Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Cages, Nests & Butterflies (January 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (January 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (January 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (January 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (January 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (January 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (January 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (January 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (January 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (January 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (January 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (January 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (January 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (January 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (January 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (January 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (January 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-01-27T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (January 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-01-27T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (January 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-01-27T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (January 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-01-27T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (January 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-01-27T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest (January 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69773 69773-17417487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II and/or its 17 centers and programs, either through funding or study.

Undergraduate and graduate student photographers who participated in research, internship, or study abroad between August 2018–August 2019 have submitted photos from two dozen countries. Visit the International Institute Gallery to see all of the submissions.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:42:23 -0500 2020-01-27T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Exhibition event_image
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (January 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-01-27T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (January 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-01-27T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (January 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-01-27T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Stories of Refuge (January 27, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70082 70082-17507849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in 2011, Syrian refugees have been fleeing the brutal regime in search of safe haven. Munich, Germany, is one of the cities many Syrian refugees land after crossing unofficial borders through different European countries. Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury, and her art collective Dictaphone Group, collaborated with a group of Syrian refugees who had recently arrived in Munich. El Khoury gave each of these participants/collaborators a discreet camera for a day, their only instructions being to film their daily lives in Munich. Together they produced three videos, presented in this installation and viewed from bunk bed barracks in the gallery.

“As Far As My Fingertips Take Me” An intimate, one-to-one performance piece, presented in conjunction with UMS.

Friday, January 24 thru Sunday, February 2, performances take place every 15 minutes from 4-9 pm weekdays and 12-5 pm weekends. Tickets should be purchased in advance at https://tickets.ums.org/4613.

Concept and Video Editing: Tania El Khoury
Devised with Petra Serhal
Videos shot by anonymous asylum seekers
Commissioned by Spielart Festival, Munich, 2013

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:24:10 -0500 2020-01-27T09:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition From "Stories of Refuge."
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 27, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-27T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (January 28, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-01-28T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (January 28, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-01-28T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (January 28, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-01-28T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (January 28, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-01-28T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (January 28, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-01-28T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (January 28, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-01-28T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (January 28, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-01-28T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (January 28, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-01-28T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Stories of Refuge (January 28, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70082 70082-17507850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in 2011, Syrian refugees have been fleeing the brutal regime in search of safe haven. Munich, Germany, is one of the cities many Syrian refugees land after crossing unofficial borders through different European countries. Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury, and her art collective Dictaphone Group, collaborated with a group of Syrian refugees who had recently arrived in Munich. El Khoury gave each of these participants/collaborators a discreet camera for a day, their only instructions being to film their daily lives in Munich. Together they produced three videos, presented in this installation and viewed from bunk bed barracks in the gallery.

“As Far As My Fingertips Take Me” An intimate, one-to-one performance piece, presented in conjunction with UMS.

Friday, January 24 thru Sunday, February 2, performances take place every 15 minutes from 4-9 pm weekdays and 12-5 pm weekends. Tickets should be purchased in advance at https://tickets.ums.org/4613.

Concept and Video Editing: Tania El Khoury
Devised with Petra Serhal
Videos shot by anonymous asylum seekers
Commissioned by Spielart Festival, Munich, 2013

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:24:10 -0500 2020-01-28T09:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition From "Stories of Refuge."
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-28T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (January 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-01-29T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (January 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-01-29T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (January 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-01-29T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (January 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-01-29T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (January 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-01-29T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (January 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-01-29T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (January 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-01-29T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (January 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-01-29T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Stories of Refuge (January 29, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70082 70082-17507851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in 2011, Syrian refugees have been fleeing the brutal regime in search of safe haven. Munich, Germany, is one of the cities many Syrian refugees land after crossing unofficial borders through different European countries. Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury, and her art collective Dictaphone Group, collaborated with a group of Syrian refugees who had recently arrived in Munich. El Khoury gave each of these participants/collaborators a discreet camera for a day, their only instructions being to film their daily lives in Munich. Together they produced three videos, presented in this installation and viewed from bunk bed barracks in the gallery.

“As Far As My Fingertips Take Me” An intimate, one-to-one performance piece, presented in conjunction with UMS.

Friday, January 24 thru Sunday, February 2, performances take place every 15 minutes from 4-9 pm weekdays and 12-5 pm weekends. Tickets should be purchased in advance at https://tickets.ums.org/4613.

