Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Ayana Evans, Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series: Persona as Social Justice (January 22, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81000 81000-20832756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Ayana Evans will talk about her trajectory of her work, including her new work of performance art for video "You Better Be Good to Me” (with performances by students from SMTD, the UM Cheer Team, and Detroit artists, and costumes by Dressing Up and Down students). "You Better Be Good to Me” will premiere as part of the program.

Ayana Evans is a NYC based performance artist who grew up on the south side of Chicago. The sensibilities of both locations heavily influence her work with the body, race relations, and gender bias.  Roberta Fallon, co-founder of Artblog, describes Ms. Evans as, “one part Wonder Woman, one part agent provocateur.” And writer Seph Rodney of Hyperallergic and the New York Times wrote: “I have seen [this] artist actually stop traffic on the Bowery in downtown Manhattan in 2016, where, in a floor-length lace gown, a dollar-store tiara and full makeup, she placed a chair in the street to do chair dips.”

Evans began her career as a painter earning her MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and her BA in Visual Arts from Brown University. During the summer of 2016 Evans completed her installment of the residency, "Back in Five Minutes" at El Museo Del Barrio in NYC. The next year she completed a endurance-based 10-hour, citywide performance and 100-person performative dinner party at the Barnes Foundation in 2017 for "A Person of the Crowd,” a major performance art survey featuring artists such as, Marina Abramovic, Tania Bruguera, and William Pope L. in Philadelphia, PA. Her international work includes participation in: FIAP performance festival in Martinique, The Pineapple Show at Tiwani Contemporary in London, and Ghana's Chale Wote festival, which drew 30,000 people. Evans has received numerous fellowships and awards including: Studio Immersion Fellowship Program at EFA’s Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (2018); Artists Alliance Inc (2018); Franklin Furnace Fund for performance art (2017-2018); New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow for Interdisciplinary Arts (2018); and an artist in resident for Art on the Vine at Martha's Vineyard (2019). In addition to her numerous guerilla street performances, Evans has performed at the Queens Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Newark Museum, and the Bronx Museum. During 2018 and 2019 Evans had three solo exhibitions with Medium Tings Gallery (Brooklyn), Cuchifritos Gallery (NYC) and the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop with New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) at Governors Island, NY. She has been featured in The New York Times, Bomb Magazine, ArtNet, The Cut, Hyperallergic, and CNN. Evans is currently an adjunct professor at Brown University.

During the Fall 2020 semester, Evans created a new work of performance art for video as part of the Stamps School’s Witt Visiting Artist program. A video of the performance "You Better Be Good to Me,” will premiere as part of the program.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

 

Supported by the U-M Arts Initiative. This talk is part of the 2021 U-M Reverend Martin Luther King Junior Symposium. The Penny Stamps 2020-2021 Distinguished Speaker Series is brought to you with the support of our streaming partners, Detroit Public Television and PBS Books.

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Performance Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:15:43 -0500 2021-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Is Acceptance the Future of Art? (January 25, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80550 80550-20738205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Join Ayana Evans, described as “one part Wonder Woman, one part agent provocateur” (Roberta Fallon, co-founder of Artblog) for a live, virtual discussion with Reginald Jackson, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan and scholar of critical race theory’s relationship to gender.

In conjunction with her presentation as part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series premiering January 22, Ayana Evans will talk with Reginald Jackson about her work, a body of performances that comments on the effort she must put in to be taken seriously as a Black woman – often with humor and impromptu community-creation. They will also discuss issues facing art-makers today: her mid-career shift to performance, and the potential for art to promote self acceptance and wider acceptance of all selves.

Monday, January 25, 5:30-6:30 pm EST

Register here to receive Zoom information:
https://umich.formstack.com/forms/jan25_futureofart

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:36:32 -0500 2021-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 2021-01-25T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Lecture / Discussion Ayana Evans and Reginald Jackson
Performing the Moment | Performing the Movement (January 28, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80072 80072-20554879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: http://myumi.ch/0WyWG

Damon Locks will perform and speak about his work with Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project (PNAP) and the Black Monument Ensemble. The Prison and Neighborhood Art Project provides arts and humanities courses to men at the Stateville Maximum Security Prison, where Damon Locks works as an artist educator. In the Black Monument Ensemble, Damon Locks uses music and sound to connect the past and future of the civil rights movement.

Damon Locks is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he received his BFA in fine arts. Since 2014 he has been working with Prisons and Neighborhood Arts Project at Stateville Correctional Center teaching art. He is a recipient of the Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Achievement Award in the Arts and the 2016 MAKER Grant. He operated as an Artist Mentor in the Chicago Artist Coalition program FIELD/WORK. In 2017 he became a Soros Justice Media Fellow. In 2019, he became a 3Arts Awardee. Currently, he works as an artist in residence as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Arts' SPACE Program, introducing civically engaged art into the curriculum at the high school, Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy.

In this new virtual series, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. Sessions will take place over Zoom and require advance registration. You can read about the panelists, register for these events, find recommended reading and resources and/or request recordings of past events at https://lsa.umich.edu/world-performance.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Presentation Wed, 16 Dec 2020 08:18:25 -0500 2021-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 2021-01-28T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Damon Locks
Our National Marine Sanctuaries, Protecting America's Underwater Treasures: (January 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80998 80998-20830797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Stephanie Gandulla, Maritime Archaeologist and Research Coordinator at the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, will explore some of the nation’s best-preserved shipwrecks in the Great lakes and describe how the Sanctuary was designated and became part of the Michigan History Center’s statewide system of museums and historic sites.

Register via Zoom here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2EaxIke3RficoM9yHzHk2A

Additional details here: https://myumi.ch/WwmWZ

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:39:56 -0500 2021-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Livestream / Virtual Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Virtual open house - Museum Studies Program prospective students (February 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80651 80651-20769623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Are you a UM student who is interested in museums, collections, or heritage sites? If so, consider applying for the graduate certificate in museum studies for Fall 2021. Attend our prospective student virtual open house on February 5 at noon to find out more! Information about the program, application details, and the open house can be found here:
http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/graduate-program/

Zoom meeting ID 948 5441 6425 / passcode 584834

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:32:08 -0500 2021-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Livestream / Virtual Museum visitors
Tour and Themes of “No, not even for a picture” online exhibit (February 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81663 81663-20941448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this online presentation, Lindsey Willow Smith and Veronica Cook Williamson will provide an introductory glimpse into the Clements’ new online exhibit: 'No, not even for Picture': Re-Examining the Native Midwest and Tribes’ Relations to the History of Photography. This exhibit seeks to re-historicize and re-humanize the contexts, subjects, and circumstances leading to the production of the Richard Pohrt Jr. Collection of Native American Photography. Using examples from the exhibit to speak about their motivations and goals as co-curators, the two will touch on themes of photography as a tool of settler colonialism, photographic assertions of sovereignty and agency, and raise questions about (in)visibility and voice. They will also discuss how the transition to remote work affected the exhibit design and their approaches.

