelchair accessible.   This event is best for ages 14+

This program is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:17:41 -0500 2020-02-22T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (February 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Reflections: An Ordinary Day (February 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 68062-16988292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:16:33 -0500 2020-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/FriendVisits.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2020-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67799 67799-16951994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Join a docent on a journey through time and memory, as you explore over 1,000 found photographs together. Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Department of Film, Television, and Media, and Department of American Culture.

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Presentation Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2020-02-23T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (February 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (February 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2020-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (February 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 67460-16857860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Image-2-2%2520%25281%2529.jpg