Concept and Video Editing: Tania El Khoury
Devised with Petra Serhal
Videos shot by anonymous asylum seekers
Commissioned by Spielart Festival, Munich, 2013

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:24:10 -0500 2020-01-29T09:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition From "Stories of Refuge."
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 29, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-29T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (January 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-01-30T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (January 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-01-30T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (January 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-01-30T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (January 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-01-30T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (January 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-01-30T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (January 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-01-30T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (January 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-01-30T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (January 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-01-30T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Stories of Refuge (January 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70082 70082-17507852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in 2011, Syrian refugees have been fleeing the brutal regime in search of safe haven. Munich, Germany, is one of the cities many Syrian refugees land after crossing unofficial borders through different European countries. Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury, and her art collective Dictaphone Group, collaborated with a group of Syrian refugees who had recently arrived in Munich. El Khoury gave each of these participants/collaborators a discreet camera for a day, their only instructions being to film their daily lives in Munich. Together they produced three videos, presented in this installation and viewed from bunk bed barracks in the gallery.

“As Far As My Fingertips Take Me” An intimate, one-to-one performance piece, presented in conjunction with UMS.

Friday, January 24 thru Sunday, February 2, performances take place every 15 minutes from 4-9 pm weekdays and 12-5 pm weekends. Tickets should be purchased in advance at https://tickets.ums.org/4613.

Concept and Video Editing: Tania El Khoury
Devised with Petra Serhal
Videos shot by anonymous asylum seekers
Commissioned by Spielart Festival, Munich, 2013

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:24:10 -0500 2020-01-30T09:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition From "Stories of Refuge."
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 30, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-30T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Vote NOW in the As I See It Drawing Competition! (January 30, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72265 72265-17966032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Vote for your favorite drawing among the 18 finalists in the As I See It Drawing Competition! Finalist drawings are on view outside of the Fireside Cafe in Pierpont Commons. You can also vote online at http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/aisi/. Voting closes Friday, February 7 at noon.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:27:28 -0500 2020-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T14:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Arts at Michigan Exhibition As I See It Drawing Competition - Vote NOW in-person or online!
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (January 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-01-31T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (January 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-01-31T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (January 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-01-31T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (January 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-01-31T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (January 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-01-31T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (January 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-01-31T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (January 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-01-31T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (January 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-01-31T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Stories of Refuge (January 31, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70082 70082-17507853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in 2011, Syrian refugees have been fleeing the brutal regime in search of safe haven. Munich, Germany, is one of the cities many Syrian refugees land after crossing unofficial borders through different European countries. Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury, and her art collective Dictaphone Group, collaborated with a group of Syrian refugees who had recently arrived in Munich. El Khoury gave each of these participants/collaborators a discreet camera for a day, their only instructions being to film their daily lives in Munich. Together they produced three videos, presented in this installation and viewed from bunk bed barracks in the gallery.

“As Far As My Fingertips Take Me” An intimate, one-to-one performance piece, presented in conjunction with UMS.

Friday, January 24 thru Sunday, February 2, performances take place every 15 minutes from 4-9 pm weekdays and 12-5 pm weekends. Tickets should be purchased in advance at https://tickets.ums.org/4613.

Concept and Video Editing: Tania El Khoury
Devised with Petra Serhal
Videos shot by anonymous asylum seekers
Commissioned by Spielart Festival, Munich, 2013