Register for the link to join at http://myumi.ch/ovD4P

Explore the exhibit at http://clements.umich.edu/pohrt

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Feb 2021 10:17:16 -0500 2021-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Unidentified Ojibwa men at White Earth Indian Reservation, Minnesota.
NCF 'Keywords' Discussion (February 12, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81348 81348-20887817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This open-ended discussion forum will center around various “keywords” of your choosing. We invite you all to contribute a keyword or theme that you are currently thinking about in relation to your own research. Our goal with this virtual event is to think collectively, form connections, and inspire creative directions.

You do not need to come prepared with a presentation, but merely an idea, thought, or question centered around your chosen word. Equally, there is no requirement that you come prepared to discuss a specific keyword if you would prefer to attend as a listener/respondent.

For inspiration, you might turn to the Victorian Literature and Culture 'Keywords' double-issue containing hundreds of mini-essays on keywords.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:24:22 -0500 2021-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Typesetting in wood
For Your Eyes Only (February 15, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-15T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 16, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-16T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-16T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 17, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-17T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Colonial Archives and Decolonial Museology (February 17, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81903 81903-20988906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

This panel will consider collections relating to Native American past, present and future. Panelists will discuss decolonizing museum practices, settler-colonialism visually presented in postcards of Native American people, and projects at the UM Matthaei Botanical Garden that have deep connections to indigenous culture and agriculture.

Details and registration information here: http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/event/colonial-archives-and-decolonial-museology-panel-1/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Feb 2021 10:55:51 -0500 2021-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Lecture / Discussion Museum Studies panel discussions
For Your Eyes Only (February 18, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-18T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 19, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-19T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Colonial Archives and Decolonial Museology (February 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81912 81912-20988918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

The panel engages with UM’s Philippine Collections, which include everything from papers of US colonial officers in the Philippines to thousands of photographs, from funerary objects in the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology to type specimens in the Museum of Zoology and plants in the Herbarium.

Additional details and registration information here: http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/event/colonial-archives-and-decolonial-museology-panel-2/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:44:23 -0500 2021-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Lecture / Discussion Museum Studies panel discussions
For Your Eyes Only (February 20, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-20T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-20T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 21, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-21T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 22, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-22T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Future of Art Institutions: Repair or Rebuild? (February 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81575 81575-20927563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Arts institutions, such as museums, were founded on colonialist ideas – white Europeans collected the rest of the world during their conquests and travels, establishing places to promote one set of cultural ideals at the expense of others. Though many have reexamined their history and practices, shifting their missions toward education and visitor experience, museums and other arts institutions carry the baggage of these historic origins. For our arts institutions to matter and fulfill their mission to BiPOC and future publics can we rethink and repair them? Or, should we knock them all down and rebuild new institutions? Or something in between? Our panel considers these questions in a wide-ranging discussion on the future of art institutions.

Moderated by Christina Olsen, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art; with Maurita Poole, Director and curator of the museum at Clark Atlanta University; Terence Washington, Program Director at NXTHVN, a model to advance the careers of artists and curators of color through mentorship and professional development; and Anya Sirota, Associate Dean of Academic Initiatives at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Monday, February 22, 4:00-5:10.

Register to receive Zoom information:
https://umich.formstack.com/forms/feb22_futureofart

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:52:23 -0500 2021-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T17:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Lecture / Discussion Maurita Poole, Terence Washington, Anya Sirota
For Your Eyes Only (February 23, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-23T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 24, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-24T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 25, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-25T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts (February 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82040 82040-21012672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Professor Emerita Shelley Perlove, History of Art (UM-Dearborn), will give a Zoom lecture on February 25, 2021, at 7 PM. Her talk, “Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts,” is sponsored by the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (MCECS), the Department of Middle East Studies, and the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program of the University of Michigan.

The presentation focuses upon the diverse and ever-changing interpretations of Christ and his mother Mary from the 13th through the 17th c. in Italy, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Selected works will be discussed in terms of their meaning and cultural context, including Catholic and Protestant controversies. Also of interest are the varied techniques in wood, marble, gold, and paint, as well as issues of museum display. In many cases an attempt will be made to “reconstruct” the original functions of these works created for ecclesiastical and domestic settings.

Registration is required: https://forms.gle/3L1yGa7JF2GCxdiA7
*We recommend registration at least two days before the event, although registration will remain open until the night of the event.*

Additional information is available on the MCECS website: https://mcecs.org/christian-art-at-the-dia/

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:26:19 -0500 2021-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts
For Your Eyes Only (February 26, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-26T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Science as Art Faculty Panel Discussion & Awards Ceremony (February 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82385 82385-21090310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Join a panel of faculty in this discussion of the intersection of science and art. Immediately following the panel, award winners will be announced for the 2021 Science as Art competition. You can view submissions and vote for peoples' choice award through 2:15pm on Friday, February 26, 2021.

Eleni Gourgou, Assistant Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
Brad Smith, Associate Dean for Academic Programs; Professor, School of Art & Design; Research Professor, Department of Radiology
Matthew Thompson, Assistant Professor of Music; Associate Faculty, UM Center for Japanese Studies
Moderated by Deb Mexicotte, Managing Director, ArtsEngine

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:46:00 -0500 2021-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location ArtsEngine Livestream / Virtual Science as Art
For Your Eyes Only (February 27, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-27T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 28, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 28, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-28T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-28T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 1, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-01T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 2, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-02T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 3, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-03T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Michigan's Got Talent! (March 3, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82157 82157-21044622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MUSIC Matters

MUSIC Matters presents Michigan's Got Talent: A Talent Show Celebrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Arts! Tune in to watch U-M students from across campus show off their unique talents. Following the event, YOU will have a chance to vote for your favorite acts to receive various superlative rewards and cash/prizes!

MUSIC Matters also wishes to address the lack of diversity and equitable representation in the performing arts and entertainment industries through our event. We will do this not only through the performances themselves, but also from appearances by our event host and various cameos from well-respected members of the entertainment industry and U-M community.

We are excited to announce that the event will feature appearances from the music group Two Friends, Vice President of Student Life Martino Harmon, two-time Olympic athlete Tiffany Porter, and more!

Tune in to Michigan's Got Talent on YouTube March 3rd at 8pm EST. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to parniam@umich.edu.

tinyurl.com/michigansgottalent

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Performance Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:09:20 -0500 2021-03-03T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location MUSIC Matters Performance Flyer for Michigan's Got Talent on March 3rd at 8pm
For Your Eyes Only (March 4, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-04T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 5, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-05T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 6, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-06T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 7, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-07T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 8, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 9, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-09T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 10, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-10T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust (March 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82401 82401-21092284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Can inanimate objects store and communicate traumatic memory that cannot be directly expressed? This talk examines 'folk art' made by non-professional Polish artists – many of them village laborers – documenting the German Nazi occupation of Poland and the Holocaust. Made largely in the 1960s and 70s, these objects are uncanny: at times deeply moving, at others grotesque, they can also be disturbing for the ways they impose Catholic idioms on Jewish suffering, or upend accepted roles of victim, perpetrator, and bystander.

Zoom webinar - please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6-Sy-1p-TFaoBD7VbWgcMA

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Presentation Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:03:59 -0500 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Presentation Slawomir Kosiniak, Untitled, ca. 1948, Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, photo by Wojciech Wilczyk
For Your Eyes Only (March 11, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-11T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 12, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-12T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 13, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-13T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-13T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
THE G—RAY AREA (March 13, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82199 82199-21052532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 4:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

These performances by Ava Ansari are part of the Institute for the Humanities exhibition "For Your Eyes Only." Intended to activate the space, the performances bring to life the installation by further exploring the positioning of the body and the viewer.

Both the exhibition and the performances are designed to be viewed from the Thayer St. windows of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Performance Times: March 13: 4:30-5pm, 6-6:30pm, 7:30-8pm.

From the artist:
"If you come by, make it soft and slow, don’t break my glassy agility."*

The G—ray Area is the isolation and expansion of skin-depth in close proximity celebrations. Working with The G—ray Area, prepares us for removing and releasing public pains accumulated through insensitive norms of togetherness. The heterotopic transmedia space is an open journal of personal and familial celebrations of the sensual body by Ava Ansari. It chooses Yasmine Diaz’s For Your Eyes Only as a safe space for revisiting Ava’s somatic, sonic, and scenic celebratory memories from the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) airstrikes, bedroom shadow dances, underground rules of thumb, a party arrest in Tehran, her planet IranUS, and a recent visit to Saturn. Borderline Knowledge will be the guardians.

1. Ava Ansari’s interpretation of an exerpt from a Persian poem by Sohrab Sepehri (1928-80, Iran). The poem is carved on Sepehri’s gravestone: به سراغ من اگر می آیید, نرم و آهسته بیایید, مبادا که ترک بردارد, چینی نازک تنهائی من

Ava Ansari is a transmedia poet, transcultural curator, and yogi (She/They). Ava is the Founding Director of Poetic Societies Global Network for the Somatic, Sonic, and Scenic Liberation in Detroit.

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Performance Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:04:30 -0500 2021-03-13T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-13T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Performance The Grey Area
THE G—RAY AREA (March 13, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82199 82199-21052533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 6:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

These performances by Ava Ansari are part of the Institute for the Humanities exhibition "For Your Eyes Only." Intended to activate the space, the performances bring to life the installation by further exploring the positioning of the body and the viewer.

Both the exhibition and the performances are designed to be viewed from the Thayer St. windows of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Performance Times: March 13: 4:30-5pm, 6-6:30pm, 7:30-8pm.

From the artist:
"If you come by, make it soft and slow, don’t break my glassy agility."*

The G—ray Area is the isolation and expansion of skin-depth in close proximity celebrations. Working with The G—ray Area, prepares us for removing and releasing public pains accumulated through insensitive norms of togetherness. The heterotopic transmedia space is an open journal of personal and familial celebrations of the sensual body by Ava Ansari. It chooses Yasmine Diaz’s For Your Eyes Only as a safe space for revisiting Ava’s somatic, sonic, and scenic celebratory memories from the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) airstrikes, bedroom shadow dances, underground rules of thumb, a party arrest in Tehran, her planet IranUS, and a recent visit to Saturn. Borderline Knowledge will be the guardians.

1. Ava Ansari’s interpretation of an exerpt from a Persian poem by Sohrab Sepehri (1928-80, Iran). The poem is carved on Sepehri’s gravestone: به سراغ من اگر می آیید, نرم و آهسته بیایید, مبادا که ترک بردارد, چینی نازک تنهائی من

Ava Ansari is a transmedia poet, transcultural curator, and yogi (She/They). Ava is the Founding Director of Poetic Societies Global Network for the Somatic, Sonic, and Scenic Liberation in Detroit.

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Performance Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:04:30 -0500 2021-03-13T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-13T18:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Performance The Grey Area
THE G—RAY AREA (March 13, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82199 82199-21052534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 7:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

These performances by Ava Ansari are part of the Institute for the Humanities exhibition "For Your Eyes Only." Intended to activate the space, the performances bring to life the installation by further exploring the positioning of the body and the viewer.

Both the exhibition and the performances are designed to be viewed from the Thayer St. windows of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Performance Times: March 13: 4:30-5pm, 6-6:30pm, 7:30-8pm.

From the artist:
"If you come by, make it soft and slow, don’t break my glassy agility."*

The G—ray Area is the isolation and expansion of skin-depth in close proximity celebrations. Working with The G—ray Area, prepares us for removing and releasing public pains accumulated through insensitive norms of togetherness. The heterotopic transmedia space is an open journal of personal and familial celebrations of the sensual body by Ava Ansari. It chooses Yasmine Diaz’s For Your Eyes Only as a safe space for revisiting Ava’s somatic, sonic, and scenic celebratory memories from the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) airstrikes, bedroom shadow dances, underground rules of thumb, a party arrest in Tehran, her planet IranUS, and a recent visit to Saturn. Borderline Knowledge will be the guardians.

1. Ava Ansari’s interpretation of an exerpt from a Persian poem by Sohrab Sepehri (1928-80, Iran). The poem is carved on Sepehri’s gravestone: به سراغ من اگر می آیید, نرم و آهسته بیایید, مبادا که ترک بردارد, چینی نازک تنهائی من

Ava Ansari is a transmedia poet, transcultural curator, and yogi (She/They). Ava is the Founding Director of Poetic Societies Global Network for the Somatic, Sonic, and Scenic Liberation in Detroit.

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Performance Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:04:30 -0500 2021-03-13T19:30:00-05:00 2021-03-13T20:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Performance The Grey Area
For Your Eyes Only (March 14, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 14, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-14T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-14T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 15, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-15T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 16, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 16, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-16T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Opening Celebration: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 16, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82427 82427-21100198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join us for our opening celebration on YouTube with presentations from curators and exhibition artists who have returned from prison.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Presentation Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:23:14 -0500 2021-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T19:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Presentation Event Flyer
Opening Reception: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 16, 2021 7:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82487 82487-21108122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 7:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join us on Zoom for an informal virtual gathering with PCAP curators and artists.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Reception / Open House Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:45:10 -0500 2021-03-16T19:45:00-04:00 2021-03-16T20:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Reception / Open House Event Flyer
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 17, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-17T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 17, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-17T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Public Tour: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82488 82488-21108123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join PCAP curators for a tour of the exhibit.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:50:58 -0500 2021-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Event Flyer
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 18, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-18T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 18, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-18T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
RC Intros: Interested in learning more about the Residential College? (March 18, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81793 81793-20959284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

RC Intros: Interested in learning more about the Residential College?

Curious what an RC class is like? Hear directly from RC faculty and ask questions about the RC academic experience!