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:24:10 -0500 2020-01-31T09:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition From "Stories of Refuge."
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 31, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-31T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Vote NOW in the As I See It Drawing Competition! (January 31, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72265 72265-17966033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Vote for your favorite drawing among the 18 finalists in the As I See It Drawing Competition! Finalist drawings are on view outside of the Fireside Cafe in Pierpont Commons. You can also vote online at http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/aisi/. Voting closes Friday, February 7 at noon.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:27:28 -0500 2020-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T14:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Arts at Michigan Exhibition As I See It Drawing Competition - Vote NOW in-person or online!
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (February 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-02-01T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (February 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-02-01T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (February 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-02-01T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (February 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-02-01T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (February 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-02-01T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (February 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-02-01T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (February 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-02-01T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (February 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-02-01T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Vote NOW in the As I See It Drawing Competition! (February 1, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72265 72265-17966034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Vote for your favorite drawing among the 18 finalists in the As I See It Drawing Competition! Finalist drawings are on view outside of the Fireside Cafe in Pierpont Commons. You can also vote online at http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/aisi/. Voting closes Friday, February 7 at noon.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:27:28 -0500 2020-02-01T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T14:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Arts at Michigan Exhibition As I See It Drawing Competition - Vote NOW in-person or online!
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (February 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-02-02T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (February 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-02-02T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (February 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-02-02T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (February 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-02-02T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (February 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-02-02T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (February 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-02-02T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (February 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-02-02T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (February 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-02-02T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Vote NOW in the As I See It Drawing Competition! (February 2, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72265 72265-17966035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Vote for your favorite drawing among the 18 finalists in the As I See It Drawing Competition! Finalist drawings are on view outside of the Fireside Cafe in Pierpont Commons. You can also vote online at http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/aisi/. Voting closes Friday, February 7 at noon.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:27:28 -0500 2020-02-02T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T14:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Arts at Michigan Exhibition As I See It Drawing Competition - Vote NOW in-person or online!
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (February 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-02-03T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (February 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-02-03T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (February 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-02-03T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (February 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-02-03T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (February 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-02-03T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (February 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-02-03T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (February 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-02-03T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (February 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-02-03T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 3, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-03T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Vote NOW in the As I See It Drawing Competition! (February 3, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72265 72265-17966036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Vote for your favorite drawing among the 18 finalists in the As I See It Drawing Competition! Finalist drawings are on view outside of the Fireside Cafe in Pierpont Commons. You can also vote online at http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/aisi/. Voting closes Friday, February 7 at noon.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:27:28 -0500 2020-02-03T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T14:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Arts at Michigan Exhibition As I See It Drawing Competition - Vote NOW in-person or online!
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (February 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-02-04T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (February 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-02-04T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (February 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-02-04T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (February 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-02-04T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (February 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-02-04T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (February 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-02-04T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (February 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-02-04T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72533 72533-18015940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019《2019年逃犯及刑事事宜相互法律協助法例(修訂)條例草案》, also known as the Extradition Bill, a wave of ongoing protests have begun in Hong Kong since June 2019. The Extradition Bill incident led to a wide-reaching social movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only ways through which Hong Kong people expressed their opinions. Promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes also played significant roles in the movement. In this exhibition, we will present these incredible art pieces, exploring their aesthetics and functions.

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:46:24 -0500 2020-02-04T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Whimsical Worlds (February 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-02-04T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Vote NOW in the As I See It Drawing Competition! (February 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72265 72265-17966037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Vote for your favorite drawing among the 18 finalists in the As I See It Drawing Competition! Finalist drawings are on view outside of the Fireside Cafe in Pierpont Commons. You can also vote online at http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/aisi/. Voting closes Friday, February 7 at noon.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:27:28 -0500 2020-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T14:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Arts at Michigan Exhibition As I See It Drawing Competition - Vote NOW in-person or online!
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (February 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-02-05T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (February 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-02-05T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (February 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-02-05T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (February 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-02-05T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (February 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-02-05T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (February 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-02-05T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (February 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-02-05T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72533 72533-18015941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019《2019年逃犯及刑事事宜相互法律協助法例(修訂)條例草案》, also known as the Extradition Bill, a wave of ongoing protests have begun in Hong Kong since June 2019. The Extradition Bill incident led to a wide-reaching social movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only ways through which Hong Kong people expressed their opinions. Promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes also played significant roles in the movement. In this exhibition, we will present these incredible art pieces, exploring their aesthetics and functions.

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:46:24 -0500 2020-02-05T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Whimsical Worlds (February 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-02-05T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 5, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-05T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Science as Art Contest Submission Deadline (February 5, 2020 11:55am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48786 48786-17963888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:55am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan, ArtsEngine and the Science Learning Center invite you to submit artwork to the 2020 Science as Art exhibition. University of Michigan undergraduate students are invited to submit artwork expressing a scientific principle(s), concept(s), idea(s), process(es), and/or structure(s). The artwork may be visual, literary, musical, video, or performance based. A juried panel using criteria based on both scientific and artistic considerations will choose winning submissions.

Deadline for submissions is Wednesday February 5th!

A number of submissions will be selected for prizes, some of which will be on display and/or performed during the Awards Ceremony and/or displayed in an online Contest Gallery. The entry selected for “Best Overall” will be awarded a cash prize, with smaller cash awards in other categories.