Thursday, March 18, 5-6pm
Register at myumi.ch/zxXEx

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Reception / Open House Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:44:15 -0500 2021-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Reception / Open House RC Intros flier
CJS Lecture Series | An Introduction to Ishinomaki Kokeshi (March 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79777 79777-20491897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that this lecture will begin at 7pm, and all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

In this lecture, Takatoshi Hayashi will explain the origins of his "Ishinomaki Kokeshi" concept, reflect on its development over the past six years, and discuss its future. He will also demonstrate how to carve an Ishinomaki Kokeshi from his home workshop.

Takatoshi Hayashi was born and raised in Ishinomaki. After graduating from university, he spent ten years working as a quasi-civil servant in various capacities. In 2009, he returned home to help run his family's kimono shop, Hayashi Gofuku-ten. He became the official head of Hayashi Gofuku-ten in 2019.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Zoom registration required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9ro5btsbQA2HAY0D9rcGMQ

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:20:01 -0500 2021-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Takatoshi Hayashi, Maker of Kokeshi dolls
Keynote: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82490 82490-21108124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Janie Paul, Annual Exhibition Senior Curator and Co-Founder, discusses the exhibit and her forthcoming book on artmaking in prison.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:58:54 -0500 2021-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 19, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 19, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 20, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 20, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-20T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-20T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 20, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 20, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-20T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Public Tour: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82491 82491-21110098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join PCAP curators for a tour of the exhibit.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Feb 2021 18:02:48 -0500 2021-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Event Flyer
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 21, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 21, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-21T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-21T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 21, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 21, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-21T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 22, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-22T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 22, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 23, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-23T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 23, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 24, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-24T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 24, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Public Tour: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82499 82499-21110105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join PCAP curators for a tour of the exhibit.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:03:05 -0500 2021-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Event Flyer
Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | Recovering an Art: David Ohannessian and the Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem (March 24, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80218 80218-20601994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance for the webinar here: http://myumi.ch/AxDMx

After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.

Along the cobbled streets and golden walls of Jerusalem, brilliantly glazed tiles catch the light and beckon the eye. These colorful wares—known as Armenian ceramics—are iconic features of the Holy City. Silently, these works of ceramic art—an art that graces homes and museums around the world—also represent a riveting story of resilience and survival. In 1919, David Ohannessian founded the art of Armenian ceramics in Jerusalem, where his work and that of his followers is now celebrated as a local treasure. Born in an isolated Anatolian mountain village, Ohannessian mastered a centuries-old art form in Kütahya, witnessed the rise of violent nationalism in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, endured arrest and deportation in the Armenian Genocide, founded a new tradition in Jerusalem under the British Mandate, and spent his final years, uprooted once again, in Cairo and Beirut. Ms. Moughalian will detail the lineage of her grandfather David Ohannessian’s ceramic tradition and document the critical roles his deportation and his own agency played in its transfer—aspects of the story obscured in the art historical narrative. She will speak about the process of coming to terms with her family’s past, the ways in which that served as an impetus to excavate and reconstruct her grandfather’s history through archival research, and the importance of preserving the stories of peoples displaced through migration.

Sato Moughalian is the author of “Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian” (Redwood Press/ Stanford University Press, 2019). She is also an award winning flutist in New York City and Artistic Director of Perspectives Ensemble, founded in 1993 at Columbia University to explore and contextualize works of composers and visual artists. She serves as principal flutist of the American Modern Ensemble and Gotham Chamber Opera; guest flutist with groups including Imani Winds, American Ballet Theatre, American Symphony Orchestras, and the Orquestra Sinfonico do Estado São Paulo, Brazil. She can be heard on more than thirty chamber music recordings for Sony Classics, BIS, Naxos, as well as on YouTube, Spotify, and other major music platforms. Since 2007, Ms. Moughalian has traveled to Turkey, England, Israel, Palestine, and France to uncover her grandfather’s traces, has published articles, and gives talks on the genesis of Jerusalem’s Armenian ceramic art.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 10:32:40 -0500 2021-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Sato Moughalian, award-winning flutist and author of “Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian"
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 25, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-25T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 25, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Artists Panel: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82500 82500-21110106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Artists from previous PCAP exhibitions share their stories and answer questions about life as an artist living in prison. Moderated by Janie Paul, Senior Curator.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:08:41 -0500 2021-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 26, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 26, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
CWPS 20th // Alumni *in Conversation* (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82314 82314-21066624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: https://myumi.ch/lxAoG

In March 2001, the University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies celebrated its grand opening, inviting the community to participate in an evening of lectures, performances and food at the International Institute. This month, the Center begins the celebration of the 20th anniversary with a virtual panel discussion featuring three alumni of our graduate programs, who represent the diverse disciplinary fields, research interests and life work of our community. Each panelist will speak briefly about their current work, including fresh insights into the field of Performance Studies and ethnography, and then there will be a Q&A.

Mike Rahfaldt (PhD, Ethnomusicology ‘07) is the Executive Director of Children’s Radio Foundation, where he oversees the international operations from Cape Town, South Africa. Before joining the Children’s Radio Foundation in 2006, Michal taught media and anthropology at the University of Cape Town. As a journalist, he has contributed to Public Radio International, BBC World Service, NPR, and the New York Times.

Lani Teves (PhD, American Culture ‘12) is an Associate Professor in Women’s Studies at University of Hawaiʻi. She has written about Hawaiian hip-hop, film, and sexuality in the Pacific. She specializes in theorizing alternate forms of Kanaka Maoli gender performance and recognition politics. Her approach is informed by Indigenous feminist methodologies and ʻŌiwi epistemologies. Teves is the author of *Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance *(UNC Press 2018).

Masimba Hwati (MFA, Art, ‘19) is a multidisciplinary artist working in the intersections of sculpture video performance and sound. Hwati explores the transformation and evolution of knowledge systems that are indigenous to his own background whilst experimenting with the symbolism and perceptions attached to cultural objects, expressed as an art movement known as "The Energy of Objects". His work has been shown in Germany, France, Canada, London, the US, Australia, and Southern Africa. In 2015, he represented Zimbabwe at the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale in Italy.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. 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 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:47:57 -0500 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion CWPS Alumni Flyer
Interdisciplinary Partnerships and Community Collaborations in Museum Practice – Two Perspectives (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83123 83123-21274900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Christina DiFabio and Shannon Ness, PhD candidates from the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology, will share their museum studies internship experiences. Christina will discuss interdisciplinary partnerships at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Shannon will examine community collaborations at a heritage center in El Kurro, Sudan.

Online via Zoom (Meeting ID: 910 0130 8478 / Passcode: 617448)

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Mar 2021 09:20:48 -0400 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Lecture / Discussion Art Institute of Chicago and heritage center at El Kurro, Sudan
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 27, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-27T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-27T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 27, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-27T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 28, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 28, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-28T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 28, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 28, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-28T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 29, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-29T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 29, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 30, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-30T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 30, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 31, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-31T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 31, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 1, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 2, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 3, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-03T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 4, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 4, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-04T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 5, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 6, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 7, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 8, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-08T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
CJS Lecture Series | Unseen Artists in a Theater of Timeless Pace: Iconic *Bonsai* Inspire Iconoclastic Futures (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79854 79854-20509612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

The University of Michigan's emergence as a steward of nationally significant bonsai marks an inflexion point in the Academy for engagement with this international art form. While exhibited specimens are inherently focused on both this moment and change, the discipline itself is undergoing renewal in the United States. Today's presentation places this emergent collection in icontemporary academic and cultural contexts, including the necessity of exhibiting outstanding canonical specimens reflective of bonsai's Japanese heritage.

David Michener is the Curator at the UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. After receiving his PhD in Botany from the Claremont Graduate School he was at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum before coming to the University of Michigan. He is most widely known for his work on historic peonies. He has been active in the reinterpretation of the Freer House's Garden at Wayne State University.

Carmen Leskoviansky has been caring for the UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum's Bonsai and Penjing collection since 2011. Her degree in horticulture is from MIchigan State University. Carmen began studying with American bonsai artist Michael Hagedorn, of Crataegus Bonsai, in 2018 and will begin a 3-year apprenticeship in May 2021.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Registration for this Zoom event is required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_v-ukyjuuQs2zDUR7MsshEg

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:52:36 -0500 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | Unseen Artists in a Theater of Timeless Pace: Iconic Bonsai Inspire Iconoclastic Futures
For Your Eyes Only (April 9, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 10, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 10, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-10T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 11, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 11, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-11T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-11T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 12, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 13, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 14, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 15, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-15T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Mapping without Boundaries: A collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and U-M (April 15, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83546 83546-21420817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Maps are used to represent physical topographies of land or borders between nations, and to assist with directing us to a desired destination. But can they also be used to represent emotions? To make unseen connections? Or to understand the past or move forward into a new future? Can the arts help to shape a new kind of map?

International performing artist Yo-Yo Ma will be joined by U-M President Mark Schlissel and a newly formed Steering Committee of U-M students and Michigan-based artists to kick-off a 6-month artist residency project that explores these questions. They will reflect on the challenges of the past year, and how the pandemic has radically altered educational modes and dispersed the university's students, faculty and staff on all three campuses. The event will also incorporate performance and outline ways the audience can get involved in the residency project as it develops.

Registration required to attend the event:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YOx3HPGiSbyspNS29bH-gw

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Performance Mon, 05 Apr 2021 10:26:32 -0400 2021-04-15T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Performance Mapping without Boundaries
Lyric Swap (April 15, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83334 83334-21344235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts Engage!, a group of staff and faculty at U-M dedicated to student engagement in the arts, is organizing the event Lyric Swap for the series Something Silly. This events will combine the arts and humor for an evening of creativity and laughter!

Lyric Swap
Thursday, April 15, 8pm EST

This event will be hosted by Arts at Michigan's Arts Ambassadors and will feature student performers singing popular songs with new lyrics taken from the live audience!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Apr 2021 14:59:42 -0400 2021-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Livestream / Virtual Something Silly - Lyric Swap
For Your Eyes Only (April 16, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-16T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Technology and the Future of Art (April 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83641 83641-21446271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Join American Artist and Salome Asega, artists whose work explores themes of art, technology, and activism in conversation with Marisa Olson, a fellow practitioner and Executive Director of the Digital Studies Institute. They will discuss the role of the arts in framing and producing social justice commentary and the ways in which they use technology to both critique and intervene in the problematics often posed by technology. How can the arts model critiques of technological utopianism? How can the arts lead the way to a better future, which will inevitably be shaped by the technologies we use?

Register to receive the event Zoom link: https://umich.formstack.com/forms/apr19_futureofart

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 10 Apr 2021 14:37:07 -0400 2021-04-19T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T17:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Lecture / Discussion American Artist, Salome Asega, Marisa Olson
Student-Made Video Games Virtual Showcase (April 21, 2021 6:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83460 83460-21381639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 6:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

Experience 20+ new student-made video games at the EECS 494 + EMU Games Virtual Showcase! Interact with the developers, learn more about Michigan and EMU's game development programs, and vote for your favorite games!

Visit https://494showcase.com at 7pm EST on 12/08 to participate!

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:45:31 -0400 2021-04-21T18:45:00-04:00 2021-04-21T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition EECS 494 Virtual Showcase
The Premodern Colloquium. Why Did Public Infrastructure Appear in Song Court Landscape Painting? (April 23, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82183 82183-21050550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 23, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This essay examines the public infrastructure depicted in Northern Song (960-1127) court landscape paintings, which includes roads, waterways, bridges, and river ports. These paintings not only depict the public works but also portray people from all social strata utilizing these public resources. This new development in the landscape genre coincided with the political and social thought of the period, which held that the state should spend tax revenues collected from the population to improve the wellbeing of the people.

The reading investigates visual materials ranging from court landscape painting, administrative maps in local gazetteers, as well as steles. The legal basis for the emergence of such landscape paintings in the 11th century was the separation of the emperor’s private treasury from the public treasury of the state. That separation was a factor in numerous policy debates from the period and was systematically documented in an early thirteenth-century book.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:35:20 -0400 2021-04-23T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Attributed to Qu Ding (Chinese, active ca. 1023–ca. 1056), Summer Mountains, ca.1050, China, ink and color on silk, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the 19th Century (May 5, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83554 83554-21422778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The fight for racial equality in the 19th century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated throughout the United States by African Americans. Advances in visual technologies—daguerreotypes, lithographs, cartes de visite, and steam printing presses—enabled people to see and participate in social reform movements in new ways. African American activists seized these opportunities and produced images that advanced campaigns for black rights.

In this talk based on his book "Visualizing Identity," (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) Aston Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they helped build the world they envisioned. Understudied artists such as Robert Douglass Jr., Patrick Henry Reason, James Presley Ball, and Augustus Washington produced images to persuade viewers of the necessity for racial equality, black political leadership, and freedom from slavery. Moreover, these activist artists’ networks of transatlantic patronage and travels to Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa reveal their extensive involvement in the most pressing concerns for black people in the Atlantic world. Their work demonstrates how images became central to the ways that people developed ideas about race, citizenship, and politics during the 19th century.

Register at myumi.ch/0WEk3

Aston Gonzalez is a historian of African American culture and politics during the long 19th century. He is an Associate Professor of History at Salisbury University. Gonzalez earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 05 Apr 2021 15:51:18 -0400 2021-05-05T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-05T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Visualizing Equality Book Cover
Race - The Power of an Illusion (May 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-05-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-06T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 19, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-19T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Opening Reception, Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 19, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84018 84018-21619595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join exhibit curators and formerly incarcerated artists for a virtual opening reception. Registration is required for this free event.

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 May 2021 13:53:32 -0400 2021-05-19T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 20, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-20T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Race - The Power of an Illusion (May 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
Public Tour, Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 20, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84019 84019-21619596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join exhibit curators for a virtual tour. Registration is required for this free event.