For full information, visit: tinyurl.com/scienceasart2020

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:47:29 -0500 2020-02-05T11:55:00-05:00 2020-02-05T23:59:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Arts at Michigan Exhibition Science as Art logo
Vote NOW in the As I See It Drawing Competition! (February 5, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72265 72265-17966038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Vote for your favorite drawing among the 18 finalists in the As I See It Drawing Competition! Finalist drawings are on view outside of the Fireside Cafe in Pierpont Commons. You can also vote online at http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/aisi/. Voting closes Friday, February 7 at noon.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:27:28 -0500 2020-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T14:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Arts at Michigan Exhibition As I See It Drawing Competition - Vote NOW in-person or online!
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (February 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-02-06T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (February 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-02-06T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (February 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-02-06T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (February 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-02-06T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (February 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-02-06T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (February 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-02-06T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (February 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-02-06T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72533 72533-18015942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019《2019年逃犯及刑事事宜相互法律協助法例(修訂)條例草案》, also known as the Extradition Bill, a wave of ongoing protests have begun in Hong Kong since June 2019. The Extradition Bill incident led to a wide-reaching social movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only ways through which Hong Kong people expressed their opinions. Promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes also played significant roles in the movement. In this exhibition, we will present these incredible art pieces, exploring their aesthetics and functions.

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:46:24 -0500 2020-02-06T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Whimsical Worlds (February 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-02-06T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-06T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Tea Bowl as a Microcosm of Modern Japanese Ceramics (February 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70096 70096-17530444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Over the last hundred years, the idiom of the tea bowl (chawan) has become increasingly significant for makers, collectors, historians, and the general public in Japan. Tea bowls function as important modern signifiers of tea ceremony praxis, national aesthetics, and a perceived shared affinity for ceramics. This lecture will trace the rise of the tea bowl in Japan from the 1920s onward, considering its status in terms of core aspects of modern Japanese ceramics—materiality, tactility, revivalism, rebellion, and global presence. Within the vast field of modern Japanese ceramics, the tea bowl provides a means to index key production and reception values.

Meghen Jones is Division Head /Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of Global Studies at Alfred University. She recently co-edited with Louise Cort Ceramics and Modernity in Japan and is currently curating for the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum an exhibition titled Path of the Tea Bowl.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:36:28 -0500 2020-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion The Tea Bowl as a Microcosm of Modern Japanese Ceramics
Vote NOW in the As I See It Drawing Competition! (February 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72265 72265-17966039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Vote for your favorite drawing among the 18 finalists in the As I See It Drawing Competition! Finalist drawings are on view outside of the Fireside Cafe in Pierpont Commons. You can also vote online at http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/aisi/. Voting closes Friday, February 7 at noon.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:27:28 -0500 2020-02-06T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T14:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Arts at Michigan Exhibition As I See It Drawing Competition - Vote NOW in-person or online!
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (February 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-02-07T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (February 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-02-07T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (February 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-02-07T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (February 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-02-07T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (February 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-02-07T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (February 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-02-07T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (February 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-02-07T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72533 72533-18015943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019《2019年逃犯及刑事事宜相互法律協助法例(修訂)條例草案》, also known as the Extradition Bill, a wave of ongoing protests have begun in Hong Kong since June 2019. The Extradition Bill incident led to a wide-reaching social movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only ways through which Hong Kong people expressed their opinions. Promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes also played significant roles in the movement. In this exhibition, we will present these incredible art pieces, exploring their aesthetics and functions.

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:46:24 -0500 2020-02-07T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Whimsical Worlds (February 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-02-07T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Vote NOW in the As I See It Drawing Competition! (February 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72265 72265-17966040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Vote for your favorite drawing among the 18 finalists in the As I See It Drawing Competition! Finalist drawings are on view outside of the Fireside Cafe in Pierpont Commons. You can also vote online at http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/aisi/. Voting closes Friday, February 7 at noon.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:27:28 -0500 2020-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T14:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Arts at Michigan Exhibition As I See It Drawing Competition - Vote NOW in-person or online!
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (February 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-02-08T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (February 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-02-08T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (February 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-02-08T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (February 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-02-08T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (February 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-02-08T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (February 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-02-08T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (February 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-02-08T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72533 72533-18015944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019《2019年逃犯及刑事事宜相互法律協助法例(修訂)條例草案》, also known as the Extradition Bill, a wave of ongoing protests have begun in Hong Kong since June 2019. The Extradition Bill incident led to a wide-reaching social movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only ways through which Hong Kong people expressed their opinions. Promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes also played significant roles in the movement. In this exhibition, we will present these incredible art pieces, exploring their aesthetics and functions.