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 May 2021 13:58:27 -0400 2021-05-20T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 21, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 21, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-21T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-21T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 22, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 22, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-22T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-22T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 23, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 23, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-23T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-23T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 24, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 24, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-24T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-24T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 25, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-25T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-25T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 26, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-26T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-26T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 27, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 27, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-27T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-27T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Race - The Power of an Illusion (June 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-03T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
"Daisy Chain" Video Zine Premiere (June 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84320 84320-21623291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hegNRPuO9KQ.

From the creators of House Calls, *Daisy Chain* is a series of short vignettes documenting the candid and illuminating perspectives of 9 national and regional artists during this time of re-emergence. The name refers to the traditional string of daisies threaded together by their stems, as well as the contemporary wiring scheme by the same name used in electronics and engineering.

For this *Daisy Chain*, nine regional and national artists with diverse experiences, perspectives, and practices were each interviewed by Institute for the Humanities Curator Amanda Krugliak. Each of them was asked the same series of questions: How do you feel you are emerging from the past year? What kind of world are you trying to build for the future? How are you thinking about responsiveness and responsibility? Are there any creative strategies you have identified moving forward?

Their answers—along with images of their work—have been “strung together” visually in video format, one artist connecting to another in sequence.

In this time of re-entry, when we are cautiously emerging from a year in isolation, and also merging back into action at breakneck speed, *Daisy Chain *offers the opportunity for contemplation in its assemblage of artists, art, and ideas. It explores the ties that bind us, the past and the future, and the loose ends. Perhaps as important, it alludes to surprising and new combinations, and a renewed capacity to find joy.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Ruth Leonela Buentello
Ruth Leonela Buentello is a visual artist and arts educator from San Antonio, TX. Her artistic practice is rooted in painting and often bridges other media, including community-arts and collaborative installations. Her work centers on representations from her Xicanx identity, class, gender and family relationships. Buentello received her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is working on her masters from Maine College of Arts. She is also a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors grant.

Abigail DeVille
Abigail DeVille is best known for her large scale installations. Often incorporating found materials from the neighborhoods around the exhibition venues, DeVille's sculptures and installations often explore the history of racist violence, gentrification and lost regional history. Her work also incorporates performance elements that brings the artwork out of its exhibition space and into the streets; DeVille has organized these public events, which she calls "processionals," in several US cities, including Washington, D.C., Baltimore and New York City. DeVille earned a BFA at the Fashion Institute of Technology and an MFA at Yale. She also attended the Pratt Institute and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Hubert Massey
Hubert Massey is a Michigan artist whose distinctive fresco murals grace the halls of such visible Michigan destinations as the Detroit TCF Center, Flint Institute of the Arts, Detroit Athletic Club, and his alma mater, Grand Valley State University, where he earned an honorary doctorate of fine arts in 2012. Hubert studied at the University of London’s Slade Institute of Fine Arts and later learned the centuries-old fresco technique from former assistants of legendary artist Diego Rivera. He is one of only a few African American artists painting in the true buon fresco style.

Shanna Merola
Shanna Merola is a visual artist, photojournalist, and legal worker. In addition to her studio practice, she has been a human rights observer during political uprisings across the country—from the struggle for water rights in Detroit and Flint, MI to the frontlines of Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these events. Merola lives in Detroit, where she facilitates Know-Your-Rights workshops and coordinates legal support for grassroots organizations through the National Lawyers Guild. Merola holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Scott Northrup
Scott Northrup is a multimedia artist, writer, curator, and educator who has exhibited with museums, galleries, film and design festivals, and alternative spaces in North America and Europe. Northrup is an associate professor and chair of the film and photography programs at College for Creative Studies, and is on the advisory board for the AAFF and the curatorial team for the next installment of Dlectricity. He earned an MA in media studies from The New School, and a BFA from Center for Creative Studies.

David Opdyke
David Opdyke is a draughtsman, sculptor, and animator known for his trenchant political send-ups of American culture. Born in Schenectady, NY in 1969, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in painting and sculpture. His work is informed by the massive industrial and corporate restructuring he witnessed growing up, namely the abandonment of the city center by manufacturing giants General Electric and ALCO. For 20 years Opdyke worked as a scenic painter and architectural model-maker. Ranging from intricate miniature constructions to room-sized installations, his artwork explores globalization, consumerism, and civilization’s abusive relationship with the environment.

Shani Peters
Shani Peters is a multi-disciplinary artist based in New Orleans, LA. She holds a BA from Michigan State University and an MFA from the City College of New York. Her practice encompasses activism histories, community building, media subversion, and the creation of accessible imaginative experiences. Informed by historical research, Peters’ prints, collages, installations, and videos consistently welcome viewers to involve themselves with the work. Her studio practice overlaps with her public, project-based, and collaborative work, in which she pushes to create environments and experiences that offer respite from painful realities—opportunities for collective momentum, learning and joy.

Sheida Soleimani
Sheida Soleimani resides in Providence, RI and is a professor of studio art at Brandeis University. Soleimani makes work that melds sculpture, performance, film and photography to highlight her critical perspectives on historical and contemporary sociopolitical events across the Middle East. The daughter of political refugees who were persecuted by the Iranian government, Soleimani focuses on media trends and the dissemination of information in the news, adapting images from popular press and social media leaks to exist within alternative scenarios. She received a BFA from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Jeffrey Augustine Songco
Jeffrey Augustine Songco is a multidisciplinary artist whose artwork explores the complexity of self-portraiture. As a gay American man of Filipino ethnicity, Songco’s artwork is a place of representation—an opportunity to perform and playfully cast himself as the protagonist of a postcolonial queer narrative. Born and raised in New Jersey to devout Catholic Filipino immigrants, his artistic identity developed at a young age with training in classical ballet, voice, and musical theater. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. After living in Pittsburgh, Bushwick, and San Francisco, he currently lives and works in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:47:48 -0400 2021-06-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-30T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Daisy Chain
Artscapade! (August 28, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84654 84654-21624391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 28, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan and UMMA celebrate Welcome Week by introducing students to the wide array of possibilities for arts participation on campus at an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes.

Also, we're looking for volunteers for this event-- help us make it happen (and get a free Artscapade t-shirt in the process!): http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

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Reception / Open House Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:17:58 -0400 2021-08-28T18:00:00-04:00 2021-08-28T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Reception / Open House Artscapade poster graphic
Talking Hearts Conversation Spaces (September 10, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86537 86537-21634784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 10, 2021 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Students and the U-M community are invited to visit the Talking Hearts Conversations Spaces where they can reflect on the past 18 months using the Conversation Guide or the Drawing Guide, which will help people to get in touch with their emotional journeys from throughout the pandemic.

What must we remember about this past year?
What must we forget?
What does joy look/sound/feel like?

Responses can take a variety of forms depending on what feels best to participants – spoken, written, drawn, or even just thought. These discussions are intended to normalize connecting with and caring for the people around us.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:52:06 -0400 2021-09-10T11:00:00-04:00 2021-09-10T13:00:00-04:00 Arts Initiative Social / Informal Gathering A Travel Guide for Talking Hearts
Never Free to Rest (September 13, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-13T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 13, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-13T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Never Free to Rest (September 14, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-14T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 14, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-14T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-14T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Never Free to Rest (September 15, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-15T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 15, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-15T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Never Free to Rest (September 16, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-16T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 16, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Never Free to Rest (September 17, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-17T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 17, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Talking Hearts Conversation Spaces (September 17, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86537 86537-21634785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Students and the U-M community are invited to visit the Talking Hearts Conversations Spaces where they can reflect on the past 18 months using the Conversation Guide or the Drawing Guide, which will help people to get in touch with their emotional journeys from throughout the pandemic.

What must we remember about this past year?
What must we forget?
What does joy look/sound/feel like?

Responses can take a variety of forms depending on what feels best to participants – spoken, written, drawn, or even just thought. These discussions are intended to normalize connecting with and caring for the people around us.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:52:06 -0400 2021-09-17T14:30:00-04:00 2021-09-17T16:30:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Arts Initiative Social / Informal Gathering A Travel Guide for Talking Hearts
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 18, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 18, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 19, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 19, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-19T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-19T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Never Free to Rest (September 20, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 20, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 20, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 20, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-20T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Never Free to Rest (September 21, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-21T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 21, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Never Free to Rest (September 22, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-22T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 22, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Working in Clay: The Motawi Tileworks Story (September 22, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85030 85030-21625472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Motawi Tileworks was founded in 1992, and it has grown into a company employing more than 40 people, who specialize in handcrafted tiles in Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, and Midcentury Modern aesthetics, as well as other unique designs.

Motawi art tiles are currently sold in more than 300 locations in the U.S. and Canada, and Motawi tile installations grace homes and public spaces worldwide.

After graduating from the University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, Nawal Motawi moved to Detroit to learn tile-making at the renowned Pewabic Pottery. She later returned to Ann Arbor, where she began creating historically inspired tile in her garage and selling it at the local farmer’s market. And that’s only the beginning of her story!

Nawal Motawi, owner and artistic director of Motawi Tileworks in Ann Arbor, will share with us her stories of the company’s unique history and early beginnings, creative process and business strategies. She’ll share the company’s philosophy and how Motawi Tileworks has become a creative beacon of light in our community and around the world.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 08 Aug 2021 14:10:37 -0400 2021-09-22T15:30:00-04:00 2021-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Afternoons With OLLI
Never Free to Rest (September 23, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 23, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
A Travel Guide for Talking Hearts (September 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85888 85888-21629516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

How would you map what you have felt and experienced over the last 18 months? Join Yo-Yo Ma, Michigan artists Nour Ballout, Tunde Olaniran, and Avery Williamson, and four U-M students on a journey into our hearts. They will guide you on a journey using the travel guides they have created for this project – find out how to create your own heartmap, marking the grief and the isolation, as well as the rituals, relationships, and rhythms that are getting us through.

The event will not be available after the livestream, so please join us live!

Registration: https://universitymusicalsociety.activehosted.com/f/32

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Performance Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:46:59 -0400 2021-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Performance A Travel Guide for Talking Hearts
Never Free to Rest (September 24, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-24T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Talking Hearts Conversation Spaces (September 24, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86537 86537-21634786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 11:00am
Location: Ingalls Mall
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Students and the U-M community are invited to visit the Talking Hearts Conversations Spaces where they can reflect on the past 18 months using the Conversation Guide or the Drawing Guide, which will help people to get in touch with their emotional journeys from throughout the pandemic.

What must we remember about this past year?
What must we forget?
What does joy look/sound/feel like?

Responses can take a variety of forms depending on what feels best to participants – spoken, written, drawn, or even just thought. These discussions are intended to normalize connecting with and caring for the people around us.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:52:06 -0400 2021-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 Ingalls Mall Arts Initiative Social / Informal Gathering A Travel Guide for Talking Hearts
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Diego Rivera and the Detroit Industry Murals at the DIA (September 24, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85047 85047-21625504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Carlene VanVoorhies, DIA Docent, will take us on a virtual tour to learn the complex and intriguing story behind Diego Rivera and his Detroit Industry Murals. The “Detroit Industry Murals” (1932-1933) are a series of frescoes by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, consisting of twenty-seven panels depicting industry at the Ford Motor Company and in Detroit.

Together they surround the interior Rivera Court in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Painted between 1932 and 1933, they were considered by Rivera to be his most successful work. On 23 April 2014, the “Detroit Industry Murals” were designated by the Department of Interior as a National Historic Landmark.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:39:06 -0400 2021-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Out of Town
Never Free to Rest (September 27, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 27, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-27T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Never Free to Rest (September 28, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-28T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Modern Monumentality: Sculptural Attitudes in Post-1949 China (September 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84726 84726-21624493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series

Please register here for this Zoom webinar: https://myumi.ch/PleQR

Since the early 20th century attitudes toward modernization have increasingly centered on spatial hierarchies manifested not only in the built environment, but also through China's arts and culture such as through the growing nationalist interest in its ancient sculptural sites. Through tracing the new emphasis on the monumental in various interpretations of sculpture of the past as well as the present up to the 1950s, this talk examines the motivations for invoking monumentality in modern China and its role in envisioning a new mass viewer in the young Communist nation.

Vivian Li is the Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art and a specialist in postwar and contemporary art in Asia. She has realized several ambitious exhibitions and commissions, including collaborations with Mel Chin, Lee Mingwei, and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. With the support of a Fulbright fellowship she completed her dissertation on postwar sculpture in China and received her PhD from the University of Michigan in Art History in 2015. She has contributed to various publications, including the Oxford Art Journal," Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art," and the forthcoming anthology "Postwar—A Global Art History, 1945–1965" edited by Okwui Enwezor and Atreyee Gupta.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Jul 2021 10:58:00 -0400 2021-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Vivian Li, Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art
Never Free to Rest (September 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-29T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
CREES Noon Lecture. The Insecurity State: Views from Belarus (September 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86545 86545-21634796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

2017 marked the 23rd year of power of Aleksandr Lukashenko over Belarus. In those years, his opponents have been silenced, murdered, exiled, or imprisoned. Every few years he has staged elections that the international community has characterized as “unfree and unfair,” followed by police suppression of protester, quick trials, and lengthy prison sentences. Among the only voices reminding the world about the plight of those living under Europe's “Last Dictator” is the Belarus Free Theater, a critically acclaimed troupe consisting of actors still living in the country and their exiled founders. Award-winning photographer Misha Friedman started following the theater as they traveled the world on sold-out tours and performed underground plays at home. In 2020 Friedman returned to Minsk to photograph what everyone expected to be yet another déjà vu election cycle. That August everything turned out differently. Join us for a special viewing and discussion of Friedman’s work in Belarus from August 2020.

Misha Friedman was born in Moldova, and graduated with degrees from Binghamton University (1997) and London School of Economics (2000), where he studied economics and Russian politics. He worked in finance in New York, and after 9/11 switched careers to volunteer as a project manager at Medecins Sans Frontiers while teaching himself photography. Since 2009, photography has become his profession. He was associated with Cosmos Photo Agency 2011 - 2018, and is now represented by Getty Images. Misha regularly collaborates with leading international media and non-profit organizations. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, his widely-exhibited work has received numerous industry awards, including several Pictures of the Year (POYi). He has five monographs; his most recent book, Two Women in Their Time, was published by The New Press in 2020. Misha lives in New York City.