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:46:24 -0500 2020-02-08T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Whimsical Worlds (February 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-02-08T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (February 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-02-09T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (February 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-02-09T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (February 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-02-09T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (February 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-02-09T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (February 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-02-09T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (February 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-02-09T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (February 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-02-09T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (February 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-02-09T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (February 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-02-10T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (February 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-02-10T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (February 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-02-10T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (February 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-02-10T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (February 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-02-10T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (February 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-02-10T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (February 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-02-10T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (February 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-02-10T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-10T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
LOOK 101: Seeing Art in an Instagram World (February 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70169 70169-17540925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Geared toward undergraduate students and focusing on the current exhibitions at the Institute for the Humanities, this contemporary series of discussions offers a fresh take on the basics of looking and evaluating art in the gallery and how it’s organized, making the connection from the traditional “white cube gallery” to iGen visual worlds like Facebook and Instagram.Today: The Art of Valery Jung Estabrook with Institute for the Humanities curator Amanda Krugliak.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:21:50 -0500 2020-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Valery Jung Estabrook Instagram
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (February 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-02-11T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (February 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-02-11T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (February 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-02-11T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (February 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-02-11T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (February 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-02-11T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (February 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-02-11T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (February 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-02-11T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (February 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-02-11T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (February 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-02-12T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (February 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-02-12T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (February 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-02-12T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (February 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-02-12T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (February 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-02-12T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (February 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-02-12T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (February 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-02-12T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (February 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-02-12T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
HH(C)*/An American Interior (February 12, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70083 70083-17507856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Hometown Hero (Chink): An American Interior, by Valery Jung Estabrook, re-creates a life-size living room sewn by hand, suggestive of the artist’s history growing up in rural southwestern Virginia.The installation includes a custom upholstered recliner embellished with a Confederate Flag motif, and a plush TV emanating country music karaoke sung by the artist.The exhibition challenges the notions of heritage, Southern nationalism and “traditional” American culture, providing a window into the tensions of being a perpetual foreigner in one’s own hometown.

Reflecting on her exhibition title, Estabrook states, “The second part of the title, “Chink,” is a word that is fundamentally linked to my lifelong experience as an Asian American. Yes, it’s offensive—an incredibly painful slur. But that same pain is something that I, unfortunately, think of when I think of home. I include it because I must in order to have an honest discussion about the America that I know.”

Valery Jung Estabrook was born in Plantation, Florida, and grew up on an organic pear farm in rural southwestern Virginia. She holds an MFA in drawing and painting from Brooklyn College and a BA in visual art from Brown University. Her work has been exhibited in major cities both domestically and internationally, including New York, Los Angeles, Lagos, Bilbao, and Melbourne. In 2018 she received the Gold AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award, an annual award recognizing artists of Korean heritage in the United States. She currently resides in Albuquerque and teaches experimental art at the University of New Mexico.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Feb 2020 08:40:18 -0500 2020-02-12T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Hometown Hero (Chink)
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 12, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-12T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Artist Conversation & Opening Reception for "Hometown Hero (Chink): An American Interior" (February 12, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72662 72662-18035614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 5:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Join us as we welcome artist Valerie Jung Estabrook to the Institute for the Humanities for an engaging conversation with curator Amanda Krugliak. Audience Q & A follows the conversation, as well as an opportunity to meet the artist and talk one-on-one.

About the exhibition:
Hometown Hero (Chink): An American Interior, by Valery Jung Estabrook, re-creates a life-size living room sewn by hand, suggestive of the artist’s history growing up in rural southwestern Virginia.The installation includes a custom upholstered recliner embellished with a Confederate Flag motif, and a plush TV emanating country music karaoke sung by the artist.The exhibition challenges the notions of heritage, Southern nationalism and “traditional” American culture, providing a window into the tensions of being a perpetual foreigner in one’s own hometown.

Reflecting on her exhibition title, Estabrook states, “The second part of the title, “Chink,” is a word that is fundamentally linked to my lifelong experience as an Asian American. Yes, it’s offensive—an incredibly painful slur. But that same pain is something that I, unfortunately, think of when I think of home. I include it because I must in order to have an honest discussion about the America that I know.”

Valery Jung Estabrook was born in Plantation, Florida, and grew up on an organic pear farm in rural southwestern Virginia. She holds an MFA in drawing and painting from Brooklyn College and a BA in visual art from Brown University. Her work has been exhibited in major cities both domestically and internationally, including New York, Los Angeles, Lagos, Bilbao, and Melbourne. In 2018 she received the Gold AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award, an annual award recognizing artists of Korean heritage in the United States. She currently resides in Albuquerque and teaches experimental art at the University of New Mexico.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:18:16 -0500 2020-02-12T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion From "Hometown Hero (Chink): An American Interior"
Cages, Nests & Butterflies (February 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 70210-17547626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time, memory, openness and constraint, the pieces are created with traditional methods, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools; cross-disciplinary techniques, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate, find meaning and ultimately – hope.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:01 -0500 2020-02-13T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Unhidden Frame by Anne Bae, photograph by the artist.
Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas (February 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 70212-17547733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Fractured History explores concepts of identity, love, loss and the connection between music, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur, author, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household; his adoptive family is Jewish, his biological mother is Irish Catholic, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music, diversity, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:03 -0500 2020-02-13T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Diana’s Trumpet by Aaron Dworkin.
Hats & Fascinators (February 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 70196-17547207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982, making hats for church, the Kentucky Derby, Ascot, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, several African-American Museums, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one." – Pamela Thomas-Graham, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”, 8/13/2019.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:03:50 -0500 2020-02-13T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Contessa by Mr. Song Millinery, photograph by Moza.
Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media (February 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 70205-17547460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan, which continues to influence her work.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-02-13T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition by Allison Svoboda, photograph by the artist
High School Photo Project (February 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 70202-17547293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In her early career, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 12 years into her current work, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic, assertive and joyful, discerning and full of possibility.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:23:35 -0500 2020-02-13T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Noelle by Linda Erf Swift.
Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel (February 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 70207-17547543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In this body of work, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature, “space,” and the preservation of personal space, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color, creating an atmosphere of still quietude, so critical to her creative process.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:14:30 -0500 2020-02-13T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Is It Really Over? by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate (February 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 70204-17547377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

In 2017 Leslie Sobel, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory, Canada, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine, remote, beautiful, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting, monotype, photography, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:25:37 -0500 2020-02-13T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Sheep Mountain and Kluane Lake by Leslie Sobel, photograph by the artist.
Whimsical Worlds (February 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 70195-17547125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness, quirkiness, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests, sail on lakes, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere, his boldly colored animal explorers, tourists, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
On display December 16, 2019-March 6, 2020
Open daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Exhibition Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:25:57 -0500 2020-02-13T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Flying Penguins with Ugly Sweaters by Gregory Potter, photograph by the artist.
HH(C)*/An American Interior (February 13, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70083 70083-17507857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Hometown Hero (Chink): An American Interior, by Valery Jung Estabrook, re-creates a life-size living room sewn by hand, suggestive of the artist’s history growing up in rural southwestern Virginia.The installation includes a custom upholstered recliner embellished with a Confederate Flag motif, and a plush TV emanating country music karaoke sung by the artist.The exhibition challenges the notions of heritage, Southern nationalism and “traditional” American culture, providing a window into the tensions of being a perpetual foreigner in one’s own hometown.

Reflecting on her exhibition title, Estabrook states, “The second part of the title, “Chink,” is a word that is fundamentally linked to my lifelong experience as an Asian American. Yes, it’s offensive—an incredibly painful slur. But that same pain is something that I, unfortunately, think of when I think of home. I include it because I must in order to have an honest discussion about the America that I know.”

Valery Jung Estabrook was born in Plantation, Florida, and grew up on an organic pear farm in rural southwestern Virginia. She holds an MFA in drawing and painting from Brooklyn College and a BA in visual art from Brown University. Her work has been exhibited in major cities both domestically and internationally, including New York, Los Angeles, Lagos, Bilbao, and Melbourne. In 2018 she received the Gold AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award, an annual award recognizing artists of Korean heritage in the United States. She currently resides in Albuquerque and teaches experimental art at the University of New Mexico.

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Exhibition Mon, 24 Feb 2020 08:40:18 -0500 2020-02-13T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Hometown Hero (Chink)
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-13T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print