This hybrid event will be presented in person at 1010 Weiser Hall and via Zoom. Register for the live-stream at https://myumi.ch/dOmxj

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. 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 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 16:47:30 -0400 2021-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Minsk, by Misha Friedman
Never Free to Rest (September 30, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-01T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Never Free to Rest (October 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-10-01T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
"Gallery Walks: Dutch Treats" (October 1, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85058 85058-21625528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Join us as we visit Ghent and spend time examining Jan van Eyck's great Altarpiece of the Mystic Lamb in St. Bavo's Cathedral. Then we will travel north to Antwerp and spend time with Pieter Breughel the Elder, painter of The Wedding Dance, which graces the walls of our own Detroit Institute of Art. Moving on to Amsterdam, we will visit the studios of Rembrandt, whose Head of Christ can also be seen at the DIA. Michael Kapetan leads this course on Fridays October 1 through October 29 from 1:00 - 3:00 pm. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 10 Aug 2021 08:53:24 -0400 2021-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Talking Hearts Conversation Spaces (October 1, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86537 86537-21634787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Ingalls Mall
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Students and the U-M community are invited to visit the Talking Hearts Conversations Spaces where they can reflect on the past 18 months using the Conversation Guide or the Drawing Guide, which will help people to get in touch with their emotional journeys from throughout the pandemic.

What must we remember about this past year?
What must we forget?
What does joy look/sound/feel like?

Responses can take a variety of forms depending on what feels best to participants – spoken, written, drawn, or even just thought. These discussions are intended to normalize connecting with and caring for the people around us.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:52:06 -0400 2021-10-01T14:30:00-04:00 2021-10-01T16:30:00-04:00 Ingalls Mall Arts Initiative Social / Informal Gathering A Travel Guide for Talking Hearts
Umi's Archive: A Culmination of Love w/Dr. Su'a Abdul Khabeer (October 2, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87671 87671-21644965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 2, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Curated by Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Umi’s Archive is truly an act of love. Drawing on the remarkable life of her mother, Amina Amatul Haqq, Dr. Su’ad hasn’t just given us an insight into one person’s experience of being Black and Muslim, but has given us access to the vibrant, transformational, and radical contours of Islam as shaped, nurtured and loved by African-American Muslims and the communities that surrounded them. “Umi,” she writes, “was a creative and loving person and Umi's Archive is also a dream space and a labor of love - love for Umi, of course, and love for what she loved: her peoples, knowledge, justice, and liberation.”

As the online exhibition draws to a close, Listening While Muslim joins Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer to celebrate by listening to the music which was the soundtrack of Umi’s life and the communities to which she dedicated her life. On the anniversary of Umi’s return home (may God grant her joy everlasting), Dr. Su’ad will guide us to listen as Umi did – and be inspired. As Dr. Su’ad says, “I offer Umi's Archive as a space where we can imagine those things are possible.” Join us as we listen and imagine.

This event is co-sponsored by the Arab and Muslim American Studies program.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:52:33 -0400 2021-10-02T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-02T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Livestream / Virtual Umi's Archive
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-04T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Never Free to Rest (October 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-10-04T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Duderstadt Center 25th Anniversary (October 4, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87723 87723-21645389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

The James and Anne Duderstadt Center opened in Fall Semester 1996. We’re marking the 25th anniversary of this unique facility with a look back at the remarkable creativity and innovation that has taken place here, and a special invitation to you to see what it can mean for your academic future.

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Other Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:46:38 -0400 2021-10-04T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-04T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Other DC 25th Anniversary
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-05T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Never Free to Rest (October 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-10-05T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Duderstadt Center 25th Anniversary (October 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87723 87723-21645390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

The James and Anne Duderstadt Center opened in Fall Semester 1996. We’re marking the 25th anniversary of this unique facility with a look back at the remarkable creativity and innovation that has taken place here, and a special invitation to you to see what it can mean for your academic future.

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Other Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:46:38 -0400 2021-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Other DC 25th Anniversary
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 6, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-06T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Never Free to Rest (October 6, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-10-06T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Duderstadt Center 25th Anniversary (October 6, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87723 87723-21645391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

The James and Anne Duderstadt Center opened in Fall Semester 1996. We’re marking the 25th anniversary of this unique facility with a look back at the remarkable creativity and innovation that has taken place here, and a special invitation to you to see what it can mean for your academic future.

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Other Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:46:38 -0400 2021-10-06T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Other DC 25th Anniversary
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 7, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-07T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Never Free to Rest (October 7, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-10-07T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Duderstadt Center 25th Anniversary (October 7, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87723 87723-21645392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

The James and Anne Duderstadt Center opened in Fall Semester 1996. We’re marking the 25th anniversary of this unique facility with a look back at the remarkable creativity and innovation that has taken place here, and a special invitation to you to see what it can mean for your academic future.

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Other Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:46:38 -0400 2021-10-07T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Other DC 25th Anniversary
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-08T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Never Free to Rest (October 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-10-08T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Duderstadt Center 25th Anniversary (October 8, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87723 87723-21645393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

The James and Anne Duderstadt Center opened in Fall Semester 1996. We’re marking the 25th anniversary of this unique facility with a look back at the remarkable creativity and innovation that has taken place here, and a special invitation to you to see what it can mean for your academic future.

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Other Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:46:38 -0400 2021-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Other DC 25th Anniversary
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 11, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-11T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Never Free to Rest (October 11, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-10-11T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-12T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Never Free to Rest (October 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-10-12T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Learn about International Subtitling and Dubbing (October 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87969 87969-21648224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Flying Subtitles Collective

Who is behind those words on the screen that make it possible for us to watch films from across the world, regardless of our native language? How do streaming platforms and film festivals get their subtitles? What is the world of professional subtitlers actually like?

Over a year ago, students at the University of Michigan co-founded the Flying Subtitles Collective because they loved making subtitles for new and classic films as a way to work on their language skills and gain experience in translation. Now, they are inviting Andrea Raianu of the lyuno-SDI Group, a leading studio for dubbing, subtitling and more, to talk about the behind-the-scenes work of professional subtitlers.

All are welcome to tune into this Zoom meeting! If you are interested in translation, films, and subtitles, join us, and bring your questions!

**REGISTER IN ADVANCE** https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H80v1176RuygHuDppfoQsw

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:57:15 -0400 2021-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Flying Subtitles Collective Careers / Jobs Flying Subtitles Collective
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 13, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-13T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Never Free to Rest (October 13, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-10-13T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 14, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-14T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-14T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Never Free to Rest (October 14, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-10-14T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 15, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-15T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Never Free to Rest (October 15, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-10-15T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 18, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 18, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-18T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 19, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-19T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 20, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-20T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 21, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-21T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 22, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-22T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit